He is both a savvy media operator, and a shrewd negotiator - two attributes his supporters say he is using to good effect in the BA dispute.

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Other deployment partnerships in the U.S. include Charter, RCN, Suddenlink and Grande Communications, and European operators include Virgin Media, the largest cable operator in the UK, and ONO, the largest cable operator in Spain.

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Millennial Media, the largest independent mobile ad operator, saw their market value drop huge after a disappointing financial disclosure to analysts.

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According to Belgian media reports, the Belgian government said that the tour operator organizing the voyage, Aarschot-based Toptours, had an excellent record and that it was unlikely that the bus driver, who had arrived one day earlier in Switzerland, may have fallen asleep only 20 minutes after the group left the holiday resort.

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The next five days quickly devolved into a media circus, with confusion sowed by poor communications from the plant operator, Metropolitan Edison.

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One way to benefit is through Central European Media Enterprises ( CETV, 30) , a creator and operator of television stations that from its base in the Czech Republic reaches seven eastern European countries and 90 million viewers.

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Britain's communications regulator is keeping closer tabs on developments in the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal as it evaluates whether the New York-based media giant is a "fit and proper" owner for U.K. pay-TV operator BSkyB.

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