Robert Johnson, who runs telecommunications investment banking at Donaldson, will become chairman of the media and telecommunications group.
In 1982, he retired from acting to concentrate on running the telecommunications company he had set up in Santa Monica 13 years earlier.
Neither would want the headache of running a telecommunications network or to run the risk of souring relations with other carrier partners.
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He is a respected economist whose credentials as a free-market disciple are bolstered by a Ph.D from the University of Chicago and his experience running a telecommunications company that took on the former monopoly, Telmex.
If it all works out, Richard Li can go ahead with his plans to buy the Hong Kong Economic Journal and become a newspaper publisher, since he seems to have grown bored with running a telecommunications company and being a landlord in Japan.
Telecom Italia, incorporated in 1908, became a state-run telecommunications monopoly when in 1933 Benito Mussolini decided to nationalize the telecommunications industry.
Over the weekend, water inundated equipment stored on the ground floor of the Indian state-run telecommunications provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam.
SHANGHAI — In a rare move, China's state economic planning agency said Wednesday that it was investigating whether two of the country's biggest state-run telecommunications companies were engaging in monopolistic behavior and overcharging consumers for broadband Internet.
The 1987 listing of Nippon Telegraph and Technology, the former state-run telecommunications company, drew such investor enthusiasm that its share price almost tripled in the first two months of trading, briefly making it the world's most valuable company by market capitalization.
