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	InfoExport - The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service
		Most observers believe that market incentives as opposed to government planning will have to become the principal force guiding the economy if the nation is to recover from the present economic crisis.
		Services provided by some of these companies were interrupted in March 1999, when payments due to Etecsa by some of the American carriers were seized in a court action in Florida.
		Service was quickly restored by rerouting calls via other countries, but the matter is still before the courts.
	www.infoexport.gc.ca /ie-en/DisplayDocument.jsp?did=214&gid=193 (14799 words)

	[Report] North American Location-based Service Markets
		Indeed, the ability to combine location sensitive services with content tailored to user's individual interests has materialized as a progressive strategy for mobile operators to attract new customers, reduce churn and create additional revenue streams.
		Thus, in order to maximize the commercial, operational, and marketing benefits of LBS, operators are expected to insist on a wide range of platform prerequisites to efficiently manage and deliver a full range of services that can target a variety of customer segments.
		Service providers are advised to engage in strategic partnerships to ensure best-of-breed billing and customer support systems that can seamlessly integrate with legacy infrastructure to support the full spectrum of LBS.
	www.gii.co.jp /english/fs22038_location_based_service.html (583 words)

	U.S. Toll-Free Service Markets
		Service providers need to consider bundling voice and data services and migrating to IP-based toll-free service in order to remain competitive and maintain profitability.
		Toll-free service providers are also using vanity toll-free numbers (usually spelling a person's or company's name) in a bid to differentiate themselves from their competitors.
		This enables participants to assess future growth patterns in the toll-free services market and chart out their business plans in accordance with the forecast changes in the market.
	www.frost.com /prod/servlet/report-brochure.pag?id=F187-01-00-00-00 (1285 words)

	PJM Markets Competitive in 2004, Market Monitoring Unit Concludes; 2004 PJM State of the Market Report Released
		PJM Market Monitor Joseph Bowring discussed findings of the report during a March 8 briefing in Washington, D.C. "PJM's markets grew substantially in 2004 and remained competitive," Bowring said.
		The MMU recommends the retention of key market rules and the enhancement of those rules for continued competitive results in PJM markets and for continued improvement in the functioning of the markets.
		In particular, the MMU is responsible for monitoring the compliance of members with PJM's market rules and for monitoring PJM's policies to ensure those rules remain consistent with the operation of a competitive market.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-08-2005/0003157381&EDATE= (562 words)

	December 2003 -- Fitness Product & Service Markets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		According to a report from Market and Business Development (cited on the Leisure Management web site), the health and fitness market in the United Kingdom may reach approximately $6.2 billion (3.5 billion pounds) in 2003.
		Despite market saturation, a 6% growth rate is forecast for the period from 2004 through 2008, with increased price competition in the private health club segment.
		An example is the MomiMomi RealProG Massage Lounger that was introduced in the Japanese market in August 2003.
	www.feed-back.com /dec03ezine.htm (742 words)

	Steady Growth Projected for Automobile Maintenance Service Markets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		According to new analysis by Frost and Sullivan (http://www.transportation.frost.com), North American Automotive Maintenance Service Market, the total market is estimated to be nearly $27.3 billion in 2000.
		In a highly competitive field, maintenance service providers are finding it increasingly difficult to distinguish their offerings from those of their competitors.
		Marketing quality and reinforcing the need for service will be crucial as automakers attempt to expand distance between suggested maintenance intervals.
	www.theautochannel.com /news/2001/09/10/029232.html (391 words)

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		According to Accuture Telecom Research's latest market report, Broadband Access Markets 2004 - Worldwide, Regional and Country Forecasts of Broadband Access Equipment and Service Markets Through 2010, the number of worldwide residential and small business broadband accounts will increase to 126 million by year's end 2004 and to 351 million by 2010.
		In response to this demand, service providers are expanding their broadband networks, which will generate revenues of $181.6 billion by 2010.
		Accuture is an international market research firm specializing in broadband access and optical networking technologies and markets.
	www.satnews.com /stories11/176.html (288 words)

	Service markets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A performance measurement period, or succession of performance measurement periods, during which a telecommunications service remains in an operational service state.
		Note: An operational service period begins at the beginning of the performance measurement period in which the telecommunications service enters the operational service state, and ends at the beginning of the performance measurement period in which the telecommunications service leaves the operational service state.
		On Point Trader is built on SDS Trader technology, the next generation direct market access trading platform, and is a hybrid system platform with a smart order router component and compliant execution platform that will provide On Point with the technology they need to become a full-service provider.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Service_markets.html (1012 words)

	Competitors React to Demand for One-Stop Shopping in Medical Imaging Service Markets
		As a result, service providers are broadening their portfolio to include asset management, technology assessment, training, and consultation services.
		In 1998, the markets for U.S. medical imaging services totaled revenues of approximately $2.9 billion, according to new strategic research by Frost & Sullivan (http://www.frost.com).
		Consequently, GE Medical was also given the 1998 Market Engineering Customer Service Award, in recognition of the company's ability to build and maintain its customer relationships through fast response, good support, and fair treatment of customer complaints and marketplace needs.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/09-29-1999/0001032148 (705 words)

