It is easy to fear the worst, for example, when one sees from public filings that Sprint's original merger application to the F.C.C. did not include a mention of its Internet backbone business.
In recent months, Motorola has lost its contract as the primary supplier to the Nationwide 911 backbone business to Lockheed Martin.
Founded Uunet Technologies 1987 as an Internet backbone for business-to-business communication.
The ultimate goal of all these companies is to make their communications system not so much a corporate feature, but the backbone of business, connected to databases in areas like finance, human resources, sales and product development.
Connections are the backbone of business.
Byron Deeter, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, said he invested in SendGrid because "email is the fundamental backbone of business communications and that's not changing anytime soon".
This type of applications is currently the backbone of business and information exchange, and is being used to present products and services to potential customers (Fernandez et al., 2011).
The company's backbone conference business has already attracted a following, in no small part due to a network of talent Mahdara has assembled, including Bethany Mota, Amanda Steele (MakeupbyMandy24), and Kandee Johnson.
Such a "case study" or positive deviance approach is a backbone of business schools.
While EarthLink, which announced the PeoplePC deal today, has been showing respectable growth in its broadband Internet business, the backbone of its business, dial-up Internet, has been flat.
