Meanwhile, the other cellphone carriers said they were exploring competing high-speed alternatives.
The company is struggling to attract dial-up customers who are turning to high-speed alternatives and is studying the performance of its municipal wireless Internet networks in four cities before deciding how to move forward with similar networks elsewhere.
For a given output, the medium-speed engine is lighter and more compact than the low-speed alternative, and it is usually lower in initial cost.
C1 High-Speed Alternative American utilities are offering broadband over power line service, which is poised to challenge the cable and phone companies that dominate the high-speed Internet market.
Still, Mr. Voight didn't realize Angelina had plans for an acting career until after she left home at age 16, having just graduated from Beverly Hills High School's learn-at-your-own-speed alternative education program.
Other handicaps of the medium-speed alternative are a greater number of cylinders for a given power rating and a specific fuel rate (weight of fuel burned per unit of output) that is typically higher than with low-speed engines.
Mr Musk, who published the plans for his ultra-high-speed alternative in a blog post, said it could be delivered to consumers far more cheaply than plane travel, and with the regularity of trains.
Advertising [C7.] Cable Competes With Bells as High-Speed Alternative In high-speed data communications, Cable companies are increasingly positioning themselves as a friendlier, cheaper, more flexible alternative to the Bells and are aiming to win the smaller corporate clients that the big phone companies have tended to neglect.
Access to the Internet over cable lines is one of the nascent technologies proffered as a high-speed alternative to the conventional dial-up Internet access, but its distribution has been held up in part by questions of whether local governments can decide who controls the lines.
Yet the weight of 53 years' history – the period since they last lost four consecutive games in one season – did not seem to inhibit them and what unfolded as they went about their task was the moderately good United, which is better than the second-speed alternative.
The ability to roll out a high-speed alternative on systems other than its own would give AOL a tremendous boost.
