The more ambitious operators go much further, managing internal networks, computers and application software, and even maintaining employees' hand-held computers and home machines, as well as providing traditional telecoms services.
Fontenla-Novoa started out in the travel industry at International Leisure Group, an ambitious tour operator run by the flamboyant entrepreneur Harry Goodman that collapsed under too much debt in 1991.
Known as a tough and ambitious political operator, Lesin broke the stranglehold of the oligarchs on Russian media and ushered in the era in which the Kremlin controlled all major television stations.
He is one of the most highly rated, ambitious commercial operators in the UK.
There are few credible alternative buyers for the systems because many of the most ambitious cable operators in Europe are themselves struggling with high debt and big losses.
It's difficult, for instance, to give your full attention to a meal at the NoMad once you have read the interviews in which Daniel Humm and Will Guidara, its ambitious young operators, talk about modeling the restaurant on the Rolling Stones.
The future lies with true believers, and with ambitious conservative operators like Ryan, who, in one of history's little ironies, is quite likely to replace Camp as the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means.
Chinas ambitious telecom operators and oil producers have been focused on public infrastructure projects in developing regions like Africa, not the U.S. or European markets, Wang Ping noted.
Franklin is an ambitious early capitalist operator at the edge of the empire, a provincial Pepys.
Mr. Zhao was not a con man, he was simply an ambitious small-time operator lacking the right connections.
