Highly automated machines now administer drugs to hospital patients, produce intricate semiconductors and operate power plants, transforming technicians from machine operators into supervisory controllers.
The shipping downturn, which began in 2008, has already driven several large fleet operators into bankruptcy.
It will plug operators into existing "merchant acquirer" organisations, which act as middlemen between financial institutions and merchants.
It claims to be worth $3.5 billion.Such lofty valuations are based in part on the assumption that the MSOs can whip local cable operators into line.
After years of uncertainty it reorganised China's various mobile and fixed-line operators into three giant groups in 2008, in preparation for the introduction of 3G.
Vodafone recently announced a shake-up to place its stake in Verizon, as well as other minority interests in foreign operators, into a special "value-creation unit".
Like her, he is sensitive and curious, the sort of person who turns conversations with phone operators into heart-to-heart talks.
It concluded that the entry of private operators into state-funded education had increased segregation and may not have improved educational standards.
The entry of private operators into state-funded education, it argued, had increased segregation and may not have improved educational standards at all.
Ashley Toft, managing director of Explore, said: "We were one of the first tour operators into Burma after the tourism embargo ended, and it has become one of our hottest destinations.
BARCELONA — The next great leap forward in wireless broadband networks, a superfast technology called Long Term Evolution, is being hailed as a breakthrough that will transform the world's mobile operators into the lucrative gatekeepers of the on-the-go Internet.
