Topic Telecommunication Landscape today Please provied det

Topic : Telecommunication Landscape today .

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Question: What are some of the common categories of today’s telecommunications players (e.g. traditional telcos, cable companies, etc.)?

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What are some of the common categories of today’s telecommunications players (e.g. traditional telcos, cable companies, etc.)?

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Telecommunication :

Traditionally, telecommunications denoted the long-distance connections that linked television networks to their affiliates and the long-distance phone connections that linked telephone networks to local switching centers.

Hence the term applied both to AT&T\'s long-distance telephone network and to the television industry\'s worldwide networks-but each used very different technologies to transmit voice or video. Now with the rapidly growing size of the Internet, telecommunications has expanded to include data networks.

The newest technologies to join the telecommunications industry are wireless phones and wireless data businesses.

Telecommunications and information-related industries continue to enjoy a rapid growth in the Internet and the wireless phone sectors.

Three major opportunities for growth and increased profits:

(1) the rapidly growing market for Internet access.

(2) the rapidly growing market for wireless phones

(3) the opportunity to grab a share in all sectors by offering customers a package rate on phone, wireless phone, cable-TV, and Internet services.

(4) The Cable-TV companies are in the best position to become profitable, because their cable systems can provide the full package of services into the home. Providing long-distance phone service and Internet service requires a partnership with a long-distance carrier.

(5) The regional phone carriers are poorly situated for long-term competition. Currently, most are protecting their profit margins and fending off competition. But direct competition from the cable-TV and AT&T companies in the local phone business could be catastrophic.

(6) The wireless phone business is largely unregulated, highly competitive, and growing very rapidly. Having a national network, whereby long distance calls remain on a single carrier\'s infrastructure, has become a strong competitive edge.

(7) Internet access and e-mail are the fastest growing services in the telecommunications industry. The Internet-service business is made up of the linkages from homes and businesses to Internet service providers (ISPs), which in turn provide linkages to the major Internet backbone mostly provided by long-distance carrier MCI Worldcom.