* Alltel — In 2005 disclosed that only 15 % of their total customer base are still using the existing analog network.

Hewlett-Packard purchased Compaq later that same year, continuing development of the existing product line until 2004, and promising to continue selling Alpha-based systems, largely to the existing customer base, until October 2006 ( later extended to April 2007 ).

" Another major concern was that Intel's existing customer base purchased their memory chips for use with their own processor designs ; if Intel introduced their own processor, they might be seen as a competitor, and their customers might look elsewhere for memory.

Intel's initial worries about their existing customer base leaving them proved unfounded, and the 8008 went on to be a commercially successful design.

NCR could now supplement its existing suite of technology offerings with the industry's first market-proven in-store video customer support solution.

Sequel, a spin-off of Unisys, was not a disk drive manufacturer ; rather, they specialized in refurbishing drives for the existing customer base.

In February 2010, as a means of customer retention, GM announced it was offering existing Saturn owners up to US $ 2, 000 in incentives on purchasing a new Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick or GMC vehicle until March 31.

On October 1, 2006, Netflix offered a $ 1, 000, 000 prize to the first developer of a video-recommendation algorithm that could beat its existing algorithm, Cinematch, at predicting customer ratings by more than 10 %.

But how to migrate all the vendor, customer, and third-party software for those existing product lines?

Focus: managing current or existing customer & building relationship and retaining customer reducing switching by managing customer complaint to increase customer retention

It was felt by both the vendor, and the existing customer base ( who wrongly believed that their vendor knew best ), that a new OS needed to be written to extract the best performance from the hardware.

After the purchase of Oshawa Group, Sobeys continued to use the existing banners for years, in order to maintain customer loyalty.

Developing markets in India and China ( among others ) use LPG-SNG systems to build up customer bases prior to expanding existing natural gas systems.

* Retirement of the J # language and Java Language Conversion Assistant from future versions of Visual Studio, since the existing J # feature set largely meets customer needs and usage of J # is declining.

# Protect existing customer investments: Protecting customers and partners investment motivates customers to invest in technologies.

In the period before the initial public offering ( IPO ), Vonage solicited its existing customer base with an offer to buy shares of the IPO.

Additionally, customers can transfer an existing number to Vonage, which can take up to 7 to 10 business days from the time the customer completes the Number Transfer Authorization ( NTA ).

Barriers to entry into the bulk registrar industry are high for new companies without an existing customer base.

* Retention cost, the amount of money a company has to spend in a given period to retain an existing customer.

Gulfstream continues to study enhancements to its existing product line that provide value to the customer.

A pitcher is only charged with the number of runners that reached base while he was pitching, and this does not include baserunners who reach base as the result of a fielder's choice play that removes an existing runner ; such a runner is charged to the pitcher whose baserunner has been removed by the fielder's choice play.

This is only 35 years before John Thomas ' 1849 lecture tour in Britain which attracted significant support from an existing non-Trinitarian Adventist base, particularly, initially, in Scotland where Arian Socinian and unitarian ( with a small ' u ' as distinct from the Unitarian Church of Theophilus Lindsey ) views were prevalent.

Around the same time, Microsoft released Windows for Workgroups ( WfW ), which was available both as an add-on for existing Windows 3. 1 installations and in a version that included the base Windows environment and the networking extensions all in one package.

It is efficient, easy to add new pages or update existing ones, and allows users on their mobile phones and desktops to view its knowledge base.

This was an entirely new product, not a port of the existing OS / 2, that borrowed certain sections of code from both the existing OS / 2 and AIX products while using an entirely new microkernel code base and adding major features including a system registry and a new driver model.

This new metropolis was to be accompanied by a massively expanded version of the already existing naval base, which was intended to become the primary future stronghold of the German Kriegsmarine.

An abstract base class can be derived to the different types of existing windows, such as application, iconified, dialog.

In electric and gas utility SCADA systems, the vulnerability of the large installed base of wired and wireless serial communications links is addressed in some cases by applying bump-in-the-wire devices that employ authentication and Advanced Encryption Standard encryption rather than replacing all existing nodes.

Therefore, with a wide base of existing real mode applications which users depended on, abandoning real mode posed problems for the industry, and programmers sought a way to switch between the modes at will.

After reviewing three designs, two of which were patterned after the existing trophy, a new trophy design was selected featuring a glass human figure surrounded by a nickel-coated spiral symbolic of a musical staff situated on a base of aluminum.

