telecoms

But his vast wealth testifies to the uncompetitive nature of the Mexican telecoms market in which he built his initial fortune.

This helped to release India's telecoms industry from state control and opened it up to private firms, paving the way for a technology boom.

The technology has allowed entrepreneurs to break into what used to be one of the world's most regulated markets, telecoms.

He said that the telecoms scandal demonstrated that the prime minister was "not capable of controlling the country's bureaucrats" .

China has been signalling its intention to introduce third generation telecoms services almost since the beginning of the decade.

Welsh woman trying to call British telecoms operator BT was left hanging on the telephone for a total of 20 hours.

Mobile advertising raced ahead too, with finance, telecoms and consumer brands trying to reach audiences on the move.

The UAE's telecoms regulator, TRA, said the lack of compliance with local laws raised "judicial, social and national security concerns" .

The comparison is inexact. Nothing like as much money is going into clean energy as went into telecoms and internet firms.

Competition in the telecoms industry is intensifying and there have been a host of similar disputes.

TDC, a Danish telecoms operator, has bundled such a service with its broadband connections.

China Telecom is the only big-four telecoms operator on the mainland that has not teamed up with a foreign company.

The trillion-dollar telecoms industry is caught up in a frenzy of deal making and network construction.

The timing of any move remains unclear amid speculation about a potential restructuring of the telecoms market.

The Supreme Court has chided Mr Singh for dragging his feet over a scam at the telecoms ministry costing probably billions of dollars.

but the group is an unspectacular contender in industries from telecoms to convenience stores and is now moving into carmaking.

Fancier tablets could become cheaper, however, if mobile-telecoms operators were to subsidise them, as they do with handsets.

Ultimately the telecoms ministry asks the interior ministry if it has any concerns regarding security.

Huawei, in telecoms equipment, and Haier, in white goods, are trying to build global brands.

This clash was an unhelpful distraction, given that the entire telecoms-equipment industry is suffering.

Britain's telecoms regulator laid out the conditions for an auction of spectrum for a fourth-generation mobile service.

He may be a bit paranoid, but Mr Niel plans to wreak financial violence on France's dominant telecoms firms.

The first is the convergence between the worlds of telecoms and computing, otherwise known as information technology (IT).

The new rules take the form of an amendment to a much wider revision of all Europe's telecoms regulations.

Mr Chae has spent much of his career at Blackstone doing telecoms and media deals, including Nielsen, Weather Channel and Michael's Stores.

If the deal is approved by the US bankruptcy court, this will be the first purchase of a major overseas telecoms asset by a Chinese company.

In other words, had telecoms firms, for instance, suspected how big it would become, they might have tried earlier to change its rules.

TDC, a Danish telecoms operator, bundles access to a music service with its broadband packages.

As telecoms sector grew , housing and construction , and I could go on and on .

The vision for GEC was to transform a boring telecoms and defence business into the electrical company of the internet age.

It is now reported to be contemplating an investment in a telecoms venture in Algeria.

Ethiopia is one of the few remaining countries where mobile telecoms remains a government-run monopoly.

The "critical infrastructure" to be evaluated includes transport, telecoms, healthcare, water, energy and banking.

Indeed, Google said this week that it was not going to hang around waiting for the telecoms industry to build the new optical web.

He joined the firm in May with no experience in telecoms save a prior stint on the board, but is due to become boss within two years.

In much of the service sector, from finance to telecoms, the state still dominates. Even creative industries are trapped in its shadow.

Just weeks after T-Mobile decided to sell its American arm to AT&T, consolidation in domestic mobile-telecoms markets continues apace.

An executive at one Chinese telecoms company said he was not sure the TD-SCDMA technology was ready for national roll-out.

European telecoms equipment providers did it to less than great effect when third-generation networks first ramped up.

Huawei was the first of the two firms to move into Europe, the home market of Ericsson, the world's largest telecoms-equipment supplier.

