In the quarter, the company added 136, 000 FiOS Internet customers and 119, 000 FiOS video customers.
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In terms of mobile Internet customers, DiGi reported a number of small screen users, totaling 5.2 million, during 2011.
Abroad it's growing, with a huge cellular operation in South America and 3 million Internet customers in Europe outside Italy.
Phone and internet customers may soon be allowed to escape their fixed contracts, without penalty, if the price is put up mid-contract.
So, a few years ago we started a strategic initiative to focus on our Internet business and we began converting some of our existing catalogue customers into Internet customers.
The U.S. cable industry now has 25 million digital cable customers, 20 million high-speed Internet customers and 3 million telephone customers, according to the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA).
Given that Cox is the third largest ISP in the US with some 3.5 million internet customers the chances of pulling off a phishing attempt of this kind are pretty high.
BellSouth uses Jabber for its 1.5 million Internet customers.
Sky saw its broadband customers rise to 553, 000 by the end of April, against 193, 000 at the start of January, and the company wants to have more than 700, 000 high-speed Internet customers by the end of June.
On Monday, Internet service provider EarthLink (nasdaq: ELNK - news - people ) announced the launch of EarthLink Free Online Calling, a similar service which will be made available to the company's 1.2 million high-speed Internet customers.
However, the Internet allows customers to share every aspect of their holiday...at the click of a mouse.
This approach may have been preferable 50 years ago before we had digital communications, global competition, and internet savvy customers.
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Verizon has been delivering high-quality video entertainment to its FiOS and High Speed Internet broadband customers since 2005 with online services like Starz Play, ESPN360, Disney Connection, YES Network and NFL Game Extra.
Novell's somewhat stand-offish attitude to the Internet has done it no favours with the current generation of Internet-centric customers.
Most banks that offer customers Internet access to their accounts charge an extra fee, just like they did during early days of ATM machines.
Just as many analysts predicted following the two companies' failure to secure any spectrum during last year's FCC auction, both DirecTV and DISH-parent EchoStar have signed agreements with Craig McCaw's Clearwire to provide qualifying customers with high-speed wireless internet service (and by qualifying customers, we mean anyone who lives within a Clearwire coverage zone).
But Internet service providers who want to bundle telephony to their customers using the public Internet will have to invest heavily in bandwidth if quality is to be acceptable.
Another Ford program analyzes customers' internet inquiries to determine the most popular and profitable array of option packages.
Response rates for direct mail have been falling, prompting issuers to turn to other avenues such as the Internet for acquiring new customers.
WE7 is a leading free-to-listen, personalised internet radio service where customers can listen to the music they love and discover new music that they might like, based on their previous selections.
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Contrast the hemmed-in customers of Internet service providers.
Softbank Services, a firm that runs call centres for computer companies in Europe, has found that even customers with Internet access tend to reach for their trusty handsets first, although everything they needed was on-line.
Companies large and small, many that didn't even have e-mail a few years ago, are increasingly exploiting the Internet to reach new customers around the world fast - as well as to cut costs, shorten delivery time, and even re-engineer fundamental processes.
Mobile-phone companies could become the credit companies of the future by offering customers the ability to pay for goods on the Internet while putting the charge on the customers' phone bills.
The biggest problem has been that, for all their talk of liberating customers from the yoke of traditional branches, Internet banks did not think clearly about what customers really wanted.
Eighty-six percent of SK Telecom's mobile-phone customers have wireless Internet capability on their handsets.
Struggling to acquire customers, the Internet companies have discovered the importance of the real world.
At present only 20% of cable customers also get Internet access from their providers.
The new breed of Internet specialty retailer is reaching customers by building communities among customers, she adds.
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And Internet banks have discovered that customers have a stubbornly persistent preference for buying long-term savings products face-to-face.
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