In their 30-year life they installed 10m fixed lines and registered 1m mobile phones.
The number of fixed lines in America has been declining as consumers switch to mobile telephony.
Telkom, South Africa's biggest telecoms company, was privatised eight years ago with a monopoly over fixed lines.
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For equities or fixed income, firms can insist they trade from their desks with recorded fixed lines.
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Cellular phone companies Smartcom and Piltel and international gateway operator Philcom have yet to install fixed lines.
"Ericsson believes that by 2005 more data will be transmitted through wireless technologies than through fixed lines, " Niebert said.
These former monopolies have clung on to a large proportion of the fixed lines that they ran under state control.
Demand for additional fixed lines in home markets is slowing (Telefonica added only 3m in Spain between 1997 and 2004).
By the end of this month, BayanTel says it will have 221, 460 fixed lines -- 64% of the total it committed by 1998.
It provides the information over fixed lines, mobile or a browser.
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While many Member States have their own taping requirements, which can apply to fixed lines as well as mobile phones, regimes differ significantly across the European Union (EU).
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The watchdog said that once 4G services were operating those using laptops, tablets and phones while on the move should get browsing speeds comparable to those they enjoy at home on fixed lines.
Research carried out by Ofcom suggests few people know that net phone services, aka voice over IP, do not connect to 999 or 112, the European Union's universal emergency number for mobiles and fixed lines.
In the mirror, she looked sharp enough to cut something, hard fixed lines beside her mouth, her eyes too big, her cheekbones jutting like knuckles under her skin, up to her elbows in dirty work, cleaning toilets.
It proposes setting up a caller identification system for the net similar to that operating on fixed phone lines.
With a population of 1 billion, India has only 1.6 million Internet subscribers and fewer than 30 million fixed phone lines.
Douglas L. Gilstrap , senior vice president at Ericsson: There will be fixed broadband of 650 million lines by 2018 but mobile broadband will have 6.5 billion subscribers by 2018.
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Stewart Johnson, a securities analyst with Friedman, Billings, Ramsey, an investment bank, reckons that many of Genworth's lines, including fixed annuities and long-term care plans sold in the mid-1990s, along with a business in Britain that pays bills in the event of unemployment, were returning less than 6%.
By year-end it aims to put most of its 17 fixed-income, currency and commodity product lines on Web ET.
Legendary sitcom characters Laverne and Shirley fixed bottle caps on one of the city's assembly lines.
Some had expected Mr Miles to recommend market-distorting tax-incentives for fixed mortgages, or the creation of a government-sponsored mortgage underwriter along the lines of America's Fannie Mae, which would put taxpayers' money at risk.
Last week, in a huff, Deutsche cut trading lines to Commerzbank for several days, after the latter had poached some of Deutsche's fixed-income team.
In this environment, many suppliers will sacrifice margins for fixed long-term contracts with a reputable, credit-worthy buyer, especially as it can help them establish lines of credit with their banks.
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