Sentence examples for landline division from inspiring English sources

But Verizon officials say that nearly all the striking employees work in its landline division, which faces intense competitive pressures.

Verizon officials have repeatedly said they needed major concessions from the landline division employees to keep that business competitive and to increase its lagging profitability.

Verizon maintains that it needs significant concessions from the employees who work for its landline division to increase its lagging profitability.

The unions further argue that members in the landline division should not be pressured to accept concessions just because Verizon Wireless is doing better.

Jeff Kagan, founder of a telecommunications research company in Atlanta, said Verizon's landline division had no competition until the last decade.

Verizon officials describe its heavily unionized landline division as a laggard, while Verizon Wireless, a largely nonunion joint venture in which Verizon is majority shareholder, is hailed as the shining star, its hefty profits lifting the rest of the company.

The contracts, covering workers from Maine to Virginia in Verizon's landlines division, come after 16 months of tense negotiations that included a two-week strike a year ago to protest the company's demands for concessions.

KDDI faces competition from NTT DoCoMo and Softbank in the cell phone business, and reported operating profit for the last quarter had declined 12.5 percent from the year-earlier period as earnings in its landline and mobile divisions dipped.

Over a decade, Mr. Ding's fortunes rose with Huawei's, and in 2005 he was appointed president of its newly consolidated core network group, a business created from the merger of its landline and wireless divisions.

Verizon has repeatedly stressed that it needs to cut costs in its landline business because that division's customer base and profit margins have fallen over the last decade.

Verizon has repeatedly argued that it needed many concessions as a way to reduce costs in its landline business because that division's consumer base and profit margins have shrunk over the last 10 years.