Cable firm NTL said in August it had 300, 000 high speed subscribers, while the UK's second cable operator, Telewest, claimed 192, 000 broadband customers in the higher band of 152 kilobits per second.
In 1994, they licensed a second mobile operator, China Unicom, under a rival ministry.
Privatisation is another avenue being explored: the second national telecoms operator must have a black-owned partner that controls 19% of the new operation.
Vodafone, the world's second largest mobile operator after China Mobile, will end its sponsorship deal with the McLaren team at the end of the 2013 season.
Time Warner Cable, the U.S.' second-largest operator, says it has no plans to switch to TV Guide Interactive from the Scientific-Atlanta and Pioneer guides it now uses even though its parent AOL is in the middle of a long-term license agreement with Gemstar.
He had built North Star Steel, a division of privately held Cargill, into the second-biggest minimill operator behind Nucor Corp. (a minimill starts with scrap rather than ore).
That has limited its ability to finance further investment in its most valuable assets, such as Cegetel, France's second-largest telephone operator, of which Vivendi owns 44% and Mannesmann 15%.
Although the firm runs a successful telecoms business, Infostrada, as well as Omnitel, Italy's second cell-phone operator, Roberto Colaninno, the chief executive, and his team cannot claim credit for this.
Scaglia in five years transformed the Olivetti subsidiary, Omnitel Pronto Italia, into Europe's second-largest national wireless operator, stepping down when Olivetti bought Telecom Italia in 1999.
Its 29 ports around the world would help Singapore's PSA, the second-biggest container port operator in the world, to gain ground on the industry leader, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.
Its 29 ports around the world would help Singapore's PSA, the second-biggest container port operator in the world, to gain ground on the industry leader, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. of Hong Kong.
Time Warner is the second largest cable-TV operator in the U.S. Through its networks AOL can begin to offer high-speed "broadband" services such as video-on-demand and music sales over the Web to a mass market.
Number two operator Time Warner comes in a far distant second, with 10.9 million and the No. 3 operator, Cox Communications (nyse: COX - news - people ), has only 6.3 million subscribers.
On April 1st Vodacom, a large South African telecoms firm, proudly announced a five-year deal to manage Econet Wireless Nigeria, the west African country's second-largest mobile-network operator.
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Shareholders in MegaFon, Russia's second-biggest mobile-phone operator, agreed to a management reshuffle that gives control of the company to Alisher Usmanov, one of Russia's business oligarchs, and paves the way for an IPO in London.
The second glaring item of the many problems that the operator has faced was the failure of the newly designed remote control guns that Schlumberger insisted would successfully perforate the casing.
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Greek companies have acquired Albania's fast-growing mobile-phone operator and a licence to set up a second cellular network.
The time-share operator would queue up an assortment of customers so that not a second of processor time went to waste.
Bright House Networks is the sixth largest owner and operator of cable systems in the U.S. and the second largest in Florida with technologically advanced systems located in five states including Florida, Alabama, Indiana, Michigan and California.
The second releases T-Mobile from the potential tyranny that subsidies place on a network operator.
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His second-largest holding, Carso Global Telecom, which controls ubiquitous fixed-line operator Telmex, has jumped 15% in that time.
Cox is the first and only U.S. multichannel video operator to offer individualized recommendations for video on the television and on the second screen.
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In Britain mobile operator Vodafone is doubling its mobile broadband capacity to 14.4Mbps (Megabits per second).
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