Over the years, I've heard repeatedly from small business owners who sell in the eBay marketplace and other online channels that expanding Internet sales taxes to all transactions would hurt their ability to grow or create jobs and to fuel the price and service competition that creates value for consumers.
Fourth, Professor Crawford assumes that competition must produce a commodity service to be considered competition.
Zappos is a good model for growing by offering more customer service than the competition.
Although Google Maps benefits from its prominence on the firm's home page, the service faces growing competition.
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She has distinguished herself through her work to modernize universal service and promote competition, and as a champion for closing America's digital divide.
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The bill aims to give GPs control of much of the NHS budget and would open up the health service to greater competition from the private and voluntary sector.
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You identify a simple selling point that differentiates the product or service from its competition in the minds of consumers, and you use the branding to ensure that this selling point sticks.
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The Health and Social Care Bill's proposals include giving GPs control of much of the NHS budget and opening up the health service to greater competition from the private and voluntary sector.
Another bill would increase supervision and drug testing of offenders after release from jails in England and Wales and open up the Probation Service to private competition in an effort to cut reoffending rates.
But as the platform-as-a-service delivery model grows, it will intensify the competition between large cloud service providers and enterprise software suppliers, which look to capture the growing, market, Gartner predicted.
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Some smaller cities in the East where American and US Airways provide the bulk of service might experience reduced competition.
The agreement extends to firms that plan to deliver letters when the postal service is opened to competition on January 1st.
The U.S. market is crying out for a viable third party providing service to consumers in competition with ATT and Verizon.
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In the late 1980s the government created three gigantic carriers Air China, China Eastern, and China Southern to provide competition and service where there had previously been none.
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The scorecard was useful to Mobil Corp. (as it was then known) when it was trying to reorganize its business around competition on service, rather than price.
Going forward, growth in the subscription fee is likely to slow due to pressure from pay-TV service providers and expected competition from NBC and Fox, who are planning to launch nationwide sports networks to compete with ESPN.
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In either case, the upfront cost to Internet providers would be much lower than if they had to pull the fiber themselves, and if the fiber were made available to more than one private company, the competition for service would force pricing for the service to be competitive.
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We also see mounting pressure on margins from two ends: corporate clients now see alternatives and challenge more and more the service fee paid to RIMM and competition is mounting on the consumer segment with all alternative platforms offering free email service.
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At the same time, the pool of Americans eligible for military service is shrinking, and competition for high-quality recruits is intensifying.
Ordinary Indians will certainly benefit from the better service and higher returns that competition will bring, and from the power plants and airports that new forms of investment will build.
Even in rural areas, where customers often have only one cable TV option, competition from satellite service is increasing, though satellite providers are facing similar cost pressures and passing on higher bills.
But it may also spark renewed price competition between broadband service providers, such as phone companies like Verizon Communications pushing digital subscriber line service, and cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner offering cable modem service.
Instead of requiring that franchisees build out to an entire franchise area which often makes both new entry and service upgrades unprofitable remove build-out requirements and craft smart subsidies to encourage competition to deliver high-quality universal service, and to deliver superfast broadband to the customers who want it.
Later, Labour peer and former Health Minister Lord Warner spoke in support of greater competition in the health service.
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Now Best Buy is working hard at charging more than the competition, making poor service poorer and not stocking what customers want.
However, the effort to attract more service-oriented businesses faces stiff competition from the nearby office market of Hong Kong, a long-established international financial capital.
The service will put YouTube into direct competition with movie rental services offered by Apple, PlayStation and XBox, as well as subscription offerings like LoveFilm.
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