This would mean slower connections and services for their customers, whether other businesses or individual consumers.
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Greater emphasis on individual consumers is overdue, and is likely to affect providers too.
That is gold to advertisers looking to target individual consumers at the nexus of content and engagement.
Both state regulators and individual consumers can bring suit over alleged violations.
Vodafone's system potentially offers full access to wireless internet on the move, but is not being offered to individual consumers.
But trust-busters worry mostly about protecting individual consumers rather than large companies, which are the ones most threatened by broker consolidation.
If individual consumers are to take more control of their health care, they will have to save as well as insure.
Customizing treatment of individual consumers means more than knowing them very well, according to Hildebrand, businesses must engage with them one-to-one.
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Computer-database technology developed in the 1970s and 1980s gave advertisers the ability to target individual consumers with their message, bypassing newspapers entirely.
Third, its margins will improve as its costs decrease and it rolls out more deals with enterprises as opposed to individual consumers.
The reform will focus primarily on facilitating damages claims from groups of individual consumers, and possibly SMEs, giving a central role to consumer associations.
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This is a company that understands that sensors, when coupled with our bodies, can become a completely new type of experience for individual consumers.
He told me big reform is needed - but reform that puts financial power into the hands of individual consumers, not another vast government bureaucracy.
MePlease is instead instigated by companies reaching out to individual consumers.
On the left point are companies that measure the actions and preferences of individual consumers such as Epsilon (owned by Alliance Data) Acxiom and Experian.
"To date, renewable energy generators have been too expensive and too complex to be used by individual consumers, " says the founder and president of Motorwave Limited.
Since it can track the online behavior of individual consumers, Convertro has also found that TV advertising can spur people to purchase but with a delay.
In each case, there is too much information for individual consumers to search efficiently themselves, so consumers pay Google and the ratings agencies to gather information for them.
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After the backlash against managed care, it is now seeking to delegate more responsibility to individual consumers, mainly through plans with more cost-sharing by way of higher co-payments.
The bill also includes a minimum price for carbon emissions and the setting of feed-in tariffs for individual consumers who are able to generate their own renewable energy supplies.
Whereas RIM could once rely on selling BlackBerrys in bulk to enterprise customers and the chief information officers of companies, it now increasingly has to appeal to individual consumers directly.
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WTO, it will have to cede sovereignty upwards, to a rules-based, supranational body, downwards to individual consumers and private companies at the expense of the state-industrial complex, the party's main base.
In one of the best-controlled studies, CpsC researchers in 1978 found that an expensive program that included handing out safety brochures to individual consumers had no effect on lawn mower injuries.
Individual consumers are developing their own individual brand identities.
Giancarlo says Cisco was drawn to the market not only because of the opportunity to sell products to a new market--individual consumers--but because its large service-provider customers need Cisco to be involved.
That was happening in terms of individual consumers because either they were losing their jobs or they were worried about maybe losing a job, they had seen their home values plummet, et cetera.
Shipments of the X5A-5342 began later that year and it is now found in use around the world within national and local governmental agencies and departments, educational institutions, large corporations, small businesses and by individual consumers.
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Many of the big changes coming next year won't touch them as directly as individual consumers and small businesses, though some will have to grapple with the cost of covering more workers or paying a penalty.
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