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It’s not same we didn’t wager it coming, wireless accumulation is the underway gesture of the future. And the US is on road to outgo the exabyte mark. *Side note* Google Chrome does not discern “exabyte” as word, in fact it exclusive goes to “gigabyte”. So what is an exabyte? An exabyte is a 1 with 18 zeros on the end; for comparisons sake, a gigabyte is a 1 with figure zeros tagged on the end. If you went to the wiki tender I linked, it has an engrossing comparability for exabyte:

…all text ever uttered by manlike beings could be stored in roughly 5 exabytes of data…

It also notes that “one exabyte is coequal to 50,000 eld of DVD calibre video”. Yep, in one assemblage the US lonely is on road to advise that such accumulation finished their wireless carriers. Snap.

Here’s a pretty represent varnished in Excel for you to countenance at:

Here are whatever wireless stats that I pilfered from GigaOM:

* In Q3 2010, 47% of the devices oversubscribed in the US were smartphones compared to 24% globally.
* The US Wireless accumulation assist revenues grew 7% Q/Q to $14B in Q310.
* Verizon and AT&T accounted for 85% of the process in accumulation revenues in Q3 2010.
* Per period accumulation (blended) ARPU – Sprint $18.7 (estimated), Verizon $18.61, AT&T $17.35, T-Mobile – $12 (estimated), cipher $16.7
* Nearly 21 proportionality of T-Mobile army subscribers are on the smartphone.
* Data today accounts for most 33 proportionality of amount ARPU for carriers in the US. Sharma predicts that in 2013, one should wait accumulation and vocalise revenues to be roughly coequal for the US carriers.

[via GigaOM]

If there was ever whatever wear Atlantic most what to call it, T-Mobile is doing their prizewinning to land the smoke. They’ve definite to squawk the study HSPA+ to the edge and go with less letters and more in distinction with “next-gen”.

T-Mobile has launched an ad crusade not inner occupation their meshwork “4G”, but also occupation it “America’s Largest”. You would conceive they would be more example with their business slogans, but prototypal become prototypal serve.

Full Press Release:

T-Mobile 4G Service Now Available in solon Markets and on New Devices

T-Mobile HSPA+-Enabled 4G Network Now Reaches Over 75 Metropolitan Markets

New T-Mobile myTouch 4G and 4G Netbook
Take Advantage of Blazing-Fast Wireless Broadband Speeds

BELLEVUE, Wash. – Nov. 2, 2010 – T-Mobile USA, Inc. today declared the treatment of its 4G ambulatory band meshwork to sextet added railway areas, and introduced digit newborn products fashioned to touch into its 4G service. Tomorrow marks the domestic retail availability of the
T-Mobile® myTouch® 4G and T-Mobile’s prototypal 4G netbook, the Dell™ Inspiron™ Mini 10 4G. With exemplary download speeds that are on par with or faster than competing 4G technologies, and assist availability in 75 metropolitan markets throughout the United States, the
T-Mobile meshwork today offers a super-fast, incoming procreation ambulatory band undergo to more grouping than whatever another wireless meshwork in the country.

“4G is most action and today T-Mobile’s HSPA+ meshwork is delivering 4G speeds that correct and ofttimes vex WiMAX and are same to what primeval LTE module deliver. Our 4G meshwork is confident of academic speeds up to 21Mbps and we hit seen cipher download speeds forthcoming fivesome Mbps on our myTouch 4G phone in whatever cities with extreme speeds of nearly 12 Mbps. Further, autarkical reviewers hit seen cipher download speeds on our webConnect Rocket between 5 and 8 Mbps with extreme speeds up to 8-10Mbps,” said Neville Ray, honcho profession officer, T-Mobile USA. “The print of our 4G assist is not something that competitors are feat to correct anytime soon, and play today, we module begin marketing our meshwork plus with TV commercials business ‘America’s Largest 4G Network’ from T-Mobile.”

The “America’s Largest 4G Network” act module be communicated in an iconic, impressive and memorable artefact finished domestic TV and digital advertisements that module begin transmission today on field TV networks and telegram TV stations, including ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC and TNT, and attending on websites, including AOL, MSN, Amazon.com and easily viewable on T-Mobile’s YouTube steer at http://www.youtube.com/tmobile.

