The recent opening of international direct-dial phone services has shown how breaking a monopoly can pull prices down dramatically.
Better yet, you can dial phone numbers directly without having to register a username or add friends to a contact list!
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Eventup serves as a single site for all party-planning needs it has a variety of unique and unknown venues listed, so a user never has to search the Internet or dial phone numbers to book a place for their next gathering.
That was such an enormous barrier, to have to dial a phone number.
We had our computers dial our phone system to make it seem like we were a busy company receiving a lot of calls.
Right now, for example, the bulk of the natural gas traded in the physical market (as opposed to financial contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange) is still handled by "smile and dial" phone brokers at firms such as Prebon Yamane and Amerex.
They had been told to dial a cell phone number at noon to learn where to show up:a drab conference room at the Golden Nugget.
The mobile grabs data off the Web about three times as fast as a regular dial-up phone connection, plenty of speed for e-mail and sending photographs or videoclips.
By using Skype-In, anyone can dial your tablet or phone if the application is turned on.
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That may include videotaping them as they dial numbers on the phone and observing their lunch partners.
Responding quickly, Henneberry didn't even remember climbing down the ladder and running to the phone to dial 911.
Punch the numbers into a telephone dial pad in a phone booth outside the bar, and a concealed door swings open to reveal a classic cocktail joint that swaggers with the decadence of a 1920s Chicago speakeasy.
Whether it's phone wire used for dial-up and digital subscriber lines (DSL), or the coaxial cables that carry cable modem connections, these connections are a bottleneck between the carrier's big pipes and your bandwidth-starved computer.
With the myTouch 4G Slide's Hands Free mode, customers can stay connected while on the road with the option for all notifications to be read out loud - simply tell the phone to text or dial to continue the conversation.
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Wi-fi is also much faster than mobile phone data networks and traditional dial-up connections.
After many, many tries, she finally found a phone with an actual working dial tone at a gas station.
Oddly enough, the last change I noticed in iOS 6 was that the phone had a different looking dial pad.
Assurant Solutions might have followed the herd and focused on the problem of getting customers who dial into its call centers off the phone as fast as possible.
In a story by Seth Lubove on page 62, Nicholas says he's going to dial up his Jacuzzi from a car phone and have a bath waiting for him when he gets home.
Anyone, anywhere in the world who is running the application can make or receive a call, and users can dial out to your old, antiquated phone network for just two cents a minute.
Dial-a-Dinner -- A phone call will get you a delivered meal from a top restaurant.
Both input methods, Santos notes, can be utilized in a number of ways on a phone: to navigate the device, dial contacts, compose messages and conduct web searches.
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"With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear would dial the number, " he said.
Mann introduced Pavlo to Mark Benveniste, president of Manatee Capital, an Atlanta firm set up in 1994 to factor, or collect, debts, for caller-paid phone services, including Mann's Denmark Dial.
One of their current projects is the SmartButton, a wireless Bluetooth-enabled badge that connects to your phone and that you press when you want to call someone (you use the phone's voice recognition software to actually dial).
Using the same accelerometers, a new calling function will dial whoever's contact details you have displayed when you raise the phone to your ear.
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When an employee makes a phone call, there is no allowance for a lack of dial tone, or any detectable latency, or poor call quality.
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Nonetheless, more and more Internet service providers are likely to start offering voice services as a way to try to hang on to dial-up customers and keep them from going to the cable or phone companies.
It's like buying a new cell phone, only to get it home and find out it won't dial long-distance.
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