First, wireless telecommunications requires access to a finite resource in the exclusive control of the government: wireless spectrum.
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The communications sector, which includes major telecommunications, as well as specialty and wireless telecommunications, also edged up, rising 0.47%, according to FactSet.
Led by the legendary Steve Jobs, Apple has upended many industries in the last decade, including personal computing, entertainment, wireless telecommunications and retail.
Second, wireless telecommunications is among the most dynamic of innovation markets.
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CTIA, the International Association for Wireless Telecommunications, declined the invitation to testify, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a former Democratic presidential candidate from Ohio, who led the hearing, said.
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T-Mobile is the fourth-largest mobile wireless telecommunications services provider in the United States as measured by subscribers, and serves approximately 33.6 million wireless connections to wireless devices.
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They understood, as few did, the potential of wireless telecommunications.
Private equity's biggest foray into the wireless telecommunications business sees it picking up a healthy American operator that could do with a little financial help in competing against heftier rivals.
Its tenets were formulated after numerous meetings with people who spoke for both sides, as well as trade groups like CTIA, which represents the U.S. wireless telecommunications industry, said the official.
Imposing inconsistent local regulations on providers of broadband technology "could undermine the development of intermodel competition, " between cable operators, telephone companies, providers of wireless telecommunications services, and satellite communications firms, the FCC brief says.
Mobile wireless telecommunications services play a critical role in the way Americans live and work, with more than 300 million feature phones, smart phones, data cards, tablets and other mobile wireless devices in service today.
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Rules meant to preserve competition will prevent Telus from buying any newcomers' spectrum until early 2014, and Mobilicity left the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association just this week while accusing the industry group of being a puppet for bigger networks like Telus.
And, the department said that any potential entry from a new mobile wireless telecommunications services provider would be unable to offset the transaction's anticompetitive effects because it would be difficult, time-consuming and expensive, requiring spectrum licenses and the construction of a network.
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He said Dell's customers are telling the company they prefer the idea of mobile Internet access via wireless notebook computers, using technology such as the Bluetooth and 802.11 standards as well as emerging wireless telecommunications technology such as GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), wideband CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System).
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Muleta, chief of the wireless-telecommunications bureau of the Federal Communications Commission.
Advanced Info Service (otc: AVIFY - news - people ), Thailand's largest wireless-telecommunications firm, recently announced that it will offer broadcast network television on cell phones.
One of his 2007 picks is KT, a wireless broadband and telecommunications company in South Korea.
At Greece's largest wireless carrier, Cosmote Mobile Telecommunications SA, the most popular smartphone sold last year was Samsung's Galaxy Mini, said Dimitris Koutsonas, head of mobile data and services.
The claims are relatively easy to make because the International Telecommunications Union, the wireless industry standards body, hasn't set a firm 4G definition.
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So far, AOL has struck deals to deliver instant messaging via SMS with two network operators, VoiceStream Wireless in the United States and Hutchison Telecommunications in Hong Kong, according to Jon Eric Bylin, senior product manager at America Online's AOL Mobile division.
The sheer rapidity of the spread of mobile phones would be enough to explain why wireless is the most exciting area of the telecommunications industry.
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It is the largest telecommunications operator in Europe with wireline and wireless interests in numerous countries and total annual revenues in 2010 of 62.4 billion euros.
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The company also holds stakes in Asian telecommunications companies planning to deliver broadband and wireless net access, among them a joint venture with NTTDoCoMo in Japan and Korea's Thrunet.
Street announced the city's wireless plans in the spring of 2004, local telecommunications providers, including Verizon Communications, BellSouth and Sprint, objected, saying that the project would amount to unfair competition.
Wireless messaging is going through a growth spurt in the U.S. The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, a trade group, estimates that, in December, U.S. wireless carriers processed more than 1 billion messages, about four times as many as were sent in December 2001.
Implementation of the original law was scuttled after the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (the lobbying arm of the wireless industry) sued the city.
For instance, telecommunications spending, which ambitiously aims to create national footprints for wireless and data transmission, is collapsing.
Lynch has also been honored with the President's Award by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA), and been inducted into the Wireless History Foundation's Hall of Fame.
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