general: the system is expanding with the growth of mobile-cellular service and participation in regional development ; system is fully digital with fiber-optic cables linking the major population centers in the east ; fixed-line connections declined in recent years and now stand at roughly 8 per 100 persons ; mobile-cellular telephone density currently is about 80 per 100 persons

In recent years, however, the Maritime regional economy has begun increased contributions from manufacturing again and the steady transition to a service economy.

* Analogue mobile phone service ( 1983 – 2008 ) assigned bandwidth for just two carriers ( A / B ); in much of North America these effectively were " Alternate " and " Bell " ( or the incumbent regional telephone landline monopoly in the area ).

A successful March 2004 regional transportation ballot measure included funding to rehabilitate the rail bridge for the commuter rail service, but in October 2008 the Metropolitan Transportation Commission transferred $ 91 million from this project to the BART Warm Springs Extension Project in Fremont

Moreover, the US military was actively developing technologies to deny GPS service to potential adversaries on a regional basis.

Navicache. com started as a regional listing service around February 2001.

Other than the occasional sea plane landing on the pond, the nearest airport is in neighboring Chatham ; the nearest regional service is at Barnstable Municipal Airport ; and the nearest national and international air service is at Logan International Airport in Boston.

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA ) manages the IP address space allocations globally and delegates five regional Internet registries ( RIRs ) to allocate IP address blocks to local Internet registries ( Internet service providers ) and other entities.

Shaka manipulated this system, transferring the customary service period from the regional clan leaders to himself, strengthening his personal hegemony.

In North America, there are several small regional manufacturers that also service the industry ; CTI Electronics, OEM Controls, Otto Engineering, PQ Controls, CH Products, BG Systems, and Elobau Sensor Technologies.

# The national postal service for the sender's country ( e. g., the Royal Mail, UK ; US Postal Service, US ; Australia Post in Australia ; or Canada Post in Canada ) empties the postbox and takes all the contents to the regional sorting office.

Air Malawi Limited is the national airline of Malawi which operates regional passenger service.

Census figures are used to determine regional funding and representation of ethnic and religious groups in government service.

The primary form of telecommunications in the 1980s was local and long-distance telephone service administered by six regional bureaus: Beijing ( north region ), Shanghai ( east region ), Xi ' an ( northwest region ), Chengdu ( southwest region ), Wuhan ( centralsouth region ), and Shenyang ( northeast region ).

These militias were usually granted small annual stipends from regional coffers for part-time service obligations.

To service the massive draft, the Bolsheviks formed regional military commissariats ( voyennyy komissariat, abbr.

Virtually all towns in South Korea of all sizes are served by regional bus service.

domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations ; recent substantial improvement in telephone service in rural areas ; substantial increase in digitalization of exchanges and trunk lines ; installation of a national interurban fibre-optic network capable of digital multimedia services ; fixed-line teledensity, at 16 per 100 persons, is low by regional standards ; mobile-cellular subscribership jumped 50 percent in 2006

Some terrestrial radio relays remained in service for regional connections.

ALE radio communication systems for both HF regional area networks and HF interoperability communications are in service among emergency and disaster relief agencies as well as military and guard forces.

Mazara del Vallo is connected to the rest of Sicily by a regional train service ( run by Trenitalia ), a private bus service ( only to Palermo ), and by car, via the A29 highway ( also known as Palermo-Mazara del Vallo ).

The Østfold Line runs through Moss, stopping at Moss Station, which is the southern terminus of one service of the Oslo Commuter Rail and an intermediate stop for regional trains.

The world of Arab music has long been dominated by Cairo, a cultural center, though musical innovation and regional styles abound from Morocco to Saudi Arabia.

At the 14th Party Congress ( 18 – 31 December 1925 ) Kamenev and Zinoviev were forced into the same position that Trotsky had been forced into previously ; they proclaimed that the center was usurping power from the regional branches, and that Stalin was a danger to inner-party democracy.

: Modern local, interisland, and international ( wire / radio integrated ) public and special-purpose telephone, telegraph, and teleprinter facilities ; regional radio communications center

With the discovery of the Orcutt and Lompoc fields, northern Santa Barbara County became a regional center of production ; towns such as Orcutt owe their existence to the quickly growing industry.

The town, devastated in the preceding Battle of Kolberg, was rebuilt but lost its status as the regional center to the nearby Koszalin.

Recovery in light industry and Riga's emergence as a regional financial and commercial center offset shrinkage of the state-owned industrial sector and agriculture.

Lebanon's history from independence has been marked by alternating periods of political stability and turmoil interspersed with prosperity built on Beirut's position as a freely trading regional center for finance and trade.

Legnica is a regional academic center with seven universities enrolling approximately 16, 000 students.

Portuguese and Chinese merchants flocked to Macau, and it quickly became an important regional trading center in Portugal's lucrative trade along three major routes: Macau-Malacca-Goa-Lisbon, Guangzhou-Macau-Nagasaki and Macau-Manila-Mexico.

After China ceded Hong Kong to the British in 1842, Macau's position as a major regional trading center declined further still because larger ships were drawn to the deep water port of Victoria Harbor.

Fishing re-emerged as a dominant economic activity in Macau as it lost its position as a regional trading center.

Although no longer a member of the OAU ( Organisation of African Unity ) since November 12, 1984 — following the admission of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as the government of Western Sahara — Morocco remains involved in developing the regional economy, as the city of Casablanca contains North Africa's busiest port and serves as the country's economic center.

It has nine regional offices around the country and runs a training center in Ashburn, Virginia.

Redmond underwent a commercial boom during the 1990s, culminating in 1997 with the opening of Redmond Town Center, a major regional shopping center on the site of a long-defunct golf course.

Taiwan's accession to the WTO and its desire to become an Asia-Pacific " regional operations center " are spurring further economic liberalization.

A minor producer of opium, heroin, and marijuana ; major illicit transit point for heroin en route to the international drug market from Burma and Laos ; eradication efforts have reduced the area of cannabis cultivation and shifted some production to neighboring countries ; opium poppy cultivation has been reduced by eradication efforts ; also a drug money-laundering center ; minor role in amphetamine production for regional consumption ; increasing indigenous abuse of methamphetamines and heroin.

Commerce is an important economic activity in Togo, and Lomé is an important regional trading center.

Togo long served as a regional banking center, but that position has been eroded by the political instability and economic downturn of the early 1990s.

The country is also a regional financial center, and tourism is a growing sector, although it is not proportionately as important as in many other Caribbean islands.

It has a moderate climate and has been a regional trade center for over a thousand years.

Shiraz was an important regional center under the Sassanians.

Although the concept of an urban center wasn't developed until the Roman period, various larger fortifications which also served as regional market centers were numerous.

Dakar is a major financial center, home to a dozen national and regional banks ( including the BCEAO which manages the unified West African CFA currency ), and to numerous international organizations, NGOs and international research centers.

It is a major economic center for regional services and transports in the southern shores of the Mediterranean.