Several dozen armed men stormed the building and demanded the release of Zhirair Sefilyan, the leader of the New Armenia Public Salvation Front opposition group, who was arrested in June on suspicion of preparing to seize government buildings and telecoms facilities in Yerevan.
Rare look inside Chinese tech plant Jump to media player The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones takes a tour of a telecoms manufacturing facility operated by the Huawei firm in Shenzhen, China.
And smaller ISPs argued that if cable is telecommunications infrastructure (as they argued it was, and cable companies swore it wasn't), they should have access to certain physical portions of it, as the law requires for other telecoms' poles and facilities.
AT&T is seeking to build an advertising empire by joining its massive distribution facilities — its telecom network — with Time Warner, an entertainment giant that controls CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. and other highly valued content.
It also included data exchanges MAE-West and PAIX, or Palo Alto Internet Exchange, facilities where telecom carriers hand off Internet traffic to each other.
This turned out to be the Infomart, which, according to its website, is "a premiere data center, telecom and high-tech office facility" whose tenants include AT&T, IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Texas Instruments.
Today, so-called Kitsong centres are built to house computers, telecoms services and less hi-tech facilities, such as typing and fax machines.
The Redwood City, Calif., company builds "bullet-proof" facilities in which Internet and telecom carriers can lodge equipment that lets them connect with Internet backbones and legacy networks.
Specifically, Section 27 of the New York Transportation Corporations Law ("New York Telecom Law") grants Verizon the right to place its facilities upon, over or under any public streets within the State of New York.
The new firm commands such valuable telecom assets as RCN Corporation RCNCC), building wireless local loop and Internet access facilities, and has good prospects for rights of way from railroad companies linked to Kiewit.
