White House officials said they began planning more intensively for the Iraq rollout in July.
Australia plans a big rollout in May, and Germany is expected to announce plans soon.
"Infinity Ring," a seven-book series on time travel with an online game component, will begin its rollout in September, the publisher plans to announce officially on Tuesday.
Enrollment continues to surge, and will likely be over 6.8m close to the original target of 7m, which was set before Healthcare.gov's botched rollout in October.
The environment secretary, Liz Truss, backed a rollout in February, saying: "I want to see culling expanded across a wider number of areas this year".
Virgin generates press releases on an almost daily basis, and he is not above publicity stunts like the Virgin Mobile rollout in November.
Our plan has always been to test the new system in a safe and controlled way to ensure we get it right for the start of the national rollout in October.
They have said repeatedly that a new advertising system, called Project Panama, has been performing well since its rollout in February and will begin to bolster Yahoo's bottom line this year.
She added: "While the decision is undoubtedly welcome and emphasises the clear failings seen with this scheme, attention must now turn to rethinking the planned wider rollout in October until reassurances can be provided that the delays seen in the past are not repeated in the future".
While there was agreement that it made sense to start with a small sample for preliminary tests of the system, the extremely small size of the cohort being tested (estimated at around a fifth of those due to be in the pilots, before three were postponed) has prompted concern about whether it will accurately flag up problems before the national rollout in October.
The rollout in June will put the software giant back on top of the technology totem pole.
