Three giant phone firms plan venture to offer joint service to multinationals
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British Telecommunications PLC, Nippon Denshin Denwa KK and Deutsche Bundespost Telekom plan to offer world-wide telecommunication services to multinational companies. The group intends to compete directly with AT&T. General deregulation around the world is pressuring the each of the three companies to compete with newer, smaller telephone companies in their home countries. The market for servicing multinationals' communications needs is large. Multinationals often depend on their own communications personnel to maintain international telephone line links, computers and software. The market in the US alone is estimated at $5 billion and grows at 15 percent each year. IBM is one company the consortium has approached with an offer to manage its international communications needs. Rumors indicate that IBM could participate in the group.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1991
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Firms promise a phone in every pocket
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Pocket telephones in every pocket is inevitable according to government and telecommunications industry experts around the world. Some analysts say that technology exists to make portable telephones and all that is needed is economies of scale to give the service and equipment attractive prices. Other analysts point out that the airways are already crowded with communications and that the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will have a hard time finding room. The social impact of a wide network of portable telephones is also significant: privacy will be squeezed when people can always be reached and their locations are always ascertainable, but access to emergency services will be instantaneous. Industry observers believe that the system will succeed when prices drop to somewhere around $75 a phone.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1990
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NTT unit to vie with U.S. firms in data communications services
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NTT Data Communications Systems Corp, a subsidiary of Japan's Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp, plans to compete with US companies that provide data communications services to Japanese companies doing business in this country. NTT will manage data transmission facilities and office phone systems. NTT will also develop software and train customers' employees to run corporate data networks. Later, NTT may target US companies: data communications services currently represent $40 billion in the US alone, growing now at about 25 percent a year. NTT's long-term goal is to control the communications, power and security systems in office parks throughout the US.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1990
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