Extension of existing rail lines could cost around $1.5 billion.
It would be a pragmatic extension of existing philosophy from a party of government.
"We will not tolerate the extension of existing dominance into adjacent markets through the leveraging of market power by anticompetitive means," Mr. Monti said in a statement.
The rapid development of wireless and optical networks gave Nortel the chance to break in because they required all new technology, not just an extension of existing service.
Last week, House Republican leaders indicated they would back a one-year extension of existing farm programs, crop insurance and subsidies, with a drought package attached.
Mr Salmond's eventual vision of independence might look more like a big but comfortable extension of existing Scottish freedoms than the lonely, impoverished isolation his opponents depict.
The IT manifesto promises legislation on a right to government datasets, and an extension of existing efforts to publish information on issues such as local crime, education and health online.
That was the message of a decision upholding the 1998 extension of existing copyrights by 20 years: perhaps it is an unwise law but clearly within Congress's prerogative, the majority said.
In practice, the weapons to be retired will join a long queue at an Energy Department plant in Amarillo, Tex., called Pantex, which is now busy with "life extension" of existing weapons, Mr. Brooks said.
It will also conduct a cost-benefit analysis of digital migration and will grant a one-off, five-year extension of existing community radio licences and re-examine the rules on the funding of community radio.
Just an extension of existing behavior.
