Research activities stemming from both the fields of human computer interaction (focusing on user experience, UX) and networking and telecommunications (focusing on Quality of Experience, QoE) have addressed different factors, both aiming for a similar goal – understanding and enhancing the user experience when accessing mobile Web sites.
The decision to retain Mr. Messier's media and telecommunications focus is even more curious, analysts said, given the limited media experience of Mr. Fourtou, whose background is in chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
Mr. Wallace is reinventing Cable and Wireless from a telecommunications holding concern with a scattering of interests around the world into a leaner telecommunications business focused on serving the business market, not the more visible but less profitable consumer market.
Right now, telecommunications companies are focused on the task at hand: getting power to buildings, clearing sites of debris, keeping lines up for emergency crews, monitoring the networks that serve the stock exchanges and running new cables for relocated businesses that had offices in the World Trade Center.
Citizens, based in Stamford, Conn., is increasingly focused on telecommunications as it sheds its utility businesses.
New York is also a primary market for the RCN Corporation, perhaps the only major new local telecommunications company that has focused on serving residential customers.
Chen noted that net neutrality is a widely contested term, and that most discussion "has focused on telecommunications carriers and how they operate and manage their physical networks".
It has focused on telecommunications, and a deal struck by BT with Huawei - which denies close ties with the Chinese state - to supply equipment for a £10bn major network upgrade.
Potential buyers could include smaller companies that sell communications systems to corporations or buyout firms seeking to increase the profitability of businesses focused on specific telecommunications niches.
Instead of trying to profit on currency trading in, say, Malaysia, as Mr. Soros once did, the new standouts, like Mr. Spinner, assemble investment brain trusts focused on technology, telecommunications or health care.
Applied Micro has focused on the telecommunications market, and so it has been particularly volatile in recent years.
