Opponents of iAdvance -- chiefly long-distance carriers and competitive local exchange carriers (CLEC) -- ridicule the apparent contradiction and say Project Pronto proves iAdvance's arguments are bogus.

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In a statement, Lucent Chairman and Chief Executive Henry Schacht blamed the loss on softening sales to local exchange carriers and service providers as well as lower software sales.

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Unlike the iPhone, which is subsidized by carriers in exchange for a long term contract, prepaid phones are typically sold for a modest up front cost, and service is paid for month-to-month.

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American contested in a Fort Worth court in April that Travelport presents a civil antitrust threat to airlines that prefer to directly send its flight information to websites through its own technology, rather than go through a GDS, which aggregates flight data from many air carriers in exchange for regular fees from the airlines.

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More than 100, 000 U.S. employees at mid-sized businesses will sign up this fall for health insurance through a new corporate exchange with the ability to choose plans from multiple carriers.

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His plan to create a "Medicare Exchange" of insurance plans would allow seniors to choose among competing insurance carriers.

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Fixing the exchange rate between the dollar and euro by bureaucratic edict would be a huge mistake, like anchoring two sinking aircraft carriers together hoping the buoyancy of the two is greater than the sum of the individual compartments.

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