The number of mobile telephone subscribers totaled an estimated 31 million in 2007, as compared to 21. 8 million in 2005 and 6. 8 million in 2001.

The first book in the series, The Dying Earth, was ranked number 16 of 33 " All Time Best Fantasy Novels " by Locus in 1987, based on a poll of subscribers, although it was marketed as a collection and the ISFDB calls it a " loosely connected series of stories ".

EDGE services first became operational in a network in 2003 and the number of worldwide GSM subscribers exceeded 1 billion in 2004.

In Japan, the number of ISDN subscribers dwindled as alternative technologies such as ADSL, cable Internet access, and fiber to the home gained greater popularity.

Between 1999 and 2005, the number of Internet subscribers increased from 3, 000 to 263, 000.

Similarly, a telephone directory is a list of subscribers with an address and a phone number.

Beyond critical mass, the increasing number of subscribers generally cannot continue indefinitely.

China became the world leader in the early 21st century, in terms of number of cell phone subscribers.

China imported its first mobile phone telecommunication facilities in 1987 and it took a decade for the number of subscribers to reach 10 million.

Four years later, in 2001, the country had the largest number of mobile phone subscribers in the world.

The number of telephones in use in 1987 reached 9. 2 million, a considerable increase from 1980, when there were 2. 8 million subscribers ( which, in turn, was four times the number of subscribers in 1972 ).

The number of broadband subscribers in Korea reached 10 million in October 2002, with about 70 % out of 14. 3 million homes connected at the speed of over 2 Mbit / s.

The number of triple-play customers has doubled since the service was introduced and currently peaks at 78, 049 subscribers.

* Total number of active mobile subscribers: 5, 707, 534

Significantly, 500 were taken by Mudie's Library, ensuring that the book promptly reached a large number of subscribers to the library.

The remote areas of the country are reached by a domestic satellite system, while the number of subscribers to mobile-cellular telephone service is growing rapidly.

Expensive cost of service limited the number of subscribers to very small percentage of general population.

Cingular renamed itself AT & T and is rolling out some cities with a UMTS network at 850 MHz to enhance its existing UMTS network at 1900 MHz and now offers subscribers a number of dual-band UMTS 850 / 1900 phones.

AT & T was allowed to buy market-share, as long as it sold an equal number of subscribers to independents.

The number of telephone landlines in the US dropped from 188 million in 2000 to 115 million in 2010, while the number of cellular subscribers has grown to 277 million ( as of 2010 ).

In the Steiners have busy lives without visiting relatives only context can indicate whether visiting relatives is equivalent in meaning to paying visits to relatives or to relatives who are visiting them, and in I looked up the number and I looked up the chimney only the meanings of number and chimney make it clear that up is syntactically a second complement in the first sentence and a preposition followed by its object in the second.

While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.

Altogether, Diocletian effected a large increase in the number of bureaucrats at the government's command ; Lactantius was to claim that there were now more men using tax money than there were paying it.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research ( NCAR ) was Cray Research's first official customer in 1977, paying US $ 8. 86 million ($ 7. 9 million plus $ 1 million for the disks ) for serial number 3.

The Venetian ambassador Gradenigo estimated the paying number of offices on Leo's death at 2, 150, with a capital value of nearly 3, 000, 000 ducats and a yearly income of 328, 000 ducats.

Nicolae Ceaușescu proposed such goals as paying the entire foreign debt and increasing the number of items produced in the country and their quality.

This period also saw a number of side projects, including the live jazz performances of 1996's How Long Has This Been Going On, from the same year Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison, and 2000's The Skiffle Sessions – Live in Belfast 1998, all of which found Morrison paying tribute to his early musical influences.

By increasing the number of ecotourists, for instance, a company gains all the economic benefit while paying only a part of the environmental cost.

But the final straw came when between 17 April and 19 April, a large number of elementary school students in Bangui and elsewhere in the country were arrested after they had protested against paying for and wearing the expensive, government-required school uniforms with Bokassa's image on them.

Monsanto also has admitted to paying bribes to a number of other high-ranking Indonesian officials between 1997 and 2002.

A scheduled Route 40 tram, restricted to just a nominal number of fare paying passengers, was driven through enormous crowds to New Cross, finally arriving at New Cross depot around 1am on the 6 July.

New collectors would be wise to purchase a number of the excellent books, or join the many web forums on Matchbox collecting before paying out large sums of money for models.

When base metal currencies were first introduced in the Islamic world, the question of " paying a debt in a higher number of units of this fiat money being riba " was not relevant as the jurists only needed to be concerned with the real value of money ( determined by weight only ) rather than the numerical value.

