Sentence examples for wireline telephone from inspiring English sources

The employees in the company's wireline telephone business are still working under the terms of the expired contract, according to AT&T and the Communications Workers of America union.

Mr Wheeler says he also wants to consider reclassifying broadband as a public utility under Title II (or other parts) of the 1996 Telecommunications Act not a great idea unless you want tomorrow's internet to be governed by rules written for wireline telephone services.

Mr. Kimmelman and other consumer advocates argue that large local telephone companies like Verizon Communications, SBC Communications and BellSouth use their wireless subsidiaries to win customers from smaller wireless companies seeking to sell their services as an alternative to conventional wireline telephone service.

The Qualcomm group bid $285 million, or $3 per potential subscriber, about a third of the U.S. average cost for a country with only 10% wireline telephone penetration.

For example, former O.tel.o chief executive Ulf Bohle decided to market O.tel.o's wireline telephone service exclusively to consumers willing to commit to O.tel.o as their exclusive service provider.

The combined company would boast a market capitalization of more than $33 billion and would be the world's No.1 provider of wireline telephone hardware and No. 2 provider of wireless gear.

Citing anonymous sources, USA Today reported Thursday that the three largest U.S. telephone companies– AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth –have handed over millions of wireline phone records to the National Security Agency without a court order.

Like the power companies, Verizon Communications, the largest wireline phone provider in New York, was hit hard.

O.tel.o is now Germany's fourth-largest wireline phone company, after Deutsche Telekom, Mobilcom and Arcor.

Shares of the major wireline phone companies ended the day with gains.

And this is in the U.S., where cheap wireline phone service is ubiquitous.