But Riis must first find a new sponsor after the departure of CSC's main backer, Italian Internet and telecoms firm Tiscali.
Al Girardi, a defence attorney who specialises in internet and telecoms privacy, sees this, along with the Jones case, as a "watershed" moment.
In a previous incarnation, Marconi was the defence and electronics firm GEC, a cash-rich industrial giant which had begun to look staid as the fashion for high-growth internet and telecoms stocks took hold in the late 1990s.
The centre-right Alliance government first presented proposals in early 2007 aimed at allowing the National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA), a state intelligence agency, to monitor a wider range of Internet and telecoms traffic into and out of Sweden.
As more voice minutes are switched to the Internet and traditional telecoms firms react, marketing and service costs are likely to rise, narrowing the price-gap over time.
And most of that traffic comes into the headquarters of Energis Squared, the internet arm of its telecoms parent group Energis.
Vivendi is a media, telecoms and Internet company still in the process of emerging from its origins as a state-owned water-and-waste utility.
VSNL, the government's international telecoms and internet operator, and two petroleum corporations.
Investors will also converge on the compelling opportunities in core economic sectors such as banking, mobile telecoms, internet, electricity, building materials, and food processing.
After the constitutional court overturned a law in March that required telecoms and internet firms to make records available to police, the CDU and CSU clamoured for a robust replacement.
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Such services, which make possible very cheap (or even free) calls by routing part or all of each call over the internet, have forced traditional telecoms firms to cut their prices.
Telecoms firms and Internet-access providers are concerned that, under some countries' laws, they would be liable for content travelling over their networks and so would have to start monitoring and filtering it.
Over the next decade or so, the information-technology revolution is widely seen as being the main driver of growth, and since the rich economies, notably America, have a vast lead in the development and use of computers, telecoms and the Internet, some people worry that this will inevitably cause the gap between the developed and the developing worlds to widen further.
The world of electronic communications is full of examples of bundling, such as the charging arrangements offered by telecoms companies and by internet-service providers.
The competitor they most fear is Cisco Systems, the company that dominates the corporate-data world, supplies more than 80% of the equipment that powers the Internet and is now increasingly selling equipment to telecoms carriers too.
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One suggestion, supported by telecoms firms, consumer groups and Internet activists, is that the section covering intellectual property should be excluded from the convention, so that the agreement applies only to disputes over the sale of goods and services.
If people are unable to easily access the internet they can contact the department at the following address: Telecoms Branch, Netherleigh, Belfast, BT4 2JP.
In short, even though Internet traffic continues to grow and mobile phones remain popular, telecoms firms bet everything on a surge in demand that has so far failed to materialise.
MCI, two American telecoms firms which between them control many of the Internet's fibres and routers, American officials may rule on the merger in one way, and those of the European Union the other.
And, finally, the Internet now allows pricing information to be made available to anyone, telecoms insider or not.
The most obvious spillover effect of the telecoms boom was that the oversupply sent the price of internet traffic plunging.
Broadcast television has only one (advertising), satellite television has one and a half (subscriptions and a bit of advertising), and telecoms companies have two (telephone and high-speed Internet).
The burgeoning industry of low-cost internet calling is not required to uphold classic (and often cumbersome) telecoms rules.
At first, companies wanted merely to place their servers with their telecoms carrier, in order to have dedicated access to the Internet.
In addition, the NGO Telecoms Sans Frontieres, which specializes in restoring phone lines and Internet service in disasters, is ready to send a team of experts and equipment.
The world of telecoms is in rapid flux as the data explosion generated by the Internet and the arrival of competition from well-financed and aggressive upstarts turns the old order upside down.
The UK telecoms watchdog has accused Altavista UK of making false promises over its failed unmetered internet access service and then trying to shift the blame on British Telecom.
Both produce handsets but also the basic telecoms infrastructure that's so essential in the age of cell phones and the Internet.
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