A small number of children ( or their parents ), often residents living near Milford, collected the deeds and started paying the extremely small property taxes on the " oatmeal lots ".

In 2004, a large number of motorcyclists held a slow-pay protest, taking off gloves and helmets and paying the toll in large denomination bank notes.

: Garage Days Re-Revisited was a collection of covers paying homage to a number of mostly obscure bands, which were later combined with additional new covers on the double album Garage Inc., which among other things included covers of Black Sabbath (" Sabbra Cadabra "), Bob Seger (" Turn the Page "), Blue Öyster Cult (" Astronomy "), Mercyful Fate ( a medley of different songs of the band ), and numerous Motörhead tracks.

Some of these databases may be shared among several companies, each paying every time a name is " extracted " It is for this reason that mobile phone callers appear as < tt > WIRELESS CALLER </ tt >, or the location where the phone number is registered ( these vary based on which company owns the block of numbers, not the provider to which a number may have been ported ).

Both the number of dues paying members, and the number of students are believed to have peaked during the late seventies.

Internacional is ranked first in Americas and sixth in the World in number of paying members, with more than 104, 000 members.

Recent higher education reforms by the Howard government have allowed Australian universities to increase fees and take in a greater number of full-fee paying students, and despite a large student backlash, La Trobe has taken advantage of the reforms, increasing fees by 25 % in 2005.

The completeness of the connections provide that, for N people, there are Af lines of communication between the pairs, which can become a large number ( 1,225 ) for a party of fifty guests.

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.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

As mentioned, the allocation of AM stations represents a balance between protection against interference and the provision of opportunity for an adequate number of stations.

In the second place, a large number of writers, making a more direct claim than Frost to being `` folk writers '' of one sort or another, clearly make no distinctions between genuine and bogus material.

I used the alias of Robert C. Richards, gave the first three letters and the first and last figure of the license number on the agency heap, but a couple of phony numbers in between.

Doubts thus inculcated left me floundering for a while and, like some higher critical friends, trying to continue to use the Bible as the Word of God while at the same time holding it to have been subjected to a vast number of redactions and interpolations: attempting to bridge the chasm between an older, reverent, Bible-loving generation and a critical, doubting, Bible-emancipated race.

Furthermore, the middle number of the Lo Shu is not only the physical mean between every opposing pair of the other numbers, by reason of its central position ; ;

A number of non-Greek etymologies have been suggested for the name, The form Apaliunas (< sup > d </ sup >) is attested as a god of Wilusa in a treaty between Alaksandu of Wilusa and the Hittite great king Muwatalli II ca 1280 BCE.

This was a basic number to understand, 7 times 13, a close relation conceived between natural phenomena, the underworld and the cycles of the heavens.

The former represents a choice between a finite number of known and meaningful context-dependent interpretations.

The latter represents a choice between any number of possible interpretations, none of which may have a standard agreed-upon meaning.

However, the rail link between Abkhazia and Georgia proper has been closed for a number of years, forcing Armenia to receive rail cars laden with cargo only through the relatively expensive rail-ferry services operating between Georgian and other Black Sea ports.

Experimental measurements of the speed of sound in air were carried out successfully between 1630 and 1680 by a number of investigators, prominently Mersenne.

* Let Q be a set enclosed between two step regions S and T. A step region is formed from a finite union of adjacent rectangles resting on a common base, i. e. S ⊆ Q ⊆ T. If there is a unique number c such that a ( S ) ≤ c ≤ a ( T ) for all such step regions S and T, then a ( Q )

The number of species recognized worldwide ranges between 30 and 130 with over 200 species-level taxa described.

The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.

In the UK, it charted 8 times between 1970 and 1972, peaking at number 5 and spending a total of 75 weeks on popular music charts.

In June 2009 a number of incidents occurred between the drug cartel and the government.

A very small number of his instruments survive, dated between the years of 1560 and 1574 and most bearing the coat of arms of Charles IX of France.

Another tack of criticism is to notice the disquieting links between democracy and a number of less than appealing features of Athenian life.

A number of phoneticians distinguish between semivowels and approximants by their location in a syllable.

He made substantial contributions in many areas, the most important being his discovery of profound connections between algebraic geometry and number theory.

Furthermore, Pericles employed a number of offices to maintain Athens ' empire: proxenoi, who fostered good relations between Athens and League members ; episkopoi and archontes, who oversaw the collection of tribute ; and hellenotamiai, who received the tribute on Athens ' behalf.