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Roamware estimates that European operators will collectively incur an annual cost of between euro 130m and euro 150m for re-bounding international voicemail calls*, known in the telecoms industry as 'tromboning'.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Roamware Inc. 2010
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Although the new regulations will automatically cut costs for consumers, unless other changes are made, Roamware estimates that European operators will collectively incur an annual cost of between €130m and €150m for re-bounding international voicemail calls - known in the telecoms industry as "tromboning"
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Cuts unnecessary "tromboning" on roaming voicemail Helps meet new EU 2010 regulations
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"It was the users who bore the brunt of that with traffic 'tromboning' to Auckland when it didn't need to, or worse to the USA.
Computerworld 2010
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"It was the users who bore the brunt of that with traffic 'tromboning' to Auckland when it didn't need to, or worse to the USA.
Computerworld 2010
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Since Ruby was still tromboning, one moment it hopped left and the next second it skipped right.
BLASTIN’ THE BLUES LOREN LONG 2010
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Since Ruby was still tromboning, one moment it hopped left and the next second it skipped right.
BLASTIN’ THE BLUES LOREN LONG 2010
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But in order to do this (inline power tromboning) you must have access to the switch at the local POP.
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It has been proven time and again that meeting up with me for a night of tromboning, spanking and facials can vastly reduce the instances of liver disease and strokes.
Archive 2008-03-01 Push Jelly 2008
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He already had the target-a man about six-foot four, unshaven, his black leather jacket mud-stained, a riot shotgun in his hands, the pump tromboning as the twelve-gauge, roughly .70 caliber muzzle swung on line.
The Savage Horde Ahern, Jerry 1983
reesetee commented on the word tromboning
"This leads to odd routing arrangements, referred to as tromboning, in which traffic between two cites in one country will flow through other nations. In January, when a cable was cut in the Mediterranean, Egyptian Internet traffic was nearly paralyzed because it was not being shared by local I.S.P.’s but instead was routed through European operators." -- John Markoff, "Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.," NYT Online, 8/29/08
September 2, 2008
Miss_ln commented on the word tromboning
"The depression that had so darkened me for months had gone, and though during my months in Peru I had a persistent worry that it would return, it did not, and I was free of it for years. I said my good-byes to Jeremy and stayed on in the Amazon, my spirit as green, happy and elastic as a grasshopper in summer, tromboning in the grass." -- Jay Griffiths, "WILD - An Elemental Journey", Penguin Travel/Nature, 2006, ISBN: 978-141-00644-4
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August 20, 2010