Many users do not want to pay for both a phone contract and a tablet data contract and thus opt for Wi-Fi-only tablets.
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Note: All contract and payroll data courtesy of CapGeek.com.
The irony of this approach was that, like the original Electronic Data Systems contract, it embodied fashionable ideas at the time it was first formulated, but now that the Navy is ready to actually implement those ideas they look a bit outdated.
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Sequentially and year-on-year, quarterly service revenues decreased primarily due to contract customer losses, which were partially offset by the increased adoption of data plans in the contract and prepaid customer base.
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Starting this month, T-Mobile customers will be able to sign up for no-contract plans that include unlimited data.
This dramatic shift in consumer behaviour has seen the average amount of data used by contract customers each month soar to 1.1 gigabytes (GB).
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The open registration system is flawed because 13-year-olds cannot enter a contract or legally consent to their data being used, it was argued.
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He said that Facebook's open registration system was flawed because 13-year-olds cannot enter a contract or legally consent to their data being used.
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The carriers more than make up for the upfront subsidies over the life of the contract due to huge margins on data plans.
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On Thursday, Colt Telecom announced it had been awarded the multi-million pound contract to provide the high-speed data network that will make the system possible.
He estimates that consumers that purchase tablets will wait at least six months to upgrade their laptops and cites data from Asian suppliers and contract manufacturers to support his position.
Since March, i-design has signed a major contract with merchant processing services provider First Data for the supply of joono software, and has sold an additional 3, 000 software licenses to Barclays Bank and US-based Cardtronics Inc.
Also, activity in the eurozone's manufacturing and services sector continued to contract in May, closely-watched preliminary data from Markit, a financial information services company, showed.
The letter seeks data going back to 2008 as the bank examines whether the seller of ubiquitous trading-data terminals was in breach of contract, the person said.
However, what happens to the data at the flexible sites once the contract ends?
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Blended churn (as defined in Note 3 to the Selected Data, below), reflecting both contract and prepaid customers, increased to 4.0% in the fourth quarter of 2011, up from 3.5% in the third quarter of 2011 and 3.6% in the fourth quarter of 2010.
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Data will be sortable by the type of contract award, by size and by recipient.
In less than a year Three's four million contract mobile phone customers have more than doubled their monthly data use.
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The company agreed to provide data identifying the frequency and duration of repairs, engine type and contract type.
Mr. Seidenberg said Wednesday he expects the number of data users to jump to about 75% of Verizon's contract customers over the next three to four years from 23% today, regardless of the device.
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"The influx of data services, coupled with the traditional flexibility and value of no contract plans, has considerably increased consumer interest in the no annual contract wireless market" said John Weber, Associate Research Analyst at IDC.
These had to do with issues such as data auditing and transition from older technologies, which were not in the original contract, a Google spokesman said.
The software company hopes to prove that its data collection and analysis technology so that it could win a long-term contract with the water district and perhaps other utilities as well.
Pricing remains an open question, but considering that the Tab's a full-on cellphone in addition to a data device, it seems that American customers might need to be comfortable with another contract if they want in on this thing.
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Contract net customer losses, including connected devices (as defined in Note 1 to the Selected Data, below), were 802, 000 in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared to 186, 000 net contract customer losses in the third quarter of 2011 and 251, 000 net contract customer losses in the fourth quarter of 2010.
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Depending on the contract you have, certain costs for accessing the internet on your phone - usually referred to as data charges - may apply.
Warning: The most diligent hackers can still nab the data as it moves from the retailer to the payment processor, so stipulate in the contract that the processor must cover any losses or fines that occur if there's a breach in the system, says Litan.
The data clearly shows that there is a Super Bowl wage premium, presuming that you sign a new contract or negotiate an extension shortly thereafter.
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