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Philippines Smart In Roaming Pact With Saudi Mobility
DJ Philippines Smart In Roaming Pact With Saudi Mobility MANILA (Dow Jones)--Smart Communications Inc., the Philippines' largest mobile service provider by subscribers and revenue, said Wednesday it has forged a roaming agreement with Mobility, a cellular service provider in Saudi Arabia. Smart, a unit of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (TEL.PH), said the agreement will allow its
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Cable eyes profits from pay-for-play
Cable operators at their annual convention have games on their minds and not just the corporate kind. Recent industry efforts to standardize digital transmissions and speed processing are making way for more cable offerings of online games for PCs and TVs.
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Telecom N.Z. to Merge Fixed-Line and Wireless Units (Update3)
April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Telecom Corp., New Zealand's largest telephone company, will combine its fixed-line and wireless units as it prepares to move to an Internet-based network that will cut costs and allow services such as television programs.
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Cable TV proposal has a familiar ring
A new law will lower cable rates, telephone companies say, using the same pitch that sold phone deregulation in 2003.
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Alabama booster convicted in recruiting scandal found dead
Memphis police were on the scene of Young's home investigating the case as a homicide, Sgt. Vince Higgins said in a telephone interview. He said officials assume the victim was Young but needed to use fingerprints and dental records to confirm the identity.
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Florida Telephone Services signs up with VoX
Florida Telephone Services will expand its offering with private-labeled broadband phone service from VoX Communications Corp. The new service will be available to residential and small business customers nationwide beginning in May.
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Business News
The downgrade follows TDC''s implementation of its new capital structure following the leveraged buyout by its new 88.2 pct majority owner, Nordic Telephone Co ApS.
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Latest Calif. Storm Spares Harder-Hit Area
The latest in a series of unusual spring storms will spare the soggy San Joaquin Valley, reducing the danger of levee breaks there, but will raise river levels across Northern California, forecasters said Tuesday.
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Lenovo, Best Buy announce partnership
Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. will market its ThinkPad notebooks, ThinkCentre desktops and new line of Lenovo brand 3000 PCs - as well as other Lenovo products - at 135 Best Buy for Business stores and through Best Buy Co. Inc.'s Internet and telephone order services.
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