"A single provider will improve the service for customers and save money for all councils, " he added.
"I think the biggest single provider of e-learning is going to be AOL (AOL) Time Warner, " says Aldridge.
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It administers the state pension scheme and is perhaps the largest single provider of health care in North America.
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Historically, he says, such fundamental services are not owned by a single provider.
Enterprises also recognize the significant benefits of having a single provider that can deliver a comprehensive unified communications offering.
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In the UK the argument is about whether the State (in the shape of the NHS) should be the single provider of health care.
Paying for coordinated care means that every single provider is now united on being responsive to the needs of a single person: the patient.
It is hard to imagine any single provider cornering this activity.
The Aberdeen Group argues that telecommunications costs, in particular, can expand with BYOD because companies lose the traditional volume discounts they got when they purchased both devices and service from a single provider.
The technological and economic features of the industry are also such that a single provider is often able to serve the overall demand at a lower total cost than any combination of smaller entities could.
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One of the major reforms is expanding the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model, in which a single provider or practice coordinates patient care, including tracking referrals, maintaining electronic health records and communicating data to other providers.
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What if a good part of your application infrastructure resides with a single cloud provider?
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However, are there risks in your business being dependent on a single cloud provider?
Broadband consumers, particular those living in areas served by a single wireline provider of broadband services, would benefit from the enhanced competition with cable operators.
Although we are still not producing phones at a sufficient rate, we have already passed the single-provider approach and moved on to creating industry standards.
This suggests that, while OpenTable is already the single largest provider of online restaurant reservation services, it is also witnessing almost 40% annual growth in the number of diners it seats.
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In 2007, Myanmar also flipped a kill switch on its single Internet service provider, creating a digital blackout that lasted close to a week.
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According to iResearch, the largest number of malware samples collected by a single Internet security provider in Chinaincreased from approximately 538, 000 in 2006 to over 650, 000, 000 in 2010.
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By adding Obvius to its list of offerings, Leviton is staking out its position as single-source provider of measurement and verification solutions in the field of lighting and energy management solutions, which include smart metering, energy data information, load management and LEED rating achievement.
Aircell is the world's leading provider of inflight connectivity and a single-source, turnkey provider of equipment, service, and technical support.
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Aircell is the world's leading provider of airborne communications and a single-source, turnkey provider of equipment, service, and technical support.
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Based on wireless technology from Wisair, a leading provider of single-chip based Wireless USB solutions, the Easy Dock consists of a USB dongle that connects to your laptop and a receiver that connects to your monitor, mouse, keyboard, and speakers.
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Options traders populating Sprint Nextel Corp. are trading roughly three calls on the wireless provider to each single put in action.
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With 55 percent of all U.S. households beholden to a single, fixed-line provider of broadband access (mostly cable modem service), the Commission should consider how each of its rules affects broadband investment.
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This may cause your card provider's computer algorithms to single you out as a prime cash-strapped candidate for a spending limit cut.
Perhaps the single most important factor in choosing a cloud storage provider is location.
As a single mom, she worked briefly as a child care provider in El Salvador.
While we're not sold that there's only this single option for pricing broadband (one which heavily favors the provider's bottom lines), the group does bring a tiny bit of thoughtfulness to the discussion, with a member noting that Time Warner Cable's approach hadn't made a very good case for the practice.
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Although enterprise routers remain the single largest profit driver for Cisco, we note that the service provider router segment (including both edge and core routers) does generate a combined profitability beyond the individual contribution from the enterprise segment.
One little technical problem: aside from captive provider systems with electronic medical records like Kaiser, not a single insurer I know of in the US has any ability to affect this scandalously high rate of often unnecessary, always expensive, high-volume surgery.
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