Regular activations shouldn't take more than an hour or two (ours were basically instantaneous) and ports from other carriers should take a maximum of 48 hours, but some unlucky individuals are still waiting to come online.
They then receive a personalized Web page with news and other information, can look at a Web-based map for directions, and can even order goods online while waiting for their gas to pump.
However, you can apply online instead of waiting for a bank representative to contact you.
Customers can, for example, place their order online and have it waiting for them when they arrive.
At One Medical, patients can fill out forms online to cut down waiting room times and extend the length of patient visits to their physicians.
We were online here in Perth waiting and waiting but it wasn't until I received a text message the morning after that I knew that I had been allocated to my franchise team.
Some small companies find online hobnobbing more effective than waiting for folks to find their Web sites.
Untold others are still downloading for free, waiting to see how the legal issues over online music sharing play out.
Upstream speeds are frequently the bottlenecks for cloud storage: an entire company might be held back waiting for that last presentation video to go online before the big meeting.
Students at dozens of colleges, such as Syracuse, American University and Marist College, can check online whether a vacant machine is waiting downstairs and how much time remains on each machine's cycle.
Xoom represents a fraction of that market, between 2% and 4%, but investors, as well as Xoom's venture-capital backers, are betting customers used to waiting in lines to transfer cash will make the transition online, and that Xoom's market share can grow.
Walmart already offers in-store pick up and just expanded its test of a locker system where shoppers can order online and pick-up in the store without waiting in line.
Or it could mean more consumers are skipping the line-waiting game and, instead, have chosen to order the phone online.
Dan Wagner, a technology entrepreneur who has backed several internet businesses, told the BBC that Comet "was an accident waiting to happen" because successive managements had failed to understand the online world.
If I want the skinny on the details of a tech conference keynote, for instance, I can skim online resources live or just minutes after the fact instead of waiting for the next day's (or a late edition's) tech column.
Second, there is significant additional inventory waiting in the wings from non-distressed sellers, which will soak up new demand as it eventually comes online.
Yet while store executives crowed about the crowds, early data suggested the real growth was happening online, as people using computers, tablets and mobile phones gobbled up Internet specials without the hassle of waiting outside stores.
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