Dixons, one of Britain's biggest electrical retailers, has launched a free Internet access service, as have such copycats as Tesco, a supermarket chain.
However, the conventional wisdom was that Comcast had won itself a battle but would ultimately lose the war in spectacular fashion, since the obvious move for the FCC would have been to reclassify broadband access as a Title II "telecommunications service, " which is the same way the agency regulates wireline phones, and ISPs would have suddenly found themselves in a regulatory nightmare.
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"Meltwater News is an expensive subscription service that markets itself as a news clipping service, not as a publicly available tool to improve access to content across the Internet, " she said.
It was conceived in 1995 as a proprietary service as AOL had been, then reinvented as a straight Internet access provider, then it ventured into content and online "channels, " even trying to produce Web sitcoms.
Through the Affordable Care Act, women in many health plans will have access to domestic violence screening and counseling as a preventative service without co-payments, deductibles or other cost-sharing.
For instance, product-service systems like car sharing and tool libraries--in which a product we used to buy and take home becomes a service we use only as needed--offer us access to the products we want at a fraction of the ecological impact.
TORwallet has just announced an online bitcoin wallet run as a TOR hidden service (to access the service users must run the onion proxy software on their computer).
The cable companies' superior technology allows them to offer interactive content and video-on-demand as well as a regular phone service and high-speed internet access.
Every senior would have access to a plan that offered at least as much value as fee-for service Medicare.
Unlike them, mobile companies are not under a regulatory obligation to offer access to their networks to third parties such as Internet service providers.
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.
The events of last year have therefore vindicated Boeing's diversification strategy, even if they have hurt some new businesses, such as a broadband-communications service that was to deliver live television and Internet access at 35, 000 feet, but has only one customer, Lufthansa.
They can vigorously enforce antitrust laws and maintain a pro-competitive bias to securing equal access for service providers to such networks as telephone, wireless and cable systems.
AskForCents exists because of the Turk, as does CastingWords, a service that transcribes spoken audio files using people who have computer access and some time to kill housewives, night-shift security guards and so on.
Instead of full service subscription fees, Chinese online gaming firms offer more a la carte choices such as access to private chat rooms or avatar costume selection.
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