telecom companies
Phone service corporations
Telecom companies are businesses that provide telecommunications services—phone networks, internet access, cable television, and wireless connectivity.
The term appears constantly in discussions of infrastructure, regulation, and consumer complaints: The telecom companies are lobbying against net neutrality.
Major players include AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast in the United States.
- mobile networksWireless communication infrastructure
- broadband servicesFast data transmission offerings
- service providersBusinesses offering work for clients
- base stationsFixed wireless transmitters
- dropped callsUnintended phone disconnections
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- licensed industriesbanks, casinos, pharmacies, airlines, hospitals
- nationalized sectorsrailways, postal service, national bank, national railway, public utilities
- competitive organizationssports teams, corporations, political parties, sports leagues, airlines
- telecom regulationFCC, broadcast license, universal service, price caps, consent decree
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Firms creating public content
streaming services · Apple · Samsung · Intel · heavy industry
telecom companiespostal services
Public mail delivery system
mail carriers · logistics companies · USPS · Royal Mail · FedEx
telecom companiespeer-to-peer networks
Decentralized file-sharing architecture
mesh networks · community networks · amateur radio · public utilities
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