By reducing the benefit, municipalities will be forced to pay significantly higher rates, increasing their annual debt-service cost.
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Entrepreneurial companies are offering both sophisticated data on healthcare service cost and quality, and new options for buyers.
The next step, Borgiani says, will involve getting appliances connected to the Internet--not for the hare-brained idea of serving up Web pages, but for controlling a manufacturer's service cost.
Ultimately, it is providing a free service, and recognizes no liability for damage done by the withdrawal of that service beyond the cost of the service.
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The service will cost the same as Google Apps Premier Edition, currently sold to businesses.
And be sure you understand how you will be billed and approximately how much the service will cost.
Power looked at billing, customer service, cost, reliability and performance, image and e-mail.
The Chromebook subscription service will cost less than half of what it costs deploying what people use now (Microsoft Windows), Seth said.
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But what most consumers care about is how much the service will cost and how those prices compare to the other 4G carriers, namely Clearwire and Sprint.
The company is in a high growth stage, despite hitting some road bumps in the most recent quarter in which it expects some subscriber losses due to service and cost restructuring.
Given that Freesat had been approved by the BBC Trust on the basis that it was a good use of income from the licence fee, it was "not reasonable to withhold information" about how much the service would cost, MPs said.
For energy consumers, such a strategy, if successful, will inevitably mean shortages of energy, and higher costs at the fuel pump, in our home utility bills, at grocery and clothing stores, and in any other good or service whose cost is in any way dependent on the cost of energy or transportation.
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You can bet that this lower-cost service will be charged to the consumer in a few years.
Colbeck said in an interview earlier this month that the company is encouraging dealers to sell the service contracts at cost.
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It also accelerates a nascent market, allowing the best companies to achieve scale and innovate further to deliver better service at lower cost.
Eventbrite makes money by taking a small percentage of sales from paid-admission events, while offering the service at no cost to free-admission events.
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But even a premium service can be cost-effective: A university using ScienceDirect, for instance, could save perhaps two-thirds of what a paper-journal subscription would cost.
Behind strategic outsourcing's growth is a realisation that a specialist may be able to provide a routine service at lower cost, and with better technology.
The company that took over the parts business in North America for the bankrupt automaker is encouraging dealers to sell those owners an extended service contract at cost.
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If their spouses' sympathy is exhausted, they are turning to executive coaching, a one-to-one, high-cost service (running to thousands of dollars a day) that companies increasingly offer their top-tier executives.
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Recently, SNCF has announced their low cost service of high speed trains (TGV) that operate in the axis Paris-Lyon-Marseille-Montpellier that will contribute to multiply considerable the volume of expected passengers for the next year, and consequently, the potential WiFi users in the station of St Charles.
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The reason on an absolute dollar basis that Medicare admin cost may be higher is because they use more services (medical services due to age and case mix severity of illness) and since a per cent of every dollar spend goes to admin service the absolute cost is higher.
Wireless service operators typically subsidize the cost of smartphones, offering discounts to consumers to lock them into two-year service contracts.
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The same is true for customers of oil service companies, though less so, as the cost of switching among oil service companies is smaller than that of cable services, and there are more choices.
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Despite the fact that providing this service comes at a cost they are often the most competitive option.
Contrary to popular belief, customer service is not a cost center like payroll processing or other non-strategic business functions.
Rather, it is offering a low-cost cloud service, with reliability that is not great but good enough for most users.
This week the company launched Amazon Glacier, a secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage service designed for data archiving and backup.
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