In July last year Scottish Power shut down its wireless service and asked its 6000 customers to consider a traditional fixed line service.
Inmarsat is also entering a new field, the fixed satellite business ("fixed" refers to the customer, not the satellite) and will access very-small-aperture terminals (VSATs) of the type maintained by fixed satellite service purveyors like Intelsat.
Next up, an ambitious effort to inaugurate a low-cost fixed wireless phone service in Mexico early next year (the technology is wireless, but the range of use will be about 2 kilometers).
Next up, an ambitious effort to inaugurate a low-cost fixed wireless phone service in Mexico early next year (the technology is wireless, but the range of use will be about 1 mile).
Such investment, in a region that has seen few mergers or acquisitions, may speed up the third effect of Asia's turmoil: the rapid rise of mobile telephones, where there is now more competition than in the fixed-line service.
And it has a respectable business plan: to provide telecom services to those parts of the world where wireless or fixed-line service doesn't really exist--Equatorial Africa and the upper reaches of the Amazon--or where it's inadequate, as in many areas of Africa, India and Latin America.
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.
And several service providers, using a number of different technologies, have sprung up offering wireless alternatives to Telkom's costly fixed-line broadband service, which is expensive by European standards, let alone African ones.
It promises to be the fastest network yet, providing fixed and mobile broadband service and can deliver up to 40 megabits per second per channel up to 30 miles away from a base station.
The aim there is to work out whether part of the spectrum which is being auctioned late next year will provide a mobile broadband alternative for people who struggle to get a decent service down a fixed line.
Unfortunately, if the brakes aren't fixed soon, this online delivery service will hit a wall.
Two smaller markets are for people living in relatively unpopulated corners of the globe who need a basic mobile service or semi-fixed pay-phones.
One other quirk of the bonds: The tobacco settlement revenues needed to service them are not fixed but linked to tobacco company shipment volumes.
The council would still fund the service through an annual fixed grant but as a social enterprise with charitable status, it would be able to attract other sources of funding, said the authority.
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The company provides satellite communications services to broadcasters, content and Internet service providers, mobile and fixed network operators and business and governmental organisations worldwide.
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On the negative side, revenue growth is decelerating at the same time Amazon is investing more than previously expected in fulfillment centers (fixed assets) and operating and customer service employees (variable costs).
The force advised travellers to use an alternative mapping service until the issues had been fixed.
The person who sets up the trust gets annual payments adding up to the asset's original value, plus a return based on a fixed interest rate set by the Internal Revenue Service.
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.
The decision to bring forward Ark Royal's decommissioning by several years has been criticised because it leaves the Navy without the capacity to launch fixed-wing aircraft until replacements come into service at the end of the decade.
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Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) devices today operate in 555 megahertz of spectrum in the 5 GHz band, and are used for short range, high speed wireless connections including Wi-Fi enabled local area networks and fixed outdoor broadband transceivers used by wireless Internet service providers to connect smart phones, tablets and laptops to the broadband network.
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Many fixed line operators are integrating wireless with their traditional phone services, selling the service to consumers with the convenience of having one device and one bill for both mobile and fixed line calls.
The UK already has a USO for fixed line telephones, which means BT must provide service to every home.
Lets say the repairman cannot fix the TV in your home, how long would it take to get fixed if they have to send it to a service center?
The landlord laid off its risk by signing a contract with an electric billing service in which the landlord paid a fixed sum in advance to cover its bills for the winter.
The landlord laid off its risk by signing a contract with an electric billing service in which the landlord paid a fixed sum in advance to cover its electric bills for the winter.
Six Apart fixed the problem and awarded users with credits for free service.
The new measures now formally require anyone signing agreements to access the internet, fixed-line telephone and mobile devices to provide network service operators with "genuine identification information", known as real-name registration, Xinhua reports.
Later it said the problem had been traced to "network problems" at its service provider which was also trying to get them fixed.
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