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telecom

te luh kom

  • n  (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically

  • It tracks the telecom baron's swelling fortune as well as his companies' alleged monopolistic practices.
  • Brussels plays the heavy to try to break telecom monopolies and allow high-speed Internet access.
  • One nixed participant, who has been to many of these telecom meetings and who wants to remain anonymous, gave just $250 to the Democratic Party.
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  • Viviane Reding in Xinhua
    Pan-European telecom services, such as in-flight mobile telephony, need a regulatory 'one-stop shop' to operate throughout Europe and this is why the Commission has acted today,said EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding.
  • President Bush in Seattle Post Intelligencer
    For example, Bush said that, "Allowing these lawsuits (against telecom companies) to proceed could make it harder to track the terrorists because private companies besieged by and fearful of lawsuits would be less willing to help us quickly get the...
  • Chris Dodd in Forbes
    For the last six years, our largest telecom companies have been spying on their own American customers,said Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who unsuccessfully tried to block the bill from coming to the floor Monday.

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