residential customer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofresidentialandcustomer
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residential
adjective
uk/ˌrez.ɪˈden.ʃəl/us/ˌrez.əˈden.ʃəl/
A residential road, area, etc. has only private houses, not offices ...
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customer
noun[C]
uk/ˈkʌs.tə.mər/us/ˈkʌs.tə.mɚ/
a person who buys goods or ...
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(Definition ofresidentialandcustomerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Because competition is greatest in the business sector, tariffs have been rebalanced to favour business at the expense of theresidentialcustomer.
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It sets out apparently to protect theresidentialcustomer, but it fails to do so.
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Teeing in or clip-on fraud attacks theresidentialcustomer.
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Inevitably, therefore, costs to the ordinaryresidentialcustomerwill rise and the service will deteriorate.
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That meant that the business community tended to get a better service but theresidentialcustomergot a lousy service.
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However, the detrimental effect of competition on theresidentialcustomerhas already been seen, with recent tariff increases being twice the level of those for business customers.
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Another common allocation is a /64 prefix for aresidentialcustomernetwork.
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The averageresidentialcustomerpays $63 per year for conservation programs as of 2014.
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Legislation has recently been released, forcing gas utilities to deploy smart gas meters from large industrial consumers down to almost everyresidentialcustomerby the end of 2016.
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These policies have created a vigorous sector to the benefit of both business and residential customers.
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The main adverse effect of privatisation will fall on residential customers.
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If she will make a statement on her strategy for enabling residential customers to benefit from the provision of broadband internet access in publicly-funded organisations.
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A new scheme is to be put in place to help the 2 million or so residential customers who are low users of the telephone.
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Despite the price restraint formula, residential customers will probably find that their bills increase more rapidly than those of business customers.
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Residential customers can register for inclusion in a database against which companies selling via the telephone can voluntarily "clean" their mailing lists.
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All citizens should be entitled to a high standard of telephone service, irrespective of geographical location, social circumstances or whether they are business or residential customers.
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That will lead to investment in telecommunications infrastructure for the public sector, which will then be available to other users such as small businesses and residential customers.
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It does not yet pay to install fibre for smaller and residential customers, because the opto-electronic components needed to convert from optical to electronic signals are still expensive.
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Its interests are best served therefore by responding to the demands of these residential customers and encouraging them to use the service as much as possible.
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Even though there is an upper limit of £1,000 for residential customers and £5,000 for business customers, this will certainly be a very sharp incentive for much speedier service.
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