Metromedia was once thought to have a promising future providing broadband connections in large American cities, but demand for such services, even in this complex and relatively uncompetitive niche of the telecommunications industry, did not keep up with expectations in the last year.
In recent years, the region has also capitalized on the nation's technology boom, establishing in Richardson a niche for designing, building and selling telecommunications gear.
With the given environment, Singapore's niche areas might include information technology, telecommunications, software solutions, education, technology innovations, environmental management, and biomedical sciences.
Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. (ATN) provides telecommunications services to rural, niche and other under-served markets and geographies in the United States, Bermuda and the Caribbean.
James McCormick, president of the First Manhattan Consulting Group, which specializes in financial services and telecommunications, said he sees the bank as a niche player rather than as a challenger to big banks like Wells Fargo and Bank One.
Japan's Kyocera Solar, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based megamanufacturer Kyocera, is exploiting the niche of uninterrupted power for such applications as remotely-located telecommunications, traffic signals, pipeline monitoring, water pumping and off-grid residential electricity.
"The industry niche is in its infancy and has maintained its growth rate better than industries like telecommunications or semiconductors," Mr. Van Wagoner said.
Early this year, Silvio Scaglia, the CEO of e.Biscom, a broadband telecommunications company in Milan, described his plans to wire Italy and beyond with a fiber-optic net ("A fiber niche is nice", Jan . 22.
telecommunications operators.
