Spending oodles on marketing, Mr Citron has persuaded 1.6m Americans to ditch their land-line telephone company.
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Many Facebook customers surely think of Facebook as a communications network, just like their telephone company.
But the sale of the state telephone company was unpopular and, says the opposition, tainted by corruption.
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Mexican telephone company Telmex SAB said it had no reports of damage to its phone system.
The state telephone company will soon be sold off, with electricity firms to follow.
Thanks to its roots as a local telephone company, Sprint has about 8m access lines.
In Garber, one of the volunteers went to work for the telephone company so is not around enough.
That change alone would probably make every telephone company in the U.S. unprofitable.
They convinced the regional telephone company to provide high-speed Internet access, a necessity for many of these new businesses.
In 1998 he took CapRock public by merging with IWL Communications, a Houston-based wireless telephone company rich with engineers.
The accounting fraud drove America's second-largest long-distance telephone company into Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
He worked in intelligence in the Marines in the 50s and then spent five years working for the telephone company.
That may yet hinder this month's hostile takeover bid by Vodafone AirTouch, a mobile-telephone company, for Mannesman, a German firm.
It recently bought control of Croatia's largest telephone company and is buying out its partners in a Czech mobile venture.
Then came the engineers of the state telephone company, angry at government plans to end its monopoly of non-local calls.
Slim helped build his fortune when he bought Mexico's failing national telephone company at a bargain-basement price from a PRI government.
In 1998 he took CapRock public by merging with IWL Communications, a Houston-based wireless telephone company that is rich with engineers.
When the telephone company ran weeks behind schedule in installing necessary wiring, Davidson bought cell phones for everyone in the company.
Almost 60 years ago, the Bell Telephone Company launched a program to address rising concerns about the education of its managers.
Both the international service provider and the telephone company that serves Delhi and Mumbai, the two biggest cities, are to be privatised.
On May 23rd it announced plans to speed up the sale of state-owned assets, including its telephone company, post office and ports.
Three and a half years ago Gary Fuller was vice president of operations for an affiliate of Cincinnati Bell, an Ohio telephone company.
He had to sell holdings in a life insurance and telephone company, Digi, to meet obligations on his latest megaproject, Berjaya Times Square.
For his part, Mr Suthep has overseen the bidding for several much-publicised projects, including highway deals and procurement for the state-owned telephone company.
Deutsche Bank reckons that the firm is worth a whopping 96 billion rand, including its 50% stake in Vodacom, South Africa's biggest mobile-telephone company.
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But when it comes to letting residents of the tiny Central American nation of Belize choose their telephone company, Ashcroft apparently has other ideas.
Take an old telephone company: The CEO knows that his future lies with fiber optics and the Internet, not with copper wires and circuit switches.
Later this year, Lucent, an American telephone company, will launch a system where surfers can have a conversation with a call centre over the Internet.
Yet privatisation has been taking place: several radio stations and a domestic airline have already been sold, and the telephone company has been partially privatised.
When we come out the other side, we'll have the choice of our telephone company versus our cable-television company for the same big bundle of services.
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