Shenzhen itself has at least two global leaders, the telecoms giants Huawei and ZTE.

The biggest write-down so far has been the $1 billion booked by AT&T, followed by one of $970m at another telecoms giant, Verizon.

Telecoms is not the only monopolised sector.

As with cars and computers, the focus in telecoms is no longer solely on performance, but on efficiency, too.

The telecoms market is in turmoil, as it transpires that dozens of mobile licences were improperly issued.

accordingly , this market is undoubtedly one of shanghai telecoms important growth point in developing its services.

In Europe, the switch has left stocks in sectors such as consumer staples, telecoms and utilities looking cheap, he said.

The company is also an independent third party because it is not tied to any particular telecoms operator.

Currently, mobile telecoms are quickly developing due to the "two-wheel driven" of both social development and technical progress.

mr bouygues diversified into mobile telecoms and the arm that he started , bouygues telecom , is now france ' s third - largest operator.

Skype and a bunch of new competitors will compete and potentially disrupt the telecoms industry.

Telecoms charges have tumbled, allowing workers in far-flung locations to be connected cheaply to customers in the developed world.

So far, however, optical technology has been confined mostly to telecoms networks and some of the cabling in data centres.

The greatest examples of this have been ZTE and Huawei, makers of telecoms equipment.

In many hot countries, telecoms firms paint the exterior of base-stations white to deflect the sun.

Telekom Austria is one of the top telecoms companies in the region.

"Our deal is also the only one that will build a global leader in cables and telecoms infrastructure, " he added.

Reflecting this, only a few telecoms companies received state bail-outs.

country's public broadcaster, NHK, is not allowed to enter the telecoms market.

SOMALIA does not spring to mind as a goodplace to do business, but in telecoms at least it has something to teach theworld.

After Maxis bought Aircel, the company was granted eight telecoms licences.

Indeed over time the Greek mobile telecoms sector has been one of the most open to foreign capital.

Tariffs on many high-tech products like telecoms equipment were to be phased out by 2005.

One proxy for the difference in profitability between the urban rich and the rural poor is the price paid for mobile-telecoms spectrum.

The British telecoms company also cut its dividend and said 15, 000 jobs would eventually be eliminated.

Telecoms giant Huawei has done just that and its networks and products are already serving one third of the planet's population.

Yet confronted by the inexorable march of progress, America's telecoms regulators have failed to respond.

Another telecoms initiative, Ribbit, launches today with a claim of being "Silicon Valley's first phone company" .

Huawei, a Chinese telecoms giant, applied for more international patents than any other firm did in 2008.

Some reckon the group is now shifting the balance of its assets from media to telecoms.

Automation, information and telecoms technology and the manufacturing industry play crucial roles in its economic development.

In Europe as a whole, vacancies in the manufacturing and telecoms industries rose sharply in July.

Nokia Siemens had a similar experience in Iran where the regime used its telecoms networks to spy on dissidents.

The last time they governed the country their changes were the privatisation of telecoms, electricity, gas and water.

Everything from logistics to farming, military surveillance, telecoms, weather monitoring, TV broadcasts and much more rely on satellites.

The two Chinese firms' global market share is still relatively small, but their impact on telecoms has been colossal.

Telecom Italia, one of Europe's pioneering telecoms firms in the 1990s, looks headed for an inglorious future.

But so far the telecoms merger wave has only involved firms in Europe or America.

Shenzhen itself has at least two globalleaders, the telecoms giants Huawei and ZTE.

Arianespace dominates the sector for launching commercial satellites for the telecoms and broadcasting industries.

Though it does not usually vet big contracts, technology and telecoms assets are considered especially sensitive.

In its early days, Huawei had to fight its corner for a share of China's mobile telecoms market.

Likewise, if telecoms operators give preferential treatment to certain content providers, they undermine the idea of "network neutrality" .

