The $2-a-month service is just e-mail and is intended for companies that want to extend communications to employees currently not served, like factory workers.
Some of Mr Mubarak's modest achievements, such as improving literacy, keeping peace with neighbours, extending communications networks and fostering the emergence of a large urban middle class, have also sharpened tensions.This is one reason why the unrest in Egypt and Tunisia echoes resoundingly across the region.
It is a vivid illustration of the way in which governments, for all their lip service to extending communications, can often be more of a hindrance than a help.Golis Telecom, based in the northern port of Bossaso, is one of the larger forces in the Somali market.
Mobile phones can extend communications to areas that copper wires might have taken decades to reach, allowing remote villages to tap into the global store of knowledge.The Internet offers virtually free access to a huge amount of information and expert advice on subjects from engineering and plant cultivation to birth control and health care.
Photonic technology offers the promise of drastically extending the communications bound by using the concepts and technologies of lightwave communications for interconnecting and networking the individual multiprocessor chips and memory elements.
But extend your communications to, say, India, and delay begins to compound.
Recent uplifting comments by Altera, Xilinx and Analog Devices show breadth is also extending to communications infrastructure, these companies' highest margin segment and one that had been in utter doldrums the past half-dozen years.
Jawbone ICON for Cisco Bluetooth Headset will intelligently bridge mobile phones and Internet Protocol (IP) phones in a way that is transparent to users and extends unified communications beyond the walls of the workplace.
Add to that, there's no shortage of messaging options — with the built-in social networking extending your communications options so you don't have to dive off into dedicated apps as you swipe around the UI.
The lessons shared here indicate that an ambitious program to extend corporate communications combined with a conservative, truthful, and unbiased voice may best serve the function of corporate disclosure and investor relations in the near future.
