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(CNN) -- Verizon has been touted as having the biggest, baddest, fastest 4G around. It's been this way since the carrier debuted its LTE network in late 2010.

But now that AT&T has joined the LTE game, consumers looking for top speeds might consider turning their focus to AT&T instead.

If only for a while.

Metrico Wireless, a firm that does network and mobile device analytics, took a look at 4G LTE service in the U.S., focusing on two of the nation's largest carriers, Verizon and AT&T.

The company's latest report shows that AT&T's average LTE speeds are better than Verizon's (for now at least), and that LTE provides more than five times the performance of the carriers' respective 3G offerings.

Metrico used five 4G LTE handsets for its tests: two on AT&T, three on Verizon. On AT&T, the HTC Vivid and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket were measured. The HTC Thunderbolt, Samsung Droid Charge and Motorola Droid Bionic were tested on Verizon's network.

In stationary download speeds, AT&T's 4G LTE handsets outperformed those on Verizon, but Metrico believes this disparity is likely due to the fact that Verizon's LTE service is more established and has significantly more subscribers using data on it.

Indeed, as of April, Verizon had over half a million LTE subscribers. AT&T, meanwhile, just launched its LTE network in five markets this summer.

But while AT&T's data speeds were better, web pages actually loaded faster on the three Verizon smartphones tested. "In general, the subscriber experience is not simply driven by the network or the device, but by the combination of the two," the report states.

"Even devices with similar specifications connected to similar network technologies still demonstrate variation in performance."

This was especially true with regards to video performance. Of the smartphones tested, the Samsung Droid Charge (on Verizon) consistently yielded the highest frame delivery rate, while the Motorola Droid Bionic (also on Verizon) had the lowest.

Also, if you're really concerned about web page load times, consider this: All carrier-to-carrier comparisons notwithstanding, both AT&T and Verizon handsets delivered web page load times that were 80 to 85 percent shorter on LTE relative to 3G.

What about battery life on an LTE device, notoriously reported as being poor? Well, depending on how you use your device, you may be able to squeeze out a few more hours, as the report found that battery life was heavily related to app use.

On the AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket, you're going to get 300 to 350 minutes of use out of your device, whether you're a power user or someone who's making calls all day long.

On the Verizon Droid Bionic, though, those who primarily use their phones for voice calling will gain about 150 minutes of usage over those who spend most of their time on Twitter and Facebook.

Verizon's LTE network is currently the largest in terms of nationwide coverage, but AT&T's is set to rival it as it expands.

And, indeed, we're finally beginning to see LTE infrastructure build-outs, industry-wide. Joining Metro PCS, Verizon and AT&T in the LTE game is Cricket Wireless, perhaps best known for its budget mobile phone and prepaid plan options.

Cricket will offer speeds up to 6 Mbps with a 5 GB data cap. Sprint will begin rolling out its 4G LTE network in mid to late 2012.

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DUBLIN, Ireland (CNN) -- Irish voters are going to the polls again Friday -- to vote on a treaty they rejected just over a year ago.

Prime Minister Brian Cowen gets out the 'vote yes' message in Tullamore.

But this time round, opinion polls indicate the "yes" campaign to adopt the Lisbon Treaty and its rules for governing an expanded European Union will be successful.

The EU has made assurances to Ireland that the Lisbon Treaty will not affect the country's abortion laws or its neutrality and that Ireland will keep a European Commissioner.

In the weeks leading up to the vote, Dublin was awash with posters for both sides of the emotional argument.

"Yes" posters reminded voters how much Ireland has benefited financially from being inside the European Union.

"No" placards questioned whether Ireland will lose its military neutrality, its anti-abortion laws and its minimum wage despite the EU assurances.

Just more than half -- 53 percent -- of Irish voters said "No" to the Lisbon Treaty in June 2008, throwing the future structure of the European Union into doubt as all member states have to ratify the treaty before it can be adopted.

Lisbon is the plan to modernize the EU's structure after it expanded to 27 members, with most of the new member states coming from Eastern Europe.

Ireland has just one percent of the EU's population but its "no" vote effectively stopped adoption of the Lisbon Treaty across the continent.

So, the Dublin government is holding another referendum Friday in the hope of this time getting a "yes" vote.

No other EU citizens have been allowed to vote on the treaty as national parliaments have ratified the treaty. And to date only Poland and the Czech Republic governments have held up the final passage of the treaty in their own countries.

But Ireland's constitution mandates citizens must be allowed to vote on any major changes to its own governmental structure.

