Stocks are expected to open higher today, buoyed by a bidding war in the telecommunications sector.
And it grew - after World War II, Pye Telecommunications was said to be second only to Motorola of the US in radio communications equipment.
The Verizon announcement, on May 2, suggested a possible price war between cable and telecommunications companies, a prospect that troubles many investors.
[C5.] Looking Beyond a War in Iraq The telecommunications equipment industry is pinning its hopes on a quick Iraqi war that would be followed by an American-led effort to rebuild.
A group led by the Irish media magnate Sir Anthony O'Reilly appears to have clinched victory in a bidding war for the Irish telecommunications company eircom, raising its offer to around 3 billion euros, or $2.64 billion.
Yet in many ways, the current battle over net neutrality is less a question of broad, public-interest internet values, and more a parochial telecommunications policy war between US cable and content companies, waged on a global stage.
To go head-to-head with its much-larger foes, Juniper will spend the money raised in its convertible offering for marketing and customer financing, which is becoming a tactical weapon in the telecommunications equipment wars.
Much of the data that is contained in Poppe's Stasi files, compiled during the Cold War, would today be considered "telecommunications metadata".
But because price wars have contributed to the telecommunications industry's problems, further pressure on that front would add to the challenges facing other carriers, particularly the big long-distance companies AT&T and Sprint.
Unlike other generations, which were united by huge events such as the Depression, World War II and the computer-telecommunications revolution, the events of the 1960s divided people, including baby boomers themselves.
