The telecommunications market is fully liberalized, with numerous landline, cellular, and Internet service providers in operation.
In 1998 the government created Maroc Telecom (Ittiṣālāt al-Maghrib), which provides telephone, cellular, and Internet service for the country.
Telefonos de Mexico, Bell Canada International and SBC Communications said they had completed a deal to form a joint venture, Telecom Americas Ltd., to expand into the rapidly growing cellular and Internet services markets of Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia.
Burnham likes the combination of telephone, cellular and Internet operations that make up GTE.
Telecom Italia (TI.A., 12) is Italy's dominant phone provider, spanning fixed lines, cellular and Internet.
AOL users, meanwhile, would now be billed online for their local, long distance, cellular, and internet services.
From this perspective, in economies where the private sector plays a significant role, it is known that competition has brought down the price of PCs, telephone mainlines and cellular and Internet subscriptions.
AT&T will continue to sell cellular and Internet-based phone service to residential customers, although it will market those products largely through Web sites and in other nontraditional ways.
If this happens there may come a point where some heavy users of data services end up having both their cellular and home Internet allowance run out before the end of the month.
One contract, worth $250 million, is for 1,900 new base stations for cellular phone and Internet transmission for Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan.
