At the top of the market are a dozen or so big operators that pump out tens of thousands of firms a year.
The cost of docking in Colombo had become so high that some shipping operators plan to bypass the port.
So far, fears that other operators would follow suit have proved unfounded.
Plants do so much better with more CO2 that greenhouse operators often increase the CO2 concentrations by factors of three or four to get better growth.
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So critical was the Norden bombsight that its operators had to swear to protect it at all costs from falling into the hands of the enemy.
The commercial functions of the Forestry Commission would be opened up to other operators on a leasehold basis "so that their commercial potential is realised along with the need to protect other benefits".
The operators of ZeroAccess were making so much money that they were paying high prices for each infection.
The system can help the bank's operators to deal with customers more quickly so that more calls can be processed.
So Ed Richards is pleased that along with the four existing operators - Vodafone, O2, EE and Three - the winners include a new player, Niche.
Using algorithms, Data Distilleries' call-centre application can flash up a sales idea in less than two seconds, so operators have ample time to make a pitch that is precisely tailored to the client.
Price competition is fierce as a result, and freight operators know that they can only get just so many yuan for hauling a ton of freight between, say, Beijing and Shanghai.
John Wilkinson, chairman of the Cinema Exhibitors' Association, told BBC News Online that the reason cinema operators were lobbying councils was so they were not harangued by angry parents of children who wanted to see it.
But a pay TV system could be better for network owners such as Fox if services like Aereo were to thrive, because doing so would cut off technology that siphons away customers from pay TV operators, he wrote.
The proposal also would require airport operators to report their test results to the FAA so that the information could be used to warn other airports of potential problems, David said.
His actions, he said, were all aimed at ensuring the strongest possible competition in the Telebras auction, so that the phone companies were sold at the highest possible price to competent operators.
Consequently, both device manufacturers and mobile operators are looking to provide for security on the device itself so that transactions can be completed there without necessarily having to do round-trip, real-time checks with services running in the cloud.
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Observe that no one argues that since medications are critical to human life and no CEO could possibly keep track of all the activities done by all the operators, big pharma companies should be broken into smaller ones so that company leaders will be more likely to catch poor quality operations which could result in mass deaths.
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And so all the IPTV operators were looking for a cable-less solution to do that in-home transmission.
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Cable and satellite operators have tolerated the shrinking margins that come with higher carriage fees so far, but will not do so for ever.
The train operators, on the other hand, have benefited so much from passenger growth that financial penalties for poor running have become insignificant.
This means that securing optimal consumer data protection is possible only in so far as search engines and database operators are able (or willing) to implement such protections.
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So, when a disaster strikes, the best business pulse to feel is that of the biggest of these operators.
Some power operators fear, however, that that they will get sued if they equip their facilities so that they could capture excess heat, which could alter the generation process and thus violate the New Source Review, writes Melissa Mullarkey, for Recycled Energy Development.
So the trick in India is to build a feature phone friendly service that acts as a value add to Indian operators and bring in celebrities for marketing purposes.
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