Long-term contracts allow telecom providers to absorb premium pricing and pass subsidized pricing along to consumers.
But it has been losing market share since then as a result of competition from satellite pay-TV providers and telecom operators as well as budding online platforms like Netflix and Google TV.
But challenges include the long-awaited shake-up of China's telecoms sector, which could see the market becoming fiercely competitive with the entry of fixed-line and broadband providers China Telecom and China Netcom.
Swapping data between computer and phone systems -- for mail-order, home- banking and other service providers -- is an ideal growth business for a computer and telecom equipment maker like Oki, he says.
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.
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.
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Analysts surmise that Towerstream, like a lot of small telecom providers, will want to sell out in a few years--possibly to the same companies it's challenging now--and owning 700-MHz spectrum should help it attract suitors.
Swapping data between computer and phone systems -- for mail order, home banking and other service providers -- is an ideal growth business for a computer and telecom equipment maker like Oki, he says.
Intel also continues to drive access to content on Intel-based devices by working with video service providers around the globe such as Comcast and Bouygues Telecom to create television experiences that will allow customers to view live and on-demand pay TV content.
Michigan Bell Telephone, the Court unanimously upheld an FCC regulation requiring providers of local telephone services to make the entrance facilities of their telecom networks available to competitors at cost-based rates.
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