The free phone is not, as it is for some others in the program, their sole form of telecommunications.
Two years ago, for example, he was the sole Republican senator to vote against the Telecommunications Act, on the ground that it did not go far enough in the cause of deregulation.
Only 4.3percentt of Iran's 67 million people subscribe to the Telecommunications Company of Iran, which runs the sole, state-owned mobile service now available.
For those who are still unraveled, bundling occurs when telecommunications companies try to become the sole provider of telephone, Internet and television services.
Behind that 16-year fight was McGowan's belief that "it was immoral and undemocratic that one company should have sole access to that market," said Daniel Reingold, a telecommunications analyst at Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York who worked at MCI for six years.
It was only years later in college that he could finally afford to set up an account with prison telecommunications company Global Tel Link (GTL), the sole provider for prisons in the state, to speak with his mom for a few short minutes at a time.
The telecommunications company doesn't want to stay the sole investor for long.
It is, quite plainly, a telecommunications service, but the FCC deemed it otherwise for the sole purpose of avoiding the legislative requirement that neutrality rules be written to protect the Internet from control by major corporations.
MARCONI P.L.C., London, a telecommunications equipment maker, said it had begun talks to become the sole supplier of wireless machinery for Thrucomm Inc., St . Petersburg Fla., a builder of wireless communications networks used for transferring funds electronically, in a deal worth $650 million.
In June 2008, Stabæk announced they had signed an eleven-year sponsorship agreement with the telecommunications company Telenor, where the latter would pay up to NOK 115 million for the sole naming rights for the arena, in addition to tickets and access to executive boxes.