A handful of Dublin taxi drivers told CNN they would vote no because they see no reason to give to Brussels the powers that Ireland fought hard to wrestle away from Britain.

"No" campaigner Brendan Young, from a group called People Before Profit, put it bluntly: "People having had experience of benign British presence don't want to be going fighting Britain's wars, or anybody else's."

But the "no" campaign is a rag bag of groups that have little in common. Young says he is pro-Europe but does not want Irish tax money to pay for Europe's military structure.

To illustrate the diverging political viewpoints in the "no" campaign, Young was not happy that the United Kingdom Independence Party was in Dublin and on his side.

UKIP is an anti-European Union, British party and it finds itself on the same side as Sinn Fein, the anti-British, nationalist party. Conservative anti-abortion catholic groups also press the "no" case.

"When I see the UK Independence Party join up with Sinn Fein and religious extremists, I must be on the right side," laughed Michael Wall, a "yes" campaigner.

He said he volunteered to hand out leaflets because he says last year the pro-Lisbon Treaty lobby took a "yes" for granted. He says by talking about what is actually in the treaty -- a document most people last time round admitted they had not read -- he has changed minds.

"I have met a lot of people on the campaign who voted no the last time. Voted no out of anger, voted no because of the arrogance of politicians who put their faces on the posters when the issue wasn't about, say, local elections," Wall said. "A lot of people have changed their mind and I think they should be given that opportunity" by getting to vote a second time.

But Ireland is going through one of the worst recessions of any developed nation since the 1930s.

There are no green shoots on the emerald island. Property prices have collapsed, unemployment doubled in a year and for the first time in nearly 20 years, emigration is back.

The government is very unpopular and the business community worries this will influence voting.

"The biggest concern is that it will be a "no" on the basis of people's anger about domestic policy issues rather than the treaty itself," says Patricia Callan, of the Small Firms Association.

Business is at the fore of the "yes" vote this time around.

At the U.S. tech giant Intel, Jim O'Hara, its General Manager of Ireland, said he had to persuade his boss this vote was critical.

"I had to go and convince the Intel Corporation," he said. "And quite frankly Paul Otellini, when I spoke to him, the CEO, wasn't that particularly interested in the issues. I convinced him that it was good for Ireland and good for our business in Ireland."

Results are not expected until Saturday.

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Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Kurdish lawmakers announced Monday they would submit their resignations from Parliament, three days after Turkey's highest court banned their political party on charges that it was a "focal point for terrorism."

Ahmet Turk, the co-chairman of the now-defunct Democratic Society Party --  known by its initials in Turkish, DTP --  made the announcement in a statement to the media Monday evening in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir.

Last Friday's closure by the Constitutional Court stripped Turk and fellow co-chair, Aysel Tugluk, of their parliamentary seats and banned them both from politics for the next five years. The announcement that the remaining 19 elected lawmakers from their party would now resign in protest may exacerbate simmering tensions between the state and Turkey's minority of some 12 million ethnic Kurds.

"The decision of the constitutional court might deprive a significant segment of Turkish voters from political representation," said a spokesman for the European Commission, in a dispatch from the French news agency AFP.

Earlier Friday, Ahmet Turk denounced the court ban in a speech before a crowd of some 10,000 supporters in Diyarbakir, the unofficial political capital of Turkey's Kurds.

"I know the mentality of the state and the politicians of this country," he said. "We did not expect anything different because they cannot tolerate the existence of the Kurds. They cannot tolerate our identity. They cannot tolerate our language."

After the speech, several hundred Kurds took to the streets, throwing stones and clashing with Turkish riot police, who retaliated by firing tear gas and water cannons.

The banning of the DTP came after more then a week of riots and clashes between police and Kurdish protesters in cities and towns across Turkey.

Tensions have rapidly escalated, amid reports that the jailed leader of the Kurdish separatist movement -- the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as the PKK -- was moved to a smaller prison cell, and after the PKK claimed responsibility for a deadly ambush last week that killed seven Turkish soldiers.

In Istanbul on Sunday, Kurdish protesters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails and clashed with police in a central commercial district. At one point, gun- and club-wielding Turkish ultranationalists joined the fray.

Explosions of ethnic anger were not limited to Turkey's largest city.

In the eastern Turkish town of Malatya, Turkish nationalists were filmed scuffling with Kurdish demonstrators Sunday. Police struggled to keep the two groups apart as they kicked and cursed at each other in the street.

Clashes also erupted on Monday in the coastal city of Adana and in the border town of Dogubayazit, Turkey's official Anatolian news agency reported. Anatolian reported that nine demonstrators were detained and that one demonstrator and five police officers were injured in the Dogubayazit clash.

