Because wireless operators of necessity use incumbent land-line configurations in moving from network to network.
In 1997-99, the number of land-line users in Uganda inched up from 54, 000 to 59, 000.
Land-line voice sales dropped to 52% of sales in 2009 from 55% a year earlier.
Spending oodles on marketing, Mr Citron has persuaded 1.6m Americans to ditch their land-line telephone company.
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Among other provisions, the ECPA stipulated that wireless voice communications were covered under the Fourth Amendment to the same degree as land-line communications.
Whereas traditional land-line phones would keep working in the event of a power cut, mobile networks and cordless phones are more easily taken offline by outages.
In many poor countries the number of mobile users has overtaken the number of land-line users in less time than it takes to get a land line installed.
The minimum rate for a call to any United Kingdom land-line number is 10p, which buys 55 seconds of chat, after which it is 1p for every 5.5 seconds.
These companies own big businesses tied to dying services (land-line phones) and low- or no-growth services (such as broadband internet or cable subscriptions), so profits and share prices generally went down.
This leapfrogging has already happened with telephone systems: Developing countries that lacked land-line telephone and broadband connectivity, such as India, made the leap directly to mobile systems rather than build out their land-line infrastructures.
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China's Land Ministry has also warned that misappropriation of farmland has brought the country dangerously close to the so-called red line of 296 million acres of arable land that the government believes it needs to feed China's 1.34 billion people.
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Frogs surface-dived into puddles and with a wriggle or two, dissolved into the muddy bottom, and land crabs ran en-pointe along the tide line.
Its products include "Call Grabber, " which allows a user to transfer a voice or video call from a land line to a mobile device or broadband-enabled TV.
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Both leaders, the senior-most Republican in the land, third in line, okay, a powerful figure with great authority, sat in a room with the President of the United States and worked out a detailed compromise.
With roughly 1, 700 employees, Genband has developed dozens of VOIP-related products and services over the years, including "Call Grabber, " which allows a user to transfer a voice or video call from a land line to a mobile device or broadband-enabled TV.
Modernity, they proudly and not uncontroversially say, has arrived in this backward region in the form of an engineering miracle that has laid tracks on land gripped year-round by ice, a railway line at higher altitude than any other in the world.
As a result, the Levin proposal was adopted by the Committee on a straight party-line vote even though it cut funds from air-, sea- and land-based programs that have long enjoyed the support of legislators like Max Cleland of Georgia and Jack Reed of Rhode Island.
"Our strength comes from being part of Schlumberger, " says Rostand, 46, who manages his own profit and loss line and has to land his own clients--no piggybacking on the mothership.
Their counterparts at the Treasury and elsewhere, in turn, felt they were under pressure from the White House to decide on deals without pushing them up the line where they would bother higher-level officials and land on the president's desk.
The Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, now the Northern Line, brought an 800% rise in land prices at Golders Green, Mr Harrison-Putnam said.
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The Conservative-led council is to decide whether it will invoke its powers to compulsorily purchase land along the line of the proposed road in case it cannot reach agreement with any of the landowners.
Flat land is at a premium, and orchards are planted pragmatically, stepping higgledy-piggledy uphill or weaving a line along thin terraces cut into the hillsides.
This could be interpreted to mean that the nine-dashed line is not a claim to all the sea's waters, simply to the land features.
Income, asset and credit documentation requirements are rigorous, having a second mortgage or a Home Equity Line of Credit, condo or co-op ownership or unrealistic value expectations can add unforeseen land mines to the refinancing process.
And a typical line from the instruction that is given to federal courts -- federal juries all across the land: The law makes absolutely no distinction between the weight or value to be given either to direct or circumstantial evidence, nor is a greater degree of certainty required of circumstantial evidence than of direct evidence.
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