NTT'S answer is to pay for forays abroad by exploiting its remaining near-monopoly in local telephone traffic in Japan.

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The explosion damaged neighbouring buildings and other utilities in the area, including telephone lines and traffic lights.

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In it home market, the company's average revenue per user grew 4% sequentially to 185 rupees, while telephone-call traffic rose 3%.

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Tellabs, Inc. makes digital cross-connects, essentially big switches that direct traffic over telephone networks.

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Telephone records show increased call traffic from Iranian officials to the frontiers region around the time of the bombing.

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When you are on a ship, all telephone, data, and video traffic is carried through a complement of large satellite dishes found on the top deck.

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Fax traffic generally travels over ordinary telephone circuits, but is tailor-made for the Internet.

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Under the banner "Save the Internet, " a noisy coalition of mainly Democratic groups and tech firms like eBay and Microsoft is pressing for language that would require cable and telephone companies to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing on their networks.

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Just 15 days after the Bay news, Nortel announced a product that combines the features of a telephone switch with a Cisco-like ability to handle Internet traffic.

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For generations, infrastructure sectors and firms have been artificially segregated into regulatory silos (telephone, electricity, water, sewer, cable, railroad, airline, air traffic control).

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