Founder of Internet and telecom company SoftBank bet heavily on mobile phones by snapping up Japan's Vodafone unit.
It might feel good at first, but as post-1980s Japan and the post-2000 internet and telecom sectors show, bubbles have nasty aftereffects.
Janus is still living with the reputation of having been mutual fund company 12 years ago that focused on growth stocks such as internet and telecom stocks.
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D. who never practiced, he has keen interests in space and ocean exploration, genomics and the Internet, telecom and artificial intelligence, hyperfast electric cars and epic environmental disasters.
First, there's the wireless Internet access with Telecom Italia, which has 3 million mobile phone customers in Brazil.
Often, Internet service or telecom providers, or providers of DDoS mitigation services are able to use this headroom and other creative techniques to mitigate DDoS effects.
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First, there's the wireless Internet access with Telecom Italia.
After a few years in graduate school and a stint overseas teaching ESL in Cheju Island, South Korea, I returned to the east coast (Boston) and immersed myself in high-tech trends working for Pinestream Communications, where I edited two high-tech insider investment newsletters, Mobile Internet Times and Telecom Trends.
However mighty Microsoft is, it knows nothing about the telecom or Internet space.
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This was a cute technical trick, but one that lacked an application until the Internet explosion put traditional telecom networks, designed for voice traffic, under strain.
In a sense, the foray by Google and Amazon into financing resembles the wave of loans made by big telecom and Internet gear makers to their customers in the late 1990s.
To improve technology access, Microsoft also announced the deployment of a pilot project with the Kenyan Ministry of Information and Communications and Kenyan Internet service provider Indigo Telecom Ltd. to deliver low-cost, high-speed, wireless broadband and create new opportunities for commerce, education, healthcare and delivery of government services across Kenya.
"They are gearing up to fight new competitors, the cable-television industry, for the complete bundle of services, including telephone, television, wireless and Internet, " said independent telecom analyst Jeff Kagan.
Both bills are a show of opposition against a potential change to the telecommunications treaty that could expand control from telecom operators to internet companies like Facebook and Google.
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The routers will be deployed over the course of the year, and used by China Telecom's Internet Service Provider, ChinaNet , which has a backbone covering 300 cities in 31 provinces, and provides connectivity speeds of 2.5 Gbps.
Telecom provider Sprint and Internet service provider EarthLink announced today that they will revise their alliance forged in 1998.
The Chinese IP address identified by the South Korean communications regulator belongs to an Internet services company, Beijing Teletron Telecom Engineering Co.
In order to focus on their cellular-phone business, SK Telecom folded their NetsGo internet service provider and Lycos Korea into their subsidiary SK Communications in November 2002.
Satellites will need to accelerate and broaden the scope of transmission to cope with the expected growth of data traffic unleashed by the Internet and to carry it to the telecom fringe.
The9, established in 1999 as one of the leading game developers and operators in China, has stepped into the mobile internet field and now working with major telecom carriers and application distribution channels in China with high speed growth.
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Sixty-six million people access the Internet via their handsets, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
For now, Wall Street believes in Cisco chief John Chambers, the Billy Graham of Internet Protocol, who proselytizes that the entire telecom world will make a fast conversion to IP, abandoning the "circuit switch" networks in which Lucent reigns.
Belize Telecom blocked access to Godfrey's Internet site even though it was located in Los Angeles.
It was a classic battle between telecom carriers and the upstarts of the Internet service provider industry.
Juniper Networks, which provides Internet Protocol networking products and services, mainly emphasizing telecom routing solutions, is another favorite short of DelVecchio.
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Four veterans of the old telecom and computer worlds are stepping into Internet-based communications, with an eye to replacing some of the businesses they helped build.
O3b, by contrast, intends to offer bandwidth on a wholesale basis to internet-service providers, and transmission services to telecom operators, to link remote base stations to their core networks.
This epic battle pits some of the Internet's largest firms against the world's telecom giants.
Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people) signed a contract with China Telecom to provide 500 Cisco 12000 and 12400 Internet routers.
Eighty-six percent of SK Telecom's mobile-phone customers have wireless Internet capability on their handsets.
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