But in the years since, a series of innovations have transformed not only the world of telecommunications but also the way we live, work and play.
This is one reason international bodies such as the United Nations hold occasional global forums like the Internet Governance Forum or the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) World Conference on International Telecommunications to talk about coordinated strategies to keep traffic flowing on our global highway.
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But in the world of modern telecommunications, reasonable expectations mean about as much as a bullfrog in a blender.
Jobs hasn't been a player in the telecommunications world and would be shouldering a big risk by tiptoeing into that industry.
It's a big enough market to have attracted the attention of folks outside the telecommunications world who want a piece of the action.
In my professional view, this transaction would deny the United States reliable and secure access to a vital - and, as a practical matter, irreplaceable - world-wide telecommunications infrastructure.
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Vodafone, the world's biggest telecommunications company, is fighting a tax case with the Indian government for more than four years now.
Called the World Conference on International Telecommunications, or WCIT, the conference was intended to update a treaty governing international telecommunications that hasn't been refreshed since 1988.
He has two college degrees, two decades of experience in information technology, and worked as a network engineer for one of the world's largest telecommunications companies.
There are some who want to use the review of the 1988 ITRs in December at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) as an excuse to impose legacy telecommunications regulation on the Internet and Internet Protocol networks and services.
That means the GSM Mobile World Congress, the telecommunications industry's largest annual trade show, will be abuzz with discussion of devices like "smart" meters that report a home's usage of electricity, natural gas or water back to the utility, and to your phone.
This is why the United States is strongly represented at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) treaty conference in Dubai this month, where over 100 delegates from the public sector, private sector, and civil society are joining with our international partners to ensure the future of global, interoperable telecommunications networks.
In 2005, the International Telecommunications Union forecast world-wide mobile traffic would increase from around 610 petabytes a year in 2010 to around 1450 petabytes a year in 2020.
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Its prospective members will include Internet standards bodies such as the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, the International Telecommunications Union and the World Wide Web Consortium.
Earlier this month, the two biggest telecommunications companies in the world - Vodafone and China Mobile - created a consortium to bid for mobile licences in Burma.
It proposed a worldwide distribution system called GIBN -- Global Interoperability for Broadband Networks -- at a Paris meeting of telecommunications officials from the world's seven richest industrial countries.
It has overtaken Ericsson to become the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world.
We are currently the second largest telecommunications equipment provider in the world.
"Huawei Technologies already has a good presence in North America and we successfully compete in that market through open and transparent tenders against other leading telecommunications companies from around the world, " he wrote.
In the last several years, it has grown to become the world's second-largest provider of telecommunications equipment, after Sweden's Telefon AB L.M.
About 70% of Huawei's revenue was generated from serving leading telecommunications operators, including 45 of the world's top 50.
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The increased traffic demands are forcing giant telecommunications carriers that carry much of the world's Internet traffic to keep sinking billions of dollars into their networks.
Called " Digital Life, " the system is the telecommunications giant's entree into the world of home security, an industry the company says was ripe for some serious innovation.
This shift to smaller-scaled cities, as Michigan State's Zachary Neal points out, has been conditioned by massive improvements in telecommunications and transportation infrastructure throughout the urban world.
Today's announcement continues to show 1O1O and one2free leading 4G technology innovation in mobile telecommunications services in Hong Kong since the world's 1st dual band 4G LTE network was launched in November 2010.
"The main objective of Arabsat is to provide communications infrastructure in (the) Arab world by providing state-of-the- art telecommunications services both in quality and quantity, " Saad Al Bidnah, Arabsat director general told a prelaunch news conference.
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Advances in telecommunications were responsible for a massive consolidation of the world's stock exchanges.
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Further, thanks to planned investments by companies like Cisco, 3Com, Lucent, Microsoft, United Technologies, Motorola and Texas Instruments, if Congress approves normal trade with China, expect American and world markets to be flooded with ever higher-tech Chinese goods: broadband routers, telecommunications switches, semiconductors, servers, applications software and aerospace engine parts.
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