• The mobile telephone business is making nice money for Western firms but also for indigenous hustlers.

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  • It was only last year that the first Chinese Yellow Pages telephone business directory was published.

    ECONOMIST: E-business in China

  • One day, private satellite operators may wish they were in the bulk telephone business after all.

    ECONOMIST: Satellite operators

  • It was not he who set up Olivetti's vastly successful mobile-telephone business, Omnitel Pronto Italia, but his predecessor.

    ECONOMIST: Meet the mechanic

  • Moreover, many firms in the mobile-telephone business would not be happy for Microsoft to dominate their business too.

    ECONOMIST: Microsoft and the Great Game | The

  • The same applies to the mobile-telephone business, where governments have been more willing to allow competition with digital than with analogue telephones.

    ECONOMIST: A world view | The

  • Most expect its telephone business eventually to be put up for sale.

    ECONOMIST: German conglomerates

  • If successful, this could lower the cost of entry into the mobile-telephone business and turn handsets into commodities, much like PCs are now.

    ECONOMIST: Microsoft and the Great Game | The

  • That might be persuasive if the full weight of America's common-carrier rules as they apply to the telephone business, with all the micro-management they involve, were dumped on the cable industry.

    ECONOMIST: Beware the gatekeeper

  • Similarly, if you are self employed or running a furnished holiday letting business and you are using a room at home as an office, it should be possible to claim a tax deduction for some of the house running expenses such as heat, light, business use of telephone, painting and decorating, etc.

    BBC: A silver lining for the credit crunch?

  • The executive chairman will be Peter Wood, the founder of the hugely successful Direct Line telephone insurance business.

    BBC: Halifax to offer online insurance

  • And our radical little book, which caused considerable controversy when it was published, now seems positively anachronistic--like an overheated disquisition on using the telephone for business.

    FORBES: Malone's Musings

  • Victor Chandler, a leading independent British bookmaker, has responded by transferring its telephone-credit business to Gibraltar, offering low-tax betting to high-rollers.

    ECONOMIST: Letters | The

  • It uses only information that law enforcement can already routinely access: its own records on suspects, convicts and sexual offenders, as well as publicly available data from county courthouses, telephone directories and business filings.

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  • According to the U.S. Treasury Department, the New Ansari Money Exchange is a hawala run by Jan that transferred billions of dollars in and out of Afghanistan between 2007 and 2010 that was also part of a loose-knit business conglomerate that included satellite telephone companies.

    FORBES: U.S. Sanctions Prominent Afghan Bankers Linked To Corruption

  • More convivial than her husband, she once likened going to bed with him to attending a board meeting he would telephone far-flung business associates all night.

    ECONOMIST: Banking

  • Tony Thorpe, owner of Station Garage, said the business relied heavily on the internet and telephone.

    BBC: Ewhurst residents still without landlines after theft

  • Alexander did not respond to a message left at a telephone number listed for his business nor to a numeric page.

    FORBES: IRS: Those small-business pension plans were too good to be true

  • Comcast is going to adapt unless the pay TV business crumbles the way long-distance telephone did becoming something no one would pay for at all.

    FORBES: Are Cable TV Carriers Seeing Meaningful Subscriber Degradation Due To Young People Not Signing Up?

  • He has also snubbed business leaders, reportedly refusing to take a telephone call from Lachlan Murdoch, deputy chief operating officer of News Corporation, to brief him on the company's relocation from Australia to America a development hardly without significance to the Australian economy.

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  • It had an OK but hardly exciting telecomm equipment business (equipment for use with DSL broadband and telephone net work monitoring).

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  • Currently accounting for 40% of its business, Rapp foresees enhanced services becoming Cape.com's entire business within a couple of years, as the telephone and cable companies move aggressively into the access market.

    FORBES: Mom-and-pop Internet

  • Under Harold Geneen, an Englishman who headed the American company for many years, ITT simultaneously owned bakeries, telephone companies, hotels and a forest-products business.

    ECONOMIST: Idea

  • Over the next year or so, Mr. Heywood grew increasingly nervous, warning some friends and business contacts not to discuss sensitive matters over email or by telephone.

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  • ISPs a business that, at least in Europe, remains dominated by former telephone monopolists that can use cost advantages to offer access at lower rates than new rivals can.

    ECONOMIST: Bertelsmann

  • Chuck Robel, one of Silicon Valley's leading accountants, has five contact telephone numbers and an e-mail address on his business card to make sure that his clients can get hold of him.

    ECONOMIST: Can't stop starting businesses

  • If the telephone network in New York State were a stand-alone business, it would already be in bankruptcy.

    ECONOMIST: The decline of the landline

  • The reason: most business transactions were already done at a distance, whether by fax, telephone, post, or private electronic links.

    ECONOMIST: Electronic commerce

  • Furthermore, stays at AKA include bicycle usage, local telephone calls, private parking, on-site laundry, business centre services and use of the executive boardroom, all of which are complimentary.

    BBC: Apartment stays get hotel style

  • Rogers continued to expand his cable business quickly through the 1970s and in 1985 began to operate a national cellular telephone network in Canada.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

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