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Sales to consumers fell, but sales of communications services to other carriers and large corporations rose.
Sales to consumers fell, but sales of communications services to other carriers and large corporations rose, the company said.
AT&T said yesterday that it had a small profit in the third quarter after three consecutive periods of losses, and attributed it to cost-cutting and improved sales of communications services to large businesses.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, total U.S. sales of communications equipment have fallen to $88 billion in the first quarter of 2009 from $106 billion in the third-quarter 2008.
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But there were signs of weakness: sales of semiconductors, communications equipment and consumer goods all declined.
Sales of "unified communications" systems like Internet Protocol-based corporate phone networks, where Cisco competes with companies like Avaya and Nortel Networks, which has hooked up with Microsoft increased 38% year-over-year.
As competition increases in every sector of the communications industry, established companies like SBC and AT&T are trying to de-emphasize the sale of raw communications pipes and offer instead more complex services that can carry richer profits.
Cisco's roots are in the sale of data communications equipment to corporate customers for office networks.
In the sale of Internet communications to businesses, Skype had only "a limited presence," the commission concluded, which did not overlap with Microsoft's Lync Internet communications software, used by large companies.
Mr. Ghaemi's sense of betrayal was reinforced by his group's Web site, which was still praising the administration for loosening restrictions last week on the sale of personal communications technology to Iranian citizens in advance of elections next Friday.
Compal Electronics, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of computing, communications, and consumer products.
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