For many carriers, it may be best to delay 3G introduction until markets are better understood.
The swaps and shrewd accounting provided illusory gains for many carriers, even as the bandwidth business fell apart.
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Before the smartphone boom, many carriers sold data access on an unlimited basis, making it hard for them to profit.
The reason why LTE is important for chipset makers is that many carriers around the world are transitioning to this high-speed 4G technology.
Wu makes his case by bringing up features that are blocked by many carriers which come native with many handsets before being disabled by carriers.
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The strategy makes sense in the airline market where there is fierce competition and volatile energy prices make profit margins razor thin for many carriers.
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But Cisco does have employee discounts with many carriers, Perry said.
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Many carriers announced plans to scale back routes and increase fares.
Many carriers, including phone and cable companies, now build metro-level Ethernet networks, which are more cost-effective than optics because customers already use Ethernet cable in their internal networks.
The BBC's Shilpa Kannan in Delhi said it was the withdrawal of the domestic slots that was the most significant move, because at congested airports such as Mumbai, there are already many carriers vying for this space.
He said many carriers have actually have helped catch instances of the fraud by notifying authorities after seeing a large number of refund checks going to the same addresses or to people who don't live at those addresses.
Stevens says Verizon and many carriers in Asia have embraced Skype, however, because they realize the service can increase customer loyalty and the amount consumers spend on mobile data plans even if it dents their long distance calling business.
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Yet its low-cost strategy dovetails with the needs of many carriers that are looking to expand smartphone sales and the lucrative data-service contracts they bring to customers who aren't willing to pay for marquee devices such as Apple Inc.
Getting its 3G act straight is important for China Mobile since these services are expected to be the biggest driver of ARPU in the coming years. 3G services have been driving the ARPU levels of many carriers in the developed world.
The number of companies in that predicament tends to swell when economic conditions are weak and credit dries up, but there are also many carriers in countries with unstable economies or political systems who cannot obtain private financing for their aircraft purchases.
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Ending Saturday delivery "would be particularly harmful to small businesses, rural communities, the elderly, the disabled and others who depend on Saturday delivery for commerce and communication, " said Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, a union representing many mail carriers.
Ending Saturday delivery "would be particularly harmful to small businesses, rural communities, the elderly, the disabled and others who depend on Saturday delivery for commerce and communication, " said Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, a union that represents many mail carriers.
Furthermore digital cellular handset prices have plunged, and many cellular carriers offer paging along with phone service.
With increasing deregulation, many new carriers are setting up and airlines are offering more services to meet demand.
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Like many legacy carriers, PAL struggles to cope with a bloated payroll, high fuel costs and fierce competition from budget airlines.
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Data revenues are primarily driven by smartphone usage, but the growing popularity of tablets has incentivized many mobile carriers to add these to their arsenal.
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As a result of these obstacles to consolidation, and the subsidies that had propped up many national carriers, there was currently excess capacity in the market.
With the blessing of El Paso Chairman William Wise , Jenkins plans to buy fiber-optic equipment, metropolitan communications loops and even "telco hotels" stuffed with switches that allow customers to select among many competing carriers.
Delta Air Lines, as well as many other carriers, contract with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for their STAT-MD program for immediate medical consultation when they have a problem during a flight.
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American contested in a Fort Worth court in April that Travelport presents a civil antitrust threat to airlines that prefer to directly send its flight information to websites through its own technology, rather than go through a GDS, which aggregates flight data from many air carriers in exchange for regular fees from the airlines.
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In order to reach as many customers as possible, RIM has garnered the support of as many as 150 carriers across the world that are testing out the BB10 devices in their labs for approval.
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Carriers said many of the disqualified subscribers simply didn't reply when asked to prove their eligibility.
Unlike many of the big carriers, cut-price operators in Europe and America have survived the downturn in much better shape.
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