But then Gérard, who has rather a lot on this earth including a chateau, vineyards in France, Morocco, Spain, Italy, Argentina, Algeria and Ukraine, three Parisian restaurants, a fish shop, a hotel and a motorbike concession, not to mention oil concessions in Cuba and investments in Romanian telecommunications, decided that he was not happy.
The European Broadcasting Union, in particular, was disappointed that the telecommunications agency decided to allow mobile services into the UHF bands before knowing the effects of interference with digital TV broadcast signals that would share the space.
Lucent Technologies, the telecommunications equipment maker, has decided how to distribute the shares in the spinoff of its remaining 58percentt stake in the chip maker Agere Systems of Allentown, Pa.
THE HAGUE — One of the reasons that Layla El Zein, a successful telecommunications engineer in Lebanon, decided to go to business school was that she was interested in turning her charity work into a full-time job.
Telecom Italia, incorporated in 1908, became a state-run telecommunications monopoly when in 1933 Benito Mussolini decided to nationalize the telecommunications industry.
In Geneva, 700 delegates from about 70 nations attending a meeting of a United Nations telecommunications agency will decide whether to abolish the leap second.
Italy's telecommunications regulator may decide this coming week whether to support a proposal to rescue Telecom Italia, the troubled former telephone monopoly, by allowing it to spin off a stake in its landline grid, the largest in Italy.
The committee, which started the year with hearings and a wide-ranging investigation into Enron's collapse but has lately been looking into WorldCom and other telecommunications concerns, will decide later how to proceed with its examination of the S.E.C., Mr. Greenwood said.
Congress decided to require telecommunications companies to ensure that their equipment and facilities are built in a way that allows the government to conduct surveillance on the basis of a lawful surveillance warrant.
Qwest Communications, the Denver-based telecommunications provider, announced Monday it has decided to start reselling mobile phone service provided by Verizon Wireless.
Now that the company has decided to focus in on telecommunications, it has a lot on the table for its R&D and corporate strategy.
