Part of Cable's plans includes the introduction of a network of technology and innovation centres, based on the model of the Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany.
Only exchanges in Colorado, Kentucky, Nevada and Washington State currently have search tools on their Web sites that allow users to type in a provider's name and quickly see which plans includes that provider in their network.
Plans includes telephone backup systems, the evaluation of flood risks, new protocols for utility substations, storm-proofing gasoline refineries, altering building codes and investing in the city's sewer system and related infrastructure.
China's low-carbon city project run by its National Development and Reform Commission (part of 'local' 12th five-year plans) includes Tianjin, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Hangzhou, Nanchang, Guiyang and Baoding.
T-Mobile USA prices its data, minutes and text messages as a single package; one of its plans includes unlimited voice and text messages and two gigabytes of high-speed data for $60 a month; once customers exceed that, their connections are slowed.
"Then where would people live where they are able to get affordable housing?" The resistance to the city's plans includes the challenge from Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer, who says that the lots, which had fallen under the city's program to encourage community gardens, should be considered parks, which could be sold only after state environmental review or by an act of the Legislature.
