Beginning in 1936, National City Lines operated as a holding company that bought transit systems "where streetcars were no longer practicable" and converted them into bus lines.
These could include topping up a mobile phone with airtime, buying transit tickets, peer to peer payments.
But some can easily afford a MetroCard, and buy the transit loosies anyway.
That enabled Westchester riders to buy monthly transit passes from the authority, allowing them to transfer to a New York City bus or subway for 25 cents.
In general, the term is only useful to distinguish between Tier-1 ISPs (who do not need to buy upstream transit due because they peer with other Tier-1 ISPs), and all other ISPs, who must pay for at least some upstream transit to obtain global connectivity.
At the lower tiers, this hierarchical classification system gets quite murky, however, since a given ISP might buy upstream transit from both a Tier-1 ISP and a Tier-2 ISP, and may peer with Tier-2 and Tier-3 ISPs, and occasionally a Tier-1 ISP, and so on.
And if I ask for the fastest train route to Union Square, I'm sent to Maps, and then directly into the App Store to buy some transit apps.
Moreover, large CSPs are able to buy data transit in bulk to increase network connectivity and translational bandwidth, reducing internal bandwidth costs and passing on the savings to their customers.
A few were bought by transit companies in Central & So.
I packed up my carpet cleaning business, sold the family people carrier and bought a transit van.
