For Telefonica of Spain and France Telecom , that means more regulatory headaches, but for BT Group, which sold its cellphone division to its Spanish rival in 2005, being a purely fixed line operator suddenly seems much more attractive.

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"It's the dominant fixed-line operator because it had a monopoly until recently, " he says.

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His second-largest holding, Carso Global Telecom, which controls ubiquitous fixed-line operator Telmex, has jumped 15% in that time.

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To adjust the imbalance, Beijing has scheduled China Unicom to take over fixed-line operator China Netcom (See " Beijing Smiles On China Unicom").

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His second-largest holding, Carso Global Telecom (other-otc: CGTVY - news - people ), which controls ubiquitous fixed-line operator Telmex, has jumped 15% in that time.

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China Mobile's largest rival, China Unicom, will be able to rid itself of a cumbersome, overlapping network using the CDMA standard, which is incompatible with its more popular GSM-based network, by selling it to the country's fixed-line operator, China Telecom.

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Cellular phone companies Smartcom and Piltel and international gateway operator Philcom have yet to install fixed lines.

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There could be a scheme whereby the lottery operator simply gets a management fee (otherwise known as a fixed profit).

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Star Cruises, a major cruise operator in Asia, is clearly poised to satisfy the leisure appetites of this "fixed-income" demographic.

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