Centro, which runs the station, charges bus companies every time a service calls at the station.
But those service calls are a rarity with most home appliances sold in the last five years.
They use it for regular phone calls, conference calls with remote employees, and customer service calls, too.
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With wall and window units, ask in advance about the price of service calls, labor and any parts.
The first looks at output (number of widgets, billable hours, service calls, whatever) per dollar spent to generate it.
Retained Fire-fighters respond to emergency incidents including fires, road traffic collisions and other specialist service calls such as chemical spills, collapsed buildings and other types of rescues.
In two customer service calls FORBES was told that's impossible.
Catholic News Service calls him a happy warrior for evangelization.
It would be very educational to give each employee a chance to take customer-service calls for a day or join the sales team on a sales call or two.
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Companies use salaries and raises to retain their high performers, but measuring performance itself is difficult, especially in fields that defy simple metrics like widgets built or customer-service calls answered.
If the manufacturer can determine what's wrong without having to send a repairman, he says, they can eliminate most service calls and make the few trips they do have to make more efficient.
For carriers, this confusion can translate into irate customer service calls and, occasionally, lawsuits as consumers protest they did not know what they would be charged to download a mobile application or watch an online video from their phones.
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South East Coast Ambulance Service saw calls rise by 8% during the festive period, compared with 2011.
Sony has also included a service it calls iPEG, for Internet Electronic Program Guide, which provides access to an Internet-based TV programming guide.
The services are heavily marketed to cardholders, particularly when you call a toll-free number to activate a card or ask a question, or when a customer-service rep calls to answer an inquiry.
The service collects calls, texts and voicemail directly from the O2 network rather than from the customer's phone, so it doesn't need to be installed on an O2 handset in order for it to work.
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Harriott Contracting, is one of several service industries that calls Columbia Maryland home.
The worst affected areas were Newlyn, Penzance, Mevagissy , St Ives, and Plymstock with the fire service taking 50 calls between 18:00 and 21:00 GMT.
Hours after Skype, the popular Internet voice calls service, went down on Wednesday for more than 20 million users, Twitter is now experiencing problems as well.
"I will not let this incident impede my public service and my calls for real mandate relief, a better economic climate and better services for those in need in New York, " the statement said.
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The Spanish secret service has monitored telephone calls by politicians, and even by the king.
And they request that those who do manage to find mobile service refrain from making calls in shared common areas.
Figures show the Ayrshire-based search and rescue service responded to 344 calls, an increase of 81 on 2006.
As the play opens, King (the admirable, compelling Samuel L. Jackson) calls room service and goes to the bathroom.
Beats were sized according to historic call load (large beats where calls for service were rare, small beats in busy areas).
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Because consumers won't experience direct benefits, it is important that carriers make sure customers don't have dropped calls or service interruptions during the transition.
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Mr Assad, whose forces' killing of 50 protesters overshadowed Mr Annan's announcement, is unlikely to pay more than lip service to any binding calls for him to back off.
The New York Police Department allocates a lot of officers to areas that have high crime, receive lots of calls for service and in New York City those are predominantly non-white.
Now BitTorrent says that its new service, which it calls its Delivery Network Accelerator, or DNA, will let users begin viewing video midway through the download, making it seem like instantaneous playback.
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