I'd point to what happened to telecoms after BT was privatised.
Some reckon the group is now shifting the balance of its assets from media to telecoms.
The biggest single category in Gartner's analysis is devoted to telecoms services.
As such, the regulations applied strictly to telecoms providers, the majority of which were state owned.
All kinds of companies are interested, from fast-moving consumer goods giants to telecoms companies.
WHEN it came to telecoms, a decade ago the Chinese barely whispered.
Filched cables have reportedly caused train delays and stalled repairs to telecoms networks.
This is for Eutelsat, a Paris-based company, which provides satellite services to telecoms firms and broadcasters.
Elsewhere, the portfolio has a high exposure to telecoms to profit from the boom in emerging market smartphone use.
So far, however, optical technology has been confined mostly to telecoms networks and some of the cabling in data centres.
One strategy is to move into a different area the selling of software and services to telecoms operators.
