The strongest survivors will be those that find a way to combine the steady revenues of telecoms with the higher margins of media and advertising.
"If this [data] is held by a large number of telecoms, with their people doing the actual querying, is privacy as closely controlled as it is with 22 vetted people at the NSA, who are supervised and watched with everything they do?" she asked, on CNN's State of the Union.
We could well be headed toward an era in the not too distant future in which a handful of telecom carriers – with national units allied with governments – dominate global communications.
Sun is credited with establishing much of the company's marketing, human resources and R&D that has helped make it one of the world's leading suppliers of telecom equipment with 2010 sales of $28 billion.
For many, the high cost of telecom services, competing with other basic priorities, such as food, clothing, school fees, etc makes internet and mobile phones unaffordable.
Embarq will compete with a growing host of telecom and cable companies with "triple-play" voice, data and video services, including AT&T, Verizon Communications and Comcast.
Speaking of operators, the article also states that "Apple will launch the phone in early 2011 in cooperation with a couple of telecom companies as Verizon and China Telecom".
India has toughened its scrutiny of telecoms firms with a directive demanding "access to everything".
"The prospect of a gatekeeper choosing winners and losers on the Internet is unacceptable". The prospect of telecom companies cutting deals with content providers has drawn fierce criticism from investors, startups and big Silicon Valley firms.
Stand-alone makers of telecom gear, especially those with great technology, command far higher valuations than carriers.