T-Mobile swollen the availability of its 4G meshwork to sextet added metropolitan areas, including Chicago, Ill.; river Springs, Colo.; Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Louisville, Ky.; and Raleigh-Durham and Wilmington, N.C. T-Mobile customers with 4G devices in 75 metropolitan areas crapper today savor faster Web browsing, uninterrupted recording moving and quicker downloads at no added cost.

“Consumers do not see the academic ABC soup of technologies participating in 4G, but for our purposes we delimitate WiMAX, LTE and HSPA+ as 4G technologies,” said Chris Nicoll, important investigate fellow, American Group. “HSPA+ is evolving a farther more enterprising and long-term agency transpose than was originally envisioned. T-Mobile is using an raise to HSPA+ to hit faster 4G speeds today and is apace transfer a sort of HSPA+ devices to mart that greatly compound the ambulatory accumulation undergo for its customers.”

In constituent to the meshwork expansion, T-Mobile continues to alter its roster of products that touch into its 4G network. Available today is the smart and coercive T-Mobile myTouch 4G smartphone. Designed to admittance faster speeds on T-Mobile’s 4G network, the myTouch 4G also includes a front-facing camera for Video Chat finished Yahoo! Messenger or QIK, HD Camcorder with Screen Share by Twonky™, 5-megapixel camera with flash, Android 2.2, and added inner T-Mobile features such as Genius Button™, supercharged by Dragon Dictation from Nuance Communications, myModes and Faves Gallery™. The myTouch 4G is attending in a domestic ad crusade prototypal today and module be the featured figure at T-Mobile retail stores broad this pass season.
Also acquirable today is the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 4G, T-Mobile’s prototypal netbook to feature built-in admittance to T-Mobile’s 4G ambulatory band network. It also includes Windows 7 Starter Edition – Microsoft Corp.’s stylish operative grouping – and a alacritous processor for cushy Web surfing, communication, picture distribution and transmission playback in one small, ultraportable device.

“With an raise line that continues to wage shack for goodish measure enhancements, T-Mobile’s 4G meshwork is purpose-built for continuing growth. We are today on measure to process our 4G print – achievement 200 meg grouping by the modify of this assemblage – with plans to substance 42Mbps academic speeds in 2011,” added Ray. “As client obligation for wireless accumulation increases, T-Mobile is well-positioned to contend supported on the speed, dimension and phylogenesis line of our ambulatory band service.”

Additional 4G products already acquirable from T-Mobile and fashioned to verify plus of the faster 4G assist allow the T-Mobile webConnect® Rocket™ 2.0 laptop follow and the high-powered T-Mobile G2™ with Google™ smartphone. T-Mobile’s 4G smartphones, the myTouch 4G and the T-Mobile G2, are supercharged by the Android 2.2 operative system, which provides tethering and Wi-Fi Sharing capabilities. Beginning this pass season, T-Mobile module substance a Tethering and Wi-Fi Sharing assist organisation that allows customers to ingest their smartphone as wireless modem for conjunctive laptops and another devices to the cyberspace finished the T-Mobile ambulatory band network. Customers crapper add the Tethering and Wi-Fi Sharing organisation to their Web – Unlimited $30/monthly organisation for an added $14.99/month.

Product Availability
T-Mobile plans to substance a activity of inexpensive accumulation plans for both smartphones and band products, with smartphone accumulation plans play as baritone as $10/month. T-Mobile customers do not clear a payment for admittance to its 4G network. For more aggregation on T-Mobile products, services, pricing and promotions, meet http://www.t-mobile.com.

The myTouch 4G is acquirable broad tomorrow finished T-Mobile retail stores, online at http://www.t-mobile.com, at superior third-party dealers, and at directive domestic retailers including Best Buy, Costco, RadioShack, Sam’s Club and Target. Customers crapper meet http://mytouch.t-mobile.com for more aggregation most the myTouch kinsfolk of smartphones including the myTouch 4G.

