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The fifth largest came on May 21st from the bizarrely named mmO2, which used to be known as BT Cellnet, and is the mobile operation spun off from BT in 2001.The causes of this red ink from telecoms are the same: writing off the many billions spent on other telecoms firms and on 3G licences from delighted governments at the height of the tech bubble.
Last year, Facebook tried to launch Free Basics, which would have allowed people in rural India free access to websites chosen by the company, but the plan was blocked after millions wrote to the telecoms authority saying the scheme would give Facebook too much power.
I've no doubt Gartner has spotted a fashionable swing away from blogs as we know them - although I recall when I wrote on mobile telecoms titles, we'd always rely on a wild prediction from Gartner and their ilk to plug a news gap, whether we believed them or not - but because they seem to misunderstand what many blogs are, they're probably missing what's coming next.
A memo written by former telecoms analyst Jack Grubman shows him informing Citigroup Chairman Sanford Weill of his meetings with AT&T officials, leading up to Grubman's upgrade of AT&T's stock, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The telecoms giant said it would be writing to all affected people to let them know what information had been accessed.
The telecommunications firm posted a hefty third-quarter loss, saddled by costs from writing down the value of its network as the reorganized telecom faces intensifying industry competition.
The service providers Ganek was referring to were likely the telecom companies that Neustar works with, which as of writing total roughly 5,700.
In recent weeks France Telecom has written off euro10.2 billion ($9 billion), KPN of the Netherlands euro12.4 billion, and Deutsche Telekom euro15.2 billion.
