Since then WinStar has become one of the largest fixed-point wireless telecom services companies in the country.
Wireless telecom is letting both leapfrog a hard-wire era that they largely missed, and the social Web is responding.
His net worth doubled in two years, thanks mostly to the stock run-up of pan-Latin American wireless telecom outfit Am??rica M??vil.
Also this month, a joint venture of wireless telecom carriers delayed its first big test of a mobile-payments service in Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City.
Slim's wealth continues to soar, largely on the strength of his wireless telecom company, America Movil (nyse: AMX - news - people ), of which he owns 30% and which is up 36% this year.
Despite falling prices for high-speed bandwidth and wireless service, telecom budgets keep growing because of increased usage and new services such as virtual private networks, voice-mail storage and Web hosting.
Much recent broadband policy has focused on wireless broadband initiatives with telecom companies and industry groups like the CTIA The Wireless Association calling on the FCC to free up wireless spectrum for greater Internet access.
First, there's the wireless Internet access with Telecom Italia, which has 3 million mobile phone customers in Brazil.
First, there's the wireless Internet access with Telecom Italia.
"Nokia's Ovi experience still has improvement to be done, " says Yves Maitre, the senior vice president for devices for Orange, the pan-European wireless network owned by France Telecom.
Low 3G penetration of about 15% in China is giving smaller wireless carriers such as China Telecom ample opportunity to compete on an even ground with the otherwise dominant China Mobile.
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"Nokia's Ovi experience still has improvement to be done, " says Yves Maitre, the senior vice president for devices for Orange, the pan-European wireless network owned by France Telecom (nyse: FTE - news - people ).
Vodafone's CEO left the door open to the chance of a near-term deal that would change the ownership of one of the most closely watched partnerships in the telecom industry: Verizon Wireless.
Cooper's plans for the company call for it to look a lot like Qualcomm (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people ), which licenses its CDMA wireless phone technology to phone and telecom gear manufacturers.
British telecom giant and Verizon Wireless co-owner Vodafone could also make a play, divesting itself of its Verizon interests, under the theory that having all of the number three carrier is better than half of number two.
Their big break came in 1992 when India's state-dominated telecom market opened up for wireless services.
Bloomberg raised that possibility in a story on Monday, noting that CenturyLink is the largest U.S. telecom company that lacks a wireless business.
France Telecom now has 14 million wireless voice customers in France, but only 600, 000 are signed up for its current wireless data service.
Masiyiwa is the founder and executive chairman of Econet Wireless, a publicly-listed mobile telecom company with operations in Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Burundi and Rwanda.
"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.
What earlier coursed through manufacturing has spread to the service sectors as a combination of digital technology and ability to outsource is riddling fields such as telecom (including the booming wireless business).
Speaking of phones, recent data reveals there are some 929 million wireless subscribers in India, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
On Wednesday, a court in Delhi rejected the bail applications of Swan Telecom Director Vinod Goenka and Unitech Wireless Managing Director Sanjay Chandra.
Scaglia in five years transformed the Olivetti subsidiary, Omnitel Pronto Italia, into Europe's second-largest national wireless operator, stepping down when Olivetti bought Telecom Italia in 1999.
It already has a healthy blend of local, long distance and wireless assets, with strong global alliances with France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom.
Eighty-six percent of SK Telecom's mobile-phone customers have wireless Internet capability on their handsets.
The company, which provides phones that work off a wireless local area network (WLAN)--a Wi-Fi network designed for the workplace--had recently acquired KIRK Telecom, a privately held Danish provider of wireless communications products.
The hedge fund manager thinks the market is not giving the U.K. telecom full credit for its stake in Verizon Wireless, a stake that could ultimately make it an attractive takeover target for its partner in the venture, Verizon.
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The large cap telecom sector continues to be dominated by the wireless business, with the effect of a first full quarter of a Verizon iPhone marking second quarter results for the biggest players, as companies balance margins and net additions ahead of earnings season.
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