Telecommunications operators

Following a period of rapid expansion due to the proliferation of mobile services and broadband access, the global telecommunications services industry lost strength. This was particularly evident in the fixed telephony segment, where declining traffic, rates and number of lines affected the revenues of operators. An additional factor was the high saturation rates for mobile telephony in the industrialized economies —particularly Europe and Japan. The forces driving global growth in telecommunications services today are data transmission and Internet access services —a phenomenon seen throughout both developed and developing countries, though there is a strong trend, among the latter, towards replacing wired services with mobile systems (Wohlers and Garcia-Murillo, 2009).

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