Without a legal framework, telecoms operators find it hard to sign deals with payment services.
The company began to expand there in the 1990s as the region's state-owned telecoms operators were privatised.
After years of bumper profits, telecoms operators are facing more competition and are having to cut costs.
Fancier tablets could become cheaper, however, if mobile-telecoms operators were to subsidise them, as they do with handsets.
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At its height, says Andrew Heaney of Spectrum, a consultancy, telecoms operators built seven years'-worth of capacity in a single year.
They included substituting an existing levy on French telecoms operators that helps subsidise film-making with a new tax based on their revenues.
JDS' record loss is just the latest blow to a sector already reeling from the sudden slump in sales to telecoms operators.
Outsiders feared that telecoms operators would cut investment on such things, because of the huge sums they had spent to win third-generation wireless licences.
Telecoms operators use algorithms to establish the quickest connections for phone calls through their networks or to retrieve web pages speedily from the internet.
The business of laying fibre-optic cable, both terrestrially and under the sea, used to be the preserve of incumbent telecoms operators sharing the burden of capital-intensive projects.
In many countries telecoms operators have been converting some of their last-mile connections to high-speed fibre-optic links, though cable networks and telephone wires still account for most last-mile connections.
Fixed and mobile telecoms operators, and cable TV operators, will take a 23% share, and managed service providers will account for the remaining 2% of enterprise cloud-based services revenue.
Brazil hopes to turn its tardiness in privatising Telebras to advantage, by avoiding the mistakes made in countries such as Mexico and Argentina, which granted a seven-year monopoly to private telecoms operators.
Mobile telecoms operators are also collaborating among themselves.
What's more the regulator may be more concerned about the submissions from the telecoms operators who are at war over how the auction should operate and muttering about legal action if it doesn't work the way they think it should.
The appearance of new VOIP providers in the past two years has come amid a battle for customers between traditional telecoms firms and cable operators.
It made China the world's largest telecoms market and created fat profits for operators.
DoCoMo's i-mode mobile internet service has surprised some analysts with the scale of its popularity and encouraged other operators worldwide over the prospects for next-generation mobile telecoms.
The other operators are currently bidding for licences in an auction run by telecoms watchdog Ofcom.
Almost immediately, the newly empowered telecoms ombudsman blew the whistle on a simultaneous price increase by mobile-phone operators.
India's own telecoms commission had wanted to liberalise only gradually, by allowing just four private operators to bid for licences.
Telecoms incumbents, keen to grab a slice of the action, tried to turn themselves into global operators through the expansion of their existing networks and the acquisition of foreign firms.
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