U.S. airlines will vie with BA, the dominant carrier at Heathrow, that currently has flights to 24 U.S. cities.

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NTT's network altogether, SpeedNet will avoid having to pay the dominant carrier's interconnection charges, which independent telephone companies reckon amount to a third of their total operating costs.

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Unicom has struggled, signing up only 30 million CDMA customers--well below its capacity of 70 million--a subscriber base only a sixth the size of that of China Mobile, the dominant GSM carrier.

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The dominant Japanese wireless carrier is now armed with a new law requiring that spam messages have the phrase "unsolicited advertisement" in the subject line.

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Telmex is still the dominant fixed-line phone carrier in Mexico, two decades after Slim took it private.

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The Irish carrier, which is dominant in Prestwick's passenger operations, has shifted several routes to Edinburgh Airport.

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Since World War II up until 2008, we maintained the dominant military force in the Mediterranean, consisting of at least one carrier battle group and an amphibious Ready Group with an embarked Marine battalion, along with logistic support ships and other units.

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