Silver Wheaton has long-term contracts with other mining companies to buy silver at very cheap prices.
Ticketmaster remains the leader with 11, 000 venues that are mostly locked into long-term contracts.
With Common Cents Mobile, there are no activation or termination fees and no long-term contracts.
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The wireless business, once rich in long-term contracts and other forms of inertia, is getting liberated.
Smaller local utilities complain that self-regulation lets the big generators tie them into loss-making long-term contracts.
Foreign firms also want to export power to Western Europe, provided they can secure long-term contracts.
Long-term contracts allow telecom providers to absorb premium pricing and pass subsidized pricing along to consumers.
Wireless companies have long sold cellphones at discounted prices in exchange for long-term contracts.
Britain's liberal energy market, in which long-term contracts are a rarity, is a bigger obstacle.
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Supporting that optimism is that MLP clients sign long-term contracts, often for 10 or 15 years.
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Boost Mobile, one of Sprint's prepaid brands, offers wireless phones and services with no long-term contracts.
Thanks to those pricey long-term contracts, the economics of micropower look better than ever.
IPPs is that their long-term contracts to sell electricity to national utilities could thus become worthless.
Most LNG is still sold under long-term contracts that underpin the huge investments required for liquefaction plants.
Cricket is the pioneer and leader in delivering innovative value-rich prepaid wireless services with no long-term contracts.
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Ken: Given the long-term contracts, high profit margins, and protection from competition, what is this company worth?
Because big exploration, extraction and infrastructure investments required pots of capital, long-term contracts became an industry norm.
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His firm has long-term contracts with both Navteq and Tele Atlas, but he's keeping his eyes open.
Once established, Sensata signs long-term contracts with its customers and embeds its technology through customization and certification.
Cape Wind has signed long-term contracts to sell 78% of its power to the state's largest utilities.
Big mistake No. 3: Deregulation did not permit the negotiation of long-term contracts between utilities and power generators.
There is a good continuity of players, most of them are on relatively long-term contracts and signed up.
Long-term contracts have become the norm in hockey following the salary cap implementation after the lockout in 2004-2005.
These investors are counting on a fairly steady return from the fees homeowners pay under their long-term contracts.
Similarly, it buys most of its films from KirchMedia, which has onerous long-term contracts with most Hollywood studios.
In addition, the company also provides services to hospitals on long-term contracts, using 167 aircraft stationed at 121 bases.
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The origins of long-term contracts and oil-linked pricing go back a long way.
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Long-term contracts and linkages to the oil price, though, are not inherently unreasonable.
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But Sky Angel faces no threat of being hauled into court, because it has negotiated long-term contracts with programming companies.
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When there are contests to award complicated long-term contracts such as this one, civil servants construct their own financial model.
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