Signs identifying the now-defunct DTP have been removed from the front of the 19th-century, four-story building where the party's Istanbul headquarters is located.

Two prior incarnations of the DTP have been shut down by the Turkish state within the last decade.

Mustafa Avci, the chairman of the party's Istanbul branch, said the Turkish state is forcing conflict on the country's Kurdish minority.

"They are forcing this on us," Avci said in an interview with CNN on Monday. "Therefore, they are the ones who practice terrorism, not us. ...Those who want war are terrorists."

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question: What did the European commission say?

answer: "The decision of the constitutional court might deprive a significant segment of Turkish voters from political representation,"

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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- It's a neighborhood of shotgun houses painted a rainbow of colors, a community of artists, workaday folks and students where everyone knows everyone's name.

Destruction in Atlanta's historic Cabbagetown district, which many artists call home.

Saturday morning, people were out walking their dogs, sipping coffee and taking a look at who was hit the worst in Atlanta's Cabbagetown district. It appeared Friday night's 130 mph tornado had delivered its wrath randomly -- some houses were perfectly intact while others were flooded and smashed.

"It's a sad thing," said 56-year-old Bertha Wise, standing next to a splintered tree that had buried her car and blocked a side-door to her yellow and cobalt-blue house. A sign advertising her hand-crafted art, which she sells from her home, hung slightly askew.

"I was cooking dinner and the lights started to flicker," she said. "There was no warning. My door flung open and papers went flying. By that time, there was nowhere to go."

Without a basement, she hunkered down and hoped for the best.

But Wise fared well compared with her neighbors in this historic neighborhood, which has gone from crime-ridden to cool in recent years.

A few blocks down, a woman named Rebecca -- too distraught to speak with a reporter -- carried what belongings she had left out of her rental home, which had been split in half by a giant oak tree.  Watch residents describe the storm's quick arrival Â»

She wasn't at home at the time, her landlord Mark Rogers told CNN, which was a good thing for her safety. But in the early morning hours, looters got there before she had and took almost everything.

Looting was a problem throughout the neighborhood, many said.  See photos of the damage Â»

A few doors down from her, Pastor Richard Davis stared up at the tire-size hole in the roof of his Eastside Christian Community Pentecostal Church. He has been preaching in its single room for 10 years.

"Yes...well, that is something isn't it?" he said, then gestured to the church's bathroom -- a brick yellow outhouse. "That's still here though. We'll be OK."

He plans to give a sermon on Palm Sunday and ask his parishioners to pray hard that lack of insurance won't force him to close his doors.

Steven and Laura Powell, thinking they were in store for a short lightning storm, were startled by the storm's quick escalation.

They were frightened when they spotted the storm beginning to circulate in the distance from their tiny home, and rushed to scoop up their sleeping 5-week-old Audrey.

Bundled in a soft pink onesie, Audrey was still sleeping Saturday morning as her parents walked the neighborhood, amazed that their home had not been damaged -- and that their daughter had snoozed through the entire ordeal.

"I just put myself on top of [Laura] and the baby and we got under the strongest beam in the house," said Steven Powell. "I thought that if a tree came crashing through, I'd take the brunt of it."

Cabbagetown's houses were built for the workers at the local Fulton Cotton Mill. The mill closed and the neighborhood slid into decay.

The renaissance of Cabbagetown began when the mill buildings were converted to the trendy Fulton Cotton Mill Lofts and the artists and urban pioneers moved in.

In addition to hitting the houses, Friday night's tornado seriously damaged the top floor of the lofts. Remarkably, nobody was hurt.

Cabbagetown residents remember when the under-construction lofts survived a five-alarm fire in 1999 -- and say they plan to rebuild and survive this disaster as well. E-mail to a friend

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(CNN)  -- Cristiano Ronaldo is to play in a special benefit match for the victims of the Madeira floods and mudslides which have claimed the lives of at least 42 people.

The world's most expensive player has made himself available for a game between Portuguese champions Porto and a joint team from Madeira-based clubs Nacional and Maritimo.

No date has yet been set for the match, but Ronaldo has said he will help in "whatever possible way" after the tragic events of the weekend.

Porto coach Jesualdo Ferreira added: "Porto want to express their condolences for all that has happened and, as a club, do everything necessary to help Madeira."

Real Madrid forward Ronaldo was born and grew up in Madeira and has a special football center named after him, which is next to the Nacional stadium.

The 24-year-old paid his own tribute after scoring the first goal in Real's 6-2 rout of Villarreal on Sunday, lifting his shirt to reveal a t-shirt bearing the name "Madeira" on the chest.

