Hints and tips:
...Safety nets, telephone banking and rural roads can help the income prospects of the very poorest. By some estimates, small and medium enterprises account for 80 per cent of Africa’s economic output....
...Quirks like France’s greater reliance on electric heaters than many other countries also put it at higher risks of strains, according to Jean-Paul Harreman of energy consultancy EnAppSys....
...Paul Richardson was a guest of Cas Gasi and Six Senses Ibiza...
...She tells me the painting was done by the same artist who did the Paul Bunyan statue down in Bangor. She repeats the paperboy origin story. She recalls with pride the time the snow photo went viral....
...I plan to be holding an axe, and the overalls will add to the whole Paul Bunyan effect. The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Picasso....
...Paul Stobart, chief executive of Rochdale-based internet provider Zen, said rural connectivity remained the “missing part of the puzzle” but that investment in the countryside needed to be consistent....
...Once she has paid €500 on rent, €180 on heating, €80 on telephone and internet and done a bit of food shopping, there is little left....
...In response to “Chargrilled kangaroo restores balance to an overrun outback”, Sic transit gloria mundi says: A similar course (more culling and eating of the meat) is needed for deer in rural England....
...Her most formative case was her first trial in the 1980s in rural Barrow County, Georgia, in the same courthouse where her father and grandfather had tried cases....
...Without its EU staff, it would be in serious difficulty, says Paul Mears, the hospital’s chief executive....
...Dr Lindahl, 77, speaking by telephone from his London home to the Nobel press conference in his native Stockholm, expressed surprise and joy at receiving the award....
...They are taken to shelters where, for a time, they are not allowed to use social media or access a telephone — except to contact family members....
...Out therefore will probably go América Móvil’s low-return assets – in this case, rural Mexican phone lines. Out too will also go the Mexican infrastructure, such as telephone towers....
...Much of the legislation governing US telecoms companies dates back to the early 1900s when the first copper-based telephone networks were built....
...The urban poor and the rural populations were left behind by progress, lacking access to social security or welfare programs, targeted to formal urban workers....
...By St Peter & St Paul’s Church in Weedon, the main road passes under the Grand Union canal. We climb some steps to the towpath, where a barge puffs out atmospheric smoke....
...“It’s a big and growing problem,” says David Collier, chief rural affairs adviser of the National Farmers’ Union, which represents 50,000 rural businesses....
...Subsidies paid to US telephone operators to ensure they provide fixed-line services to low-income and rural customers would be shifted to fund universal broadband internet under proposals outlined by Julius...
...•Frontier Communications on Friday won US regulatory approval to buy 4.8m rural telephone lines from Verizon Communications in a previously announced deal worth $8.6bn that will create the largest phone...
...AT&T noted that numerous press reports have suggested that Google “is systematically blocking telephone calls from consumers that use Google Voice to call telephone numbers in certain rural areas.”...
...Stamper made telephone calls for three hours before heading home to bed. It was 4.45am and she had been on duty for 20 hours....
...Frontier Communications, which specialises in delivering telephone services to rural communities, fell after agreeing to buy a chunk of Verizon’s wireline business for $8.6bn, which would triple its business...
...WJ: In his telephone conversation with President Hu Jintao the day before yesterday, he expressed his readiness to enhance cooperation with China....
...The free version of the service comes with a free phone number (likely to be an out-of-the-way rural area code so don’t expect a 415 or 212 number) voicemail and free calling and conferencing with other...
...I have sat with my legs in the water of a rural village in China talking with an interpreter to an older woman and her daughter doing her laundry in the river....
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