But moving from sewing clothes to building phone networks requires more than nimbler hands.
Right now, Titans are commonplace in the central switching offices of phone networks across the country.
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The Home Affairs Committee continues its investigation into phone hacking with witnesses from the phone networks.
Mobile phone networks have reportedly been disrupted, leaving millions without access to text messaging or phone calls.
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Koso bought his new communications systems from Thinking Phone Networks, a provider of unified communications technology.
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What matters is who has access to data and phone networks and whether or not you trust them.
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Heat, lack of easy access to water and overwhelmed cell-phone networks led to streams of complaints across the Internet.
So Dhanin is shaking up his empire, focusing on core operations: agri-business, retail and TelecomAsia, which operates fixed-line and mobile phone networks.
Cheaper phones, cheaper phone networks, lower priced internet access and so on.
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Adoption has been even stronger in businesses, where corporations can replace their expensive phone networks and save money routing calls over their computer network.
Starting with a pager service, Thaksin went on to pioneer mobile phone networks in Thailand and moved on to launch the country's first telecoms satellites.
Metro networks have phone gear like digital cross-connects, which manage high-and low-speed traffic, and synchronous optical network (Sonet) systems, which come from fiber-optic phone networks.
Mobile phone networks in London became overloaded on the day of the attacks as millions of people called friends and relatives to check they were safe.
The device, initially built to support data services on basic 2G phone networks, will be "relevant to 80% of the world, particularly in the emerging markets, " he said.
It commended the traditional fixed and mobile phone networks in the UK in this respect, but raised a flag about the introduction of the newer 4G cellular systems.
Globalstar's 48 birds act more like flying antennas, carrying calls to switching systems on the ground that are simple to operate and are linked into local phone networks.
Correspondents say the confusion in the city has been made worse by the collapse of mobile phone networks, and long queues have formed for the payphones still working.
Checking e-mail on your phone is still a chore, and because the phone networks are still building their broadband networks, even getting online with WAP can prove difficult.
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It has issued a series of explosive investigative reports, the most devastating of which came in late 2010, detailing a multi-billion-dollar scam over licences for 2G mobile-phone networks.
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Mobile-phone networks are an important market, but a specialised one.
The Asha 501, initially built to support data services on basic second-generation phone networks, will be "relevant to 80% of the world, particularly in the emerging markets, " he said.
"HD Voice is part of our voice-over-LTE strategy, " said Rinne, speaking at the VentureBeat Mobile Summit in Sausalito, California, speaking of the next generation of cellular phone networks.
Leeds-based interactive company Poulternet has helped develop the technology for the show, which will be able to receive messages in an instantly broadcastable format from all mobile phone networks.
The FCC is being urged to include rules that would ease the way for open, flexible cell-phone networks when it sets the rules for an upcoming auction of the wireless spectrum.
Libya has two state-run mobile phone networks and both have a tendency to bombard the population here with a variety of local information and reminders, including anniversaries of what are deemed to be historic events.
Virgin said it did not have the rights necessary to offer it over 3G or 4G phone networks - although other functions such as setting a Tivo recording from a remote location would be possible via cellular connections.
Similarly, while Apple's OS X's user interface is not just easy to use but engaging, it's just a candy shell built around the kind of tried-and-true Unix software that's powered everything from phone networks to computer science labs for a generation.
The irony is that, while the world's telecoms firms spend a fortune building third-generation mobile-phone networks, even though they are not sure that anybody wants them, in many parts of the world they seem unable or unwilling to provide broadband connections at reasonable prices, even though customers want them.
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