Sooner or later, he says, operators will have to introduce more stringent usage caps, demand a premium for better service or charge by usage.
Customers with smart thermostats reduced their usage by 27%, and customers with gateway systems, which adjust the electricity use of multiple appliances, reduced their usage by 43% during the peak hours.
Interestingly, as the mobile data usage soared by 68%, the voice minute usage of iPhone owners dropped by 13% over the same 10 month span.
Lastly, group plants together by water usage to ensure they get the correct amount of water.
This insightful post that describes emotional states created by Web usage roughly maps to trad feelings like anxiety, rage and shame.
Data revenues are primarily driven by smartphone usage, but the growing popularity of tablets has incentivized many mobile carriers to add these to their arsenal.
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However, if you foresee using your gas rewards credit card only for gas purchases, as more of a supplementary spending vehicle, you must concentrate on maximizing your gas rewards and avoid being distracted by the non-gas rewards that will be rendered irrelevant by your usage.
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Revenue and earnings were hammered by the recession, as usage of steel by automakers and in the construction industry plummeted, and competition from China increased.
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The EcoHub app works by pulling overall home energy usage data, provided by an energy data source, such as a utility or smart meter company.
And with Onavo, iPhone users can now finally understand their apps' data usage by keeping Count!
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The students who came up with this plan estimate it will cut water usage by 10%.
If we cut usage by a million barrels a day, a worldwide surplus develops.
But what is threatened by uncontrolled vehicle usage is not prosperity so much as lifestyle.
In 2012 the company has decreased power usage by 20% while increasing its subscriber base by 19%.
The Federal Reserve is looking into whether Bloomberg journalists tracked data about terminal usage by top Fed officials.
The Federal Reserve is also looking into whether Bloomberg journalists tracked data about terminal usage by top Fed officials.
The Merkel-led coalition government says it plans to push the country to cut power usage by 10% by 2020.
Brazilians were obliged to cut back their power usage by a fifth under a government led "volunteer" rationing program.
So the U.S. government decided to force the issue by mandating ethanol usage in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
One US research company (Alpha Wise) found that the tablet install base reduced PC usage by 37 percent in 2011.
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In addition to this 47% increase, consumers will be charged a value-added tax and higher fees for network usage by utilities.
Downtime has been nonexistent, and the network has been able to accommodate an explosion in usage by students, faculty and administrators.
Payoff: LexisNexis usage by small law firms was up 39% last year.
The government has asked households and businesses in parts of the country to cut electricity usage by 15% to avoid possible blackouts.
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The centres themselves have become vital focal points for lifelong learning not least because they are open for continuous usage by all members of the community.
Public safety has had to compete with commercial and other users of spectrum for a scarce resource, and increasing interference has been caused by heavy spectrum usage.
In a California test that ran from 2003 through 2005, the average customer reduced his usage by 13% during the hottest summer hours when rates were five times higher.
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