Since AT&T Wireless isn't committing to expanding UMTS, and its acquirer, Cingular, plans to implement a different version, AT&T Wireless' UMTS looks like a high-speed road to nowhere.
He also committed to expand its UK estate of 356 Simply Food shops.
In Paris the six leading development banks (pdf) committed to expand their lending for climate-related projects.
India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, has committed to expand solar energy to provide electricity to 300 million people who have no access to power at present.
As part of its Olympic bid, the state of Rio de Janeiro committed to expand and upgrade the system so that 80% of sewage is treated.
And even as he committed to expand the nation's money supply by 17 percent this year, increasing lending by 7.5 trillion renminbi, or $1.1 trillion, Mr. Wen warned that "latent risks in the banking and public finance sectors are increasing".
On those terms, the effort is failing: Almost a year after the U.S. Supreme Court gave each of the 50 states the choice of opting out of the Medicaid provision, only 23 have committed to expand, according to the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.
The combination of DIRECTV video and AT&T broadband, as well as the lower cost structure of the combined company, enables AT&T to commit to expand and enhance its deployment of both wireline and fixed wireless broadband to cover at least 15 million customer locations across 48 states - most of them in underserved rural areas - within four years after the deal closes.
Tuzla Canton already committed to expand similar practice to the whole Canton so that over 70% of children aged 0 to 3 will have access.
They also committed to expand the global initiative 'the World Day of Prayer and Action for Children', which galvanizes religious communities to promote children's rights.
