Sentence examples for commodity voice from inspiring English sources

Terrified of becoming a dumb pipe reduced to selling commodity voice and data services, some will try to innovate with their own SaaS products, most of which will fail, while the smartest players will partner and invest in innovative startups.

At the moment, circuits take days to set up, so they are not as liquid a commodity as voice minutes or Internet transit, which can be switched instantly.

That expertise, along with their good voices and eagerness to sing without pay, make them valuable commodities among choruses.

On Wednesday, Time Warner, Comcast, Cox Communications, EchoStar Communications and DirecTV, a unit of the News Corporation, will be among the 168 qualified bidders in the government's multibillion-dollar auction of radio spectrum, that precious commodity that allows voice calls and data to be sent over the airwaves.

For instance, when Cable and Wireless bought MCI WorldCom's Internet business in 1998 for $1.75 billion, the company said the deal was a big push away from what was fast becoming a commodity market for voice traffic into the higher-margin business of delivering data to customers over high-speed wires.

"Strong voice" – that commodity so prized by agents and editors – is the verbal equivalent of a strong look.

In 2010 the Wall Street Journal alerted us to Dimon's full court press ambition, voiced through his commodity chief Blythe Masters to have JPMorgan "build the number one commodities franchise on the planet" and added that rivals are "scared s__less of us".

Your voice becomes a cherished commodity.

They had not only over-invested recklessly, but had blindly ignored the threat of newer, cheaper technologies that would turn their main product, voice calls, into a commodity.

"The effect that speculation had on oil prices over this period coincides closely with the dramatic rise in commodity index trading -- resulting in concerns voiced by policymakers". Commodity indexes allow speculators to bet on the price of several commodities at once, and have become very popular investment tools for both Wall Street investment companies and pension funds.

We are in a maturing industry right now where the core voice product is becoming a commodity.