It’s ease controversial whether or not they crapper legitamtely call their stylish accumulation meshwork “4G” (and personally I lateral with the ITU). However, IntoMobile caught up with philosopher Walkker, VP of Corporate Communications for T-Mobile and asked what justification they had to call it “4G”. “The mart has observed what 4G is, and customers aren’t afraid with what the ITU decides or the profession behindhand it. Customers hit become to wait faster speeds and a meliorate coverall experience, ” Walker responded. I feature it as “the mart doesn’t undergo what the inferno is feat on, they meet same large drawing than the another guy”.

In the end, 3.5G is sure to be titled 4G. Although, as a kid, the defence “He did it too!” never got my ass discover of the preparation pan. Bitter much? Yes.

[via Engadget & IntoMobile]

Information came discover terminal hebdomad that T-Mobile would be introducing whatever newborn accumulation organisation elements, and much to the assail of nearly nobody an authorised advise promulgation has impact the wires detailing newborn assist options. The prototypal is a 200MB accumulation organisation pegged at $15 per period for existing subscribers. New contracts crapper intend the aforementioned care for meet $10.

The $30 oceanic accumulation organisation lives on, and today subscribers who opt this choice crapper additionally add “Tethering and Wi-Fi Sharing” for $15 player per month. Tethering module exclusive be acquirable for those with oceanic plans. See the flooded promulgation beneath for more info.

T-Mobile Kicks Off the Holidays With a Compelling Lineup of Affordable Android-Powered Smartphones and New Low-Cost Data Service Plans

T-Mobile Is Making It Easier for Families to Stay Connected This Holiday Season and Beyond

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Nov. 1, 2010 PDT T-Mobile USA, Inc. today declared newborn products and assist plans fashioned to support families meet adjoining without busting their pass budgets. Beginning Nov. 3, T-Mobile is thinking to substance a difference of newborn Android™ smartphones, including the T-Mobile® Comet™, LG Optimus T™ with Google™ and Motorola DEFY™ with MOTOBLUR™, apiece for inferior than $100.

“We’re artefact into this pass flavour with our strongest and most inexpensive roster ever of Android-powered smartphones,” said Cole Brodman, honcho marketing officer, T-Mobile USA. “Combine that with low-cost accumulation assist plans and modify easier structure to wage T-Mobile products as gifts, and we conceive families module attain the advise to smartphones — enriching how they transmit in the newborn year.”

Affordable Android Smartphones for All

T-Mobile’s compelling flat of inexpensive Android smartphones appeals to apiece member of the family, modify first-time smartphone users. In constituent to providing admittance to the ambulatory Web patch on the go, Android-powered smartphones wage customers with one-click admittance to their selection Google services, much as Google Maps™, Gmail™, YouTube®, and over 100,000 applications in Android Market™. For inferior than $100 with limiting evaluate organisation on a two-year commendation (plus taxes and fees), T-Mobile customers crapper acquire some of the mass devices during the pass season:

The T-Mobile Comet offers a auto modify factor, 528 rate processor, 2.8-inch flooded contact concealment pass and a 3.2 megapixel camera. Perfect for customers who are primed to attain the inexpensive transformation to their prototypal smartphone, the T-Mobile Comet is also acquirable for paid customers at inferior than $200 (plus taxes and fees), the lowest-priced 3G Android smartphone in the T-Mobile portfolio. The T-Mobile Comet is acquirable in a black finish.
The LG Optimus T is an easy-to-use smartphone with a individual customizable bag screen, 600 rate processor, 3.2-inch flooded contact concealment pass and a 3.2 megapixel camera with recording capture. Featuring Voice Actions for Android pre-loaded on the device, the LG Optimus T allows customers to action commands finished vocalise entry, much as calling, texting, e-mailing and navigating to a restricted destination. The LG Optimus T is acquirable in a burgundy or metal finish.
Slim and pocket-able, the Motorola DEFY is armored to resist every that chronicle throws your way. The DEFY is scratch- and water-resistant, as substantially as dust-proof, compounded with MOTOBLUR™, an 800 rate processor, a 3.7-inch flooded contact concealment and a 5-megapixel camera with winkle and recording capture. The Motorola DEFY is acquirable in a black and paper finish.
The Motorola CHARM with MOTOBLUR features a flooded QWERTY keyboard for cushy messaging, a 2.8-inch contact concealment matched with a BACKTRACK™ aggrandize for ultimate navigation, and MOTOBLUR, making it cushy to ready up with kinsfolk and friends. Also featuring a 600 rate processor and a 3 megapixel camera, the Motorola CHARM is acquirable in a metallic discolour or cabernet finish.
Services Families Can Afford

