Previously, retailers such as Wal-Mart were permitted to establish only wholesale joint ventures.
It is mainly in rural areas where BT is the only provider of wholesale broadband services.
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Marietta had a wholesale-only network using a far different business model than the one followed by most publicly owned broadband systems.
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The first buyer that comes to mind is LightSquared, which is trying to roll out a wholesale-only fourth-generation network using what was satellite spectrum for a terrestrial build-out.
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With the creation of the first-ever, wholesale-only nationwide 4G-LTE network integrated with satellite coverage, LightSquared offers people the speed, value and reliability of universal connectivity, wherever they are in the United States.
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Adesa is the country's second-largest (and only public) used car wholesale auction house.
Enforced cuts in a country's wholesale prices serve only to put its operators at a disadvantage to their foreign rivals.
Launched in 1999, the euro was for three years used only for electronic transactions such as large wholesale payments.
Stronger banks and cajas have also been able to borrow from the wholesale markets, even if only at high rates and, in some cases, using state guarantees.
Wholesale changes were made, not only to the playing staff but to the attitude of the club.
Genes are being added only one at a time, rather than wholesale, and though such genes are usually from other species (there has been a lot of squeamishness about putting anti-freeze genes from fish into plants, for example), the genes of different creatures vary less than those creatures' outward forms might indicate.
Only one chief executive, James Sinegal of Costco Wholesale, received a pay increase (13%)less than the median.
The value of the Turkish lira fell by nearly half against the dollar, a bevy of banks went under, and only a much bigger intervention by the Fund prevented wholesale meltdown.
The fear in Canada is that the American purchasing restrictions, which at present apply only to federal agencies, is the start of a wholesale shift to greener as well as more protectionist policies under a Congress and potentially a White House controlled by the Democrats.
In most of these cases only immigration from abroad, and children of immigrants, have prevented a wholesale demographic decline.
LightSquared is pleased with the Federal Communication Commission's grant of its request to allow its wholesale customers to provide either dual-mode or terrestrial-only devices as part of an integrated satellite-terrestrial broadband service.
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Unlike a wholesale interest rate increase, borrowers would be charged the penalty rate only on new purchases after the rate is changed, and a customer will receive 45 days advance notice of any penalty rate being placed on their account.
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First is Moscow which gains 33% of GDP from wholesale and retail trade, 22% from imputed rents of real estate and only about 1.7% from the financial sector.
Grachev's disdain for Secretary Perry -- and the American administration he represents -- could only have been further intensified by the Bakeresque concessions proferred in the face of such a wholesale rebuff.
Abbey National, once a dull but solid British building society (thrift), moved into wholesale banking in an attempt to reduce its dependence on its traditional mortgage business, only to suffer big losses in high-yield credit and other novel businesses.
Broader wholesale businesses selling to registered retailers have also been allowed, though Metro of Germany is the only company to have used this route so far.
It features only licensed products (those that outside manufacturers pay an average royalty of 8.7% of the wholesale cost to produce), and thus does not include merchandise manufactured by the property owner.
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But he has resisted the temptation to make wholesale changes and the return of fit-again wing Shane Horgan to replace Andrew Trimble is the only alteration to his starting XV.
The answer is that when it comes to retail and wholesale borrowing rates, the lesson of the past few years is that the Bank of England is only one piece of the puzzle, and a smaller one that it was a few years ago.
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