An organization that provides voice or data transmission services, such as AT&T, Verizon and Qwest. A company that specializes in making carrier-class hardware and software, such as Lucent and Nortel Networks, is often called a telecom company. Manufacturers of networking hardware and software are also sometimes called telecom companies, but are more likely to refer to themselves as data networking or networking companies.
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- Banks and auto sector got bailed out, are telecom providers next?
- I kid you not :)Pensions got killed in the bailouts of the banks, except those that got insurance from AIG that bet against all the shenigans of Wall St. But sure enough AIG flops because it can't cover all the insurance bets it made on the mortgage backed certificates floated...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
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- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
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- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- AT&T cuts churn rate; Activates 3.2 million iPhones; Touts network upgrades
- AT&T's bet on the iPhone continues to work well. The company reported a better-than-expected third quarter, delivered post paid churn of 1.17 percent (a low for AT&T), activated 3.2 million iPhones and boosted data revenue by 33.6 percent. The telecom giant on Thursday delivered net income of...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
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- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Shadman Zafar, CIO, Verizon Telecom
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- Videos 2009-10-21
- Short clip: Verizon launches widget store
- Shadman Zafar, CIO of Verizon Telecom, discusses the launch of the company?s new widget store where consumers can buy new social media applications like Twitter and Facebook and use the software on their television sets.
- Videos 2009-10-21
- Short clip: Verizon invests in growth over cost-cutting
- Shadman Zafar, CIO of Verizon Telecom, describes how the company is responding to the current economic downturn by investing in growth and innovation as opposed to cost-cutting and automation.
- Videos 2009-10-21
- Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?
- Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?
- Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Nokia posts third quarter loss; Mobile device demand improving
- Nokia saw weak mobile phone sales in the third quarter, but said the mobile device industry won't fall as much as it had feared in 2009. Overall, Nokia reported a surprise loss of 559 million euro, or $836 million. The company on Thursday said it wrote down...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Short clip: Verizon CIO: Quick failures, generate quick learning
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- Videos 2009-10-07
- A few companies to check out at CTIA
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- Blog posts 2009-10-07
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- Case studies 2009-10-01
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- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- AT&T cries foul to FCC, uses Google Voice to spark Net Neutrality debate
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- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Sprint lures two from Verizon; new 'unlimited' plan seals deal
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- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
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- Case studies 2009-09-14
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- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- AT&T's "problem" customers get the blame
- Fortune Magazine swallows the AT&T pitch hook, line and sinker in a story titled "Bandwidth hogs â€" iPhones and other smartphones." Writer Jon Fortt dishes up a steaming dish of bull shoveled straight out of AT&T PR: Now the wireless providers hawking those Internet-enabled mobile devices...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
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