In today's competitive telecom world Bell Labs is far more focused on the marketplace.
Those kinds of numbers are increasingly attracting the attention of kid-centric companies outside the telecom world.
David Rohde: My concern in the telecom world is less the day after than the month after.
He sees fibermakers as stuck in the old, slow-moving telecom world.
Such technology could reorder the telecom world in short order.
For now, Wall Street believes in Cisco chief John Chambers, the Billy Graham of Internet Protocol, who proselytizes that the entire telecom world will make a fast conversion to IP, abandoning the "circuit switch" networks in which Lucent reigns.
"For all the talk coming out of Cisco about adding Old World technology to their Internet products, it's really up to companies like Lucent and Nortel, who actually have experience in the old telecom world, to make it happen, " says Hilary Mine of Probe Research.
If Milroy is half as successful in green technology as he was in telecom, the world will be using chemicals made from willow trees before too long.
But in the new world of telecom and media, the lines can blur.
In other words, it wants to be all things to all people in the complicated world of telecom services.
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This was unusual: China Mobile is the largest mobile telecom operator in the world (more than 522 million subscribers as of March 2010), and it was not used to NOT having its way in business negotiations with any company.
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This epic battle pits some of the Internet's largest firms against the world's telecom giants.
China is the largest mobile subscriber market in the world and China Telecom has about 106 million subscribers.
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Hong Kong Telecom plans to bring the world's first commercial video-on-demand service to the territory this year, the first step toward full-scale interactive television.
So as the world turns in telecom, we know one thing.
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It is like the As The World Turns of Telecom.
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European telecom firms have been some of the highest-yielding companies in the world for the past few years, and France Telecom is no exception.
But the scale of the threat was highlighted earlier this week when the chairman of China Mobile - the world's largest telecom carrier - said his firm was now more concerned about the challenge posed by Microsoft's Skype and Tencent's WeChat services than it was about competition from China's rival mobile networks.
Investors say the speed and transparency of Morocco's telecom reforms are unparalleled in the Arab world.
Hanaro, the country's top seller of broadband access, and its nemesis, Korea Telecom , are racing to build the world's most advanced wireless Internet infrastructure.
At least one other firm plans to announce high-definition, multi-user video chat for mobile devices at Mobile World Congress, the big telecom trade show, this week.
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Wireless unit head Ralph de la Vega is scheduled to give a keynote speech on digital content at the Mobile World Congress, the global telecom trade show, in Barcelona next week.
And it has a respectable business plan: to provide telecom services to those parts of the world where wireless or fixed-line service doesn't really exist--Equatorial Africa and the upper reaches of the Amazon--or where it's inadequate, as in many areas of Africa, India and Latin America.
Mobile phones in India are not subsidized by telecom operators, unlike other parts of the world.
The world's third-largest telecom equipment maker saw its earnings and net margin impeded by the 2006 acquisition of Britain's ailing Marconi.
Huawei already has hefty backbone contracts in Canada and New Zealand and is becoming one of the world's largest suppliers of telecom infrastructure, on top of its high ranking as a handset maker.
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Barrett said Intel was committed to delivering IT access to the developing world, and was helping Sri Lanka Telecom set up south Asia's first long-range WIMAX wireless network, which we're presuming won't be a wind-up system.
Barrett said Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) was committed to delivering IT access to the developing world, and was helping Sri Lanka Telecom set up south Asia's first long-range WIMAX wireless network, which we're presuming won't be a wind-up system.
Huawei is the world's second-largest maker of telecom equipment behind Telefon AB L.M.
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This was also the time of the telecom revolution in India and other parts of the developing world, he recalls.
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