Sentence examples for landline network from inspiring English sources

In many ways the landline network is still an essential utility.

In 2005, the previous government gave responsibility for the broadband network to BT, which already owned the copper landline network.

Analysts also said that Iran's relatively comprehensive landline network of one line for every five residents makes for a potentially less profitable mobile environment than in some other emerging markets.

In a letter to the commission, the office of the state attorney general said it was "particularly concerned that Verizon will rely on this provision to abandon its copper landline network in rural areas across New York".

Throttling was detected in 18 percent of tests on Verizon's landline network and in 30 percent of tests run on AT&T WorldNet Services, the company's consumer broadband network.

Shareholders turned to Mr. Verwaayen, who led BT from February 2002 through May and is credited with a successful turnaround of the former British monopoly after the British government forced it to functionally separate from its landline network in a bid to increase competition.

Maintaining landline networks provides thousands of jobs (the landline operators support more pensioners than even the car industry does).

Mobile phone operators and smaller network operators typically lease access to landline networks because they lack their own nationwide infrastructures.

Mr. Colao, the Vodafone chief executive, said Ms. Kroes needed to tighten the legal safeguards in her plan to prevent big operators from exploiting access to landline networks.

As a safeguard, Ms. Kroes said she would draft guidelines to discourage dominant operators from controlling access to landline networks to the disadvantage of rivals and consumers.

The main difference for consumers, would be that the cellular networks have nowhere near the capacity of landline networks, making it more likely that most of the public would not be able to use cellphones in an emergency.