In Japan, the merged company has begun to blend these into a single service.
These will be significantly streamlined to support a single service, a single Chief Constable and one senior management team.
The single service chiefs would also get greater responsibility (and accountability) for managing their own organisations, a prospect they welcomed.
Many consumers would likely rather communicate with friends and family from a single service, or at least from a select few.
"On police, a strong case has been made for a single service, but concerns need to be allayed over accountability, " Mr MacAskill told MSPs.
In the end, however, a desire for the dominance that would result from having a single service with six times as many users as its nearest competitor might inspire AOL to combine the two services.
The consultation, to get under way next month, will outline three options for fire and police services - eight services with enhanced collaboration between them, a regional structure with fewer boards, or a single service for fire and a single force for police.
Following Scottish Parliament legislation, there will also be a new single fire service for Scotland.
Plans to create a single ambulance service for south-west England have been approved by the health secretary.
BBC: South West ambulance merger approved by health secretary
There is to be a single police service from the 1st of April - and you know the foolish thing?
In 2007, Myanmar also flipped a kill switch on its single Internet service provider, creating a digital blackout that lasted close to a week.
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It "paves the way" for the creation of a single ambulance service, with a workforce of about 4, 000, serving a resident population of more than 5.3 million people.
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Until recently, building automation, lighting controls, fire safety and other base building systems were designed and deployed to support a single building service and operated independently on proprietary network and cables.
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In short, the dictates of common sense, fiscal responsibility and even Defense Department regulations have been seriously disserved by the latest "top-down" restructuring of the V-22 program to a reduced, single-service requirement.
"Their work is right at the heart of the new single police service for Scotland and will ensure that we maintain and build on the high quality of policing already in place, " he said.
It appears that the Minister is now prepared to wrest control of whole areas from local government and put them on a wholly different footing - waste, social services, trading standards for example, run regionally or even as a single national service.
Scotland's eight police forces are being merged into a single, national service next month.
Professor Pounder believes that the establishment of a single, national service would promote uniform standards based on a more considered balance between public interest and private rights.
"I support the principle of a single Welsh police service based on community policing... however, specialist police services should be organised regionally and supported by a single administrative function".
This is why so many startups are built around a single product or service that is assumed but often not yet proven to meet a real consumer need and offer a lucrative market opportunity.
That is, the EU actually wants companies to set up just the one corporate structure, in just the one EU country, and then use that single structure to service their customers across the 27 EU countries.
Reform of the way the GPs work, reform of the hospital system, reform of the doctors and the consultants and the nurses and the way that they work, reform of the systems within the health service, and every single pound of money we put into the health service is going to be independently inspected and audited by an independent body.
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And I might add, we succeeded in bring every single one of our service members back safely, which is a remarkable achievement.
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These companies, and many like them, have made a habit (even a company policy) of making sure that every single customer receives outstanding service, and of developing lasting relationships at every turn.
Without putting a single U.S. service member on the ground, we achieved our objectives.
Texas Instruments floats an idea for combining three types of wireless service into a single device.
"A single provider will improve the service for customers and save money for all councils, " he added.
Ministers said the case for a single "blue-light service", incorporating police, fire and ambulance, had not been made.
And we see them display the same professionalism in our home every single day that defines their service around the world.
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When Montage introduced Surrender earlier this year, the only available service was a single day, with a minimum of two hours.
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