Strike action by Guernsey bus drivers is less likely following a meeting between operator CT Plus and staff on Wednesday.
One example of that is the partnership between mobile operator Telenor Pakistan and Tameer Microfinance Bank.
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The city expects the system to turn a profit, to be split between the city and the operator.
Then after the accident the confusion of responsibility between BP, the oil rig operator, and federal and local government slowed down the response and created disjointed and unclear communications.
The In Amenas field is operated as a joint-venture between Algeria's Sonatrach, Norwegian operator Statoil and UK energy giant BP.
"There was less than 30 minutes between the time we got the 911 operator's call to when the sheriff said there was a crash, " Goldberg said.
Railway operator First Great Western said services between London Paddington and south Wales were affected.
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Passenger numbers on the high-speed train between London, Brussels and Paris fell 1% to 2.6 million between July and September, which the train operator said was because "tourists who were not going to the Games were encouraged to avoid London".
The sailings between Guernsey, Jersey and the UK by ferry operator Condor Express had already been rescheduled for "technical reasons".
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Network Rail said the operator London Midland was not running any trains between the two stations.
The move came after an Israeli foreign ministry official was quoted by the Haaretz newspaper as saying the Swedish government would oppose further sanctions to protect a deal between the telecommunications group, Ericsson, and the mobile operator, Irancell.
Ironically, the company was once a vocal supporter of the laws now on the books outlawing back-scratching between doctors and radiation clinics, for fear that another clinic operator would cut them out of referral streams.
Trenitalia, Italy's state railway operator, suspended train service from Bologna, and a friendly soccer match between Italy and Luxembourg in Parma was canceled.
Traffic on the cellular network was running between 50 percent and 100 percent above normal levels, and its directory assistance and operator services were also overwhelmed, the company said in a statement.
The deal between Wrightbus in Ballymena and VDL Groep in Eindhoven is for the supply of buses to operator Arriva.
The difference between this rumored deal with Sprint and that of a normal MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) would be the possible integration of cellphones with VOIP service, something that the traditional phone companies are scared to death of, but integrates perfectly with the current VOIP ambitions of the cable companies.
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When Celtel, a mobile-phone operator, set up in Zambia eight years ago, it concentrated on the densely populated corridor between Victoria Falls (on the border with Zimbabwe), Lusaka and the industrial copper belt.
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