And, they add, local governments cannot fix potholes, let alone run telecoms networks.But with so many cities being wooed by the promise of Wi-Fi, some telecoms firms feel threatened, and are fighting back through state legislatures, where their lobbying clout is strongest.
This is not just because rising energy prices have made it more expensive to run telecoms networks; it is also because telecoms networks and devices account for nearly 1% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, and the industry wants to avoid criticism from green campaigners.
Nor did most of the other superstar managers who left big companies to run telecom upstarts.
At 47, he has worked as an executive at RAM Mobile Data in the U.K. and run telecom companies in Pakistan, Poland and Croatia.
A privatisation bill, promised for last December, is still awaited.NITEL, the state-run telecoms company, is in an even worse state.
And a couple of days after Telefonica's bid for O2, fresh rumours circulated that Swisscom was considering a bid of around €3 billion for Eircom, Ireland's former state-run telecoms operator.
"A user hung by a noose from its rampart; others were storming the walls".During the 1970s Europe's state-run telecoms operators were building their own data networks, based on the circuit-switching technology used to carry phone calls.
The groups worry that Facebook will make it easy for state-run telecoms to monitor users through this centralized system and that the app could in some cases enable countries to spy on and repress their citizens.
They built on Mr Pouzin's connectionless, datagram-based approach, so that concepts from CYCLADES found their way into the TCP/IP suite of protocols on which the modern internet now runs.Connection lostYet the innovations that made CYCLADES so compelling to Dr Cerf and Dr Kahn stirred hostility within France's PTT and other state-run telecoms providers across Europe.
Amitabh Misra, of Snapdeal, says bandwidth costs less, technology is better and you avoid India's headaches such as finding somewhere to work, coping with state-run telecoms firms and having to wait to import hardware.Singapore is also a centre for legal services.
The first message sent by telegraph in India was in 1850, and the direct descendant of that service is now in the hands of BSNL, a state-run telecoms operator, which says it is no longer economically viable given the plunging cost and growing availability of mobile phones.
