The word "telco" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an acronym that stands for "telecommunications company" and can be used to refer to a company that provides services such as telephone, internet, and cable television. For example, "Verizon is one of the leading telcos in the United States."
Companies associated with Murdoch and Packer were to underwrite a $132m rights issue by One.Tel in early 2001, but the fundraiser was cancelled as the company's directors believed it was not enough money to keep the telco going.
However, the SEC is investigating whether the company also engaged in swapping capacity with other operators in an attempt to boost revenues.Qwest Communications, another telco, was known to be an aggressive user of such so-called "hollow-swaps".
Combining all three is the recipe for Dabba, a South African wireless start-up, which has pioneered an idea called the "village telco".
If he can keep his lead until WiMax arrives, says Mr Citron, he could leave his cable and telco rivals in the dust.Who will be the biggest losers?
Many telcos are now upgrading their networks to support video as well, so that they too can offer the coveted triple-play bundle.Will the cable and telco giants squash the specialist upstarts?
No other telco, he maintains, has the same content skills.
"Can a VoIP supplier really compete with a full-service provider like a telco or a cable company?" On this view, the real threat to incumbents comes more from cable operators offering cheap (or "free") VoIP services than from pure-play VoIP companies.But Mr Zennström insists his company will stay ahead of the game.
When Ovitz went to the men's room, Eisner phoned Katzenberg and whispered, "You have forty-eight hours to close our telco deals".
"We expect that the ordering systems of the cable and satellite and telco platforms will be overwhelmed, and we want to make sure that everybody gets their order in and gets to be a part of this event".
"We hold a lot of the same kind of industrywide meetings as the Big 5 telco operators," said one lobbyist from the telecommunications industry, who wanted to be anonymous to avoid inviting similar scrutiny.
The coalition's executive director, Markham Erickson, said the decision "creates a dangerous situation, one where the health and openness of the Internet is being held hostage by the behavior of the major telco and cable providers".
