Vodafone AirTouch also plans to sell to multinationals that want a single company to handle all their mobile-communications needs.
Ultimately, that means our approach to communications needs to evolve.
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The Federal Communications Commission needs to jettison its outdated view of spectrum rights.
An FCC that can't recognize the damage compulsion will do to the future of communications wealth needs to be brought to heel and replaced with alternative institutions.
The Federal Communications Commission still needs to approve Verizon's spectrum purchase.
Seeing to Bush's political needs is Communications Director Karen Hughes, a strong-willed personal friend of the candidate who won't hesitate to correct a reporter's question asked of Bush, even in midsentence.
Ninety-four percent of executives believe that top management needs additional training in core communications disciplines.
The deal still needs approval from the Federal Communications Commission and Sprint's stockholders, who are scheduled to vote June 12.
The disruption could be especially severe if the upstarts not only make calling dirt-cheap or free, but also find ways to help consumers with jobs such as simplifying their communications as a whole or meeting their needs for privacy.
Addressing such issues is certainly a communications challenge, but the real strategic focus needs to be on doing real stuff first.
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The complexity of our current system demands better communications across agencies and a holistic approach to the challenges and needs facing our public lands.
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Satellites for communications, GPS, remote resource sensing, weather forecasting, agribusiness needs.
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The deal between Sprint Nextel and Nextel Partners still needs to be approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice.
"I'm not convinced that the prospect for universal messaging on one mailbox can handle all your needs, " says Seamus McAteer, senior analyst at Jupiter Communications (JPTR).
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The solution: For a few billion dollars, Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) could get into the phone business itself, buying the spectrum it needs to offer not just voice service for all those iPhone users, but to build the broadband wireless links it needs to offer next generation, network-centric computing, communications and entertainment.
But for debt-laden new owners like 34-year-old communications executive Daniel Snyder, revenue-sharing doesn't begin to meet their needs.
Together with the complementary technology forces of social, mobile, the cloud, and unified communications, big data brings countless new opportunities for learning about customers and their wants and needs.
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However, Greenpeace said that Apple still needs to work on greater supply chain transparency, both in reporting greenhouse gas emissions and disclosing communications about chemicals management.
In January 2012, Mr Gove announced he was replacing the information and communications technology (ICT) curriculum in schools with a more challenging computer science curriculum, developed to meet the needs of technology firms.
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