In a telecom depression, here's one sector that is lively.
"I've done a fair bit of M.&A. in a pretty public way in the telecom industry and here at this company in the past.
The Japanese hate Nokia but lately, more and more telecom companies over here are trying to duplicate the Nokia Communicator design.
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If American banks cannot extend loans in India, it will only hurt the interests of American companies, which are bidding for telecom and power projects here.AMRITA WADHWAMumbaiSIR If the nuclear "haves" feel so strongly about non-proliferation, why do they not dismantle their own nuclear weapons first?
And while we don't need to get into the details here, suits from telecoms and trade associations aiming to prevent the rules from taking effect fell flat and everything, amazingly, went more or less as the FCC planned.
"Telecoms are having a rough go here," says Prudential Securities analyst Bryan Piskorowski, who blamed the equipment sector's problems in part on a slowdown in spending by their customers.
A new wave of tech firms are also heading here, from Huawei, the Chinese telecoms giant, to Just Eat, the online takeaway service.
Here, the bottleneck of expanding telecom coverage is electricity supply, and currently heavy dependency on the expensive import, diesel.
"If you've had any experience at all in the telecom world, there is no chance of you working here–ever," says James Cashiola, founder and chief executive at Simplified, a vendor that makes software for telecom service providers.