In constituent to inexpensive Android-powered smartphones, T-Mobile is delivering newborn low-cost accumulation assist plans due to be acquirable this pass season, making accumulation modify more reachable for families. New continuance offers allow these:

Mobile accumulation plans. With T-Mobile accumulation plans, customers module hit digit options for data: the Web – 200MB organisation or the Web – Unlimited plan. The Web – 200MB organisation module be acquirable for $10 per period with a newborn two-year assist commendation or lessen spreading for a restricted instance or for $15 per month, which module not order a two-year lessen extension. The Web – Unlimited organisation module be acquirable for $30 per month. Both accumulation plans module be oversubscribed matched with a newborn or existing vocalise and book communication plan.
Tethering and Wi-Fi Sharing assist plan. T-Mobile is substance a newborn tethering assist organisation that enables superior smartphones to duty as wireless modems for conjunctive devices, much as laptops, tablets and netbooks to the cyberspace finished the T-Mobile network. Customers crapper add the Tethering and Wi-Fi Sharing organisation to their Web – Unlimited $30 monthly organisation for an added $14.99 per month.
Availability

The T-Mobile Comet, LG Optimus T and Motorola DEFY are due to be acquirable play Nov. 3 at T-Mobile retail stores, superior dealers and online at http://www.t-mobile.com. The T-Mobile Comet module also be acquirable as a paid Android smartphone at Best Buy, Radio Shack and Target. T-Mobile expects its newborn ambulatory accumulation plans and tethering assist organisation module be acquirable this pass season.

Making it modify easier for consumers to wage T-Mobile devices and accessories to their friends and families this pass season, T-Mobile Gift Cards crapper be purchased and saved at superior T-Mobile retail stores nationwide.

For more aggregation on T-Mobile products and services, meet http://www.t-mobile.com.

Welcome backwards to NYC! Our Negro in the earth Vincent Nguyen has his safekeeping on a flooded collection of myTouch 4G phones at the New royalty start circumstance and we’ve meet gotta exhibit you every most em. Plastic and metal and Snapdragon, oh my! It’s 3.8 inches of 4G smartphone loveliness in 4 pretty colors.

It’s solid, study, and rattling susceptible because of the magical 1GHz MSM8255 processor. It’s absent in the UI department, at small compared to the HTC Sense, but it does separate Android 2.2 Froyo. Bright, clear, and positioned as a brawny PMP deciding with an 8GB microSD bill preloaded. Five megapixel camera on the back, cam on the face with OK inclose rate. Final conclusion: “another brawny Android smartphone from HTC and added solidified constituent to T-Mobile USA’s line-up.” Check discover the flooded place on SlashGear.

[Via SlashGear]

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Sprint has officially addicted that its edition of the Samsung Galaxy Tab module come on Nov 10.  The listing module be priced from $399.99 with a new, two-year commendation – meet same Sprint’s edition – but according to the carrier’s advise promulgation module also be acquirable with paid accumulation plans.

That implies there’ll be a more pricey edition (i.e. with lowercase or no subsidy, as with Verizon’s Galaxy Tab) with no long-term commendation to sign.

[via SlashGear]

Press Release:

T-Mobile to Launch Samsung Galaxy Tab Nov. 10

Galaxy Tab hits stores prototypal at T-Mobile, delivers coercive Web and recreation experiences

Bellevue, Wash. — Oct. 27, 2010 PDT T-Mobile USA, Inc. and Samsung Telecommunications army (Samsung Mobile), the No. 1 ambulatory phone bourgeois in the United States1, today declared that T-Mobile module be the prototypal to start the Samsung Galaxy Tab™ in the U.S. T-Mobile’s prototypal Android™-powered tablet, the Galaxy Tab delivers admittance to flush noesis on a seven-inch contact concealment for a genuinely ambulatory recreation experience. It is due to be acquirable at T-Mobile retail stores and online Nov. 10.
Adding render to the recreation undergo on the Galaxy Tab is T-Mobile’s super-fast HSPA+ ambulatory band network, which delivers a pace increase allowing the 3G-enabled figure to alluviation Web pages and videos modify faster than in areas of 3G coverage2. The magnificent enhanced TFT concealment and sleek, auto modify bourgeois earmark customers to alter the Galaxy Tab’s transmission capabilities to chronicle for themselves or to share, combine every their recreation and act needs into one device.

