Sentence examples for telephone competition from inspiring English sources
Mainly, though, BellSouth is a beneficiary of the relatively slight impact of local telephone competition in the United States to date.
Although local telephone competition has been slow to catch on for a variety of reasons, rivals have blamed the intransigence of the dominant local companies.
In November 2003, a federal mandate to increase telephone competition will permit consumers to transfer landline numbers to wireless phones, an option described as "portability".
"I dissented from the majority's decision on local telephone competition," he said, "because it was inconsistent with the law and would result in years of regulatory uncertainty and unrealized consumer promise.
Telecommunications industry analysts have said that Vonage is being met warily by public market investors because Internet telephone competition is getting more intense, particularly as cable companies adopt aggressive tactics.
[C2.] Telephone Competition in Mexico Telephone companies struggling to make inroads in the Mexican long-distance market say Telefonos de Mexico still benefits from monopoly advantages and friendly regulators, but the Mexican company says inexperience with the Mexican market is partly to blame.
Computer literacy lags far behind levels in other parts of the world, and telephone service competition has not yet brought down the cost of Internet access.
The Federal Communications Commission says this change will eliminate the hurdle faced by phone companies that can't offer new customers the beloved 212 area code -- thus fostering local telephone service competition.
Among the law's goals was opening up local telephone service to competition.
SBC Communications will pay the government a $6.1 million penalty for failing to meet standards for opening the local telephone market to competition in the areas it serves.
The Europeans received a pep talk from Ballesteros by telephone before the competition and kept a photograph in their team room all week of Ballesteros in action with Olazabal, his fellow Spaniard.
