With social, given that the app's value is the network itself, it's hard to test demand before building that network; but to build the network, you need demand.
The paper reported that China had indefinitely postponed plans to build the network, using Qualcomm's code division multiple access technology.
The state had a $2.1 billion contract with M/A-COM, a subsidiary of Tyco Electronics, which was chosen in 2005 to build the network.
Agassi's marketing hook is an insistence that E.V.s are just like cell phones: while people like Musk build the phone, Agassi is going to build the network.
Despite a state review last fall that found no wrongdoing, federal authorities are now examining the $50.6 million grant awarded to Motorola last August to build the network.
In Minneapolis, the Internet service provider agreed to build the network as long as the city committed to becoming an "anchor tenant" by subscribing for a minimum number of city workers, like building inspectors, meter readers, police officers and firefighters.
Ultimately, because Premier Heart could not find investors willing to sufficiently finance clinical trials in New York-area hospitals, it was not able to build the network of emergency rooms equipped with the heart device as Dr. Shen had envisioned.
The company, which is publicly traded on Nasdaq, recently received an investment of $60 million from an affiliate of Deutsche Bank and from Sandler Capital Management, which specializes in communications investments, to build the network of centers.
M/A-COM, the subsidiary of Tyco Electronics that the state hired in 2005 to build the network, must fix the problems or face losing its contract without receiving any money, Mr. DiNapoli said.
And while Latin America's nascent Internet service providers struggled to build the network capacity to meet the budding demand for Internet access, StarMedia was busy gathering Spanish and Portuguese content sites to give the new Web surfers places to surf.
A Qualcomm spokeswoman, Christine Trimble, said today that the company had not received any notification from Chinese officials that plans to build the network had been delayed or canceled.
