China Mobile's largest rival, China Unicom, will be able to rid itself of a cumbersome, overlapping network using the CDMA standard, which is incompatible with its more popular GSM-based network, by selling it to the country's fixed-line operator, China Telecom.
But Cisco's more central business of selling expensive network gear to companies may be sagging.
Verizon, the company that first differentiated itself on network quality, is selling off low band spectrum and acquiring high band spectrum.
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And it will achieve this goal only by selling the network of petrol stations associated with its lesser Italiana Petroli brand, a deal approved this week by Italy's competition authorities.
Leave aside the obvious contradiction of a climate change crusader selling to a network largely financed by the petrodollar kingdom of Qatar.
In 16 years of selling millions of network routers to businesses and buying dozens of rivals, it was a paragon of high-tech growth.
Some, such as Vodafone in Europe, continued to invest heavily during the recession because they regard network quality as an important selling point.
With the FCC granting Dish a waiver to build a wireless network, Dish will get more aggressive in promoting its streaming service by selling streaming devices that will work on its broadband network.
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GridPoint makes its money by selling its smart grid network to utility companies (manufacturing of the devices is handled by a third party).
None disappointed their network bosses, hammering home the selling point that the beauty of the tournament lies in its deep field and potential Cinderella stories.
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Quite a small contribution, as Cisco generates a substantial majority of its profit by selling routers, switches and network services.
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One provider, SegaSoft, aims to make money on its Heat gaming network (heat.net) by selling players the virtual weapons they must use in cyberspace: the more you spend, the bigger your virtual bang, thwack or kaboom.
The network has made a lot of money selling advertising for the World Series and the Fall Classic has also helped Rupert Murdoch build Fox into a valuable brand by increasing ratings for other programs (who can forget the flogging CBS took after the network lost football to Fox in 1994?).
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Sprint has no way to really properly service the smart phones it is presently selling in abundance without the Clearwire network.
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Expectations were for the social network to take a beating this week as selling restrictions expired on more than 800 million shares.
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That means 500 million GPS phones walking around in cities and towns, creating a powerful two-way sensor network that Nokia and others can tap for selling targeted advertising, friend-finder services and city guides.
Indeed, Verizon has introduced four Android phones on its network since last fall, including the best-selling original Motorola Droid and the well-received Droid Incredible from HTC.
And there is the small matter of his father, Li Ka-Shing, Hong Kong's richest tycoon and a force in telecoms thanks to his ownership of Hutchinson Whampoa, which last year made a fortune selling its stake in the Orange mobile network in Britain to Germany's Mannesmann.
Ideas can also exhibit network effects, as the author of any best-selling book or producer of a hit television show will happily tell you.
Mediaset, which currently relies on a conventional broadcast model, could strike a deal with the nationalised unit to start selling television via the latter's broadband network.
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Known as the Great Chair Grab, it was sponsored by Expanded Polystyrene Packaging Group and floated the notion that furniture, like network television, was something you could give away by selling advertising.
Chrysler has been trying for nearly a decade to encourage its dealers to merge or sell out, in hopes of creating a core network of stronger, more profitable "Alpha" stores selling all three brands.
Augustine's Hospital busted a global ring: Slum-dwellers from Brazil and Moldova were selling their organs to an Israeli-led broker network, which then used the Internet to pull together over 100 willing kidney transplant patients from Israel, Europe and the U.S. Donors and recipients, posing as relatives, were flown to South Africa and operated on by elite doctors in Durban.
Today, Optogan is successfully selling its products and building a global and domestic distribution network.
Instead, it set up a network of village-level entrepreneurs who are responsible for marketing, selling, and recharging the lights.
It has sued dozens of companies, claiming to have patented the very idea of selling computer software and other electronic goods over a computer network.
Before Blockbuster was bought by Dish Network, there were media reports of ambitious expansion plans, including selling electrical goods such as televisions, mobile phones, and iPods.
Meanwhile, production is under way on another film about Jobs' life, written by Aaron Sorkin ("The Social Network") and based on Walter Isaacson's best-selling book.
Under orders from the European Commission, Lloyds is selling 632 branches, equivalent to 22% of its branch network - and initial bids need to be received by mid July (which is a bit quicker than expected).
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