Content providers share the earnings with the mobile network operator, making these services an attractive--and booming--new revenue stream for both industries.

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Like AeroVironment's older gadgets, the Switchblade can stream video feeds from color or infrared cameras to its operator, making it a deft spy plane.

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The phone is pre-configured with menus and bookmarks offered only by that particular operator, making it easy to download games and access news and other information.

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Certainly on commercial contracts, sometimes on individual ones, the phne itself is subsidised by the network operator, making the upfront payment for the phone to the user nothing.

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For example, as the vice president of marketing for a major cable television operator, my marketing plan relied on our engineering division making major upgrades to our cable systems.

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He said that company is seeing "excellent progress" among ATM operators, noting that an operator who chooses not to make the switch is "making its own decision" to accept liability.

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The closer the government can come to making ministries and relevant offices a one-stop shop for an operator to go to resolve issues, the better.

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She and tour operator Vic James are putting together tours of all of the sites used in the making of the film.

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With licenses from music companies, a locker-service operator could give users instant access to songs stored in central servers, rather than making those users upload every song in their music collections.

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