The fixed-line telecoms division has been a consistent loss maker for Siemens in recent months.
Huawei, the telecoms infrastructure giant - virtually unknown as a phone brand in many parts of the world.
"He has nothing to lose, " Mark Davis, telecoms analyst at West LB Panmure said.
Oftel, the telecoms regulator, says it cannot predict how demand in certain areas will change.
But his real breakthrough came with the explosion of the telecoms industry in the late 1980s.
After seeing YPF's fate, Spanish banks, utilities and telecoms firms may also look for the exits.
The telecoms regulator Ofcom will consult soon on various proposals to make contracts fairer.
WorldCom is another big telecoms group, but its problems dwarfed those at Global Crossing.
In return, BT could transform itself into a provider of comprehensive telecoms and data services worldwide.
Microsoft has already struck similar deals with telecoms provider Qualcomm in the United States.
In Scandinavia, says Mr Paltridge, the cable infrastructure is often owned by incumbent telecoms firms.
The Dallas metroplex is strong in telecoms, aerospace, distribution (four interstate highways converge there) and banking.
The eponymous Orascom conglomerate, which he helped found, is involved construction, telecoms and hotels.
It is still unlikely that any of the big telecoms companies will actually go bankrupt.
The high yield universe excluding telecoms did not exactly knock the cover off the ball.
So Viviane Reding, the European Union's commissioner responsible for telecoms, is right to step in.
Who was there to caution against the mad stampede of telecoms firms into fibre-optic cable?
TDC, a Danish telecoms company acquired last year in Europe's largest leveraged buy-out so far.
The company is good at selling data and other telecoms services to its corporate customers.
Nancy Kaplan of Adventis, a telecoms consultancy, thinks that any attempt to restructure WorldCom will fail.
The flood damage knocked out websites and forced telecoms carriers to reroute international traffic.
Venezuela's fixed line telecoms market is dominated by CANTV, owned by US firm Verizon Communications.
Google is suing BT, claiming the British telecoms group has infringed a number of its technologies.
The other operators are currently bidding for licences in an auction run by telecoms watchdog Ofcom.
The struggling telecoms equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks is cutting 17, 000 jobs, 23% of its workforce.
Huawei, a telecoms company, already supplies handsets to Vodafone, the world's biggest mobile operator.
PCCW, Hong Kong's incumbent telecoms company, ended this week before it had even properly begun.
Nepal says that the rebels are destroying water systems, telecoms equipment and other useful materials.
Britain's telecoms regulator, Oftel, has been criticised for failing to crack the whip over British Telecom.
Mr Morales scared off investment by nationalising the natural-gas industry, telecoms and parts of mining.
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