Just think about how long it took cable companies to get customers to bundle services.
Telkom's monopoly makes it easy to squeeze prosperous urban customers to subsidise services for the poor.
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Only 15% of dentists are connected to customers through services like DemandForce.
It should be stressed that Amazon is one of myriad companies that uses its balance sheet to provide banking services to customers.
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Lincoln is hoping to tap a niche in China where customers buy luxury products for their own personal experience, rather than for reasons of status, and plans to offer tailored services to customers as well as focus on technology and offering unique products.
On the plus side, the services can accept reservations at any time, track their customers' behavior to provide personalized services such as identifying regular customers and their preferences for seating, and use direct-marketing techniques to drive business on slow nights, fill cancellations or offer premium seating.
This approach to opening data and content means organizations can consume the same web APIs to conduct their day-to-day business and operations as they do to provide services to their customers.
Countrywide said that while they are "committed to providing excellent products and services to customers, " they "do not comment on the detail of individual cases".
But outside of that, he said, the only matter he truly cares about is whether the various solutions deliver to him the business value and flexibility that his company needs to be able to deliver great products and services to customers.
Other providers of internet services, such as AOL, have complained bitterly that they are not able to offer the services customers want because of the lack of access to BT's local network.
This will allow the firms to provide a suite of integrated services to customers to enhance the production from wells.
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Now the airline is actively marketing its own content system to partners in providing comparison shopping services to customers, cutting out the GDS systems entirely.
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But it is also a way for Orange to make data services affordable to customers with low disposable income.
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Banks in emerging markets are using mobile phones to extend their services to existing customers and to provide banking connectivity to individuals with no previous banking relationship.
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The Smarter Energy Research Institute is a first-of-a-kind collaboration between corporate research and the energy and utilities industry to transform leading energy companies through the use of predictive analytics, system optimization and advanced computation to deliver better services to their customers.
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Small cells are critical to the future of wireless broadband by enabling operators to continue to provide high-quality, consistent services to customers without the need to build costly, and sometimes logistically challenging, cell towers.
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What's most interesting to us is that the carriers are appearing to conflate bandwidth-heavy services like Facebook and YouTube with devices that customers use to access those services -- does it really make any sense to charge Apple or Google a fee for making good phones that encourage more network use, on top of charging users for tiered data?
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This month, Expedia announced a partnership with Thomas Cook India to provide end-to-end visa services to its customers in the country.
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Peter Boland, a consultant, suggests that firms that understand how to tailor services to individual customers, such as financial-services businesses, could compete with health plans.
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Business leadershipThe beauty of the free market economy is that any company has the opportunity to sell products and services to its customers as long as their customers believe they are getting fair value.
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More than 90% of small institutions expect to start charging customers for services that are now free, according to a survey released this week by the Independent Community Bankers of America.
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On Wednesday the Albany County Supreme Court affirmed allegations made by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that Dell and Dell Financial Services made fraudulent advertising claims and failed to provide customers with promised services.
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These types of services come with an added cost to the publishers as they transition large number of customers over to alternative delivery services.
Marketers are experimenting with ways to use mobile phones to provide customers with services and promotions as they shop.
In exchange for funding the WiMax joint venture, the cable companies would get equity in the business and would be able to purchase wholesale access to the network to offer their own high-speed wireless data and voice services to customers, the people familiar with the discussions said.
GreenWave Reality works with large deregulated utilities to provide home energy-management services to their customers.
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It can also give your bank a wealth of information to offer all sorts of other services to its customers.
Agawi's revolutionary CloudPlayTM gaming platform enables OEMs, network operators, game publishers and retailers to deliver their own cloud gaming services to their customers.
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They have proliferated in recent years as non-financial firms such as Target, BMW, Pitney Bowes and UnitedHealth have created ILCs as a cheap and profitable way to steer credit and other financial services to their customers.
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