Sentences with phrase «us cellphone companies»

The rest goes to joint venture partner Vodafone Group PLC, a British cellphone company with wide - ranging international interests.

A couple of weeks ago, I was dismayed to see the headlines about how ESPN is looking to strike a deal with U.S. cellphone companies to exempt its video services from data caps.

Google generated a lot of hype when it launched the Nexus One mobile device in mid-January because the Mountain View, Calif. - based company broke with convention and started selling its smartphone directly to consumers without a cellphone company contract.

Consumer watchdogs and Canada's new cellphone companies, including Wind Mobile and Mobilicity, have been saying so for years.

In the same way cellphone companies long ago figured out that the devices they sell are only the delivery mechanisms for the real product — monthly wireless subscriptions — the Xbox maker is coming to understand where its future revenue lies.

«The cellphone companies are part of what we do.»

As the recent war on cellphone companies and agitation on airline and credit card issues attests to, the current government has seen the wisdom of adopting populist policies.

That was shot down by regulators, who believed competition would suffer if the second - largest cellphone company were to gobble up the fourth - largest.

Collateral losses for Google are actually reflecting China's angry reaction after the search results made its announcement; news media reported to date that Chinese cellphone companies will drop Google or Android, its new mobile operating system.

US Sen. Chuck Schumer has initiated a new campaign to force wireless cellphone companies to fix Long Island and New York City's notorious dead zone spots by asking consumers to report on his website the locations where service is regularly dropped.

Snowden then revealed that US cellphone companies are being forced to hand over records of who has called or texted who — so - called metadata — to the NSA.

Every cellphone company, and even many home Internet providers, are imposing limits on the amount of data we use each month — at precisely the wrong time in technological history.

«Daddy» Warbucks is now Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx), the germophobic CEO of a cellphone company who is also running for mayor of New York City.

Cellphone companies, by contrast, subsidize the sale of phones but profit from monthly service charges.

Samsung has been a reliable cellphone company, specially after selling more then 10 M Galaxy S phones.

I work for a cellphone company and bar do nt actually mean anything.

«The only one that is not working out for us is Nokia,» said Mr. Maida, referring to the world's largest cellphone company, which has been losing market share to rivals.

Is a competing cellphone company offering lower prices for the same services you're using now?

Your credit report is used by lenders, creditors, employers, utilities, cellphone companies and many other service providers to determine the level of risk you present.

Credit inquiries are usually made by organizations like your bank, creditors, landlords, insurance providers, and cellphone companies to decide how creditworthy you are when you apply for a new account.

Your landlord, cellphone company, or utility company may pull your credit score to check your credit worthiness.

Cellphone companies resemble airlines, that other industry whose oblique prices exasperate consumers.

The cellphone companies don't really know how much it costs to handle a call to Aunt Suzy in Syracuse, any more than an airline can calculate a specific cost for Seat 12B.

As a small inventor, Schlager and a partner hired a patent licensing consultant to help them present the technology to cellphone companies like Qualcomm and Motorola.

The coalition is also hoping to protect location information for individuals gathered by cellphone companies through GPS technology.

So rather than invest in the latest codecs we have been forced to maintain more standard BT 4.1 and AptX as we wait and see what cellphone companies decide to make standard in the coming year.»

Many a time, we tend to believe that big is better, but over the past eight years, cellphone companies have proved otherwise — that, in fact, small is the best.

More than half didn't realize that utility companies, cellphone companies, and even insurers sometimes check credit scores before issuing services — or that multiple inquiries in a short time, as when you are shopping for a loan, are treated as one inquiry in order to minimize the impact on your score.

Not exact matches

Piotrowski and two friends had formed their company a few years earlier, in 2003, with a plan to make cellphone games.

Google kicked this week off with a bang with a surprise announcement that it was acquiring cellphone maker Motorola for $ 12.5 billion, a huge move that will boost the search engine company's employee headcount by 60 %.

As if «robocalls» aren't annoying enough, companies want to change the law so it's legal to make them to your cellphone.

The company also has a U.S. operation called Ready SIM, for American cellphone subscribers.

INAI, the transparency and data - protection regulator, said it was looking at Mexican companies that worked with cellphone app Pig.gi, which gives users free top - ups in exchange for receiving ads and completing surveys.

The adventure travel company Intrepid Travel has just announced a new category of Digital Detox Trips in which participants pledge, in writing, to swear off all digital devices including cellphones and cameras.

-- Two of the country's largest telecom companies have some advice for Canada's telecommunications regulator as it considers imposing new rules for cellphone contracts: scrap the $ 50 cap.

In Canada, the company's competitors are telecom companies that also sell cellphones, internet access, phones, broadcast television and even banking services.

While consumers may be fine with tying themselves to a long - term contract with a giant cellphone provider, they're not so sure about doing the same with an unproven company.

And while a cellphone costs only a couple hundred dollars, nobody wants to shell out $ 30,000 for a car that may become obsolete or unserviceable if the company goes under.

The company actually owns it and, like a cellphone provider that discounts a phone in exchange for a long - term contract, the buyer signs up to a monthly service plan to offset other costs.

FORTUNE — Isis, the mobile payments platform backed by AT&T (T), Verizon (VZ) and T - Mobile USA, has inked deals with the four largest credit - card networks, a move that the companies say will help accelerate the long - awaited «cellphone - as - a-wallet» concept in the U.S.

Small wireless player Wind Mobile, part of a wave of new companies that have brought Canadians more competition in the cellphone market, has signed a deal to owned by a global telecom company.

The most likely scenario for RIM is that it becomes Nokia, a company that once dominated the cellphone market but lost several steps and is now scrambling to stay relevant.

In a world where technology advances are measured in months, not years, companies selling everything from computers and cellphones to cereal and sneakers are trying desperately to adapt.

Years ago, Kevin Taweel, chief executive and co-founder of cellphone insurance provider Asurion, was grappling with high employee turnover and other issues in the company's round - the - clock call center.

In 2008, Vudu's chief executive left the company and was replaced by Alain Rossmann, a co-founder who was an early Apple executive and a pioneer in making the Web accessible from cellphones.

But his investments in businesses like Apollo Tower, a cellphone tower company in Myanmar, are the model for the new effort.

They are also bracing for the threats posed by interlopers like Amazon eyeing a foray into the pharmacy business or tech companies offering virtual medical care via a computer or cellphone.

Similarly, China's second - largest mobile company, China Unicom, was said by analysts and others to have delayed or scrapped the imminent introduction of a cellphone based on Google's Android platform.

Colgate (CL) will still sell plenty of toothpaste, Procter & Gamble (PG) will still sell plenty of detergent, most of the companies that service where you work will continue to do so, most people will keep their cellphones, you will have a bank account somewhere and so on.

T - Mobile and Sprint say they've reached an agreement to combine into a new company that would reshape the U.S. wireless landscape by reducing it to three major cellphone providers.