	Harris Interactive \| News Room - Investment Products Are Top Online Purchases in Financial Service Marketplace
		These are some of the results of a recent nationwide survey conducted online among over 30,000 adults in various financial service markets, including retail banking, retail brokerage, mutual fund, mortgage, auto loan/ lease, auto insurance, life insurance and property insurance customers.
		In most financial service markets outside of the investment arena, product purchases/ applications are the least common activities conducted online, with one to eight percent of customers applying for products online (banking loan or credit line- 8%, mortgage- 7%, auto insurance- 5%, life insurance- 2%, property insurance- 1%).
		In most of the financial service markets, the online channel is being used to meet informational or product servicing needs.
	www.harrisinteractive.com /news/allnewsbydate.asp?NewsID=163 (703 words)

	Satellite Data Poised To Soar - 5/25/1998 - Wireless Week - CA4351 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		NEW YORK--Space-based wireless data services are expected to grow dramatically in the next 10 to 15 years, achieving markets equal to voice service markets by 2012.
		Low-earth orbit satellite data services are likely to penetrate mass markets and achieve revenue of more than $2 billion by 2002, according to an analysis by Ascent Communications Advisors LP.
		In the coming years, revenue from wireless telephony is expected to remain stable, giving data services an opportunity to achieve nearly the same level, according to Tim Farrar, senior consultant with Analysis Ltd. Equally important, sustainable market share will be much greater in data than voice services, he said.
	www.wirelessweek.com /article/CA4351?spacedesc=&stt=001 (411 words)

	VoIP Access and Hosted IP Telephony Services Help Businesses Realize Cost Savings and Gain Productivity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In response to these challenges, market participants are working with their platform vendors and other strategic partners to meet regulatory requirements.
		Over the next five to six years, the hosted IP telephony and VoIP access services market is expected to grow at about 80 percent in terms of access lines and revenues.
		The study analyzes the factors that impact the growth of the hosted IP telephony service markets in the U.S. and Canada.
	www.advfn.com /news_VoIP-Access-and-Hosted-IP-Telephony-Services-Help-Businesses-Realize-Cost-Saving_12717297.html (956 words)

	Latin American Internet Service Markets: Industry Report
		Strategy Market Planning Implementation Challenge Identification The competitive environment for Internet services in Latin America is changing dramatically.
		While there are dominant domestic Internet service providers (ISPs) that have increased their market share through strategic mergers, important global companies have recently entered the market through the acquisition of existing local firms.
		Non-access services, such as web hosting/housing, transaction support, and advertising, are expected to make up 75 percent of revenues by 2005.
	www.mindbranch.com /listing/product/R1-1676.html (555 words)

	Approaches to Markets in Upstate New York and Western Pennsylvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Often, new entrants to the market are attracted to this region because of the services that the Canadian Consulate General in Buffalo provides such as training for first time Canadian exporters and assistance with governmental issues related to moving goods across the border.
		Growth in the organic food market is expected to increase because of efforts to organize the certification process for organic farming operations in the United States.
		Food service is a growing sector in the food industry across the U.S. Currently, food purchases away from home account for more than 40 percent of all money spent on food and this segment of the food industry is expected to grow over next decade.
	atn-riae.agr.ca /us/e3351.htm (11309 words)

	Router, Wireless Service Markets Expected To Decline This Year - Technology News by TechWeb
		By The worldwide network router market is expected to decline for the third straight year before returning to growth in 2004, a market research firm said Thursday.
		The router market will slip 2 percent this year to $6.2 billion, the Dell'Oro Group projected in a five-year forecast.
		"Service providers will allocate larger portions of their equipment budgets to products that help deliver new services to their customers, and high-end routers represent that type of product," Dell'Oro analyst Shin Umeda said in a statement.
	www.techweb.com /wire/story/TWB20030130S0007 (258 words)

	PJM state-of-the-market report
		The wholesale electricity markets operated by PJM Interconnection, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, U.S., produced competitive results in 2004, according to the 2004 State of the Market Report, released Tuesday by the independent Market Monitoring Unit (MMU) of PJM.
		High levels of supply, moderate demand and market participants' competitive behavior have offset market structure issues in the PJM Energy Market, the report said.
		The State of the Market Report notes that the structure of the cCapacity Market remains a concern.
	www.tdworld.com /news/PJM-market-state (554 words)

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		Accelerating the development of markets for forest ecosystem services.
		Today, many of the serviced provided by forests are either undervalued or have no financial value at all.
		Forest Trends' goal is to move markets for ecosystem services towards center stage in the debate around forest conservation by catalyzing pioneering projects and innovative investments around the world.
	www.forest-trends.org /programs/index.htm (440 words)

