Oki produces computers, telecom equipment, semiconductors and dozens of other products.
As many had expected would happen right about now, companies that buy chips and other components for use in computers, telecom equipment and all manner of other electronic gadgetry have finally used up a good portion of what they ordered last year.
South Africa's trade unions recently complained that domestic industry was being flattened by cheap imports of hi-tech goods, computers, telecoms equipment and the like.
But instead of bicycles and motor cars, the ageing technologies this time hail from semiconductors, computers, telecoms, aerospace and organic chemicals.Fear not, say the optimists.
The computer-telecom world may.
Today, so-called Kitsong centres are built to house computers, telecoms services and less hi-tech facilities, such as typing and fax machines.
With so many people talking on phones and using computer modems, telecom companies plan to turn a profit.
Many of those companies handle critical infrastructure, like the country's energy and water supplies, computer and telecom networks.
Comverse's Sales Rise Comverse Technology Inc. Nasdaqq: CMVT) of Woodbury, the maker of computer and telecom systems, has announced sales of $259 million -- a 28percentt increase -- for the fourth fiscal quarter, which ended Jan.
CLIENTS: Computer manufacturers, telecom equipment manufacturers.
