"You could just as well convict the chairman of Deutsche Telekom, " which provides the telecommunications access, he said.
In Gaza, continued connectivity is the goal in a territory where telecommunications access is almost entirely controlled by Israel.
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First, wireless telecommunications requires access to a finite resource in the exclusive control of the government: wireless spectrum.
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According to Mr Baquero, the number of Venezuelan households able to access telecommunications services has risen from 7% to 50% since privatisation.
In partnership with the likes of MIT and Georgia Tech, Pirelli Labs is studying telecommunications technologies like broadband access and photonics, which can feed back into Tel Italia, and new materials for tires and environmental cleanup.
The World Summit on the Information Society being organized by ITU in co-operation with UNESCO and other UN agencies in December this year, with a second round in 2005, will need to tackle head-on the problem of inequitable access to telecommunications and the handicap this poses for global development.
Kalil's words echoed a theme repeated by administration officials for the past several days, as Clinton traveled from California to New Mexico to Illinois to argue his case that lower-income and rural residents must have ready access to modern telecommunications and computers.
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He said Dell's customers are telling the company they prefer the idea of mobile Internet access via wireless notebook computers, using technology such as the Bluetooth and 802.11 standards as well as emerging wireless telecommunications technology such as GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), wideband CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System).
The lack of information resources is particular glaring in the context of access to the Internet and computers in Nepal, where the International Telecommunications Union estimates that only 6, 9 percent of the population has access to the networks.
However, the conventional wisdom was that Comcast had won itself a battle but would ultimately lose the war in spectacular fashion, since the obvious move for the FCC would have been to reclassify broadband access as a Title II "telecommunications service, " which is the same way the agency regulates wireline phones, and ISPs would have suddenly found themselves in a regulatory nightmare.
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In any other business it would be a home run, but the twisted economics of dial-up access have left the New York City telecommunications giant disappointed.
The company also holds stakes in Asian telecommunications companies planning to deliver broadband and wireless net access, among them a joint venture with NTTDoCoMo in Japan and Korea's Thrunet.
Instead of making life difficult for anybody in Japan wanting to offer Internet access to the public, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has lately been issuing licences to all and sundry.
According to figures by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia, internet access in Mexico has risen from 2.7% of the population in 2000 to 29.4% in 2010, bringing over 32, 000, 000 million people online.
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One substantial achievement, announced earlier this month, will make it much easier for Tribes to gain access to USDA funding for water and sewer improvement projects, electrical system upgrades and telecommunications services including broadband.
If the court rules against the cable companies, agreeing with the 9th Circuit that cable contains elements of a telecommunications service, it could give new life to small ISPs like Brand X, allowing them access to cable networks and providing a new stream of revenue.
Telecommunications experts predict that most GSM countries will adopt a 3G standard known as Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA).
In my professional view, this transaction would deny the United States reliable and secure access to a vital - and, as a practical matter, irreplaceable - world-wide telecommunications infrastructure.
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