If the new investment is only made after the sale proceeds are realised, the total delay could be up to three weeks.

It took another five months for the contract to be awarded to a third company, producing a total delay of 19 months.

But the idea is to cut total delays.

The total delay for the viewer from the live feed ends up being about 2/3 of a second.

The game finally resumed after a total delay of 1 hour 14 minutes.

But last year, total delays climbed to a new record of 417,644.

A further delay was announced in October 2008, making the total delay three years, giving an expected online date of 2012.

The distinction between total delay and control delay is important.

Although users only care about the total delay of a network, engineers need to perform precise measurements.

"My best estimate for the total delay is about three weeks."