At the same time, the company grew from its original base into a diversified communications conglomerate, with revenues of $4.2 billion in 1987.

They predicted that cable and telephone rates would increase as big communications conglomerates were allowed to become even bigger.

Because communications conglomerates have stopped breaking out public relations billings, 2002 was the last year for which reliable industry-wide data is available.

AT&T had wanted to put together a consumer-and-business communications conglomerate, and the market did not support that strategy.

Colleagues describe him as an introspective man who rose, as if by accident, to command the world's largest communications conglomerate.

Today, you're talking about franchisers, communications conglomerates, manufacturers and so on.

The debate also underscores two world views that coexist under the multigabled roof of the world's biggest communications conglomerate.

There were four oil companies, a fishing concern, two mining corporations, and a communications conglomerate listed.

One of the mining concerns had identical standing orders in for the six corporations at the other three locations, as did the communications conglomerate.

He remembered what the rendezvous had been about, the sale of plans for some piece of electronics gear being used by the communications conglomerate.