"Nobody can be indifferent to such a tragedy, especially me," Ronaldo told the official Real Madrid Web site, www.realmadrid.com.

"I was born and raised on the island. It's given me so much. This is why I want to make myself available to help in whatever possible way.

"I would like to help official bodies and organizations to minimize the effects of this great tragedy and to get over them as soon as possible."

Former World Player of the Year Ronaldo moved to Real Madrid from Manchester United in the summer for a record $120 million fee.

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answer: victims of the Madeira floods

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(CNN)  -- The suspect in the death of a 20-year-old pregnant Marine will be returned to North Carolina to face charges in her slaying, a Mexican judge ruled Thursday, according to North Carolina authorities.

U.S. Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean was arrested in Mexico in April.

U.S. Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean, 21, who was arrested in Mexico in April, could be returned to Onslow County, North Carolina, within a week, the county sheriff's office said in a statement issued Thursday. Federal authorities will handle his transportation to the North Carolina jail.

Laurean has been indicted on first-degree murder and other charges in the death of Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach. Her charred body and that of her fetus were found beneath a fire pit in Laurean's backyard near Camp Lejeune, where both were stationed, in January, a month after she was last seen.

Prosecutors allege that Laurean killed Lauterbach on December 14 and used her ATM card 10 days later before fleeing to Mexico to avoid prosecution.

Laurean was arrested in April in San Juan Vina, in the Mexican state of Michoacan. Because he holds citizenship in the United States and Mexico, he could not be immediately deported and had to go through the extradition process, authorities said.

Asked by a Mexican reporter at the time of his arrest whether he killed Lauterbach, Laurean said, "I loved her."

As part of the effort to apprehend Laurean, authorities seized a computer belonging to his sister-in-law that Laurean's wife, Christina, was using to communicate with him, a law enforcement official had said.

If convicted, Onslow County prosecutors said, Laurean would face a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole. Mexico's extradition policy prohibits U.S. authorities from seeking the death penalty against fugitives it hands over.

Authorities found Lauterbach's body after Christina Laurean produced a note her husband had written claiming that the 20-year-old woman slit her own throat during an argument, according to officials.

Although a gaping 4-inch wound was found on the left side of Lauterbach's neck, autopsy results indicate that the wound itself would not have been fatal.

Prosecutors have said there was no evidence that Christina Laurean was involved in or aware of Lauterbach's slaying before she gave the note to authorities.

Lauterbach had accused Laurean of raping her, and it is unclear whether he was the father of her fetus, although her relatives have said they believe him to be. He had denied the rape allegation and said he had had no sexual contact with her.

Mary Lauterbach, the young woman's mother, has said she's unconvinced that the Marine Corps took her daughter's rape allegation and other allegations of "harassment" seriously. Her daughter's car was keyed, she said, and she was assaulted.

"Those particular actions should have been taken much more seriously because the Marines were aware of them," she said Friday.

In a statement issued after her death, the Marine Corps said Laurean's denial "was believed to be significant evidence."

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question: Who could be back in North Carolina within a week?

answer: U.S. Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean

text: U.S. Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean

question: Where would Laurean be tried?

answer: Onslow County, North Carolina,

text: Onslow County, North Carolina,

question: Who said Lauterbach slit her own throat?

answer: Cesar Laurean

text: Cesar Laurean

question: What did Laurean claim that Lauterbach did?

answer: slit her own throat

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question: Cpl. Ceasar Laurean is accused of what?

answer: first-degree murder

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question: where was Laurean arrested?

answer: Mexico

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question: What month was Laurean arrested?

answer: April.

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question: Who was arrested in Mexico in April?

answer: U.S. Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean

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question: What does Laurean say happened to Lauterbach?

answer: slit her own throat during

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question: What was Maria Lauterbach's rank?

answer: Marine Lance Cpl.

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- U.S. authorities arrested six people Wednesday on suspicion of smuggling African elephant ivory worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, law enforcement officials said.

Imports of African elephant ivory have been banned in the United States since 1976.

The defendants arranged to have ivory from Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Uganda shipped into the United States disguised as wooden snakes, guitars and statues, authorities said.

"The defendants plundered precious natural resources for personal profit," U.S. Attorney Benton J. Campbell and other officials said in a statement. "Their illegal trade threatens the continued existence of an endangered species and will not be tolerated."

Federal agents tracked at least eight shipments, including one worth an estimated $165,000.

