telephone customers

collocation in English

meaningsoftelephoneandcustomer

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telephone
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈtel.ɪ.fəʊn/
us
/ˈtel.ə.foʊn/
a ...
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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 oftelephoneandcustomerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftelephone customers

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Why should there not be a similar opting in for telephone customers?
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The 20 million telephone customers cannot suddenly be accessed for interactive or broadcast purposes nationally.
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Each month, cable operators are signing up some 50,000 new telephone customers who are attracted by low-cost calls.
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They are interested, of course, in enabling telephone customers to listen effectively on their instruments.
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Those cable companies have over 2.5 million telephone customers.
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It would be crass folly to waste the nation's and the telephone customers' resources providing cable for people who do not want it, and before the demand exists.
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The recent reduction in the bills of those telephone customers who do not use the phone very often is benefiting about 2 million subscribers, many of them elderly.
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By the mid-1950s, local telephone customers could dial, toll-free, more than 125,000 telephones direct.
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This is the form of long-distance most commonly meant by the term, and the one for which long-distance carriers are usually chosen by telephone customers.
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Telephone companies typically offer blocking services to allow telephone customers to prevent access to these number ranges from their telephones.
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The pole line remained until the early 1980s, being used for multi-party line service for rural telephone customers, who are now served by point-to-point radio connections for their telephone service.
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