Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.
The telecom industry pretends like it's not getting paid.
The satellite business is a very successful business, very profitable business, and serves the broadcast market in addition to the telecoms market.
Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.
If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.
Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.
So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.
In 1970, there was a single telephone company in the United States called AT&T, and its technology was called circuit switching, and that was all any telecom engineer worried about.
I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.
Our first challenge is to ensure safety of pilgrims, and we will use modern technology for that. We will strengthen our telecom network and will provide special mobile apps to the pilgrims at the time of registration.
France has a specificity - the market players who provide Internet access are the telecom operators, and all of the players are French. They had a habit of, let's say, getting along with each other, and the prices traditionally were very high.
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