The company, which provides temporary technical staff to telecoms organisations, said that profits for 2000 would be well below analysts' expectations.
Both Mr. Harbour and Mr. Rohde said a roaming ban had more political support than a new attempt to enforce network neutrality, a more complex subject in which the technical realities of managing overloaded telecom networks can conflict with free-speech guarantees.
A spokesman for O2 said Apple stores were having "technical issues" connecting to the telecoms company's online systems.
Demand for temporary technical help has fallen off at telecoms companies, it reported, and this has knocked back Glotel's profit margins by 28% since December.
He's a maverick, a dreamer, he's a technical guy who knows something about telecoms, and he's a very credible candidate, apparently.
Mr O'Konek, formerly an executive with America's AT&T (which has a minority share in the Taiwanese venture) brings world-class technical skills and the experience of successful telecoms start-ups in America and the Czech Republic.
Under the terms of the licensing agreement, Samsung will market AT&T's services to Korean as well as multinational firms while the U.S. telecom giant will provide locally based technical and network support, training and customer service.
In January Germany implemented a European Union directive requiring telecoms companies to hold their customers' technical records for six months in case investigators needed them.
The law's detractors have also questioned the commission's ability to oversee the controversial black boxes, since only one of its members — a representative of French telecom regulator Arcep — will have the required technical expertise to monitor the algorithms.
Railway infrastructure is divided into technical subsystems, including substructure, track, electrical system, signalling system, and telecom system [23].
