At lesser-quality telecom and media services companies, like Global Crossing, Nextel Communications and PSI Net, high-yield corporate debt and convertible bond issuance ballooned to $275 billion, a compounded annual rate of 60percentt, in the period.
The union said, "This decision is also very good news for consumers who deserve high-quality telecom services and for shareholders who want their investment to grow through growing the business and generating revenues -- not just slashing costs at the expense of service quality".
Noting that Huawei is a $32bn company operating in 140 countries with 140,000 employees, it said it "commands respect by delivering high-quality telecoms equipment at low prices".
The PESQ algorithm has been basically designed to evaluate speech quality over telecom networks.
Based on a survey of 485 senior executives around the world, it indicates that the top determinants are the technical skills of a country's workforce and the quality of its telecoms and information-technology infrastructure.
It is worth to note here that keeping a steady perceived quality over a mobile telecom system is achievable, but the remedies are unreasonably expensive and impracticable for telecom operators.
It is advisable to try the free version to test the quality as well as telecom charges.
"Now we're seeing a flight to quality as companies move from telecom service providers who have moved into bankruptcy or who are experiencing some trouble to more well-known names like AT&T," Mr. Noski said, "and I would expect that that would continue".
The ultimate objective of E-Model consists of giving a synthesized overview regarding the perceived quality delivered over a given telecom infrastructure.
