This has the potential of giving the telecommunications companies' legitimacy in the eyes of the public.
Given the low telecommunications costs in the U.S., there was no incentive to change the banking infrastructure.
"Given the situation in the telecommunications market," Mr. Lauria said, "these results are fairly strong.
Given the consolidation in the telecommunications industry in recent years, it is little surprise that Verizon and its unions would lock horns over cost-cutting efforts.
Given the raucous competition in German telecommunications, the talk of a Congressional blockade of Deutsche Telekom in the United States has already set off an alarm at the European Union.
"Today's technology and telecommunications industries are overseen by the Federal Communications Commission, established in 1934 and given the jurisdiction over telecommunications formerly assigned to the Interstate Commerce Commission, which had been created in 1887 to regulate the railroads.
But analysts and investors are increasingly skeptical that British Telecommunications can meet its goal given the slump in telecommunications shares, the glut of new issues coming to market and the cash constraints facing would-be buyers of its assets.
In the US, for example, we should end the immunity given to the telecommunications operators for assisting illegal listening.
That would give the British telecommunications giant what the blog reckoned was a $245 billion enterprise value and would be one of the biggest takeovers in at least a decade.
People asked for more details about how the evacuation would work, wondered how many possessions they would be allowed to take and how they might contact family and friends (and airlines) back home, given the ship's limited telecommunications.
But given the intense price competition in telecommunications, Mr. Suria wrote, lucrative cash flows from customers are no sure thing.