But a depressing precedent has been set by incumbent telecoms firms, which, like most banks, are stodgy bureaucracies at heart.

Beijing gave no indication of when a much anticipated restructuring of the country's telecoms industry would take place.

"IT'S good to talk" , says the snappy slogan of a British telecoms company.

Temasek has also had trouble in Indonesia, over stakes in two telecoms companies bought by firms majority-owned by Temasek.

The telecoms regulator is handling the tender without a thought about what this will do to the telecoms industry, says Mr Ho Chen.

Two days before, Yonnel Dervin, a telecoms engineer aged 49, stabbed himself in the stomach at an office meeting in Troyes, eastern France.

Many Chinese telecoms corporations are owned by the state, and ICT companies are strongly influenced by government attitudes.

Attacks on military communications, banks and telecoms companies could be even easier, recent espionage cases suggest.

The head of Clearwire said last week that the telecoms industry should focus on bringing WiMax and LTE closer together.

Meanwhile, its telecoms business is a partnership with Luxembourg-registered Millicom International Cellular.

China is in the middle of restructuring its telecoms sector but foreign investment in the sector remains highly restricted.

In that, it resembles the dotcom mania, where leverage was largely confined to telecoms companies rather than pure dotcom outfits.

SeeReal reckons that the information needed to construct small holograms can be carried over existing telecoms networks.

From a business standpoint, the AT&T wireless tie-up makes sense seeing as the telecoms giant provides free Wi-Fi in Barnes & Noble stores.

Paktel will benefit from China Mobile's huge clout as one of the world's biggest buyers of telecoms equipment.

Beijing's telecoms regulators remain tight-lipped about their plans, but there have been increasing signs of likely action.

In many industries, especially pharmaceuticals and telecoms, the giants contract out innovation to smaller companies.

Technology and telecoms assets, which are considered critical infrastructure, are especially sensitive.

"Big companies didn't invent the internet or Google, and much of the big change in telecoms also came from outsiders, " he adds.

And the possibilities for using mobile telecoms to help relatives are enormous.

The state telecoms monopoly may be inefficient, but its charges are low; he fears that private telecoms firms will be poorly regulated.

Or they could be unrelated to either: cheap telecoms make it easier to interconnect bank networks globally.

Vietnam's Post and Telecommunications Corp is dividing itself into two separate businesses, dealing respectively with post and telecoms.

And telecoms firms, hospitals and businesses usually have contingency plans to deal with power failures or flooding.

Similar barriers are likely to paralyse cross-border electronic payments, and maybe even telecoms traffic.

The Dallas metroplex is strong in telecoms, aerospace, distribution (four interstate highways converge there) and banking.

Similar pricing errors in the telecoms bubble a decade ago led to millions of miles of unused fibre-optic cable being laid.

In turn users would likely gravitate to a similar free product, leaving the telecoms right where they began.

Music industry trade body, the BPI, said it would take legal action if the telecoms firm refused to co-operate.

Unfortunately, it is a bad time for buyers in emerging markets because [telecoms assets] are very expensive.

Unlike his peers, the tycoon has built a truly international empire through Hutchison, especially in ports, retailing, energy and telecoms.

Mr Moffett, however, believes that changes in the types of business done by telecoms companies could turn this on its head.

Chief among these was its lopsided telecoms industry, dominated by China Mobile, in which Vodafone has a small stake.

Huawei, China's leading telecoms-equipment maker, knows this to its cost.

Huawei was "acting as a bridge" between telecoms operators and Chinese lenders, the executives said.

Japanese technology giant Sony has bought full control of mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson from Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson.

Telecoms operators have reportedly been banned from carrying out any network construction, upgrades or new connections for two months.

Is the mania for "convergence" another case of mass hysteria in the telecoms industry?

The Saudi telecoms regulatory agency said this week the service would be halted Friday.

LIKE many other industries, the telecoms industry is increasingly worried about its energy consumption and the associated carbon footprint.

