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Just like speedy development of the mobile phone market in India and its allied services now being increasingly offered via mobile phone platform such as m-banking, development of new energy infrastructure will draw a similar parallel in skipping the needs of expensive copper-wire grid that needs to cover the vast landmass of India, multiple times larger than most Asian and European countries.
Sunil Chacko: Risk Management in Introducing High-Technologies Into High-Growth Markets Sunil Chacko 2012
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That money goes toward building and maintaining copper-wire phone connections to remote areas that would be too costly to serve otherwise.
FCC to move toward overhaul of $8 billion phone fund for Internet Cecilia Kang 2011
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She sighted down the length of the room toward the large framework of copper-wire mesh that stood on a solid wooden stand about thirty feet away.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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The government plan is that NBN would reuse some Telstra infrastructure while Telstra would progressively phase out parts of its aging copper-wire network, moving customers onto fiber networks as they are built by the state-owned company.
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She sighted down the length of the room toward the large framework of copper-wire mesh that stood on a solid wooden stand about thirty feet away.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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The operator's corporate plan assumes the successful conclusion of a deal with Telstra Corp. by about mid-2011, when Telstra will receive A$11 billion in government compensation for separating its existing copper-wire network as the fiber-optic network is rolled out.
Australia Says $40 Billion Broadband Plan is Viable Ray Brindal 2010
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Julius Genachowski is proposing to achieve the agency's goal of preserving the free flow of Web traffic and promoting competition among Internet-service providers by applying to broadband Internet service certain provisions of decades-old rules designed to regulate traffic on copper-wire telephone networks.
FCC Seeks Middle Ground on Regulating Web, Gets Pushback 2010
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NBN would reuse some Telstra infrastructure while Telstra would progressively phase out parts of its aging copper-wire network, moving customers onto fiber networks as they are built by the state-owned company.
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NBN Co. would reuse some Telstra infrastructure while Telstra would progressively phase out parts of its aging copper-wire network, moving customers onto fiber networks as they are built by the state-owned company.
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Corporations and aid groups see mobile technology as a key piece of Haiti's infrastructure because much of the nation's old copper-wire phone network was destroyed during the quake.
Gates Foundation, USAID create $10 million fund for mobile money services in Haiti 2010
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