Advances in telecommunications were responsible for a massive consolidation of the world's stock exchanges.
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One sticking point was that foreigners could not own a controlling stake in telecommunications companies.
Just last week, he landed a contract position in telecommunications and quit working at the supermarket.
It was 1988, and at age 22 he saw the future lay in telecommunications.
However, weakening global economic conditions worked against our sales results in Telecommunications and Environmental Technologies.
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In addition to its airports, the Abertis Group also has international interests in telecommunications infrastructure and toll roads.
Eric Spicer, from Woodbridge, was made an OBE after a career in telecommunications.
In its majority opinion, the Supreme Court said that lower court judges should defer to the FCC's expertise in telecommunications matters.
In telecommunications, mobile phones have for years been disrupting the incumbent fixed-line providers, but now they themselves are in danger of overshooting.
But for all the interdependence of the global economy, few networks are truly global apart from those in telecommunications, airlines and the financial system.
Given the ongoing drought in capital spending and the ugly overall situation in telecommunications, it's not difficult to understand why Andrew's profits have suffered.
Partner at Wiley Rein, a law firm that specializes in telecommunications.
Veba has invested DM8 billion in telecommunications since 1994 (nearly 20% of its capital expenditures) and plans to invest at least DM1.8 billion more by 2003.
Prices fell by 32% over the period, but real income soared 110% amid robust economic growth, expanded trade and enormous innovation in telecommunications and other industries.
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U. member nations--is a hotbed of activity in telecommunications, spurred in great part by cellphone giant Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ).
These products are used in telecommunications networks, computer-controlled systems, security systems, emergency lighting, electric utilities and switchgear, medical equipment, rail signaling, renewable energy, and military and aviation equipment.
This runs counter to the conventional wisdom of the past few decades, which held that improvements in telecommunications always lead to more physical travel, rather than less.
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Going ahead, Seidenberg may be looking to build the company's mobile phone business, which is already the one of the fastest growing and most profitable sectors in telecommunications.
Many data center providers started in telecommunications and Internet services.
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This shift to smaller-scaled cities, as Michigan State's Zachary Neal points out, has been conditioned by massive improvements in telecommunications and transportation infrastructure throughout the urban world.
He made his fortune primarily in telecommunications, retail and mining.
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But the biggest application, of course, should be in telecommunications.
The UK's past investment in the Esa programme called Artes ( Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems) has generated an economic return for the UK of more than six to one.
Over the last few years, he has also made significant investments in telecommunications companies in Algeria and Senegal and financial institutions all across Africa through Kingdom Zephyr Africa Management Company.
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So his team is positioning the fund for the future by investing in telecommunications companies with good cash flow - likely candidates to benefit from the convergence of telephony and computers.
The companies also welcomed the plan to raise the limit on foreign investment in telecommunications to 100% and said they will continue investing, competing and finding ways to lower prices to consumers.
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Huge problems await the next government: social unrest in the oil-producing areas of the Niger Delta, grinding poverty in the north, everywhere a collapse of long-neglected infrastructure, particularly in telecommunications and electricity.
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