The Commission's analysis found that the acquisition would have both horizontal and vertical implications, as both parties were involved in a number of overlapping markets, including mobile telecommunications, fixed local telephony, long distance fixed telephony, Internet access services, data transmission services and, public telephone services.

Computer telephony device

Skype Internet Telephony

Cisco IP Telephony Router

For example, web hosting services, backup of mission data for disaster recovery purpose, centralized Internet services, Tier III type of help desk support, satellite services and telephony services are among the services that have increased dramatically in the last three years.

Differences in the patterns of investment and revenue generation may account for some of the variations in the diffusion of basic telephony and advanced services.

electronic communications, including the Internet, e mail and mobile telephony

Growth in mobile telephony can have significant implications for economic development.

The whole history of telephony is a story of dealing with that uncertainty.

However, full mobile telephony penetration is as desirable in developing as it is in developed countries.

Consider computer operating systems, business accounting software, databases, Internet search engines, silicone chips, broadband services, cable, and cellular telephony. All are examples of fast moving industries in which competition is fierce and great wealth is created.

The Government has already completed the first phase of implementation of a restructured telecommunications policy permitting private sector involvement in the sector through the provision of services such as cellular telephony and data transmission. F. South Africa

Some would rather see it as a vehicle for the transmission of data, others as a vehicle for the exchange of multimedia messages, and yet others as the global commons which would underpin universal telephony services worldwide.

That's the kind of rules that the cellphone company that Nelson purchases his telephony from operates under.

Satellite communication technology may well provide a low cost means of establishing various types of telecommunication services (telephony, video, data) anywhere in the world, but many obstacles still stand in the way of its application in developing countries.

And these kids, their first English word is Google, and they only know Skype. They've never heard of telephony.

GrameenPhone is a premium priced cellular telephony (GSM) offering for individuals and business in Bangladesh s urban centres and has about 4,000 subscribers.

The company s equipment was used for numerous applications, including credit card authorization, lottery transactions, pipeline monitoring, distance education, corporate telephony applications and paging.

Potential users of VSAT rural telephony were rural communities served by public call offices, business users, local authorities and tourists at remote sites.

9. The expert from Zimbabwe informed the meeting on progress made in cutting waiting lists for telephone connections through the introduction of cellular telephony.

During the past five years, the worldwide growth rates for mobile telephony had hovered around an astonishing 50 per cent per annum, and some countries were actually doubling their mobile subscriber base every year.Systems using constellations of LEO or medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellites would soon provide personal communication services (PCS).

That inevitable evolution resulted from the rapid expansion of fibre optic cables, which were more appropriate than satellites for trunk telephony and point to point communications.

It is argued that mobile telephony is the information and communication technology that has the most significant impact on development, particularly in developing and least developed countries.

Near Tingiri s office, Rwanda s largest telecom company, Rwandatel, is installing new wireless telephony equipment made by Huawei of Shenzen. Africa boasts the world s fastest growing market for wireless telephony, and Huawei with offices in 14 African countries is running away with the business, sending scores of engineers into the bush to bring a new generation of low cost technology to some of the planet s poorest people.

Lastly, the telecommunications sector, which consists of four companies, namely, SOCATEL, which runs the network carrying traffic between the Central African Republic and abroad, and TELECEL, TELECOM PLUS and NATION LINK, which provide mobile telephony services in conjunction with their foreign parent companies, did brisk trade, which had a knock on effect on revenue.

As an example, in 1985, the International Telecommunication Satellite Organization (INTELSAT) gave a dedicated four wire satellite telephony link between parts of Africa and the Memorial University of Newfoundland.

The ICT sector includes semiconductors, traditional voice telephony technologies, and technologies supporting high speed data and audio visual systems, stand alone and networked computers, and packaged and customized software.

Countries with limited financial resources often need to choose between promoting the extension of the NII to increase telephony penetration rates and promoting the diffusion of high capacity networks.

Besides the major communications companies, Alcatel Espace is a strategic partner of the Globalstar system, a new world system for mobile telephony to be put into service in 1999.

In the future, satellites will be called on to play a major role, whether in the matter of television broadcasting or mobile telephony, with personal satellite communication systems having world coverage.

For instance, it has been estimated that, in order to bring the average level of telephony in Africa to the level of that of Southern Europe, some 50 billion would be required.

The service activities in the EC Schedule of Commitments include engineering services integrated engineering services computer and related services technical testing and analysis services construction services, site investigation work architectural services, urban planning and landscape architectural services management and consulting services advertising research and development services accounting services and entertainment services.

Following the GATS services sectoral classification, distribution services include commission agents' services, wholesale trade services, retailing services, and franchising.

SERVICES SECTOR HEALTH SERVICES

Commission agents' services, wholesale trade services, retailing services, and franchising

Library services implementing knowledge services

(a) Miscellaneous services Audit services

(a) Miscellaneous services Audit services

(a) Miscellaneous services Contractual services

Support services Contractual services (breakdown)

the Services Sector Health Services

Management Information Services Administrative Services

(b) Information, communications and other services, including electronic services and emergency services.

in the Services Sector Health Services

in the Services Sector Health Services