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No, its normal maximum speed, which occurs as a plane-wave in free space, the speed is a constant called c, defined as 2.99792458E8 m/s.

In denser media, which are by definition all media, the speed is reduced. There are devices such as waveguides in which the phase-velocity exceeds c, but then the group-velocity, which is its reciprocal 1/c, is less than c.

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