Also, as more Chinese telecom companies, such as China Mobile and China Telecom, jump in on the opportunity to tap the growing demand for data-intensive plans that iPhone users are likely to use, they will try and subsidize the smartphones for their consumers in return for long-term contracts.
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More importantly, these telecom companies offer services to individual subscribers whereas Netflix is more like a household subscription service.
K. Shin, co-chief executive of Samsung, said the company is also open to other operating platforms like Tizen to give consumers and telecom operators more flexibility.
Huawei Technologies expects to see a strong recovery in profitability as the company continues to push into new markets amid more cautious spending by telecom operators.
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But it may be even more meaningful for the telecom sector as a whole, where mergers between service providers have left only a few carriers to buy hardware from many vendors.
More critically, the telecom carriers are getting mobile phones into the hands of just about everyone in just about every country, but established financial institutions are not current with new banking technology and are therefore, unable to capitalize on this dynamic new business channel.
There are more than 1, 000 telecom operators worldwide, each with their own geographic footprint.
They sell their products at a much more reasonable rate to the telecom giants in China.
The new country is lacking in basic infrastructure such as schools, hospitals, good roads, telecom, and more.
New York saddles telecom companies with more returns than any other state: 5, 632.
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In contrast, telecom consolidation resembles more of a "march of madness, " he said.
Its telecom sales grew more than 50% last year and may expand even faster as Korea continues to make big investments in information technology.
Nievert is the only CEO of a major telecom operator with more than a quarter of a century of executive experience in the industry (she's been with Telia for 37 years).
To deal with this millstone, Pirelli will need to do much more than merely service it using Telecom Italia's dividend flows.
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"A high payout in the European telecom sector is nowadays more a danger signal that the dividend yield is not sustainable, " he adds.
"We continue to be selected by large global partners including Samsung, Lenovo, Fujitsu, France Telecom-Orange and more to provide the benefits of the Cloud to their users, " said Yecies.
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.
This is in contrast to the more expensive and slow-growth telecom, utilities and consumer staples groups, which were bid up in 2011 as investors took refuge in them for their high dividend yields and elevated payout ratios and safety.
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Telecom providers believe that millions more Americans would use high-speed broadband Internet connections if only they could solve the so-called "last mile" problem.
The telecom firm currently operates in more than 140 countries.
Indeed, we're beginning to believe that the market may just be catching up to our understanding that investment in fiber-optic capacity would once again begin to grow as longer-haul networks reached uncomfortable capacity constraints and telecom carriers began to invest more seriously in their long-term viability.
Telecom spending is leveling off, more so than most other types of consumer expenditures.
In today's competitive telecom world Bell Labs is far more focused on the marketplace.
Insurance and payroll taxes cost more here, he discovered, and the telecom bill is higher.
His holdings in telecom, banking, tobacco and more are among the largest--and most valuable--in Mexico.
Given all that, Telecom Italia may end up looking more modern than Olivetti as a result of the bid.
Telecom will in that sense be more like a cloud computing business.
India's smartphone market, "may not have the capacity to take more and more new entrants, " Faisal Kawoosa, a telecom analyst at the research unit of Cyber Media India Ltd.
"The wireless and wireline phone companies that are the customers of these equipment makers have been merging for years, creating a more difficult environment to compete in, " says telecom analyst Jeff Kagan.
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