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DETROIT (AP) - Five years ago, General Motors Corp.'s worldwide telecommunications system was lagging the company's fledgling effort to globalize vehicle design, engineering and manufacturing.
It would take an hour or more for an engineer in Europe to send a large computerized design file to a manufacturing plant overseas, and another hour for the plant to send the file back with any changes.
Now, as the company moves toward building more models in more places off the same underpinnings to save billions of dollars, GM and AT&T Inc. have a network in place that allows engineers and plant officials worldwide to simultaneously view the same data and discuss it.
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