The phrase "a big operator" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who has significant influence or power in a particular field or industry.
Example: "In the world of finance, he is considered a big operator, making deals that shape the market."
Alternatives: "a major player" or "a significant figure".
The fund has owned shares of Universal Health Services of King of Prussia, Pa., a big operator of acute-care and psychiatric hospitals, for more than 10 years.
A legislator goes into a closed-door meeting with corporations, including a big operator of private prisons, and soon afterwards submits legislation that … sends lots of people to those private prisons.
Everyone "should pay their tax and bring in revenue regardless of being a big operator or small operator," said Greg Kato, a spokesman for Jos?isneros, the city's treasurer.
In the fine print of their contracts, most carriers reserve the right to limit throughput speeds or the amount of data transferred by users.In a press release this week AT&T, a big operator of both wireless and fixed-line networks, welcomed the FCC's proposal to create new rules, but said they were not needed in the wireless market because competition there was already intense.
It's both helpful to have a big operator out there deploying, and it creates a competitor.
This kind of margin compression doesn't cover overhead, which for a big operator can run half a billion annually.
Every time an independent station is bought up by a bigger operator, the new owner is on the line to the authority, wanting to change the format".
The best that shareholders may be able to hope for is that the losses will be plugged, and that eventually BT might be able to sell part of Global to a bigger operator such as America's AT&T.
"We have no choice but to innovate," says Olaf Swantee, head of mobile operations at Orange, a big European operator.
In America, Sprint Nextel, a big mobile operator, announced a deal in November with the country's four biggest cable operators, Comcast, Cox, Time Warner and Advance/Newhouse.
A similar liberalisation is being proposed in France (where SNCF owns a big coach operator).
