And one day soon, Chinese engineers, in particular, will be as good at building start-ups and developing intellectual property, warns Zohar Zisapel, a serial entrepreneur and chairman of RAD, a group of telecoms-equipment firms.
An emerging group of telecom companies are diving deep.
Telecom issues were also pushed higher after Microsoft msft cofounder Paul Allen said he will invest $1.65 billion in RCN rcnc, a group of telecom upstarts.
The group cited a report issued in April by a group of national telecom regulators, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications, which showed that roaming charges for mobile Internet and other data "continue to follow the downward trend".
He is a serial boardroom director, serving as chairman of telecoms group BT and budget airline easyJet, as well as on the boards of Barclays and the American publishing house McGraw-Hill and a number of other institutions.
The Telecom Infra Project (TIP), the Facebook-backed open-source hardware and software group of over 450 telecom stakeholders like Broadcom, Intel, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Telefonica, SK Telecom and Juniper Networks, today announced a new project group that will focus on millimeter wave networks.
[Copenhagen] Danish VoIP technology company Vopium has received a $16.5 million capital injection, expanding its group of owners with telecom investor Raghuvinder Kataria, one of the early backers of what is now Bharti Airtel (one of the world's largest telecommunication service providers).
The ITU regularly hosts a group of experts to discuss telecoms indicators, but it is highly bureaucratic.
But pouring money into other industries won't work," insists Zohar Zisapel, the founder and chairman of RAD, a group of 15 companies that make telecoms equipment.
On Wednesday, the chief executives of telecommunications companies met with a group of ministers to discuss the telecom regulator recommendations on unified licenses and auction of spectrum.
