But as more people abandon traditional phone lines and start placing calls over the Internet, an explosion of voice-mail spam is a real possibility, telecommunications experts say.
It was an accepted fact of seamen's lives throughout centuries when no telecommunications and no possibility of air rescue were available to mariners stranded in faraway waters.
During the telecom boom of the late 1990s, Fuchs says, telecommunications companies investigated the possibility of producing monolithically integrated communications chips.
AT&T and British Telecommunications are exploring the possibility of ending a joint venture that focuses on providing large corporations with telecommunications services, people close to the companies said yesterday.
The changes would also create a new body over the next year with broad powers to regulate telecommunications companies, including the possibility of ordering them to divest assets to prevent them from exercising control over the market.
Next Generation Networks (NGN) provide Telecommunications operators with the possibility to share their resources and infrastructure, facilitate the interoperability with other networks, and simplify and unify the management, operation and maintenance of service offerings, thus enabling the fast and cost-effective creation of new personal, broadband ubiquitous services.
Another is the long-term growth possibilities of the telecommunications and technology industries, which together make up more than half of the fund's assets.
The possibility of attracting telecommunications or Internet-based tenants was not part of the discussion.
By seeking minority instead of controlling stakes, NTT DoCoMo expects greater ease in receiving a green light from regulators and legislators in various countries, who might be concerned about the possibility of foreign telecommunications companies gaining control of domestic companies that hold radio-spectrum licenses.
One possibility is renegotiating telecommunications, which could include tablet-based educational systems, broadening educational opportunities significantly.
