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).
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.
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.
For Internet service, InfoGear refers customers to Big Planet, but you can also go with your own service provider.
Microsoft also is wooing 25 million daily visitors to its free Web site at MSN.com, hoping to entice some of them to become paying customers of its Internet access service.
The Internet Service Providers Association agreed that customers would not necessarily benefit from any price reduction.
Telseon, a Denver, Colo. upstart, wholesales fast connections to Internet service providers and big corporate customers through a vastly improved version of Metcalfe's original design.
In all four Scandinavian countries, banks are starting to use the Internet to tailor products and service directly for customers.
Customers who order FiOS TV and Internet service will receive the "Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary" game and Xbox LIVE Gold Membership token within 30 days.
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British Sky Broadcasting, the U.K.'s No. 1 satellite provider, has just trumpeted an aggressive drive into the country's broadband market by offering the high-speed Internet service free to its existing television customers--but it's paying more for the deal than analysts expected.
British Sky Broadcasting (nyse: BSY - news - people ), the U.K.'s No. 1 satellite provider, has just trumpeted an aggressive drive into the country's broadband market by offering the high-speed Internet service free to its existing television customers--but it's paying more for the deal than analysts expected.
AOL, the biggest Internet service provider, also helps to guide customers around the shops.
The network would ultimately be used by internet service providers to sell fibre broadband packages to customers.
UPS, for example, just launched a new delivery service that gives customers more control as Internet shopping has boosted associated home deliveries.
Brand X started off selling dial-up service to customers, but as the Internet grew the company began offering broadband options as well.
They have no established broking business to lose and the Internet could help them win valuable customers from the full-service brokerage firms.
Verizon customers who subscribe to both FiOS TV and Internet service can access the application via the Smart World section on LG's Smart TV interface.
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The system, which Arraycomm deployed in partnership with Vodaphone Australia and OZEmail, Australia's biggest Internet service provider, will be available for paying customers by March, Cooper says.
"Our new fourth generation high-speed satellite Internet service is an industry game changer, allowing customers to do more of what they love online, from shopping and social networking to movies and music, " said Mike Cook, senior vice president, North American Division at Hughes.
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At the moment only mobile operator EE is able to offer customers the 4G service, which provides faster mobile internet connections.
The FCC is set to rule Thursday on whether Internet telephone providers should have to automatically link customers to emergency 911 service.
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.
French authorities have sent around 100, 000 e-mails to Internet Service Providers since early October, to be passed onto customers that have illegally downloaded films and music.
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Many entrepreneurs are still scrambling to serve their customers despite obstacles like lack of power, no internet, or phone service that may not be up for days.
According to the SF Gate, several Internet Service Providers will send as many as six electronic alerts to customers whose accounts are used to illegally pirate files.
The company also said it developed a new social-networking service that allows customers to upload gameplay footage to the Internet, as well as watch others as they play.
Another amendment obliges telephone companies and Internet service-providers to keep for a year records of all their customers' communications.
The company already has about 5, 000 business customers who buy everything from local phone service to high-speed Internet access, and it is spending heavily on marketing to recruit more.
Instead of spending a loathsome afternoon with a salesman, customers of Auto-by-Tel, the leading Internet car-buying service, simply tell the service what kind of car they want, and wait for nearby dealerships to make their best offer.
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