Several carriers say Apple, on the other hand, won't help when only a serial number is identified.
But, a slowing economy and oil price-induced higher fares have damped demand this year, leading several carriers to cut costs via pruning routes and reducing staff.
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Alternately, it could signal that several carriers were interested and Samsung accelerated its usual go-to-market strategy to deliver the phone to as many partners as possible.
It is getting harder to find good excuses for being offline: this week the European Union allowed airlines to offer in-flight mobile-phone service, and several carriers have Wi-Fi.
Overseas, WiFi and 3G versions of Opal will be sold by several carriers and HP in the UK, Germany, and France, while a WiFi only version will be in Italy and Spain, only through HP.
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In March AMR subsidiary American Airlines, as well as several other carriers, canceled thousands of flights to inspect wiring on its fleet.
And several commercial carriers have filed for bankruptcy in recent months.
Several major carriers are using these planes for coast-to-coast trips.
Perhaps the most dramatic example of changes in the market is Air Berlin, which has swallowed several smaller carriers to emerge as Germany's second airline and the third-biggest budget carrier in Europe.
Aircell's Gogo in-flight internet system, in use on several US carriers, offers only data connections now, but there have been reports of passengers bypassing blocks and using Gogo to conduct VOIP calls while in flight.
Sprint also markets cell phone service through several discount carriers that focus on no-contract mobile plans, such as Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile -- and some of these brands are starting to market 4G phones and service.
American has also felt competitive pressures as most of its competitors like Delta, United, US Airways and several similar carriers have reorganized under Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Code in recent years and emerged a stronger competitors as companies have renegotiated labor, supply and financing contracts that have brought operating costs down.
While AOL offers its services and instant messaging to several mobile carriers and PDA platforms, it's only company-led foray into wireless Internet is through its Mobile Communicator product: a Research in Motion (nasdaq: RIMM - news - people ) Blackberry, running on Cingular Wireless ' network, that has e-mail and instant messenger.
That became clear in Denmark last year after several leading wireless carriers stopped subsidizing phones and lowered their monthly rates to keep up with lower-priced competitors.
Several of the local carriers are loss-making, although the biggest low-fare carrier, InterGlobe Aviation Ltd.
Local market competition is escalating among larger carriers, low-cost carriers and several regional wireless players with nationwide service plans.
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Giles, a vice president at Marsh Private Client Services, a broker representing several high-end insurance carriers.
In the United States, several military strategists believe that carriers are heading for the scrapyard of history.
In contrast, several low-cost and regional carriers have fared better than their larger rivals have.
Without those subsidies, the feature-packed phones carriers hand out for free would cost several hundred dollars.
The carriers still face staggering debt loads, and several airlines may have to add more debt to their books.
In the years since, all the content owners, device makers, carriers, and software providers have assembled into several large edifices insurmountable for normal people.
Perhaps more unsettling: The U.S. and China struck a deal allowing up to four new U.S. passenger carriers to fly into China within the next several years, starting in 2005.
Motorola will also change its approach to carriers, with a move toward offering devices across several service providers rather than keeping certain handsets -- such as the Droid and Razr lines on Verizon -- as exclusives for one.
Big cellular carriers such as Vodafone, SingTel, Australia's Telstra and several companies in Japan already embed FAST's contextual search technology in their networks.
The continent claims several success stories, including Panama's Copa Airlines, one of the most profitable carriers in the world.
It stretched out construction of aircraft carriers, delayed development of a new long-range bomber, and started over on several helicopters.
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