1. At present, equipment such as digital and police radios rarely work in more than one EU country because member states run the services on different bandwidths.

2. At higher bandwidths, DRM can deliver CD–quality sound, and although no manufacturer currently builds compatible radio sets, it has already drawn some fans.

3. This is an age of media hipness, when we‘re virtuosos of data bounced off satellites, when we get weird as wizards, talking on cellphones to electronic ghosts constructed of bandwidths and wavelengths.

4. Badr ibn Hamoud Al–Badr. «High–speed Internet will facilitate videoconferencing and home entertainment.» «The new STC project supports government moves to enhance electronic services,» said Abdul Jabbar ibn Abdul Rahman Al–Abdul Jabbar, CEO of Arabian Advanced Systems (Naseej). «Previous bandwidths were very slow and expensive.

5. Initially, the fiber–optic network will only be available in certain districts of Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam. «We have already started providing bandwidths ranging between 8–10 megabytes per second,» Saudi Telecom Vice President Saad Dhafer Al–Qahtani told Arab News. «Within a few months we intend to provide bandwidths up to 30 megabytes per second.» He said the fiber–optic network heralds a big change. «The Internet bandwidth available in the Kingdom is the highest in the region,» Al–Qahtani said. «I am sure that the spread of high–speed Internet will promote distance education in the Kingdom.» Computer experts agree. «Increased bandwidth will create a new world of communication for the common man in terms of videoconferencing, Internet use and television watching,» said Jamal Muhiyuddin, database administrator at the General Authority of Civil Aviation. «It will also improve communication between people in general and expatriates in particular.