Sentences with phrase «like telephone companies»

That move essentially cast broadband providers as being more like telephone companies, which are considered common carriers that provide services to the general public, and are therefore subject to more rigorous regulations.

While television stations are licensed by the FCC, cable systems receive local franchises for the right to string wires along city streets, and in this sense operate more like a telephone company than a television station.

Not exact matches

TD's new acquisition had become the largest trust company in Canada largely by selling itself as the anti — big bank, offering its 3.7 million customers revolutionary (for the time) services like 24 - hour telephone banking and extended branch hours.

American companies, for instance, will be permitted to export items like telephones and computers.

The Future of Remote Work Feels Like Teleportation (Christopher Mims, WSJ): «Given how geographically diffuse our Internet - centric tools have already made many companies, it is hard to see how these technologies won't someday transform how we work just as thoroughly as email and the telephone did.»

Recent prime picks for stocks include Central Hudson Gas & Electric, cable network owners E.W.Scripps and Rainbow Media and small telephone companies like Broadwing, based in Cincinnati.

In our informal and totally unscientific telephone polling done as part of the preparation of this article, only Geico admits that they are looking into offering something similar (like what else is a company with a gecko spokes «person» going to say).

1) Send the proposed «just mail it» solution, prepared by designer Sherwood Forlee (for the Greener Gadgets design competition, pictured above), to the CEOs of major telephone manufacturers like Nokia or Samsung, carriers like AT&T; and Verizon, or «enabling companies» like major printers (Avery) or shipping organizations (USPS, UPS, DHL, etc.).

But when he proposes links between his own historical field and that of climate science he drops all scholarly standards and quotes any old conference paper or telephone conversation he feels like; mad activists and conspiracy theorists like Oreskes and Powell; or Mark Maslin, a professor - cum - company director who combines his job at my old university as palaeontologist or geographer or climatologist (all descriptions of his expertise taken from «the Conversation») with that of director of Rezatec Ltd, a company set up by the Royal Society as a «Leading provider of data - as - a-service geospatial data analytics» to serve those who may be worried to death by forecasts of eco-doom to be found in the books and articles of Mark Maslin.

Facebook is a private company, but so is the telephone company and they can't disconnect a call because they don't like the subject of my conversation.

As if the beautiful design wasn't enough on its own, some companies like Old Phone Works, sell real 1950's telephones that have been repaired and refurbished so that they work and look just like new.

If for example an insured driver runs into a telephone pole because of reckless driving, the insurance pays for the damage of the pole and other expenses associated with the damage like the service claim of the telephone company.

Valpal, Mechanic Falls, ME July 2009 — Present Telemarketer • Increase customer base by 35 % through extensive cold calling endeavors, over a period of 8 months • Train telemarketers in performing telemarketing work by employing «non-intrusive» calling and questioning methods • Refer to provided list of prospective customers and eliminate DND prospects from it • Call potential customers using dedicated telephone systems and introduce self and the company • Provide information regarding the company and the services that it offers and gauge potential customers» interest • Assist potential customers in understanding product lines and aftersales services • Inquire into if prospects would like to acquire further information regarding their products of interest

• Organized and processed paperwork, reports and all kinds of claims documentation • Entered, recorded and reviewed claims into claims information management system • Performed verification checks on the customer / claimant loss - claims following company's standard policies and procedures • Attended to clients, claimants, field appraisers and management queries, regarding claims using the claims MIS • Forwarded appropriate claims for new losses verifying data for accuracy • Performed billing and payment processes • Processed routine claims transactions related to reserves and issued required checks or receipts • Resolved all kinds of issues / problems regarding claims and payments • Regularly run and generated claims reports for management • Gave formal presentations regarding all claims activities to the senior management at the bimonthly • Utilizing outstanding communication and interpersonal skills maintained strong and positive relationships with the providers, the claimants, and the clients • Provided company with necessary clerical support like handling fax, attending and making telephone calls as directed, filing and photocopying, matching checks with receipts etc. • Prepared, updated and organized customer and client's files • Managed all types of correspondence preparing, reviewing and sending memos, letters, emails, reports, applications, and forms • Provided effective CSR to providers, field appraisers, agents, insurance agencies, clients and customers • Matched incoming emails, mails, and faxes with the claims records • Arranged and set up medical appointments for health claims • Kept department's office supplies stocked • Maintained confidential claims information including correspondence with sensitive information • Accelerated claims correspondences as well as updated claims diaries • Worked in a team on several pilot claim projects • Reviewed and kept the record of closed files

Sometimes in an effort to make the office «high tech», brokerages have such sophisticated telephone systems that trying to talk to management or administrators is almost like dealing with your cable company to try and cancel your contract.

That may be changing as companies roll out technology that make new connections to equipment that residents already use — like a telephone or the intercom panel by their property's front entrance.