But he has faced opposition on that front from the federal courts and some telecommunications companies, while consumer advocates have complained that Mr. Genachowski was not bold enough in his efforts.
The National Countercorruption Commission ruled in December that Mr. Thaksin, who amassed a fortune from his telecommunications conglomerate, concealed some of his assets when he was deputy prime minister in 1997.
Prof Cox commented: "Everything we take for granted, from medicine to telecommunications, from computing to aviation, owes its very existence to engineers".
There have been too many delays, too many failures, too much egotism: from electricity to gas, from telecommunications to Galileo to the Community patent.
Now, laser technology, some of it borrowed from the telecommunications industry, is giving engineers and scientists crucial new tools to measure leaks and track them to their source.
Ireland's boom is rooted in a series of shrewd government calls to invest in higher education, spend some $5 billion to leapfrog from telecommunications backwater to digital front-runner and lure outside investment with corporate taxes as low as 10percentt.
Bharti also faces stiff competition from other telecommunications operators as it tries to hammer out a tie-in of some sort or buy a minority stake.
And that demand, most professionals agree, will come not mainly from telecommunications concerns but from companies that manage and store data for corporations.
Revenue from Citizens' telecommunications business rose 78percentt in the latest quarter, to $514.7 million from $288.8 million a year ago.
Corporate representatives from the telecommunications industry were among the dozens of party guests, Ms. Victory said.
