"The pointy-headed professor who took battlefield technology and made it the core of an almost pure intellectual-property company is one of the great telecommunications tales of our time," said Jerry Hausman, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specializes in telecommunications issues.
The deal will give Citic Telecom 99 percent control of the company, a monopoly fixed-line telephone and data operator in the former Portuguese colony, as it seeks to build its footprint in the Greater China telecommunications business.
When the transfer is complete, China United Telecommunications, or China Unicom, will own wireless networks now run by Great Wall Telecommunications and Century Mobile Communications, companies affiliated with the People's Liberation Army, said Jiang Shaobing of the Ministry of Information Industry.
Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, voiced concerns about how the guidelines would interact with proposals to give the government greater access to telecommunications information in order to protect critical infrastructure from hackers.
While supporting data roaming caps, the ministers plan to send a message to the European Parliament and to Ms. Reding by opposing the attempt to allow Brussels to exert a greater influence over telecommunications pricing.
It's important because the two things are regulated very differently — the FCC has much greater power over telecommunications services, under the "Title II" authority that internet service providers are so afraid of.
Enron led a wave of accounting scandals that emerged after the great Internet and telecommunications boom of the late 1990s fizzled.
This was the location he chose for his "great experiment" in telecommunications, an endeavour that was eventually to mark the birth of globalisation.
Mr. Kennard, 44, served as chairman of the commission from October 1997 until this January, shaping policies that spurred great changes in telecommunications at a time of technological innovation and industry consolidation.
Some brokers say some companies are seeking to take advantage of space prepared at great expense by telecommunications tenants that is now available at a steep discount because demand had been overestimated.
