As manufacturer of Vodafone's telecom infrastructure, including legal interception software, the Swedish company would have been able to install illicit bugging devices into the system, he claimed.
Because it bankrolled the networks, "Wall Street has inadvertently financed more telecom infrastructure overseas than the World Bank and other international agencies," Mr. Paltridge said.
And it is spending another $38 billion to build 234 roads and 54 rail projects and to improve its airports, hotels and telecom infrastructure, regardless of the European Championship bid.
With these companies preparing to beef up the country's telecom infrastructure, it's now only a matter of time before cell phones become as ubiquitous in the country as bicycles once were.
The N.S.A. created what one senior Bush administration official later described as a "mirror" of AT&T's databases, which allowed ready access to the personal communications moving over much of the country's telecom infrastructure.
But that could take a long time -- and in the short term, power-line transmission could be valuable not only in the United States, but also "in places with inferior telecom infrastructure but great power grids, like Russia".
But not telecom infrastructure.
Main industry: Telecom infrastructure.
Chinese-made telecom infrastructure.
We consider it a company that benefits from telecom infrastructure.
The telecom infrastructure is also lagging badly behind demand.