County leaders and civic officials in Tullahoma used the existing transportation network and the offer of free railroad land to convince government officials to locate a military base within the county.

In 1989, two permanent armed checkpoints were erected at either side of the town centre to protect an already existing army base at Chapel Street.

To this end, most non-democratic societies employ state-run news organizations to promote the propaganda critical to maintaining an existing political power base and suppress ( often very brutally, through the use of police, military, or intelligence agencies ) any significant attempts by the media or individual journalists to challenge the approved " government line " on contentious issues.

Universal Paragon's proposed Brisbane Baylands project, if approved by Brisbane voters, proposes to more than double the existing employment base of the City by providing new office, research & development, retail, hotel and other land uses that are accessible by a proposed multi-modal transit station ( Caltrain, Muni T-Third light rail and proposed Bus Rapid Transit ).

These additional activities led to rehabilitation of existing base facilities and construction of rifle, mortar, demolition, and machine gun ranges.

In response to a growing population base, Twin Falls County voters voted to construct a new hospital in the northwest section of Twin Falls to replace the city's existing hospital.

Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington chose to locate the Air Force's crucial long-range atomic strike force at Offutt primarily because the base was centrally located on the North American continent, placing it well beyond the existing range of long-range, nuclear-armed bombers to ( then ) stay safely out of range of hostile missiles or bomber aircraft.

Our data indicate that these students of today do basically accept the existing institutions of the society, and, in the face of the realities of complex and large-scale economic and political problems, make a wary and ambivalent delegation of trust to those who occupy positions of legitimized responsibility for coping with such collective concerns.

I concur that it is necessary for Americans to have a confrontation of the situation existing in foreign lands.

This financial assistance from the state has become necessary because the local governments themselves found the property tax, or at least at the rates then existing, insufficient for their requirements.

The problem for the city apartment dweller is primarily to plan the use of existing space.

The Peace Corps can either begin in very low gear, with only preparatory work undertaken between now and when Congress finally appropriates special funds for it -- or it can be launched now and in earnest by executive action, with sufficient funds and made available from existing Mutual Security appropriations to permit a number of substantial projects to start this summer.

There would, however, be a variety of other skills -- medical, agricultural, engineering -- which would be called for in the first year through the private agency programs and through the provision of technician helpers to existing development projects.

The same is true of areas which at first look good because of a few existing recreation features but may actually be poor areas to develop for general public use.

-- The existing plant growth calls for thorough checking.

It may be assumed that differences in ratings due to selection of growth centers from specific regions of the body will be small, according to existing tables of onset age and completion age for centers throughout the body.

This can only be for one of two reasons: either the two are quite different and will require totally different theory ( and hence techniques ), or our existing theories are insufficiently general.

Few states make effective use of their existing vocational education programs or funds for the purpose of attracting new industry.

There is a need for an expanded Federal effort to provide research and information to help guide state education departments and local school boards in existing programs.

Still existing on a `` Northern Union '' telegraph form is a typical peremptory message from Peru grocer J. J. Hapgood to Burton and Graves' store in Manchester -- `` Get and send by stage four pounds best Porterhouse or serloin stake, for Mrs. Hapgood send six sweet oranges ''.

The anaerobic conditions in the existing oxidation pond necessitated examination of other methods for supplying additional oxygen than by sodium nitrate.

It was proposed that aerated lagoons be used to eliminate the problem at the existing oxidation ponds and to provide the necessary treatment for the additional development.

The President recommended federal `` matching grants '' totaling 700 million dollars in 10 years for constructing new medical and dental schools or enlarging the capacity of existing ones.

The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B.C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow -- which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions -- and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he would thus place himself, his imperial family, and the nation under the most auspicious influences.

His immediate motive for doing this may not have been directly inspired by the Lo Shu, but this measure must inevitably have increased the existing beliefs in the latter's efficacy.

Adobe structures are extremely durable, and account for some of the oldest existing buildings in the world.

Beyond improving their existing association, the records of the Second Continental Congress show that the need for a declaration of independence was intimately linked with the demands of international relations.

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

Public swimming pool owners and operators must gear up for compliance with the 2010 Standards for Accessible Design with regard to existing swimming pools, wading pools and spas by January 31, 2013.

While it would be rash to assert positively that no existing gems were the work of Gnostics, there is no valid reason for attributing any or all of them to such an origin.

He is said to be the most eminent sculptor in Athens after the departure of Phidias for Olympia, but enigmatic in that none of the sculptures associated with his name in classical literature can be securely connected with existing copies.