Sentence examples for consumer telephone from inspiring English sources

PAGE A5 Telephone Strike Intensifies The strike against Verizon intensified as problems with local consumer telephone service -- some of it a result of vandalism -- began to spread.

AT&T said the layoffs were part of a previously announced reduction related to its plans to stop building its consumer telephone business.

A Hong Kong maker of consumer electronics products, VTech Holdings Ltd., agreed to buy out one of its largest customers, paying $113.3 million for the consumer telephone assets of Lucent Technologies Inc.

First, he sold Cable and Wireless Communications, its British consumer telephone, cable and Internet properties, to NTL, the communications services company, for $8 billionn, or $12.8 billion, in July.

Each spring for the last five years, the Garden Writers Association has had TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, a polling firm, conduct a national consumer telephone survey asking gardeners what makes up the greatest share of their garden budgets.

VTech Holdings, which last year bought the consumer telephone business of Lucent Technologies, has filed a $300 million lawsuit asserting that Lucent failed to disclose the deteriorating condition of its business before the sale.

Last week, Mr. Genachowski outlined a plan to transform the $8 billion Universal Service Fund, most of which comes from consumers' telephone bills nationwide, from subsidizing telephone service in underserved areas to expanding broadband access in those areas.

To make the edtech-fueled program work, the FCC agreed to add an additional $1.5 billion to E-Rate, a decades old federal program that subsidizes telecommunications services for schools and libraries through monthly contributions from consumers' telephone bills.

Talk about rank, crass hypocrisy: cable-tv companies in the U.S. are aggressively offering consumers telephone service over their cable lines, and they do so without being burdened by many of the regulatory obstacles with which traditional carriers, such as SBC and Verizon, must cope.

No Shame Talk about rank, crass hypocrisy: cable-tv companies are aggressively offering consumers telephone service over their cable lines, and they do so without being burdened by many of the regulatory obstacles with which traditional carriers, such as SBC and Verizon, must cope.

The questionnaires were reviewed by a panel of pharmacists (n = 8), consumer representatives (n = 2) and experts in the field (n = 9) before piloting with four community pharmacists (postal questionnaire) and twenty-five consumers (telephone interviews).