Word: telcom
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...proximity to an instant cemetery gives us a vicarious creepiness, what with the acrid stench of compressed steel and flesh, and the constant police presence; a few weeks ago a three-foot concrete barricade was erected around the Western Union Building across the street, presumably because of the telcom companies and government agencies housed there. So we feel as if we are close enough to the new Gettysburg to be part of the new war effort. Or at least an upmarket extension of Afghanistan: what the performance artist Reno calls ?Tribecastan,? and I call Ground Plus...
...With 25 international telcom operators located here, Marseilles has become France's second-largest telecommunications center and the key hub for the southern European network. It also boasts research and production centers for the biotech and microelectronics industries - including the likes of Gemplus and STMicroelectronics - and has created local graduate schools to produce employees with the skills these companies need. The June 10 launch of the new high-speed TGV rail service - reducing travel time to Paris from four hours and 20 min. to three hours, and to Lyons from two hours and 45 min. to one hour...
...This on top of the little problem that most people - even in places like Dallas, with its hot "Telcom Corridor" companies - can't get high-speed Internet service. Skilling, who once touted broadband as the future, now plays down its importance to the company's bottom line, predicting that it will take four to five years before it will become even 10 or 15 percent of net income...