Federal agents used surveillance and shipping, phone and bank records to track the suspect shipments. Arrests were made in New York, New Jersey, Virginia and Texas.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement division of the Department of Homeland Security were involved in the law enforcement operation.

One suspect told an undercover federal agent during a purchase that it was difficult to bring ivory into the United States, but easy to sell it at high prices, the government statement said.

Two other suspects also are accused of paying a courier $15,000 to bring a shipment of ivory from Cameroon into the United States.

The U.S. banned ivory imports in 1976, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora effectively outlawed trade in elephant tissue in 1989.

Illegal trade in African elephant ivory is considered to be a major cause of the continuing decline of elephant populations in Africa.

The defendants are expected to appear in court in New York on Wednesday. They face jail terms of up to 20 years if convicted.

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question: When did the ivory trade become illegal?

answer: 1976.

question: In what ways was ivory smuggled?

answer: disguised as wooden snakes, guitars and statues,

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question: What was ivory reportedly disguised as?

answer: as wooden snakes, guitars and statues,

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question: How many states face federal smuggling charges?

answer: New York, New Jersey, Virginia and Texas.

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question: When has trade in elephant ivory been illegal since?

answer: 1976.

question: Which for states do the six live in?

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(CNN)  -- Inter Milan stayed on course for the treble after beating Lazio 2-0 on Sunday to open up a two-point gap over Roma in the Serie A title race.

It completed a superb week for Inter, who reached the final of the Champions League with an aggregate win over Barcelona on Wednesday.

They also face Roma in the Italian Cup final next Wednesday having leapfrogged the capital side with their latest victory.

Lazio, fighting a relegation battle, were no match for Jose Mourinho's high-flyers, who are bidding for a fifth straight league title.

Argentine defender Walter Samuel headed in the opener just before halftime from a Wesley Sneijder cross.

Inter continued to press after the break and Thiago Motta scored the second from a Maicon corner in the 70th minute.

Roma had briefly led Serie A after their 2-1 win at Parma on Sunday with both teams now having two matches left to press their title claims.

Earlier, Sampdoria and Palermo both won to stay locked in the battle for the fourth and final Champions League qualifying place.

Sampdoria, who lead Palermo by two points, beat already relegated Livorno 2-0 while the Sicilians beat Siena 2-1.

The defeat sends Siena down.

In other games, Napoli and Juventus booked Europa League places.

Napoli won 2-1 away to Chievo while Juve dropped to seventh, but secured their spot with a 1-1 draw at Catania.

At the other end of the table, Bologna drew 1-1 with Atalanta to improve their chances of surviving the drop.

In the Netherlands, FC Twente sealed the Dutch title with a 2-0 win over NAC Breda to leave them one point ahead of Ajax, who beat NEC Nijmegen 4-0.

It is a remarkable triumph for a side managed by former England boss Steve McClaren who could not match the spending power of their Amsterdam rivals.

Bryan Ruiz and Miroslav Stoch scored the Twente goals to clinch the championship and a Champions League place.

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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Under heavy criticism for a telling cell phone carriers to ban certain words in text messages, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority went into damage control mode Wednesday.

PTA spokesman Mohammed Younis Wednesday denied the existence of the plan, which has met with derision from mobile phone users in the country.

"If at all we finally decide to go for this process, then we will prepare a list in consultation with the mobile operators," Younis told CNN.

In another conversation with CNN two days earlier, however, Younis acknowledged that the telecommunications authority had sent out a notice to carriers -- but said that the agency was giving the operators more time to come up with a shorter list.

Earlier this week, three carriers -- Mobilink, Warid and Telenor -- received the notice, officials there confirmed.

In it, the PTA , which regulates cell phone and internet carriers in Pakistan, called on them to implement the ban within seven days.

This would mean blocking text messages containing the offending words.

Most of the 1,500 banned words were deemed sexually explicit or obscene by the PTA, the officials said.

The words include "taxi" -- often used to refer to prostitutes in Pakistan -- "gay," "tongue," "homosexual," "intercourse," "condom" and "hole."

CNN has obtained a copy of the list.

In the notice, which is available online, the PTA cited a law that bans the transmission of indecent and obscene messages.

The notice says the banned words are part of an effort to cut down on spam and unsolicited text messages, the officials said.

Last month, the PTA banned thousands of websites containing pornography.

But the latest about face on text messages appears to mean the PTA will not act on the notice -- at least, any time soon.

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question: What has Pakistan told phone companies?

answer: words in text messages,

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question: How many words did Pakistan tell phone companies to block from text messages?

answer: 1,500

question: What words were banned?

answer: sexually explicit

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