Tesco believes that this has a compatibility problem with its system, which can be very easily fixed if customers follow some instructions to reset their browsers.
At that time, Deutsche Telekom had announced that third-quarter profit had dropped 20% and cited an increasing number of defections by fixed-line customers and fierce competition in Germany.
While Telmex appears as a slow growth, possibly declining asset, the acquisition is part of a strategic group to face increased competition from Grupo Televisa, which has been poaching fixed-line customers.
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In its last results, Virgin said it had three million users of its television services, 3.4 million broadband customers, 4.5 million subscribers to its mobile phone service and 4.1 million fixed-line telephone customers.
Metacloud is charging customers a fixed amount per month based on the number of CPUs the customer has hooked up to their service.
So, cutting the fixed costs of reaching customers, as Apple is negotiating to do, and increasing the variable component, seems like a sensible move.
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In Australia, where he was overseeing a Better Place initiative, the company provides GM customers with a fixed-charging network and home chargers for the plug-in electric-hybrid Volt.
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Those contracts set fixed market share at certain customers.
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This trend has been reinforced by the UK's largest lender, the Halifax, which will increase the interest rate on its new three-year fixed-rate deal for customers who want to borrow between 75% and 90% of a property's value from 13 June.
Customers are being offered fixed credit on the firm's online payment system, Google Checkout, instead.
Leeds Building Society credited some of its success on the savings front to the popularity of its fixed rate bonds, which allowed customers unlimited access to a proportion of their money without penalty during the product's term.
The low, fixed-fee approach for all customers confirms a trend we commented upon nearly a year ago: providers no longer expect to make the big bucks from calls and texts, but intend to make up for it with the data plans and the connection of additional devices.
An existing programme to support fixed-rate credit for exporters' customers is to be extended.
This year saw the launch of Nationwide savings accounts targeted at business customers and a range of fixed rate bonds.
In July last year Scottish Power shut down its wireless service and asked its 6000 customers to consider a traditional fixed line service.
This is made worse by an odd pricing system, under which firms charge a fixed amount, instead of billing their customers by the hour.
In most cases, the extent to which one subscriber uses a fixed connection has little impact on other customers, since each has a separate link to the internet.
We know that some customers like to have a fixed funding model, which means you have to reach your target to get the money or for the funders to have to pay.
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"It is worth pointing out that one in five of our customers are already on competitive fixed priced tariffs and will not be affected by these price changes this winter, " he said.
The challenge from a marketing standpoint is convincing its customers that the network has been fixed.
But the FCC has attempted to strike a balance by prohibiting fixed-line internet service providers from blocking customers from access to any legal content, applications or service.
Apart from student loans, Discover also provides personal loans which are unsecured loans with fixed interest rates, fixed terms and fixed payments, and are primarily intended to help customers consolidate existing debt, although they can be used for any reason.
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Phone and internet customers may soon be allowed to escape their fixed contracts, without penalty, if the price is put up mid-contract.
As a result, Cohen has learned more about how customers use Coursekit, what needs to be fixed, and what is missing from its features.
Thanks to high fixed commissions and little interest in building wealth for investors, customers were encouraged to buy and sell shares and investment trusts, Japan's version of mutual funds, as often as possible (a practice known as churning).
Customers sign up to a 12 month plan at a fixed monthly price.
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But customers of Gilat Satellite Networks of Israel are already buying fixed phones tied to geostationary satellites (which hover 38, 000 kilometers above the earth, versus 1, 350 kilometers for Globalstar).
When paired with the Qualcomm Atheros AR6003 or AR6004 chipsets, the mobile access point software stack enables customers to design high performance, low power portable and fixed 802.11n routers.
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At least three months notice must be given to customers following any decision to end the guarantee, and fixed term accounts will retain the guarantee for the term of the product.
Ofgem's proposals also include banning complex multi-tier tariffs, new personalised information to help consumers find their best deal, and ensuring customers default to the cheapest option at the end of fixed-term contract.
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