And it would help me be able to pay my electricity and phone bills on time.
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who abandoned City Hall when it lost electricity and phone service Tuesday, said he and his staff would return there Monday.
In corridors where workers gathered, water and electricity, phone lines and computers were in full use.
My neighborhood remains without electricity and cell phone service, and may stay that way for many days more.
Lopez-Obrador also set out a 20-point plan that will include addressing immigration that will heighten conflict, price gouging for services like electricity and cell phone use, and media monopolies among other issues in the ambitious agenda.
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Although the store had electricity and a working phone line, employee Ben Newell said credit-card transactions weren't getting through.
Contractors are moving gas and water pipes, as well as phone and electricity cables in Leith, so they will not be damaged when the trams are operational.
Half the population is illiterate, the phone lines and electricity supply are unreliable, and the roads and airports are decrepit.
The nonprofit organization reported that the quake cut off phone communication and electricity in parts of Sikkim and West Bengal provinces.
This has enabled several thousands to gain access to phone lines, mobile and landline, electricity, gas and water.
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The building boasts views of the Saigon River, full back-up electricity, centralized air-conditioning, direct phone lines and high-speed lifts.
The methane gets converted to electricity and a family in an emerging nation can charge a phone, or other device, for free.
Most phone lines are down and there is no electricity now.
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However, my outgoings are high I have to pay out for electricity, gas, water, my TV licence, my phone and food.
That the royal family also benefited from big private-sector investments including ownership of the mobile-phone industry, cable television, a brewery and the electricity utility increased public disquiet.
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Prices are reasonable, electricity blackouts are relatively rare, and even if the average wait for a phone line is over eight months, Costa Rica has better telephone coverage than much of the region (see chart).
That means the GSM Mobile World Congress, the telecommunications industry's largest annual trade show, will be abuzz with discussion of devices like "smart" meters that report a home's usage of electricity, natural gas or water back to the utility, and to your phone.
It may seem that none of these things the lack of food and electricity, Con Ed trucks dotting the landscape, the good samaritan cell phone chargers are ordinary.
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"We would ask that customers do not phone in to report these dips and only contact us if their electricity is completely off, " added Ms Carson.
But unlike the U.S., you can travel 30 minutes outside of the city and meet a herder who has never seen the city, has no electricity, no access to safe drinking water, and although he might have a basic cell phone, has never been on the Internet.
"Kenya has 30 million people and three million cell phone users - but only 200, 000 households that have electricity, " he says.
Although the electricity supply on the island is switched off between midnight and 0600, and there is no mobile phone reception, Canna does have broadband.
This is what the online computing revolution has become, a giant electricity hog of Internet searches, phone calls, blog posts, wireless downloads, bank transactions and office documents.
The device will have enough electricity-generating oomph to fully juice up a depleted iPhone 4S or similar smart phone between 10 and 14 times.
In the days of copper-wire telephony, customers would be able to pick up the phone and make calls even if their power went out, because the copper would conduct electricity to power analog phones on the receiving end.
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