	Friends of Yosemite Valley \| Park Service Markets Yosemite as Tour Package (7-1-2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The National Park Service's Yosemite Valley Plan throws out the User Capacity numbers instituted in the 1980 General Management Plan (GMP) and leaves it wide open.
		While the National park Service has eliminated any user capacity numbers for Yosemite, it markets Yosemite as a part of quickie tour packages -- actively enticing more people to tour and impact the Park's already degraded natural values.
		The Park Service then claims that it has to accommodate these tourists with ever increasing amounts of and increasingly upscaled types of accommodations.
	www.yosemitevalley.org /HTML/Articles/2002_07_01.html (207 words)

	Dossier: U.S. Telecom Service Markets
		Regulation may be the most important element in shaping the new competitive telecom marketplace, and existing regulations may have created artificial markets and may prove to be a barrier to competitive entry.
		Both the interstate toll and local markets are at their peak growth rates for the foreseeable future.
		Local exchange and exchange access markets, primarily in the largest metropolitan areas, have been affected by service bypass (customers moving from one service, such as switched access, to another service, such as dedicated access, in order to save costs) as well as dedicated and switched facilities bypass arrangements in competition with the incumbent LEC.
	www.jhellerstein.com /97nbirw.html (2795 words)

	EY Kenneth Leventhal: Outlook Mostly Good for Hospitality Sector / Jan 1998
		Development in most of these markets will take place over the next two to three years and will result in additional capacity coming on line in 2001.
		Much of the success of the hotel market in the last four years has been attributable to the gradual absorption of the slew of new hotels built in the 1980s and a limited level of new construction.
		The 1998 Forecast also includes overviews of the hotel market in Mexico and the hotel financing market in the U.S. The EY Kenneth Leventhal Real Estate Group is a business unit of Ernst Young LLP.
	www.hotel-online.com /News/PressReleases1998/EYKenLevOutlook_Jan1998.html (761 words)

	Industry Market Research Reports & Business Analysis at MindBranch
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		Those looking for specific market research report can type the name of the the report directly into our search box, or can browse our market research by industry or publisher.
	www.it-marketanalysis.com /R1-1381.html (356 words)

	Forest Service Markets Recreation
		As the level to slow-paced growth of public funding for outdoor recreation continues from year to year, management may need to reorient to a product’s mind-set where opportunities are priced, as opposed to free, if supply is to keep pace with demand.
		The growing market of users can be given the opportunity to learn more about our natural resources and the challenge of keeping them healthy.
		If it is well marketed and managed for the benefit of current and future generations, it will create an annuity and legacy of great value to the American people for as far into the future as we can see.
	www.wildwilderness.org /docs/unicorns.htm (2099 words)

	PJM Markets Competitive In 2004: Market Monitoring Unit
		PJM average energy market prices increased 10.8 percent in 2004 over 2003 largely as a result of increased fuel costs.
		In 2004, net revenues from all PJM markets would not have covered the first year fixed costs of a new natural gas-fired combustion turbine, combined-cycle generator or coal-fired generator.
		Real-time spot market activity averaged 35 percent of electricity usage for all hours.
	www.econline.com /content/news/article.asp?docid={F3360136-C9DA-4C00-A0AC-BB61AA4DB59A} (530 words)

	U.S. Mobile Location-Based Service Markets
		The potential for combining location-sensitive services with information tailored to users’ individual interests will offer significant opportunities for a range of market participants, from mobile operators to retailers.
		Location-based service is the cornerstone of a number of applications that require the transfer of personal information over public networks.
		To spark adoption of these services, participants will have to assure users that their information will be protected.
	www.marketresearch.com /product/display.asp?partnerid=885830502&productid=727869 (455 words)

	Garretson Weekly: Auction service markets the world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		And in follow-up of her services, she assures that all of the post-sale arrangements — the paperwork, delivery and payment — will be tended to.
		She also said the number of hits her website has encountered was another reason to venture into the technical world.
		In the iCollector trial period, VanDerBrink said she sold a 1938 Ford for a family from Fulda, Minn. The Ford was purchased by a buyer in Atlanta, Ga.
	www.garretsonweekly.com /news/details.cfm?id=479 (368 words)

	LCG Consulting - EnergyOnline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In this seminar we will explore the competitive energy market structure and focus on the role of the natural gas market modeling at both the LDC and aggregate market levels.
		The fundamentals of market simulation, dispatch, least cost planning and analysis of what drives the prices at the various hubs will be given significant attention.
		Thus we will show you how to model the market behavior and obtain price forecasts that are based upon sound economic principles as well as structural aspects of the actual interregional movement of gas.
	www.energyonline.com /eolm/seminar.asp (591 words)

	EUROPA - Rapid - Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The new framework responds to the need to provide the best deal for consumers, greater legal certainty for market players, and to roll back regulation where it is no longer required.
		The European Commission has launched today a public consultation on a draft Recommendation on relevant product and service markets in the electronic communications sector, as required by the new European Union regulatory legislation that was adopted in February this year (see IP/02/259).
		The new regulatory framework, which will be applied by national regulatory authorities from July 2003, represents a comprehensive reform of the existing legislation and is aimed at providing the best conditions for a dynamic and competitive industry in Europe.
	europa.eu.int /rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/02/878&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en (318 words)

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