The deal is expected to result in similar tie-ups between big media companies and telecommunications operators.

这笔交易可能促成大型传媒公司和电信运营商结成类似的联营关系。

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In the early smartphone years, the big telecommunications companies, Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Seimens and others, formed a consortium to develop an operating system for smartphones called Symbian, to address convergence of telecommunications and technology albeit with the telecommunications bias.

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