The problem he encountered was that, for the most part, local businesses do not have Web sites or even Internet access.
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Having observed the success of the no-cost Internet access offered by Freeserve in Britain, Microsoft is preparing the way for low-price or even free Internet access in America.
Softbank Services, a firm that runs call centres for computer companies in Europe, has found that even customers with Internet access tend to reach for their trusty handsets first, although everything they needed was on-line.
The best place I could think of it being used is in airports and in planes, but even those now have Internet access.
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There is no internet access even in expensive hotels.
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BT, one of the UK's biggest providers of hotspots has even installed wi-fi internet access in McDonald's outlets across the country.
Internet access providers, and even search sites such as Yahoo, are trying to develop similarly appealing interfaces and tool sets.
Krizelman and Paternot consider the competition to be America Online and the Microsoft Network, even though Globe members must buy their Internet access somewhere else.
Plug your iPhone into the BC2 router and a few seconds later, all your iPads and iPod Touches can easily access the internet, even while traveling in a car.
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China has become the world's biggest internet market and it is expected to grow even further in the coming years as more people get access to the internet.
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It is the first deployment of solar-powered base stations working together with TV white spaces, a technology partially developed by Microsoft Research, to deliver high-speed Internet access to areas currently lacking even basic electricity.
Belize Telecom blocked access to Godfrey's Internet site even though it was located in Los Angeles.
But many will prefer the convenience of being able to access the Internet on the move, even if that means compromises both in speed and in the size of the viewing screen.
Obstacles remain even to universal mobile access, and beyond that to universal internet access.
ViP series has Ethernet connection and will allow them to connect to Internet video library and access to your DVR, even HD programming.
The size of the market is expected to grow even further as more users in rural areas get access to the internet.
Telkom is even fighting a court case to prevent other firms from offering access to the Internet itself.
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The dispute surrounding the allocation of frequencies, triggered by the success of wireless internet access, known as WiFi, might turn out to be even more important.
Even if computers owned by the poor are a few technological generations behind, and even if low-income families go into debt to afford their internet service, online access is available to more families every year regardless of income.
With those laptops, students can access the Internet from wireless locations outside campus buildings, the cafeteria, even outdoors on the lawn.
That is expected to grow even further in the coming years as more people in rural areas get access to the internet.
Higher ratings translate into more advertising revenue, even though Comcast gets two-thirds of its revenue as a cable-TV and Internet access provider.
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Internet speed is normally slow here, but in these critical times access is limited even more.
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It was conceived in 1995 as a proprietary service as AOL had been, then reinvented as a straight Internet access provider, then it ventured into content and online "channels, " even trying to produce Web sitcoms.
While camp life is hardly cosmopolitan, some of the young can meet foreigners, have access to the Internet and occasionally slip out to a nearby town, or even the shopping malls and bright lights of Bangkok, Thailand's capital.
Outright revenues from the internet may become even harder to capture in years to come as China takes further steps to control access.
Broadband internet access is becoming widely available as well and greater price competition by broadband providers will help spur even further internet adoption globally.
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