Rather, it is offering a low-cost cloud service, with reliability that is not great but good enough for most users.
And there have been enough users and positive feedback from citizens that the city has already expanded the Wi-Fi coverage area and is planning on eventually providing free or low-cost wireless service across the entire city.
Because it provides an alternative, low-cost mobile communications service, Google Voice is often compared to both Skype and Vonage though each is based on slightly different technology.
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service offerings can also provide quick, low-cost access to data center resources for software development and prototyping.
As international links improve and network equipment becomes cheaper and more effective, it will not be difficult to provide a low-cost mobile-broadband service, says Vodafone's Mr Colao.
Next up, an ambitious effort to inaugurate a low-cost fixed wireless phone service in Mexico early next year (the technology is wireless, but the range of use will be about 2 kilometers).
Next up, an ambitious effort to inaugurate a low-cost fixed wireless phone service in Mexico early next year (the technology is wireless, but the range of use will be about 1 mile).
The telecommunications giant is off to a good start, launching a low-cost, Internet-based voice service called Connect 'N Save just last month.
Skype, which is planning an initial public offering, also has a paid service offering low-cost calls to landlines or mobile phones, similar to Google's new plan.
Jain: What we need in India -- and in other emerging markets -- is a low-cost access device which can make the Internet a mass-market service, a utility service.
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Most of the online firms are now rapidly transforming themselves from low-cost trade-executors into electronic financial-service companies offering a full range of retail products, from share-trading to insurance.
Local market competition is escalating among larger carriers, low-cost carriers and several regional wireless players with nationwide service plans.
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The most likely outcome: a permanent stratification of Internet access into full-service, low-budget and no-cost tiers, similar to premium and basic cable.
The city already has a fiber-optic network in place, built in 1995 with the aim of luring Internet service providers to hook up citizens with low-cost Internet.
To improve technology access, Microsoft also announced the deployment of a pilot project with the Kenyan Ministry of Information and Communications and Kenyan Internet service provider Indigo Telecom Ltd. to deliver low-cost, high-speed, wireless broadband and create new opportunities for commerce, education, healthcare and delivery of government services across Kenya.
The company in October will launch a hybrid voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) service that it says combines the low cost of Internet phone calls with the reliability of traditional phone lines.
Then it's back to government legislation, with the third reading of the Public Service Pensions Bill - the startlingly low-key measure to cut the cost of public-sector pensions.
Most of the advice offered by full-service firms can be boiled down to simple asset allocation and diversification using low-cost indexed mutual funds, Schwab says.
Where we are headed as a company and where the industry is headed is to a service where the end-user selects their profile for high quality or low cost connections.
The City will accomplish this by launching the RFI, and working with private sector service providers to determine best practices and innovative solutions that will allow the low-cost broadband to be developed.
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Recently, SNCF has announced their low cost service of high speed trains (TGV) that operate in the axis Paris-Lyon-Marseille-Montpellier that will contribute to multiply considerable the volume of expected passengers for the next year, and consequently, the potential WiFi users in the station of St Charles.
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Roughly the size of a laptop, this low-cost, lightweight technology is ideal for connecting airplanes, trains, boats or even cars to broadband service.
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After 20 years in the service, retirees are entitled to a pension worth half their base pay and low-cost health insurance, but that rarely provides enough compensation for most to stop working.
Yet its low-cost strategy dovetails with the needs of many carriers that are looking to expand smartphone sales and the lucrative data-service contracts they bring to customers who aren't willing to pay for marquee devices such as Apple Inc.
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