In the process, he triggered upheavals in computing, music, telecoms and the news business that were painful for incumbent firms but welcomed by millions of consumers.

在这个过程中，他引发了计算、音乐、电信和新闻行业的剧变，这些变动对现有公司来说是痛苦的，但却受到了数百万消费者的欢迎。

At the time the telecoms bubble was at its height.

当时电信业的泡沫正处于极度膨胀时期。

Source: oil, banking, telecoms.

产业：石油、银行、电信。

It was a bad week for telecoms firms.

本周对于电信公司来说非常糟糕。

WHAT has come over the telecoms industry?

电信工业到底怎么了？

Other telecoms also have been cutting staff.

其它电信公司也在裁员。

They hold sway in oil, gas, tourism and telecoms.

他们掌控石油、天然气、旅游和电信。

Drug stocks and telecoms were also on the decline.

医药板块和电信板块也普遍下跌。

Network neutrality isn't a new concept in telecoms.

网络中立在电信公司内并不是新概念。

The telecoms scandal has provoked the most chatter.

电信丑闻引发了最为广泛的舆论。

All this is transforming the telecoms industry.

这些因素正在重新塑造整个电信行业。

Airlines, shipping and telecoms had been deregulated.

航空业、船运业和电信业受到的控制也获解除。

Most large telecoms operators are unhappy with the plan.

对于这项新规定，大多数大型电信运营商感到不满。

This could even help recreate the telecoms monopolies of old.

此举将使过去的电信垄断重现天日。

Three trends in particular are reshaping the telecoms landscape.

三个特别突出的趋势正在改变电信业的版图。

All of this is a decidedly mixed blessing for telecoms operators.

所有的那些果断的融合正在保佑着电信运营商们。

Carlos Slim has extended his telecoms empire across Latin America.

卡洛斯史林把他的电信帝国延伸到了整个拉美。

Telekom Austria is one of the top telecoms companies in the region.

奥地利电信是本区最负盛名的电信公司之一。

Most smaller telecoms firms assume they must grow or be gobbled up.

大多数小电信公司认为它们要么增大规模，要么就被吞并。

That is a question the computer and telecoms industries hate to hear.

这个问题让计算机和电信行业深恶痛绝。

In telecoms leading firms were reduced to indebted objects of ridicule.

在电信业领先企业为可笑的的目标偿还债务而减少。

Reflecting this, only a few telecoms companies received state bail-outs.

只有一小部分电信企业接收到了国家的救助反映这一点。

Similarly adventurous claims have been made for telecoms and road-building.

电信和道路建设产业也出现类似大胆言论。

The fresh trouble comes at a difficult time for the Italian telecoms group.

本已处在困难境地的意大利电信集团又有了新麻烦。

Now that telecoms is thriving again, Temasek seems no longer as welcome.

现在电讯业又开始繁荣了，淡马锡看起来已经不再受欢迎。

If the telecoms industry is anything to go by, this gradualism will fail.

如果拿电信行业作为依据，这种渐进主义将会失败。

When Internet firms' share prices plummeted, telecoms investors suffered too.

当互联网企业的股票价格插水式下跌后，电信投资者也同遭殃及。

It is the same for graduates trained in intellectual-property law or telecoms.

受过知识产权法或电信培训的毕业生也如此。

Now, again, the telecoms -- I personally think they shouldn't have immunity.

理查森又说：“现在，再次地，说到电信公司—我个人认为他们不应该有豁免权。

Should they go to existing telecoms operators or be directed towards new entrants?

是将钱投向现有的电信运营商还是新近的加入者？