The company's basic mobile broadband package, called The One Plan, costs £25, or $39.50, a month and, before the announcement Tuesday, limited Internet downloads to 1 gigabyte a month.
But concern that Obama may have opted for the short-term option at the expense of a longer-term solution has been compounded by the morning-after realisation among immigration rights activists that Obama's sweeping, historic announcement has considerable limits.
This week, North Korea, angered by South Korea's announcement of some limits on its aid, called the South's new president, Lee Myung-ban, an "impostor" and a "U.S. sycophant," and declared that the North "will be able to live as well as it wishes without any help from the South".
has launched an investigation into whether the Obama administration violated administrative law by holding closed-door meetings with the auto industry in the months before a recent announcement of new limits mandating increased fuel efficiency for American cars and trucks.
But although independent theater companies have long complained about competition from the state, the outcry against the privatization announcement was not limited to the state theaters, which employ close to 2,000 actors, directors, stagehands, costume designers and other personnel.
Shortly after the term-limits announcement, a widely shared image of China's last Emperor, Pu Yi, with the caption "Emperor calls: 'Is my Qing Dynasty returning?,' " was banned on WeChat, China's most popular messaging app.
Zeng Gang, director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences banking research division, told the official People's Daily paper that as the rate rise had been widely expected, it had been priced into markets and the announcement impact was limited.
This week it was announced that some limits are to go, but in China there is always plenty of room for backsliding between announcement and execution.
George McGovern, Democrat, 1984 Anticipation and announcement: The anticipation was limited for Mr. McGovern, the 1972 Democratic nominee who had lost in a landslide to Richard Nixon.
A senior Israeli official said that there had never been an official announcement that the fishing limit had been extended to six miles from three, but he confirmed that six was the new reality.
