The challenge for Venture is that it is very costly to provide high-quality telecommunications service to our rural subscribers.

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Contractor Fujitsu has been criticised by Highland Council's resources committee for failing to provide the authority with a quality service.

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Starting in the late 1990s, dentists began banding together under DSOs, taking advantage of economies of scale in order to cut overhead costs and provide quality service at much lower prices.

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Mr Howell said the service was now looking at how to improve its control rooms "to provide the best technology, maintain the quality of service and deliver this at an affordable price".

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Our mission is to provide our customers with the latest quality technology combined with outstanding service and support.

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"The Health and Social Care Board is committed to securing future arrangements that provide a high quality, safe, sustainable, accessible and timely service for children from Northern Ireland, " he said.

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The two areas in which the most hand waving has been done are the ability to provide a quality telephone product over the best-effort Internet and the possibility that providing telephone service over IP might be economically feasible.

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