What is surprising, however, is that only Google makes the cut among Internet companies.
As part of the tax cut, Internet bookmakers agreed to return home from places like Antigua.
The French government is trying to pass a harsh new law that would cut off internet access for people who download pirated music and films.
Deposed Egyptian president Hasni Mubarak famously cut off Internet and mobile phone service in Egypt at the height of the Arab Spring demonstrations that led to his ouster.
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Their aim, which appears to have been achieved by the cut price Internet brokers, was to make share dealing accessible to the general public - to "bring Wall Street to Main Street".
An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to all of neighbouring Armenia, it emerged on Wednesday.
The exact method being used to cut off the internet in Syria is unknown, one security expert said, but there are clues.
Two of them have cut off all Internet access to their homes.
But if I were to replace my Comcast cable subscription with an Internet-only service, I would then begin to cut into my Comcast Internet data cap.
Egyptian authorities say they have arrested three divers trying to cut through an undersea internet cable.
The center's director, Jill Lesser, said the goal is to educate the average Internet user, rather than punish them, and no one will see their Internet access cut off.
Syria has been cut off from the internet.
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The suspected offenders could be fined or have their Internet connection cut off for a year by a recently-set up state agency known as HADOPI (the High Authority for the Diffusion of Works and Protection of Internet Rights).
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As I understand the new agreement and subsequent comments, which are about as cryptic as a copy-protected DVD, ISP's have agreed to implement a standardized "graduated response plan" through which offending users are warned, restricted and eventually cut off from the Internet for successive violations.
Another case: Internet bidding has cut WPP's laptop costs by 40% over four years.
The internet has been cut off and mobile phones have been disrupted in Syria, monitoring firms have said.
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In October, the company cut jobs at its Fingerhut Internet sales and catalog unit, which had been plagued by credit problems.
This was more a cyber-riot than a war, but it forced Estonia more or less to cut itself off from the internet.
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With discounting squeezing profit margins down to 3-4% and the Internet threatening to cut them further, Europe's big operators see scale as their best defence.
Phone and Internet companies have cut spending on new equipment.
Behind the scenes The Pirate Bay team is working hard to ensure that the site will remain online in the event that servers, domain names and Internet routes are cut off.
He also cut off access to the open Internet for the computers with the cash register software.
The surge in use in April can be attributed to the cut-throat competition in the internet access market.
Syria has reportedly cut off all access to the Internet according to Akami and web monitoring firm Renesys.
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His decision to cut the umbilical cord with his internet service provider is being done in the name of research.
The planning minister, Guido Mantega, touts a shift in procurement from bureaucrats to the internet, which could cut costs by 30%.
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Gordon, who became president in January 2004 and chief executive that July, gradually chopped head count by 16% to 675, cut redundant departments and embraced the Internet.
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Then UK firms like Freeserve and a raft of imitators dramatically cut costs by offering "free" internet access.
Lazard Freres analyst James Winchester says UPS has not only increased orders thanks to the Internet, but has also cut costs.
He went to the main square in Cairo that morning, talking with a friend on the mobile phone before both Internet and cellphone networks were cut off by Egyptian authorities in the morning.
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