Charter services, usually catering for large parties, are also available from these and other operators.

Neither of these "paper" projects received much interest from civil operators.

Services which have competition from other operators offer special "returns".

Some additional units have since been acquired from other operators to provide extra capacity.

They ranged from single operators to 30-person phone banks.

Many banks now offer information by touch-tone, and sometimes from live operators, 24 hours a day.

So he cooled his heels and took odd calls from international operators.

The reaction from other mobile operators has been largely positive.

The city took over operation of the public transit system from private operators in 1966.

"We can turn this situation around but only if governments act now to protect their communities from criminal operators."