"THE Internet is going airborne, " says Ed Zander, the boss of Motorola, a large telecoms-equipment maker.

Instead they too are becoming hotbeds of innovation, producing breakthroughs in everything from telecoms to carmaking to health care.

The leapfrogging of decrepit state telecoms by profitable mobile telephone companies is one example.

Mr Guo said Huawei would meet "fierce competition" in the telecoms industry through continued high investment in research and development.

His government encouraged mass tourism and foreign investment, mainly in hotels, nickel mines, telecoms and oil exploration.

Telecoms industry executives are due to hold an emergency meeting today, and are expected to appeal to the government to -reconsider.

Wang Jianzhou is grappling with a much-changed Chinese telecoms industry.

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In December Samsung, a South Korean conglomerate, was ordered to pay compensation to Holley, a Chinese telecoms firm.

Six of the top 10 most valuable global brands (seven if you include General Electric) are in the technology or telecoms industries.

CM has yet to feel the full force of China's overhaul of its telecoms sector last May.

However, apparently no non- Chinese company has so far applied for a licence to offer telecoms services in China.

Motorola is considering options for its telecoms network business and Huawei is considered a potential bidder for the unit.

The protracted and bitterly contested bidding war highlighted the intense demand for telecoms assets in developing markets.

Skype, launched in 2003, lets users make free phone calls over the internet, forcing traditional telecoms operators to slash their prices.

The latest development will fuel doubts that Reliance Communications and MTN will create an emerging markets mobile telecoms group.

Hence the advance of the big systems integrators into telecoms services, and the move of telecoms firms into IT services.

Telecoms companies, like banks today, were encouraged to go "back to basics" .

And telecoms firms are investing huge sums to compete with cable companies, by offering video on demand through broadband connections.

Benefiting from vague language in South Africa's telecoms regulations, he connected his local network to the national network.

In fact, since the dotcom and telecoms busts earlier this decade, many have put their balance-sheets in order.

And no single industry is miles ahead of the rest, as telecoms and high-tech were last time.

Saudi Arabia's telecoms regulator has ordered phone companies to ban BlackBerry services, Reuters reported yesterday.

As traffic grew exponentially, outages proliferated and telecoms firms seemed overwhelmed.

But his past 16 months as the head of Australia's biggest telecoms firm have seen him reaching for the violin.

Trade, banking and telecoms magnates still refuse to speak out against the Shabab.

But network expansion stalled this year after New Delhi ordered that all telecoms equipment purchases would need security clearance.

At the time the telecoms bubble was at its height.

According to these people, Sistema has suggested the full integration of the Russian conglomerate's telecoms division into Deutsche Telekom.

But doing so will not end the upheaval wrought by technological innovation in the telecoms sector or overcapacity in the car industry.

Yet unlike oxygen, the airwaves over which telecoms companies transmit their wireless signals are in ever shorter supply.

TDC, a Danish telecoms group, recently announced it was cutting the interest rate it agreed to pay to lenders just 12 months ago.

But telecoms firms say an explosion of wireless data triggered by smartphones and tablet computers is indeed soaking up capacity fast.

Aid agencies have joined forces with mobile-telecoms providers to mount a campaign of text-message information sent to camp residents.

Huawei and ZTE, China's two largest telecoms equipment manufacturers, are also making some progress toward going global.

Air India and MTNL, a telecoms company, between them lost almost $2 billion in the fiscal year 2009-10.

Such resistance may be difficult for Beijing to overcome since telecoms policy is a contested area between different arms of the government.

Huawei, which makes telecoms gear, is a master of recombining existing technologies and bringing them to market at lightning speed.

Innovation will therefore be increasingly important for the prospects of telecoms firms.

Spanish banks, utilities and telecoms companies now challenge American firms right across Latin America.

Telecoms, net neutrality lobbyists, tech companies and regular citizens are tripping over themselves to weigh in.

