Dlamini-Zuma spoke of an African space agency, a modern, continent-wide telecommunications infrastructure, and an Africa young people could tour on high-speed rail links similar to Europe's InterRail system.
The plan would have created the first Europe-wide telecommunications regulator, while also giving national regulators the power to improve competition in the industry and promoting the development of mobile broadband.
But reputation alone will not ensure Ms. Kroes a smooth hearing given the pro-consumer bias of Parliament, whose members overwhelmingly supported Ms. Reding on controversial changes like placing limits on mobile phone roaming charges and creating an E.U.-wide telecommunications regulator.
Little is still known of conditions on the ground in outlying islands after Pam wiped out the archipelago's wider telecommunications network.
Part of that is for the protection of the wider telephone network, says Clayton. "Because phones are talking to the wider telecommunications system, which isn't secure, the wireless side of phones tends to be locked down very tight".
Industry lobbyists and lawmakers said today that they expected a significant retrenchment in a wide array of telecommunications areas.
The company provides a wide range of telecommunications services, including long-distance and mobile telephone, pay television and Internet connections.
For Global Crossing, which is based in Hamilton, Bermuda, the possible sale of its Web site-hosting business would have represented a departure from its earlier strategy of providing a wide array of telecommunications services to its clients.
Ericsson's sagging fortunes are emblematic of wider problems facing the telecommunications industry.
In his State of the Union address before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Mr. Barroso threw his support behind a plan that would phase out roaming fees starting in 2014 as part of a wider overhaul of the telecommunications industry.
Lower debt costs could allow WorldCom to compete on a stronger footing with its rivals, involving a potential price-cutting strategy that has analysts concerned about the wider strength of the telecommunications industry.
