In 1998 he took CapRock public by merging with IWL Communications, a Houston-based wireless telephone company rich with engineers.

FORBES: Fiber in the sagebrush

In 1998 he took CapRock public by merging with IWL Communications, a Houston-based wireless telephone company that is rich with engineers.

FORBES: Fiber in the sagebrush

Satellite telephones should also be useful in shipping and aviation, as well as in less-developed countries that lack either modern fixed-wire or wireless telephone infrastructures.

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They can vigorously enforce antitrust laws and maintain a pro-competitive bias to securing equal access for service providers to such networks as telephone, wireless and cable systems.

ECONOMIST: Regulating the Internet

"They are gearing up to fight new competitors, the cable-television industry, for the complete bundle of services, including telephone, television, wireless and Internet, " said independent telecom analyst Jeff Kagan.

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