The telephone number is 0845 7440088.

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There are roughly 100 million people in this country who subscribe to some kind of video service whether through cable, satellite or the telephone company, and that number is remaining steady despite the existence of alternative ways to watch TV like Hulu, Netflix, iTunes and Amazon.

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WorldCom and Sprint are the Number 2 and Number 3 US long-distance telephone companies respectively, and the US government is worried that the two companies already compete in the same areas and that US telecoms industry would be left with only two main competitors.

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The tweak on it is that the service is still anchored to the users' telephone number and from a telecom firm's point of view that's a good way to protect their revenues.

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" Jonathan Donner, a researcher at Microsoft India who published a paper on "The Rules of Beeping, " said: "Beeping is simple: A person calls a mobile telephone number and then hangs up before the mobile's owner can pick up the call.

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More and more people are choosing to get their news online rather than through the newspaper, and a large number of households no longer take telephone books, since it is often easier to simply look numbers up online.

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