The system would be modeled on a method used by cellular telephone service providers to warn each other about people who have a poor record of paying their bills.

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Will voters be contacted for this poll via the telephone, the Internet, in-person interviews or some other method?

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Google has struck back with claims that BT has infringed a method to allow PCs to use an internet-based telephone system based on a patent originally filed by Fujitsu.

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