Staff walked out at BT's Riverside Place building in Belfast and the telephone exchange in Enniskillen.
LLUs use equipment installed in a telephone exchange by a third party company, such as Orange, instead of BT.
The further a home is from the telephone exchange, the slower the speeds at which data can be transmitted to it.
It is housed in a former telephone exchange, Hermes House, in the Castel, and was inaugurated as a museum in 1976.
There are many factors that affect what speed customers will get, with the distance they live from the telephone exchange being the principal one.
When there were telephone exchanges, the mind was like a telephone exchange, and, in the same period, since the nickelodeon reigned, moving pictures were making us dumb.
The Almondsbury telephone exchange, which serves much of Bradley Stoke, failed to figure in BT Openreach's commercial rollout which promises to cover two thirds of the UK by 2014.
His firm has also been chosen as the hub for what BT is claiming as a world first - a 10Gbps connection which is being tested between the Truro telephone exchange and his office.
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Many rural communities are several miles from a telephone exchange - too far for high-speed broadband to work - while satellite connection for high-speed access is very expensive and carries the risk of added technical problems.
But even at three miles (5km) from the local telephone exchange, the speed of his broadband connection has inched up over the past few years from 65 kilobytes a second to more than 90 kilobytes a second as the local line has been tweaked and legacy equipment like echo-cancelling coils removed from its junction boxes.
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Vanguard this year followed up on several investors' requests that it allow them to make telephone and online exchange orders for its 34 index funds--an industry first.
In Britain, for instance, deals struck over the telephone rather than through the exchange's computers must still be reported to the exchange and published, albeit with a delay for big trades.
Periquet also likes Philippine Long Distance Telephone, listed on the New York Stock Exchange as an American Depositary Receipt.
By moving from telephone dealing to automated computer trading, the exchange was seeking to cut costs for its customers.
More than the telephone, however, the New York Stock Exchange gained its preeminence because it aggressively used its ticker tape to disseminate price information.
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Four days later, Faneuil was interviewed over the telephone by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Further you may be faced with a pile of paper that will land on your mat, from the local authority in advance of a telephone adjudication with a solicitor (always the best choice rather than simply having the thing dealt with by exchange of correspondence, though you have the choice).
Periquet also likes Philippine Long Distance Telephone (nyse: PHI - news - people ), listed on the New York Stock Exchange as an American Depositary Receipt.
Soon after Qwest Communications, the biggest local-telephone company in 14 states, joined the list of firms under investigation, it was revealed that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking into the sales practices of Bristol-Myers Squibb, a big drug company.
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