Who wants to be the first carrier to push Apple away, ie push their customers to the other carriers?
Earlier this month Samoa Air made headlines for becoming the first carrier to charge passengers according to their weight.
The first carrier that makes an all-out effort to treat passengers as people rather than oversized sardines will be an immense moneymaker.
Shortly after noon on Friday, US Airways became the first carrier to provide waivers for Northeast passengers potentially impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
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They were the first carrier in Japan to carry the iPhone, which was seen by most observers as a device that would suffer the same fate that the Xbox.
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"We are delighted to be the first carrier to sign on as a partner with Google to deliver Google Wallet, " said Fared Adib, senior vice president of product development, Sprint.
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It's the first carrier anywhere to launch the Rich Communication Services standard on LTE, which provides a perpetually synced contact list that serves as the launching pad for everything else.
The German airline, Lufthansa, received its award for being the first carrier to test biofuel in normal flight operations and greening everything from its engine-cleaning routine to cabin equipment, resulting in a full 23 percent emissions reduction.
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Its navy last year commissioned its first aircraft carrier, and it is reportedly building two more.
China is also reportedly close to deploying its first aircraft carrier, a refitted ex-Soviet ship.
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Work starts on five more in 2001 -- including a submarine and the country's first aircraft carrier.
Six months later he achieved his first jet carrier landing on the USS Essex which then set sail for Korea.
Beijing is in the middle of a programme to improve its navy, launching its first aircraft carrier, Liaoning, two years ago, the BBC's Michael Bristow reports.
Its building of a first aircraft carrier was part of that and would have a profound effect on the balance of forces in the region, he said.
It also has accelerated construction of its first aircraft carrier.
Instead, it will use the F35B, which will use a ski jump type take off ramp much like the now retired Harrier, and the first operational carrier will be available, says the MoD, in 2018 rather than 2025.
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RESPONSE- United has not been playing catch up as they were the first American Carrier to offer a lie flat business class product in 3 cabin Business, which makes me believe you were originally a Continental flier if you were unaware of this.
The Federal Aviation Administration approved the use of the tablets in 2011, but American is the first commercial carrier to receive the agency's approval to use them in the cockpit during all phases of flight from gate to gate, including during landing and takeoff.
The government's Emergency Alert System has had just such a plan in the works for a while now, and Sprint Nextel is becoming the first national carrier to trial a system capable of sending targeted, location based alerts when bad stuff goes down.
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Continental Airlines Inc. said earlier this week that it was expanding its mobile boarding-pass service to Frankfurt Airport, becoming the first American carrier to offer paperless boarding passes outside the U.S. The service allows customers to receive boarding passes electronically on their cell phones or PDAs, Continental said.
Instead of picking a carrier first and then a phone, the consumers can pick a phone first, and then decide on a carrier.
Last month a Chinese spokesman said the country was seriously considering whether to build its first aircraft-carrier.
The outfit also unveiled the WTR1625L chip, which stakes claim to an industry first by sporting carrier aggregation alongside international LTE compatibility.
As the first national wireless carrier to test, launch and market 4G technology, Sprint made history by launching 4G in Baltimore in September 2008.
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Sprint has a history of innovation, as it was the first national wireless carrier to offer 4G service with the launch of the Sprint 4G (WiMAX) network in 2008.
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For example, China is quietly developing its first aircraft-carrier.
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Sorenson's strategy is to serve as a wholesale voice carrier at first.
Hargreaves added that with the potential launch of the 3G iPhone, he expects Tuesday's announcement is likely the first of several international carrier announcements to come throughout the rest of the year.
The MDM9225 and MDM9625 chipsets are also the first to support LTE carrier aggregation and true LTE Category 4 with data rates of up to 150 Mbps and give network operators increased broadband speeds across their LTE service areas.
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