West Midlands Ambulance Service admitted its ability to respond to 999 calls was affected.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the president has full confidence in the Secret Service and its ability to protect him.
The agency said a default on the payment, for 2011, wouldn't directly affect service or its ability to pay employees and suppliers.
Ford today announced that it will offer users of its Sync AppLink service the ability to use Kaliki, an app that provides radio talent-read versions of news from newspapers and magazines.
This is what led to the downgrade, not whether the U.S. had the ability to service its debt today.
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And the slump has undermined Argentina's ability to service its debt.
Left untackled, the budget deficit, which at 11.2% of GDP in 2009-10 was larger than those of almost all other rich countries, would soon have undermined confidence in the government's ability to service its public debt.
Yet mitigating the risk of default is the fact that Ecuador's ability to service its debt has improved in recent months, as high energy prices, increased taxation of the oil sector and the state's take-over of Block 15 previously run by a US company, Occidental Petroleum (Oxy), are boosting the fiscal surplus and foreign reserves.
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When firms compete for the right to obtain access to more spectrum, we know that only the one most confident in its ability to provide a valuable service to consumers will augment its bid.
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It could be argued that HTC serves the enthusiast market just fine with its bootloader unlock service, which gives users the ability to load custom ROMs onto their phones.
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The ratings agency doubted the ability of Lisbon to service its debts in a timely fashion and expressed doubt that it would be able to cut back spending on social benefits.
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Austin, Texas-based Gowalla will shut down its service starting in January and users will have the ability to download their data.
Any agreement that gives AOL the ability to sell its high-speed service via cable lines not owned by Time Warner would be a huge victory for the struggling Internet service provider.
Staton concluded his testimony by saying that his company is systematically replacing its aging infrastructure and expanding its ability to perform state-of-the-art maintenance and inspections without interrupting service.
Signature Flight built its business on the ability to provide world-class customer service.
In partnership with Vivoom, the company announced today that it's bringing over 500 visual effects to the service as part of its Enhancer toolbox, giving folks the ability to easily add some flavor to their own video productions straight from a web browser.
Verizon also declined to give up its ability to sell content like music and videos through its proprietary service, these people said.
If a Korean service provider does not choose that as a platform, Samsung's ability to market its next-generation telecom products overseas will be hampered, says Eric Hong, Samsung executive vice president for marketing.
That threatens CBS' ability to collect fees from traditional service providers such as cable TV for rights to redistribute its stations' signals.
One option would be for Epix to focus solely on its ability to show movies online and across other platforms and sell itself as a non-TV subscription service.
With mobile game play continuing its dramatic growth curve, GameTanium now offers operators the ability to leverage Exent's world leading Games on Demand service on the two mobile platforms their consumers want most.
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