Of course, the state's most widely known telecom problems have focused on Lucent, which makes telephone equipment for such service providers as AT&T and Verizon.
But by the end of the 1990s the Japanese government was wringing its hands over another telecoms problem.
Aside from external pressures from the American recession, the telecom hasinternal problems.
As they do so, their American rivals may find they are unable to budge, blocked from using the licences that have cost them so much.At a recent congressional hearing on the problem, telecoms executives were raising the alarm.
If you were focused on maximising consumer welfare and not the number of unique wireless providers you would not advocate mandatory unbundling to all problems telecom, including wireless mergers.Hal J. Singer Washington, DC* SIR – Philip Hammond, MP, claimed Britain will be "left behind" without high speed rail (HS2) (Letters, March 19th).
Communication between Britain's BT Group and its investors was all static on Thursday as the telecom company reported problems with its global services unit.
"It is conceivable that telecom could be a problem for them for quite a while," said Richard K. Strauss, an analyst at Goldman , Sachs
Another regulatory hangup is the way networks operating on different frequency bands—say, Wi-Fi and mobile phones have been prevented from interconnecting.But the biggest problem inhibiting Telecoms II is the habit of reserving various radio bands for specific services.
Four years ago, we had a similar problem in telecoms, and in Nigeria, we had not more than 400 lines, phone lines … out of which I'm sure not more than 300 or so were working.
As The Economist went to press, the German government seemed to be pressing him to go.Other telecoms companies have problems that point to broader European challenges.
