Foreign financial service and law firms, proliferating thanks to deregulation in the financial markets here, are demanding high-speed, high-quality, fault-free telecommunications services at a competitive cost.
What happens when a country like Russia plugs into globalization -- into global free markets, telecommunications, media and the Internet -- is that individuals become empowered, even super-empowered.
Every branch of government and some major companies provide journalists from selected media with free offices, telecommunications facilities and secretaries.
Acoustic echo control is of vital interest for hands-free operation of telecommunications equipment.
There, it's likely that the assembled parties will flag additional parts of the spectrum they want to see freed up for telecommunications.
Mr. Niel's telecommunications company, Free, which has an estimated 5.2 million Internet-access users in France, began last week to enable its customers to block Web advertising.
Israel's parliament approved a groundbreaking bill yesterday that opens up the country's telecommunications market to free competition, allowing cable TV companies to offer telephone and Internet services.
Ms. Reding emphasized her determination to encourage greater competition in the market and to give regulators the power to force "functional separation" — obliging the owners of telecommunications networks to free the networks from their operating divisions.
Profile The Dominican Republic has long been viewed primarily as an exporter of sugar, coffee, and tobacco, but in recent years the service sector has overtaken agriculture as the economy's largest employer, due to growth in telecommunications, tourism, and free trade zones.
