There are more than 1, 000 telecom operators worldwide, each with their own geographic footprint.
Mobile phones in India are not subsidized by telecom operators, unlike other parts of the world.
The firm had been comprised of three lines of businesses: gear for telecom operators, large enterprises and smaller businesses.
The telecom department's order on 3G services is one of several regulatory issues faced by telecom operators in India.
Telecom operators around the globe have suffered as free calling and texting services have proliferated over the past few years.
In short, Google is essentially helping telecom operators drive data revenues by encouraging consumers to watch more videos on mobile devices.
Existing telecom operators expressed concern that a state-funded player in the market could distort competition and damage the growth of services.
Like Vodafone, many other telecom operators spent billions to acquire 3G licences.
The technique is used by telecom operators to get an overview of the number of blocked or dropped calls, and other traffic issues.
The new iPad also is incompatible with 4G networks in Germany, where telecom operators have started to roll out LTE mobile networks in earnest.
Back then, Mikati and his brother Taha, also a billionaire, had successfully established themselves as telecom operators in several African countries through their company Investcom.
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Telecom operators, Media companies and Utilities on the other hand generate massive amounts of data every day related to their subscribers, network operations, and services.
Telecom operators in the country seem to be hedging their bets.
K. Shin, co-chief executive of Samsung, said the company is also open to other operating platforms like Tizen to give consumers and telecom operators more flexibility.
He added that many Indian companies, including telecom operators, are already subject to stringent government regulations that would punish them for security breaches on their networks.
Over the past five years, telecom operators have spent tens of billions of dollars building out their wireless networks to handle the rise in smartphone use.
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Telecom operators collect large amounts of data on their subscribers.
O3b, by contrast, intends to offer bandwidth on a wholesale basis to internet-service providers, and transmission services to telecom operators, to link remote base stations to their core networks.
Both bills are a show of opposition against a potential change to the telecommunications treaty that could expand control from telecom operators to internet companies like Facebook and Google.
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That threat has prompted some telecom operators including Telefonica to launch their own rival services, while others such as India's Reliance Communications have preferred to sign formal partnerships with WhatsApp itself.
But it has been losing market share since then as a result of competition from satellite pay-TV providers and telecom operators as well as budding online platforms like Netflix and Google TV.
The US and Canada quickly sought to place limits on any new rules and keep the international body's focus on telecom operators and protect companies like Facebook and Google that rely on, but don't own, the world's online infrastructure.
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U.S. and other foreign firms that export technology hardware to India have raised strong objections to the draft regulations, especially the fact that they would apply not just to procurement by government agencies something that has precedent in the U.S. and elsewhere but also to private firms such as telecom operators and Internet service providers, which buy a far greater amount of technology.
The other telecom operators that currently own Infonet, including Swisscom (nyse: SCM - news - people ), the Netherlands' KPN (nyse: KPN - news - people ) and Australia's Telstra (nyse: TLS - news - people ), apparently "see little strategic benefit in retaining their stakes in this business at the current market price, " the analysts note.
Under the Act, the Secretary of State, as well as British Telecom, could licence other operators to run telecom systems.
Now that Microsoft has bought Skype, we believe that it might be able to influence a faster shift from landlines to VoIP and may even pose competition to existing VoIP services provided by telecom and cable operators.
The company continues to strengthen its cooperation with operators like France Telecom and MTN Group.
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In Egypt, operators often depend on Telecom Egypt's fixed-line infrastructure to carry their mobile services.
When that happens, there will be new operators such as China Telecom and China Netcom that will need content.
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