Separately, Chunghwa plans to take an indirect stake in a small telecoms company.

Oil and gas are partly to thank, but investment is spread among financial services, telecoms, retailing and construction.

Based in Toronto, the telecoms-equipment-maker has seen a drop in demand amid the global downturn, as have other technology companies.

The latest index of African governance funded by Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese-born telecoms mogul, suggests a general improvement.

ZTE, China's largest listed telecoms equipment manufacturer, was also up 10 per cent after months of relatively flat performance.

The statement underlined the difficulties in the telecoms infrastructure industry.

More than half the region's firms say limited access to electricity, telecoms and transport is a problem for business.

The proposal was discussed at a July meeting between the government and telecoms and internet operator associations.

Telecoms group Vodafone held up amid sector strength, as investors favoured stocks with financial strength.

If the telecoms industry is anything to go by, this gradualism will fail.

And non-Western companies are becoming powerhouses of innovation in everything from telecoms to computers.

The IT sector, down 1. 6 percent, was the biggest underperformer, followed by the materials and telecoms.

The two groups already operate in the UK market, selling their Android-run handsets branded by telecoms operators.

It also said that it would allow American firms to provide telecoms services to Cuba.

Today, telecoms firms are offering an ever-wider array of services, and are merging their businesses to do so.

Apparently an error in the computer code sent out by Pakistan's biggest telecoms company affected access to YouTube elsewhere.

Similarly adventurous claims have been made for telecoms and road-building.

From telecoms to insurance, China is full of service oligopolies that need to be broken up.

BEFORE banks, the last global industry to commit collective suicide was telecoms during the boom and bust of 1997 - 2003.

a thrin Hille is an FT correspondent in Beijing, covering technology, the internet, media, telecoms and defense.

He adds that pharmaceuticals are also recognising the value of MBAs, while both technology and telecoms are growth industries.

The telecoms sector is likely to benefit from the rolling out of the 4G network during 2012.

About 30 contracts in infrastructure, energy, mining, transportation and telecoms have been lined up.

India and China each restrict foreign investment in sectors ranging from financial services to telecoms.

But a spokesman for the telecoms giant, Michael Coe, said: "We expect to sell Android phones in the future. "

To that can now be added burgeoning commercial interests in hydro-electricity, construction and telecoms.

Mexico's telecoms infrastructure is also rickety, in part because uncertain regulations have put off potential investors.

The island's loss-making national shipping linehas been closed, and its telecoms firm and airport privatized.

But rather than subsidise customers to encourage telecoms companies to invest, the government wants to go into this business itself.

Telecoms Minister, Kapil Sibal, accused the opposition BJP of not being serious in the fight against corruption.

The episode may have annoyed the UAE's telecoms regulator, perhaps partly explaining his tough line now.

In December, New Delhi imposed steep anti-dumping tariffs on certain Chinese telecoms networking gear.

Vodafone has also been examining the possibility of selling its stake to another telecoms group.

While Vodafone share slipped after the announcement, most other European telecoms stocks were higher.

Many analysts believe the restructuring will precede or coincide with the issue of 3G operating licences to Chinese telecoms companies.

When internet firms' share prices plummeted, telecoms investors suffered too.

A former official in the scandal-besmirched telecoms ministry, he faces a longstanding charge over an import scam.

"They are not used to cooking for themselves, " says Mr So, a telecoms executive.

I also attended my first investor presentation by a top Japanese telecoms company.

Filched cables have reportedly caused train delays and stalled repairs to telecoms networks.

Local employers include Intel, a chipmaker, and Motorola and Alcatel-Lucent, two telecoms firms.

As rivals rushed to copy Apple's approach, the computer, music and telecoms industries were transformed.

In a sign of how Huawei is prioritising corporate- focused telecoms, the Chinese group is restructuring itself into three divisions.

