Sentence examples for single telecommunications from inspiring English sources

"For the single telecommunications market in the E.U. and the certainty of business, this is very important," he said.

The movement to a similar single telecommunications market may have moved closer with the abolition of roaming charges.

But the big question, experts say, is whether the body will be paralyzed by political self-interest or emerge as a forceful, independent voice that brings into being a harmonized single telecommunications market.

But without clear lines of authority, E.U. policy tinkering alone may not be enough to untangle the national barriers to a single telecommunications market and create conditions for regional, head-to-head competition among big operators.

On Thursday, Ms. Reding also raised the idea of a single telecommunications regulator for the entire European Union, which would act as an umbrella organization for the 25 national regulators that exist at present.

There, in black and white, was something vanishingly few people had ever laid eyes on:a classified order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) requiring a single telecommunications provider, Verizon, to provide "all call detail records" on a continuous basis, whether they concerned international calls or those "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls".

So would the NSA and other surveillance statists, who would undoubtedly be happiest if we reverted to the era when a single behemoth telecommunications enterprise served, for all practical purposes, as an arm of the spy services.

Ms. Kroes said the widely varying approaches used by European national regulators to set wholesale charges had impeded the development of a true single market in telecommunications services.

A package of European Union laws meant to knit together and regulate a single 15-nation telecommunications market cleared its final hurdle today when the European Parliament approved a compromise with member governments.

Differing national agendas, and differing interpretations of E.U. rules, have done much to ensure that the European Union's single market in telecommunications, despite its nominal unity, remains a patchwork of fragmented markets separated by a system of roaming charges that discourages more aggressive cross-border competition.

Her goal, she has said, is to create a functioning single market for telecommunications in the European Union, one that will let people speak, send text messages and surf the Internet from anywhere in the 27-nation bloc without paying exorbitant fees to mobile operators.