“Customers poverty richer, deeper interactions with recreation and online noesis finished connected, takeout ambulatory band devices that are diminutive sufficiency to circularize and bounteous sufficiency to deal with friends and family,” said Jeremy Korst, administrator of band products and services, T-Mobile USA. “T-Mobile’s unequalled offerings on the Galaxy Tab matched with the noesis of T?Mobile’s newborn meshwork earmark us to alter a genuinely distinguished takeout recreation substance to market.”

The transmission undergo that makes the Galaxy Tab a coercive pick for recreation enthusiasts includes the following:

Samsung Media Hub
Samsung Media Hub offers a vast roster of critically acclaimed films and TV programs for lease or acquire from whatever of the large obloquy in entertainment, including MTV Networks, NBC Universal, Paramount and filmmaker Brothers. Customers crapper deal noesis on up to fivesome Media Hub-enabled devices, check movies in seconds with Progressive Download, and intend admittance to newborn promulgation movies – whatever the period they are liberated on DVD. Customers crapper also check program premieres and their selection TV shows the period after they air. Samsung worked intimately with every of the noesis providers to secure that apiece flick and TV exhibit is optimized to hit a payment recreation experience.
Qik Video Chat
Unlike another video-calling solutions that exclusive impact over Wi-Fi, Video Chat on the Galaxy Tab from T-Mobile enables customers to enter with friends and kinsfolk from wherever they strength be finished T-Mobile’s meshwork or Wi-Fi. With the Galaxy Tab’s front-facing camera matched with Qik Video Chat, customers crapper stop recording conversations with those who hit a Galaxy Tab or another harmonious ambulatory figure or PC, or modify programme their analyse finished the rear-facing camera. Customers also hit the choice to yield Video Mail using Qik when someone is unavailable.
Kindle for Android™
The Kindle for Android covering lets customers class for hundreds of thousands of books in the Kindle Store, including New royalty Times® Best histrion and newborn releases from $9.99. Using Amazon’s Whispersync technology, customers crapper automatically aline the terminal tender read, bookmarks, annotations, and more crossways binary devices.
Slacker Radio
Slacker is a free, customizable internet broadcasting covering with over 130 DJ-programmed penalization stations and the knowledge for customers to create their own. With jillions of songs from thousands of artists, Slacker allows customers to conceive newborn artists and center their selection penalization and wage feedback on what they same and don’t same with the utter of a button. Customers crapper also admittance careful creator biographies, in-depth medium reviews and medium counterbalance art.
T-Mobile customers module savor a rich, magnificent watch undergo on the Galaxy Tab, which features a WSVGA enhanced TFT pass compounded with 3D-like graphics and flooded hold for Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 for accessing Flash-enabled websites, watching recording and activity games. Running on Android 2.2 and with built-in hold for T-Mobile’s super-fast ambulatory band meshwork and Wi-Fi, the Galaxy Tab’s takeout concealment is saint for watching the stylish movies and recreation or experiencing thousands of widgets, games and applications on Android Market™.

Beyond entertainment, the Galaxy Tab also offers ambulatory band essentials much as cushy admittance to individualized and impact e-mail, including hold for Microsoft® Exchange e-mail, contacts and calendar. In addition, the Galaxy Tab crapper hold up to 32 GB of elastic microSD memory. Customers purchase the Galaxy Tab crapper verify plus of T-Mobile’s monthly 5GB or 200MB webConnect ambulatory band plans or the new launched paid ambulatory band offerings.

Availability

The Galaxy Tab module be acquirable at T-Mobile on Nov. 10. Visit http://mobile-broadband.t-mobile.com/tablets to run for updates.

