Remote Gambling Association criticized the main provisions of bill for offering unfavourable conditions for the new operators as opposed to incumbent state-owned operators.

Nations, in turn, typically license private or state-owned operators to use the slots, giving them deadlines for having their satellites in position.

The advocate general, Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, said that "a special understanding" should be given to governments that try to stop a newly privatized company falling into the hands of a state-owned operator with a monopoly in its own market.

Electrification systems used by the JR group, Japan's formerly state-owned operators, are 1,500V DC and 20kV AC for conventional lines and 25kV AC for Shinkansen.

Since 1937, the state-owned operator of gambling machines, Raha-automaattiyhdistys has a monopoly for payazzos.

Nuclear Electric, the state-owned operator of power stations in England and Wales, had planned a promotion of its corporate identity.

Nuclear Electric, the state-owned British operator, has proposed the construction of a new nuclear power station next to the Sizewell B site in Suffolk.

Railway situated along the river was totally destroyed and its state-owned operator decided to cancel whole rail line.

Tencent's fortunes improved later that year when the company teamed up with China Mobile, the giant state-owned mobile operator, to forward Internet messaging to mobile phones.

Caledonian MacBrayne, a state-owned operator of passenger and vehicle ferries between the mainland and islands surrounding Scotland.