Especially hard hit were long-service early retirees that retired between 2000 and 2005.
Wireless companies have long sold cellphones at discounted prices in exchange for long-term service agreements.
It's more a matter of sticking with manufactured equipment that lends itself to follow-up revenue through long-term service contracts.
Initially, the group was named Working Assets and was aimed at long-distance service.
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That seems to exempt long-distance service that is charged at a flat rate per minute, as most is these days.
In the Web 1.0 days, he led Tel-Save, which made an exclusive deal with AOL to market long-distance service to its users.
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"Everyone was very scared and wanted to take their money away to the U.S. and Europe, " says Carlos Montemayor, chief of Marcatel, a Telmex rival in long-distance service.
The train is the Ghan, a long-established service that runs up (and down) the centre of Australia from one coast to another on a three-day trip of almost 2, 000 miles.
As Sun's size lends legitimacy and the guarantee of long-term service to MySQL, the acquisition will likely convince more and larger enterprises to sign on to MySQL's cut-rate database systems, Yuhanna says.
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In turn, the utility can offer its ratepayers a package of some two dozen consumer services, including Internet access, appliance protection, satellite television, long-distance telephone service, carbon-monoxide protection and security.
Facebook is launching its long-awaited deals service on Tuesday to take on other start-ups such as Groupon and LivingSocial.
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Gmail recently overtook the long-reigning e-mail service in numbers of active users, according to a June article published by VentureBeat.
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And politicians should realize that short-term debt service and long-term entitlements are going to keep shrinking the money left over for doling out goodies.
Likewise, traditional local and long-distance telephone service over the copper network is being displaced by better technology from cable and fiber.
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He showed up for work in war plans every day with the same cheerfulness, intelligence, and effort that had marked his entire decades-long service in the Army.
Using SmartGlass, Halo 4 players can normally access their stats and other info about their android supersoldier using the long-established Waypoint service -- except for Windows Phone 8 users, apparently.
Just before World War II, Ike showed up for work in war plans every day with the same cheerfulness, intelligence, and effort that had marked his entire decades-long service in the Army.
The Star of David accordion band led the marchers through the country lanes and they filed into the church for an hour-long service to commemorate the First World War Battle of the Somme.
The monarch saw a doctor on Monday morning and the decision was taken that it would be best if she did not sit through an hour-long church service, said BBC royal correspondent Peter Hunt.
When the hour-long service came to a close, police officers again formed a guard of honour as PC Bone's coffin was carried outside, with her hat, black leather gloves and Queen's Diamond Jubilee medal on top.
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The performance of a fountain -- as long as clients service those 500 jets that are supposed to shoot water 100 feet into the air -- is guaranteed for at least 40 years.
About 120 friends, family and constituency representatives were thought to have joined the Blairs at St John Fisher church in Sedgefield for the hour-and-a-half long service.
Redbox parent Coinstar and joint venture partner Verizon this morning revealed some details on their plans for Redbox Instant by Verizon, their long-planned streaming video service that will compete head-to-head with Netflix, Hulu and other Web-based movie and TV streaming businesses.
Overlaid on this is the long-term increase in the importance of service and part-time jobs.
Users of YouTube in Egypt could face a month-long blackout of the service after an administrative court ruling ordered the website's suspension.
Apple remains in negotiations with at least two of the top music labels, Sony and Warner, over its long-rumored streaming media music service, according to the Financial Times.
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When I sat face to face with Derek Wanless in 2002, what impressed me was the clarity of thinking about the long-term issues of health service productivity and demand.
But although a shorter term would make the capital requirement cheaper, it would also undermine the incentive for the train operator to invest in long-term improvements in the service they provide.
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