But today the largest mobile network in the US – with 144 million customers for its broadband, TV and wireless data services – has more in common with the tech giants of our age than the clunky rotary dial telephones, switches and copper wires that dominated telecommunications only a few decades ago.
Look at what happened with AT&T, which once dominated telecommunications the way GM and Ford did autos; it also used to carry the best credit rating.
Telefonos de Mexico, known as Telmex, dominates telecommunications, Cintra owns the skies, the state-run Petroleos de Mexico, known as Pemex, controls oil and Bimbo rules the bread market.
While Vietnam has grown robustly — the transformation of this city's airport and skyline over the past two decades is astonishing — the country remains saddled with a bloated state sector that dominates telecommunications and other crucial parts of the economy, and reliance on low-wage manufacturing that will be increasingly difficult to sustain as the country prospers.
In other respects, too, the Wi-Fi business may well go the way of other telecommunications services, said Ms. Wiggins of the Yankee Group, in that it could become dominated by telecommunications companies that already sell cellular, Internet and landline phone services in bundled plans.
Most of the Qaddafi offspring enjoyed lucrative sinecures at the agencies that dominated Libyan telecommunications, energy, real estate, construction, arms procurement, and overseas investments.
Slims business empire is dominated by telecommunications but also includes finance, mining, real estate, infrastructure, retailing and heavy industry.
Though dominated by telecommunications (CA$920 million), other areas of research include space astronomy, space exploration, life sciences, microgravity sciences, space environment, and atmospheric environment.
A report by the EU statistical office Eurostat reported today that almost one in five EU households have gone fully wireless, cutting off landline subscriptions that dominated the telecommunications market for over one hundred years.
The companies maintain that it is impossible for one company to dominate the telecommunications market.
The F.C.C. also issued rules seen as making it more difficult for consortiums like AT&T's to dominate overseas telecommunications traffic.
