Word: access
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...Free access has spread to Argentina and three major cities in Mexico, with Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and a few smaller markets plus the rest of Mexico due next year. Meanwhile, large infrastructure projects are in the works that will expand the region's ability to meet almost any demand. Global Crossing, an international telecommunications company, is building a $2 billion fiber-optic network that will encircle and crisscross South America, connecting with existing superfast cable lines to Europe, the U.S. and Asia by 2001. The lines will improve connectivity in the region tenfold. Starting this May the Americas...
...open @Altec Cyber Park, Latin America's first hosting provider, which will be able to store 600,000 different sites on its 10,000 servers. For the first time, Latin Americans won't have to waste precious minutes reaching computers in Europe or the U.S. for websites stored there. Access, says Petterson, will be 300 times as fast and 50 times as cheap. Both these projects are helping build an Internet backbone that will speed up data transfer and bring down the cost of metered calls. New satellite and cable technologies will also help...
...history: it was created from adjoining Creole town houses that date back to the early 19th century. Houston's Colombe d'Or began in 1923 as the Prairie-style mansion of Humble Oil founder W.W. Fondren. Like Soniat House, it exudes Old World elegance--and offers Internet access...
...Beacon is a 61-room hotel built by Boston developer Paul Roiff. It aims at the young digerati who jet between high-tech start-ups on both coasts. Rooms have three phone lines, high-speed Internet access, 330-thread-count Italian sheets and lots of mahogany. "There isn't a square of vinyl in the entire hotel," boasts general manager William Sander. Recent guests include film director Wes Craven, Viacom potentate Sumner Redstone and sundry chairmen of American and European banks. Rates start at $395 a night...
...Unionists regard the IRA gunmen as nothing more than criminals, and despite the carefully choreographed measures prescribed by the Good Friday Agreement, Trimble has faced a growing mutiny within his own ranks over sharing the reins of government with the Sinn Fein while their IRA allies still have access to arms. So, while the last episode had Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams desperately trying to coax a disarmament gesture out of his hard men, the dramatic spotlight now shifts to Trimble's efforts to placate his own skeptics...