Without connecting traffic to keep planes full, a carrier has a tough go making a profit.
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What interested Schneider, a full-truckload carrier, was Powell's work in the field of approximate dynamic programming, which is a way to make decisions in the presence of uncertainty.
Ryanair founder Michael O'Leary has said in the past that his airline will grow from being Europe's largest low-cost carrier to become the region's biggest carrier full stop as it takes on the so-called legacy airlines.
That rumored Highlight for T-Mobile is now official, filling yet another niche segment in Samsung's massive full-touch attack on the carrier -- an attack that now includes the Behold, the Memoir, and this bad boy.
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That might be persuasive if the full weight of America's common-carrier rules as they apply to the telephone business, with all the micro-management they involve, were dumped on the cable industry.
But the figure was boosted by the number of tablet connections (bolstered by the first full quarter of the new iPad availability) the carrier managed to add that quarter.
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Remember when Andy Rubin told us that there would be full-fledged "Google Experience" phones with no carrier or handset manufacturer limitations?
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But Northwest Airlines, which is the biggest carrier between the two countries, is holding out for full open skies, allowing American airlines to use Japan as a bus-stop to pick passengers up and fly them elsewhere.
The MDM9225 and MDM9625 chipsets are the only mobile broadband chipsets currently supporting carrier aggregation that allow OEMs to build devices that can take full advantage of LTE Advanced networks.
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While the outgoing model topped out at 3.6Mbps on the downlink and a measly UMTS-capped 384kbps on the uplink, the enhanced station supports full HSPA -- 14Mbps down, 5.76Mbps up (though the carrier warns that HSUPA isn't deployed just yet).
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The notion that the carrier subsidy should affect the way people interact with their own property is full of holes.
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American Airlines was the only major carrier not to turn a profit last year and appeared set for another full-year loss in 2011.
Apple, same as makers of Android phones, has to play ball with the cellular carriers to prohibit smartphone owners in the U.S. from buying a phone through one carrier and using it on or porting it to any of the other three major carriers with full connectivity.
What hope the carrier had left of keeping the Samsung Galaxy Stellar under wraps has just been been dashed by a full product page at Best Buy.
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