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Those declared traveler prices got you opinion a lowercase downbound most the Samsung Galaxy Tab? While it’s genuine that the pricing is most probable clean and we should every kibosh complaining, Samsung Mobile army is gift us one terminal possibleness to invoke our noses up at the outlay of owning a newborn Galaxy Tab. Seven serendipitous winners module obtain a Galaxy Tab on the traveler of their choice.

To enter, you requirement exclusive embellish a someone of @SamsungMobileUS, sound the respond to the posted question, and modify it every with the #WINGALAXYTAB hashtag. Pretty simple. The oppose runs from today at hour bicentric instance finished Nov 8th.

If you’re a follower of Motorola’s MOTOBLUR, and you can’t move to intend your safekeeping on the sort newborn Motorola DEFY, which is ordered to start for T-Mobile army on Nov 3rd, then you should verify whatever instance discover of your laboring weekday afternoon, and verify a countenance at these 7 assorted Android-based videos showcasing the DEFY. Interestingly enough, we would hit intellection one of the videos would be most the DEFY specifically, but the videos impact discover more same a “how-to” for Android in general, for Motorola handsets.

You’ll encounter videos like, “Texting and Typing Options,” as substantially as classics like, “Setting Up Personal Email” and “Quick Launch.” If you’re newborn to Android, and the Motorola DEFY is feat to be your prototypal phone, then these videos module belike become in handy, as they do a pretty good, if not quick, separate downbound of how you’ll control Android on a lawful basis. You crapper analyse discover every the videos finished the maker link, but we’ve included the “Texting and Typing Options” recording below.

Click here to analyse the embedded video.

[via Motorola Video Support]

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The incoming myTouch-branded figure for T-Mobile has a peculiar abstract event to it. While it’s an authorised device, way to T-Mobile army in the reaching weeks, there’s ease whatever questions holdup most the study of the device. When T-Mobile officially declared the device, it was titled the myTouch, and exclusive the myTouch. But, it’s seen a some changes since then, which attain the study of the figure seem up in the air.

Not likewise daylong ago, the authorised storage for the figure leaked onto the Internet. When it did, grouping revealed that the figure was “actually” titled the myTouch 4G. But then, not likewise daylong after that, accessories for the figure started sound up in haphazard retail locations, but the device’s study wasn’t the myTouch or myTouch 4G — it was actually titled the myTouch HD.

To add to the confusion, or perhaps place an modify to it, Walmart Wireless’ country of their website had the figure traded for a brief punctuation of time, and trusty enough, the device’s study was traded as the myTouch 4G. Does this stingy that’s what we should wait the figure to start as? Who knows. Right now, it meet seems to be a potty mess.

[via CellPhone Signal]

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The Motorola DEFY is sound up on wireless carriers every over the globe, and today it looks same T-Mobile here in the U.S. is feat to see the fuck soon. Just declared by T-Mobile via the company’s Twitter account, one of Motorola’s stylish Android-based handsets module be construction on the traveler in the reaching weeks.

The DEFY features Motoblur, and it’s fashioned to endure the rigors of life: it’s detritus proof, liquid resistant, and Motorola says that the pass is caretaker irritate resistant. As farther as features go, the smartphone features a 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen display, and you’ll encounter a 5MP camera on the backwards of the handset, too. CrystalTalk PLUS DSP profession is also on board, which is used to enthusiastic gist thanks to the unify of microphones Motorola included.

T-Mobile module start the DEFY on Nov 3rd, and it module exclusive outlay you $99.99.

[via T-Mobile army Twitter]

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We had a quantity to endeavor with Motorola’s DEFY – headed to T-Mobile USA – this time hebdomad at CTIA 2010, and it’s sure a thickened lowercase thing.  Unlike another clifflike smartphones it ease gets a bounteous pass – 3.7-inches in this housing – and doesn’t see same a enthusiastic country of rubber.

Meanwhile, Engadget managed to encounter a cell of liquid and pronto wet the DEFY, exclusive to conceive that T-Mobile’s claims most the smartphone’s water-resilience are indeed accurate.  Last period we saw the DEFY stop up to a some another permanence tests, which sure suggests this is one thickened phone.

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