We supported an earlier attempt by the F.C.C. to classify access to broadband as a telecommunications service because it is the modern version of phone lines that carry our voices.
Robert K. Passikoff, president at Brand Keys in New York, a research company that studies consumer and brand loyalty, said a campaign to burnish the AT&T brand "makes a lot of sense" as the company battles rivals in the intensely competitive telecommunications category because it can counter the negative effects of ads that use low prices to peddle products and services.
"We are interested in the U.S. market because of the potential for mobile telecommunications there and because it is far, far ahead in terms of the development of the Internet," he said.
The 360degrees Communications deal was "the seminal event for the company," said Eric Strumingher, a telecommunications analyst at PaineWebber, because it made Alltel as much a wireless company as a land-line phone utility; last year, wireless operations provided 42percentt of Alltel's $6.3 billion in revenue and 52percentt of its $1.62 billion in operating income.
They have alleged that the Japanese company might not be fit to control an American telecommunications network because its own wireless network in Japan uses equipment from Chinese manufacturers like Huawei, which have close ties to the Chinese government, according to a report by a House committee.
The logging interests do not build infrastructure, such as roads and telecommunications, because these would make areas more visible.
She switched her major at New York Technical College to telecommunications because she saw a future in the field.
Mr. Coates pointed out that it was difficult to reach conclusions about the effectiveness of spending in these areas, like banking or telecommunications, because the companies all spend so much supporting candidates and lobbying.
Sharvell Johnson, a 22-year-old Vineland, N.J., resident, says he left an early career as a service technician in telecommunications because the work was unsteady and took a job working in highway construction.
