Sentences with phrase «many phone companies»

Wheeler's «split the baby» approach to the contentious net neutrality debate, reported on over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would effectively reclassify Internet service providers as public utilities akin to the phone companies under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, but only in dealing with large content providers such as Netflix and Google's Youtube.

The free 5 Mbps service must also have cable and phone companies worried, since many of their own customers are paying dearly for these relatively archaic and outdated speeds.

ESPN's desired arrangement is not unlike 800 numbers, which are specialized priority services that companies can buy from phone companies.

Yet analysts have given the big phone company high marks for allowing AOL to operate independently and folding in other recent acquisitions without much drama.

Not only did they manage to sell their online phone company to eBay for $ 2.6 billion, but they managed to retain control of the core technology behind the phone service, a company called Joltid.

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is reporting that an investor group consisting of venture capital and private equity firms are combining resources to make a bid to acquire the Internet phone company from eBay.

That's no doubt frustrating to the other mobile phone companies that introduced their own devices over the past 12 months.

The availability of dear old Dad has been an issue since September, when the 47 - year - old quit his former gig as head of Microsoft's business division in Redmond, Wash., and moved to snowy Espoo, near the Finnish capital of Helsinki, where he is currently trying to save the world's largest mobile phone company from itself.

Skype was a perfectly legitimate alternative to phone companies.

If my parents and their friends are making the switch, it's a bad sign for phone companies.

This small Montreal - based company offers bargain - basement prices, and a feature set beyond anything offered by traditional phone companies.

If it keeps going, cable and phone companies may have no choice but to get in the game.

In case you missed it, Wheeler set the Internet on fire earlier this month when it emerged that he had a plan to institute a right for Internet providers — cable and phone companies — to create a «fast lane» for online services and websites.

Last August, Facebook teamed up with phone companies, including Samsung, Ericcson, and Nokia to launch Internet.org, which aims to connect people living without the Internet (that's two - thirds of the world) to free or low - cost Internet service.

Don't be thrown off by the lousy voice - menu systems used by airlines and phone companies; that's a false start.

«We're currently letting phone companies cash a government check every month with little more than the honor system to hold them accountable, and that simply can't continue.»

While the country's two largest long - distance phone companies offer a variety of services that any business can sign up for, the third - and fourth - largest phone companies have taken aim at the low end — small companies with phone bills as slight as $ 100 a month.

Kurth is here to take you on a private getaway from occupational monotony, something he's intimately familiar with: He used to be a director of project management with a phone company.

IConnectHere.com will put your call through for 25 cents a minute, compared with the $ 2 that regular phone companies charge, says Noam Bardin, CEO and president of Deltathree, the company that runs iConnectHere.com, based in New York City.

Targeting the emerging mobile - banking market, Rogers Communications, Canada's biggest wireless phone company (and publisher of this magazine), has also applied for a banking licence, although there are no plans to become a full - service deposit - taking financial institution.

For all its success with other products, Amazon will be hard - pressed to compete with Samsung and Apple, the No. 1 and 2 mobile phone companies in the world.

He made most of his money from phone company Excel Communications, which he founded in 1988 and took public in 1996.

Recently, traditional phone companies have complained about the way VOIP providers have managed to avoid paying — and charging customers for — taxes and tolls.

In a document released online on Tuesday, media group Vivendi - which is the top TIM shareholder - said it provided «stability and expertise» to the Italian phone company, in contrast with the «quick fixes» that Elliott would bring.

«Perhaps Vivendi in the past underestimated some of Italy's uniqueness,» the group said in the document, adding that it recognized the «important stake» of Italian authorities in ensuring that the phone company is well run.

Hamon isn't ripping off the phone company, just bypassing it.

A push by major mobile phone companies to use unlicensed frequencies could end up pushing consumers off of their own networks.

In the United States, «It's like trying to speak to the phone company» is a line people use to describe any hopeless customer service interaction.

That is, instead of buying termination cheaply just for use by Justice's customers, he could buy everything he could get his hands on at a great price and resell the extra capacity to other phone companies, wholesale.

«Callback was one of the major catalysts for deregulation in other countries, because the state - run phone companies couldn't compete with us,» he says.

That wasn't nearly enough time to find another phone company that would provide as good a deal and then to get set up on its switch.

Glickman, 27 at the time, quickly zeroed in on phone costs: like almost all countries other than the United States, Argentina had a state - run phone company that charged an arm and a leg for international calls, and Amex Argentina was running up a monthly bill of $ 25,000 in international calls.

It would become a full - fledged phone company.

Excited by the discovery, Glickman presented the idea of callback to his bosses, only to be told that Amex had no interest in risking irritating Argentina's only phone company; it essentially regarded its outrageous phone bills as insurance that its telephone service would remain at least semireliable.

Justice now owns local switches in several countries and has even bought small local phone companies in Belgium and Argentina, allowing many of their customers to dial straight through without callback.

Then the phone company realized that all of Glickman's customers» calls went to the same area code and «exchange» — the three - digit number that leads off the seven - digit phone number.

«Don't you know how many phone companies have gone out of business because of hot cuts that ended up taking days?»

«I told them they should be selling to me at a lot less than they sell to big phone companies, because we're exporting the capacity — we don't compete with them in their home market,» he says.

After all, you're not the phone company.

He assiduously avoided commercial - satellite systems, such as the now - defunct satellite mobile - phone company Iridium.

It's different than forcing a phone company to place a wiretap or making an Internet company hand over emails.

He also points to the breakup of big phone companies, which in turned spurred competition that led to mobile technologies and all the smart phone wonders we have today.

«When we think about Verizon and AT&T, we think phone companies,» says Kagan.

At that point Pocketalk hit a market fiercely contested by cell - phone companies that had cut prices by two - thirds since 1995 and offered services that included voice messaging, caller ID, and E-mail access.

But, he didn't stop there as he subsequently launched an airline, Virgin Atlantic Airways; a phone company, Virgin Mobile; and, most recently, Virgin Galactic, a space tourism company.

For instance, some phone companies have towers in places where local regulations might forbid fuel tanks and generators.

As the New York Times reported in late August, it may be easier for Apple to go after phone makers in lawsuits, because damages can be determined by the number of phones a company sold that were made using infringed patents.

The tone among American commentators is split between jokes about America Online's doomed Time Warner merger from 2000 and alarm at the notion of the phone company owning a large number of media outlets.

Would you accept that from your Internet, cable TV, or mobile phone company?

The transformation has provided the 133 - year - old Dallas - based phone company with myriad ways to stay competitive in a brutal industry.