Martin Mayer's call for a restoration of the "intelligent protections" put in place during the New Deal makes sense not just for the financial industry, but for the troubled electric and telecom sectors as well.
The majority of Chattanooga homes and businesses get 50 megabits per second, some 100 megabits, a few 250 and those with big needs opt for a full gigabit per second, explained Harold DePriest, the chief executive of EPB, the city's electric power and telecom provider, which built and operates the network.
Strong American Utilities takes a balanced approach, with positions in energy, electric utility and telecom stocks.
I spend no time calculating what percentage I have in telecom or electric.
As a result, superconductivity is starting to appear in applications as diverse as telecoms and electric motors.
Seeo is currently developing batteries for electric and hybrid vehicles; electric grids; telecom infrastructure like data centers; and consumer electronics.
A Harvard M.D. who never practiced, he has keen interests in space and ocean exploration, genomics and the Internet, telecom and artificial intelligence, hyperfast electric cars and epic environmental disasters.
It found that the module should have no difficulty putting up all the different types of telecoms satellites, including the new "electric" platforms that use solar power to do some of their own orbit raising and position-keeping.
"The same sort of mergers and consolidations we saw in telecom will happen with Europe's electric utilities," says Phillips.
Telecoms has been a success, but electric cars have not, and subsidising clean-energy manufacturers has had mixed results.
During the roundtable's work over the past four months, a group of banking and financial investors were asked whether they would be prepared to invest if Europe were to create a series of telecom network utilities, entities that operate much like public electric, water and gas companies and run a common infrastructure that is leased it to all operators.
