In Australia, where he was overseeing a Better Place initiative, the company provides GM customers with a fixed-charging network and home chargers for the plug-in electric-hybrid Volt.
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Metacloud is charging customers a fixed amount per month based on the number of CPUs the customer has hooked up to their service.
This year saw the launch of Nationwide savings accounts targeted at business customers and a range of fixed rate bonds.
In July last year Scottish Power shut down its wireless service and asked its 6000 customers to consider a traditional fixed line service.
This is made worse by an odd pricing system, under which firms charge a fixed amount, instead of billing their customers by the hour.
In most cases, the extent to which one subscriber uses a fixed connection has little impact on other customers, since each has a separate link to the internet.
We know that some customers like to have a fixed funding model, which means you have to reach your target to get the money or for the funders to have to pay.
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The low, fixed-fee approach for all customers confirms a trend we commented upon nearly a year ago: providers no longer expect to make the big bucks from calls and texts, but intend to make up for it with the data plans and the connection of additional devices.
But the FCC has attempted to strike a balance by prohibiting fixed-line internet service providers from blocking customers from access to any legal content, applications or service.
The challenge from a marketing standpoint is convincing its customers that the network has been fixed.
Customers sign up to a 12 month plan at a fixed monthly price.
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Leeds Building Society credited some of its success on the savings front to the popularity of its fixed rate bonds, which allowed customers unlimited access to a proportion of their money without penalty during the product's term.
They have, he points out, many advantages over fixed-line operators with stronger brands and a closer relationship with their customers.
Tesco believes that this has a compatibility problem with its system, which can be very easily fixed if customers follow some instructions to reset their browsers.
KDDI, a mobile and fixed line communications company in Japan, has developed extensive information about its customers through the data it collects including URLs visited, type of mobile device, purchase history and buying habits, gender and age group.
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As a result, Cohen has learned more about how customers use Coursekit, what needs to be fixed, and what is missing from its features.
While Telmex appears as a slow growth, possibly declining asset, the acquisition is part of a strategic group to face increased competition from Grupo Televisa, which has been poaching fixed-line customers.
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The asset management business earns money by offering customers a wide range of investment products so that customers can invest their money in the market (equity, fixed income, alternative investment etc.) and product that best matches their investment goals.
This trend has been reinforced by the UK's largest lender, the Halifax, which will increase the interest rate on its new three-year fixed-rate deal for customers who want to borrow between 75% and 90% of a property's value from 13 June.
As a result, he said all customers would be able to choose between two types of tariff - variable and fixed - and receive more transparent bills.
Calltrunk can record and store conversations made via any phone - fixed line or mobile - and has currently amassed more than 20, 000 customers worldwide after just over a year of operation.
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