Some centers have done well in luring corporate sponsors; for instance, @Bristol's stable includes the European telecom giant Orange, which put up $5.7 million over 5 years for the Orange Imaginarium, an immense steel-hulled planetarium.
"The horse has bolted out of the stable door," says Deutsche Bank's telecoms analyst Robert Grindle.
The same director and Mr Li himself now praise at great length the stable cashflow of the old telecoms business, and explain how it will help to pay off debts and to subsidise new businesses.
For telecoms companies, despite stable revenue as a whole, there was wide disparity among segments.
British Telecom, which 15 years ago became the first big European operator to be privatised, was gradually exposed to competition, and at a time when telecoms markets were more stable and prices higher than they are today.
Mr Messier had transformed Vivendi from a stable, if dull, water utility into a transatlantic media player with telecoms, media and internet operations.
Our experimental data show stable (in regards to birefringence drift) QKD over 1550 nm SMF telecom networks in Sagnac configuration, using the BB84-protocol [C.H. Bennett, G. Brassard, in: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computers, Systems, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, New York, 1984, p. 175] with phase encoding.
When the telecoms group was privatised at the end of 1997, the treasury ministry thought it had assembled a stable core of shareholders.
In the telecom sector, for instance, particularly cellphones, it took a while for regulatory laws to become stable.
The company experienced roller coaster results over the last decade, as the telecom industry went through a boom and bust cycle, but recently it has reported more stable growth and profitability.
