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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Russia's Comstar to build WiMAX network in Armenia

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    Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:31am EST

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    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian fixed-line operator Comstar UTS (CMSTq.L) said on Thursday it had started to build a mobile broadband network using WiMAX technology in Armenia.

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    "We intend to launch the network this year and, therefore, become the first and the largest wireless broadband Internet operator in Armenia," Comstar's president, Sergei Pridantsev, said in a statement.

    The company said it had chosen Airspan Networks Inc AIRN.O to provide equipment for the base stations. It did not disclose the value of the deal.

    Mobile WiMax is an emerging high-speed wireless standard which is expected to support access to large amounts of data, such as movies and multi-media content.

    The company expects to launch commercial service in the second half of this year. The network will cover 75 percent of Armenia's population, a Comstar spokeswoman said.

    She declined to say how much Comstar would invest in the network deployment. Last year Comstar announced plans to invest "10s of millions of dollars" to build a WiMAX network in Moscow.

    Comstar, part of Russian services conglomerate Sistema (SSAq.L), provides voice, data, Internet, pay-TV and other services.

    (Reporting by Maria Kiselyova; Editing by Greg Mahlich)
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