As part of the introduction of mobile phone competition in Australia, the Australian government mandated GSM as the new standard for mobile networks, and required that Telstra close the AMPS network by 2000.

Godzilla vs. Megalon was given a high-profile prime-time NBC network premiere in 1977, with an introduction and bumper segments by John Belushi in a Godzilla suit also used on Saturday Night Live.

The program also includes " the introduction of the eCounsellor network – a service through which professionals provide assistance for citizens in the effective usage of electronic information, services and knowledge ".

In 1981, the Internet addressing specification was revised with the introduction of classful network architecture.

Recent deregulation of the mobile phone market has led to the introduction of Global System for Mobile communication ( GSM ) network providers operating on the 900 / 1800 MHz spectrum, MTN Nigeria, Airtel, Globacom and Etisalat.

The road network also grew, and with the introduction of lorries, which were a faster means of transporting goods, the amount of goods transported by the railways declined.

Following a pan-European agreement to introduce color TV only in 625 lines, France had to start the conversion by switching over to a 625-line television standard, which happened at the beginning of the 1960s with the introduction of a second network.

From July 2007 the Australian Federal and State Governments allowed the introduction of B-triple trucks on a specified network of roads.

Message-oriented technologies attempt to relax tightly coupled communication ( such as TCP network sockets, CORBA or RMI ) by the introduction of an intermediary component.

One example of this approach was the introduction of the university's " Andrew " computing network in the mid-1980s.

The introduction of Saturday Night's Main Event on NBC in mid-1985 marked the first time that professional wrestling had been broadcast on network television since the 1950s.

A major development that started in 2004 was the introduction of mass-market VoIP services that utilize existing broadband Internet access, by which subscribers place and receive telephone calls in much the same manner as they would via the public switched telephone network ( PSTN ).

Then there is the type of activity that uses the network to waste time, as indicated in SurfControl's advice on writing AUPs, of technical staff to troubleshoot a problem for which the user is the cause, corrupting or destroying other user's data, violating the privacy of others online, using the network in such a way that it denies the service to others, continuing to use software or other system for which the user has already been warned about using, and any other misuse of the network such as introduction of viruses.

In classful networking in IPv4, prior to the introduction of CIDR, the network prefix could be directly obtained from the IP address, based on its highest order bit sequence.

Since the introduction of CIDR, however, assignment of an IP address to a network interface requires two parameters, the address and its network mask.

POTS has been available almost since the introduction of the public telephone system in the late 19th century, in a form mostly unchanged to the normal user despite the introduction of Touch-Tone dialing, electronic telephone exchanges and fiber-optic communication into the public switched telephone network ( PSTN ).

According to Robert Osborne of the television network Turner Classic Movies in the introduction to the film's airing on its weekly segment " The Essentials ," Tracy, weighted down by his growing alcoholism, refused to give MGM an answer.

Although the first national colorcast ( the 1954 Tournament of Roses Parade ) occurred on January 1, 1954, it was not until the late 1960s that color sets started selling in large numbers, due in some part to the color transition of 1965 in which over half of all network prime-time programming would be broadcast in color that fall, and the introduction of GE's Porta-Color set in the Spring of 1966 which would bring the first all-color primetime season beginning that fall.

Prior to the introduction of videotape in 1956, kinescopes were the only way to record television broadcasts, or to distribute network television programs that were broadcast live from New York or other originating cities, to stations not connected to the network, or to stations that wished to show a program at a different time than the network broadcast.

* Article 7 – Treaty-state observers have free access, including aerial observation, to any area and may inspect all stations, installations, and equipment ; advance notice of all activities and of the introduction of military personnel must be given ;

After the Marshall Plan, the introduction of a new currency to Western Germany to replace the debased Reichsmark and massive electoral losses for communist parties in 1946, in June 1948, the Soviet Union cut off surface road access to Berlin.

The introduction of the printing press in Europe during the fifteenth century and the diffusion of printed matter contributed to higher literacy rates and wider access to the once-rarefied knowledge of academia.

The introduction of ADSL is reducing ISDN use for data transfer and Internet access, although it is still common in more rural and outlying areas, and for applications such as business voice and point-of-sale terminals.

From another perspective, the historian Harvey Graff has argued that the introduction of mass schooling was in part an effort to control the type of literacy that the working class had access to.

With the introduction of the SEACOM submarine cable in July 2009 and the EASSY submarine cable in July 2010, Mozambique now has access to cheaper international connectivity and is no longer reliant on VSAT or neighbours South Africa for Internet transit services.

The commission concluded that access to credit was one of the most serious problems facing rural farmers and recommended the introduction of a cooperative credit system.

With the introduction of the internet, consumers have access to different vendors as well as substitute products and services changing the direction of which a market will go.

However, with introduction of font formats such as OpenType, those supplemental glyphs were merged into the main fonts, relying on specific software capabilities to access the alternate glyphs.

* The introduction of measures to upgrade handicapped access to public transport together with all types of buildings used by members of the general public.

Until the introduction of the potato, whole forest-dwelling communities which had scarce access to wheat flour relied on chestnuts as their main source of carbohydrates.

* Large memory configurations: PCs ( i. e. IBM-compatibles ) were originally limited to a 640 KB memory capacity ( not counting bank-switched " expanded memory ") until the 1982 introduction of the 80286 processor ; early workstations provided access to several megabytes of memory.

Because its growth was largely motivated by the introduction of a freeway to the area, the Pineville shopping district generally requires a motor vehicle for access.

This is aesthetically pleasing but complicates access to the lines, and it delayed the introduction of cable television.

The Mughal court had access to European prints and other art, and these had increasing influence, shown in the gradual introduction of aspects of Western graphical perspective, and a wider range of poses in the human figure.

The introduction of Blackberry devices with Voice, Data, Browser, SMS and organizer applications in 2002 marked the first true smartphones .. Services such as BlackBerry Messenger and the integration of all communications into a single inbox allowed users to access, create and share and act upon information instantly.

The introduction of the mainframe-based relational database during the 1970s led to a proliferation of data access methods.

This was propelled by two changes within the market, the introduction of GUIs like GNOME that provided the need for access to these sources in non-text form, and the emergence of open software database systems like PostgreSQL and MySQL, initially under Unix.

The management board announced on 18 June 2012 that during the following three years 1, 900 positions were expected to be terminated from Fairfax Media, including many from The Age, that the current broadsheet format would be changed to a tabloid ( Berliner ) format and that the online version would no longer have free access after the introduction of a paywall to protect content with an expectation of increased revenue.

At the time of their introduction the storage capacity exceeded any other random access mass storage disk or drum.

The paper also campaigned for the introduction of ' Sarah's Law ' to allow public access to the Sex Offenders Register.

After the introduction of free education in the late 1960s, many more people had access to second and third level qualifications.

As is traditional amongst British university libraries, research postgraduates and academics from other UK universities are allowed reference-only access to the library's collection, and members of the public can apply for access with an academic letter of introduction and on payment of a fee.