Sentence examples for monopoly telecommunications from inspiring English sources
It was having to book calls with the monopoly telecommunications provider to my grandparents in the United States hours, or even days, ahead.
The deal is part of a strategy by Singapore Telecom, the country's former monopoly telecommunications provider, to remain competitive as deregulation and new rivals eat into its profits at home.
Since then the situation in many ITU countries has changed dramatically – in most cases the previously state-owned monopoly telecommunications providers have been privatised and competition introduced to national markets, not to mention the dramatic changes brought by the internet.
"Costa Rica has a monopoly in telecommunications and insurance".
As head of Avantel, Mr. Gil worked to break up Telmex's near monopoly over telecommunications.
Among the front-runners for the network are Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. of India, or VSNL, the former government monopoly for telecommunications and Internet traffic, and its domestic rival, Reliance Infocomm.
Expanding the rights of women, opening the secondary school curriculum to new courses in technology and English, ending the government monopoly on telecommunications -- changes that are either under study or under way -- are all potentially divisive matters in a society accustomed to rigidity.
Phone networks will be permitted to set their own prices on a range of services, like pagers, short text messages, voice-mail and the leasing out of fiber optic networks "to break down the state's monopoly on telecommunications services as well as increase competition," the Xinhua statement said.
But the state still controls the main broadcasters and publications and has a monopoly on telecommunications.
In Kenya, after the government monopoly on telecommunications was subject to private enterprise competition, the mobile network also expanded rapidly.
No longer able to rest on its monopoly, the telecommunications behemoth, now led by Carlos Slim, Latin America's richest man and his Mexico City-based holding company, Grupo Carso, is beginning to pay attention to service.
