Two years later, Burton became chairman of a committee overseeing a big contract for government phone services.
Consumers using rival Internet phone services could experience degraded phone quality, consumer groups worry.
Other measures announced were a systematic monitoring of premium phone services and the publication of clear rules on competitions.
His Shin Group of companies, (see table), is involved in paging, mobile-phone services, Internet connections and e-commerce.
The recent opening of international direct-dial phone services has shown how breaking a monopoly can pull prices down dramatically.
Although it did better on broadband complaints, TalkTalk generated the most negative feedback about its fixed landline phone services.
They assume a future in which all regulatory differences between IP-based and traditional circuit-switched phone services have been eliminated.
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Internet phone services are catching on with consumers, thanks to their promise of cheap calling, portability and advanced features.
Besides India, Bubble Motion has its eyes on Japan, as it is an early adopter of mobile phone services.
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The mobile phone services provider launched the campaign, and mobilized citizens and other corporate companies to donate funds and services.
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Mobile phone services across London were jammed with all major networks reporting problems as people tried to contact relatives and friends.
There has been much discontent in Pakistan with the ban, which has also affected Android mobile phone services run by Google.
Some 89 percent of the adult population in Pakistan is unbanked and 62 percent use mobile-phone services, notes EasyPaisa spokesman Affan Haider.
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Profits at Bharti Airtel , India's largest provider of mobile-phone services, rose by 21% in the first three months of this year.
Thanks to technology--primarily the Internet--the traditional differences between local and long-distance phone services, cable TV, satellite TV, radio and television are being obliterated.
Six weeks after Nievert succeeded Jan-ke Kark, Telia failed to win a licence in its home market to supply third-generation (3G) mobile-phone services.
It's not just U.S. consumers who want a lighter tax burden on phone services, but the telecommunications companies that serve them as well.
That ability is a key to Seidenberg s plans to fend off cable and satellite businesses that are now moving into broadband and phone services themselves.
In 2000 he agreed to build 3 Scandinavia, a provider of third-generation mobile-phone services, in a joint venture with Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa.
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As Brazil's largest pay-TV provider and a big hitter in phone services and Internet access, NETC is a play on Brazil's growing middle class.
There should also be a much wider range of packages on offer including pay-TV, broadband and phone services through the likes of BT Vision.
During the next decade, the Net will subsume all that tickles the eardrum in your old Betsy: radios, tapes, CDs and phone services .
The delivery of voice calls using VoLTE is similar to the voice over IP, or VOIP, phone services offered by many cable and Internet-service providers.
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They're cheaper than traditional phone services and increasingly fast and reliable.
With 52 patents Katz pretty much has a stranglehold over the software and hardware that allows a company to interact with customers through computerized phone services.
Star, like other communications companies across Asia, is racing to develop new pager features -- in part a response to competition from increasingly affordable cellular-phone services.
President Olusegun Obasanjo's government is currently considering who should be allowed to run mobile phone services in Nigeria, but so far, Nitel's land line monopoly remains intact.
Grameen Phone, a Grameen Bank offshoot founded to provide services for the poor, now sells to everyone and has become the largest provider of mobile-phone services in Bangladesh.
CenturyLink, which provides a lot of residential phone services, understands that most of its customers will eventually see their land lines as dinosaurs not worthy of monthly payments.
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