Sentence examples for before telecoms from inspiring English sources

An army purge of the police force, supposedly to battle corruption, has removed many crucial allies (Mr Thaksin was a police chief before telecoms deals made him rich).

Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) pumped by bulky argon lasers were known for several years before telecom system designers took them seriously; the key development was a compact, high-power semiconductor pump laser.

Before telecom can revive itself, it must survive a nasty hangover from a binge of wild investment and muddled deregulation.

Even before the telecoms bull market got going, it was clear that traditional voice telephony, and above all long-distance voice, would eventually become a difficult business.

A few decades ago, before the telecoms revolution made it easy to shuffle money around the globe, companies used OFCs primarily because they had less onerous financial rules.

This suggests customers were targeted by criminals days before the telecoms company admitted the data of up to four million of its subscribers was stolen.

So I was in London and jobless, just before the telecom bubble burst.

In July 2000, just before the telecom sector crashed, VoiceStream agreed to be acquired by Deutsche Telekom for $50 billion.

Mr. Peralta then sold it in pieces to Verizon and Vodafone for almost $2 billion -- the last part just before the telecom market collapsed.

But buying assets on the cheap has been IDT's strategy since before the telecom bust.

Most of the global fiber network was laid in the late 1990s before the telecom crash by scores of innovative but ultimately bankrupt companies such as Global Crossing and Flag Telecom.