Sentence examples for The major communications from inspiring English sources

The emergence of Internet-based telephone calling is expected to ignite a regulatory and political firestorm among the major communications companies.

To understand why, you have to look at the major communications industries of the 20th century – the telephone, radio and movies.

Its upper valley, roughly paralleled by roads and railroads, is the major communications artery between the Wei River basin of central Shaanxi and the cities of the Sichuan Basin.

Among the major communications carriers that have agreed to purchase Juniper's new system are the MCI WorldCom's Uunet unit, the world's No. 1 Internet carrier; Cable and Wireless P.L.C. of Britain, which controls the former MCI's United States Internet operation; and the European joint venture between Qwest Communications International Inc. and KPN, the Dutch communications company.

At the time of the claimed meeting at the N.S.A.'s Fort Meade, Md., headquarters on Feb. 27, 2001, Mr. Nacchio was chairman of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, whose members included top executives of most of the major communications companies.

As the internationally recognized leader of Somalia, Sheikh Sharif has the major communications challenge of selling his government both internally and externally.

Government officials said that the priority system had the support of The New York Police Department, the New York Fire Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency, which all suffered major communications problems in the days after the attacks when their offices were destroyed or phone service went down because of Verizon's problems.

Ever since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 remade the communications industry, SBC has been considered by far the most legally aggressive of the nation's major communications companies.

Instead, Mr. Touré said, he was focusing on a more modest plan, one that could be a step toward an exchange: the creation of a real-time database detailing the flow of traffic on the world's major communications networks.

During the Cold War, CIA technical operations included the bugging of the Soviet military's major communications line in East Germany and the development of reconnaissance aircraft such as the U-2 and spy satellites capable of photographing targets as small as a rocket silo.

Mr. Bennack's tenure has bridged different eras in the media, bookending a time of great transition in the structure of major communications corporations, as nationwide media companies became multimedia conglomerates with worldwide reach.