No single industry is far ahead of the rest, as telecoms and the internet were last time.

The Boxing day earthquake, centred on Taiwan, sent shockwaves through Asia's telecoms networks.

Shares in RCom, Mr Ambani's telecoms group, have been under pressure in the past year amid investor concerns over its debts.

But the Nordic economies are well up on technology; Finland, for instance, is home to Nokia, a huge mobile-telecoms group.

Those telecoms firms, such as Telecom Italia, that failed to cut their debt went on to shrink into obscurity.

The US is currently reviewing a Chinese telecoms equipment company's involvement in a takeover of America's 3Com.

is a performance monitoring toolset being used by telecoms operators to manage the quality of service and the capacity of their networks.

Bharti, in particular, is attracting attention from telecoms firms worldwide because of its innovative business model.

It was a bad week for telecoms firms.

The pioneer of this model is Denmark's incumbent telecoms firm, TDC, which offers more than 5m songs.

Already the Obama administration has eased some restrictions on travel, remittances and telecoms links, and more changes could follow.

A survey by Pyramid Research, a consultancy, found that 78% of telecoms operators are considering an investment in WiMax this year.

Huawei became China's leading provider of telecoms equipment pursuing a similar strategy.

The resulting entity would cut costs and could offer customers bundled telecoms packages.

SUDDENLY, it seems, everyone is realising that the next big thing in telecoms and technology could be mobile email.

India has indeed blocked investments in ports and telecoms infrastructure.

The fresh trouble comes at a difficult time for the Italian telecoms group.

"Telecoms equipment is a scale game, " says Richard Windsor of Nomura, an investment bank.

By contrast, Europe's trustbusters have acted to free up access to telecoms networks in France and Germany.

Telecoms is a strategic industry for China, which is encouraging companies to expand overseas with incentives, tax breaks and subsidies.

As well as FTTP and FTTN, there are other ways for telecoms operators to get into the television market.

The country's telecoms regulator recently cancelled some licences, a decision that Yota is fighting in court.

The large telecoms provider is also planning a network in the wine country town of Napa in collaboration with local authorities.

Helena Nordman-Knutson, analyst at Ohman reckons the global market for telecoms equipment could contract around 5 percent this year.

In 2004 Altima, which wanted to expand its business in Ukraine further, suggested that VimpelCom buy another Ukrainian telecoms firm.

Might the prime minister, exposed over a long-running telecoms scam, fall next?

Space on the radio spectrum is the most valuable raw material in mobile telecoms, India's most dynamic industry.

TV companies could instead sell their holdings to telecoms companies directly.

To their credit, France's authorities have backed Mr Niel all the way from broadband into content and now mobile telecoms.

The growing trade is being driven by the power and telecoms equipment sectors.

In the UK, Cable and Wireless, the telecoms group, faces a shareholder revolt over uncapped bonuses.

By contrast, Europe's trust busters have acted to free up access to telecoms networks in France and Germany.

The fastest-growing areas will be telecoms, banking, retailing and manufacturing.

China Mobile is looking for ways to drive growth as competition in the telecoms sector is intensifying.

a telecoms consultancy in Delhi, thinks 3G could have been launched as early as 2006 if the government had put its mind to it.

That is a question the computer and telecoms industries hate to hear.

Last June it agreed to pool its telecoms equipment business with Nokia, a leader in wireless systems.

Portugal Telecom signed an agreement with China's Huawei Technologies for the joint development of fibre-optic and other telecoms services.

It is a market leader in some technologies: a data-communications service for investors is being taken up by the telecoms industry, too.

The telecoms operator added that a court order would be needed before any blocking could begin.

Finally, here's a design instance of the new service, charging telecoms fees.

Huawei, a telecoms company, already supplies handsets to Vodafone, the world's biggest mobile operator.

Temasek's recent takeover of Shin Corp, the Thai telecoms group, underscored the need to watch political conditions.