telecom

Telecom is the shortened name for telecommunications, which, according to the Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary is the science and technology of transmitting voice, audio, facsimile, image, video, computer data, and multimedia information over significant distances by the use of electromagnetic energy in the form of electricity, radio, or optics.

The modern telecom industry really begin on January 1, 1984 when AT&T's local operations were split into seven independent holding companies and were prohibited from participating in certain markets. This led to a surge of competition in the long distance market by companies such as Sprint and MCI. This in turn led to a whole host of smaller telecom companies and after-market products such as those provide by independent billing companies who formed to help service this growing industry. Further, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 removed the statutory and court-ordered barriers to competition between segments of the telecom industry, enabling participants to compete head-to-head.

Technology keeps pushing the telecom industry in new ways from iPhones, to streaming media, to Global Positioning Satellites. From the smoke signal, to Alexander Graham Bell, from the cell phone to the Internet, weighing in at in excess of $1.2 trillion dollars a year, the telecom industry will continue to help drive the world's economy.

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• Sprint to Sack Up to 2,500

  
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• Verizons 3G Netbooks & Expensive USB�Modem

  
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  Contributor Gary Krakow checks out Verizons line of 3g-connected Netbook computers - and a new, very expensive 3G USB modem for mobile warriors.
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• Clearwire Wins More 2.6GHz in Auction 86

  
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• Accel Partners Feels Like a Billion Dollars Today…No, Really!

  
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• Windstream Slips on Disappointing Results

  
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• Is JDSU Up For Grabs? (JDSU)

  
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  JDS Uniphase Corp. (NASDAQ: JDSU) is seeing a run in the stock and in the options trading today.  The company announced this morning that had “licensed patent rights for fundamental picosecond laser technology to Hamamatsu Corporation for the development of microelectronic products.” Yet there may be more to the ...
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• Reliance Communications ties knot with Atom Technologies

  
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• Droid Sales on Dull Side

  
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• 2G GSM + CDMA Spectrum Allocation till Date Vs Subscribers in India

  
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• Northrop Grumman sells consulting firm in leveraged buy-out

  
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  Northrop Grumman, one of the largest suppliers to U.S. military, has sold its TASC group to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and the Atlantic Group for $1.65 billion.
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• Samsung S359 music phone for China market

  
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• Clearwire Lands Another $1.5 Billion from Partners

  
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  Clearwire (CLWR) is poised to receive another $1.5 billion from Sprint Nextel (S) and its partners as the wireless broadband company struggles to complete the first “4G” mobile high-speed network, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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• Wireless users may be shut off if sharing copyrighted files

  
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• D2 Boosts Android Effort

  
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  Santa Barbara-based D2 Technologies , a developer of embedded IP communications and VoIP software, said today that it is linking into an effort to push Google Android as a platform for embedded IP and voice-over-IP. The firm said it has joined the Open Embedded Software Foundation (OESF), which helps further adoption ...
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• Occam Networks Wins North Dakota Customer

  
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• Sybase set to ride mainland 3G wave

  
  China Trade Information — Authority: 147
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• Etisalat Nigeria :Senior Engineer, Packet Core Planning – Lagos & Abuja.

  
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• Etisalat Nigeria :Manager, RF Planning & Optimization

  
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• Indian telecom to see tariff consolidation: Bharti Airtel

  
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