Who wants to be the first carrier to push Apple away, ie push their customers to the other carriers?
Earlier this month Samoa Air made headlines for becoming the first carrier to charge passengers according to their weight.
The first carrier that makes an all-out effort to treat passengers as people rather than oversized sardines will be an immense moneymaker.
Shortly after noon on Friday, US Airways became the first carrier to provide waivers for Northeast passengers potentially impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
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They were the first carrier in Japan to carry the iPhone, which was seen by most observers as a device that would suffer the same fate that the Xbox.
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"We are delighted to be the first carrier to sign on as a partner with Google to deliver Google Wallet, " said Fared Adib, senior vice president of product development, Sprint.
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It's the first carrier anywhere to launch the Rich Communication Services standard on LTE, which provides a perpetually synced contact list that serves as the launching pad for everything else.
The German airline, Lufthansa, received its award for being the first carrier to test biofuel in normal flight operations and greening everything from its engine-cleaning routine to cabin equipment, resulting in a full 23 percent emissions reduction.
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The Federal Aviation Administration approved the use of the tablets in 2011, but American is the first commercial carrier to receive the agency's approval to use them in the cockpit during all phases of flight from gate to gate, including during landing and takeoff.
Instead, it will use the F35B, which will use a ski jump type take off ramp much like the now retired Harrier, and the first operational carrier will be available, says the MoD, in 2018 rather than 2025.
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Continental Airlines Inc. said earlier this week that it was expanding its mobile boarding-pass service to Frankfurt Airport, becoming the first American carrier to offer paperless boarding passes outside the U.S. The service allows customers to receive boarding passes electronically on their cell phones or PDAs, Continental said.
RESPONSE- United has not been playing catch up as they were the first American Carrier to offer a lie flat business class product in 3 cabin Business, which makes me believe you were originally a Continental flier if you were unaware of this.
The government's Emergency Alert System has had just such a plan in the works for a while now, and Sprint Nextel is becoming the first national carrier to trial a system capable of sending targeted, location based alerts when bad stuff goes down.
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Sprint has a history of innovation, as it was the first national wireless carrier to offer 4G service with the launch of the Sprint 4G (WiMAX) network in 2008.
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The Shanghai-based carrier is the first Chinese airline to cancel orders for the Dreamliner.
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Hargreaves added that with the potential launch of the 3G iPhone, he expects Tuesday's announcement is likely the first of several international carrier announcements to come throughout the rest of the year.
As the first national wireless carrier to test, launch and market 4G technology, Sprint made history by launching 4G in Baltimore in September 2008.
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"We are excited to be the first U.S. carrier to make the HTC One SV available to customers, " said Matt Stoiber, senior vice president, devices for Cricket.
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Fresh from winning its second straight Big East tournament title, Syracuse will host Northeast Conference-champion Bryant (8-10) in the first round on Sunday night at the Carrier Dome.
"HTC's history of innovation in 4G technology includes delivering the first 4G-powered devices to each major carrier in the U.S., so it is exciting today to continue that leadership with our first 4G LTE Windows Phone, the HTC TITAN II, " said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corp.
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Sprint is the first U.S. carrier to announce an HD voice service, but ironically, the HD voice capabilities of the iPhone 5 are not compatible with its network, at least not at this time.
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The challenging business environment has also forced the carrier to post its first annual loss in nearly two decades since its privatization in 1995.
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The MDM9225 and MDM9625 chipsets are also the first to support LTE carrier aggregation and true LTE Category 4 with data rates of up to 150 Mbps and give network operators increased broadband speeds across their LTE service areas.
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Instead of picking a carrier first and then a phone, the consumers can pick a phone first, and then decide on a carrier.
This is the first such deal with a major carrier for Evernote, which will generate some revenue for the company and help it expand its user base.
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Contact should always be taken on the terms of the ball carrier, but that is only the first part because he then needs his team-mates coming in to secure possession.
Alaska Airlines was the first U.S. carrier to sell tickets online and to allow online check-in.
Work starts on five more in 2001 -- including a submarine and the country's first aircraft carrier.
Alaska was the first U.S. carrier to sell tickets online, in 1995, to begin cutting down on travel-agent fees.
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