The communications giant's revenue almost doubled for the period, rising 94 percent, to $2.19 billion, from $1.13 billion in the 1988 quarter.

The equation for a communications giant is fairly simple.

If anything, they said, their positions in the association have helped them stand out at the communications giant.

But just maybe the world's communications giants will have to grapple with the possibility that, like television, the Internet might not belong in our pockets.

What the corporate communications giants are really concerned about is devastating interference with their revenues.

And all of the international communications giants reach additional countries through technologies other than frame relay.

By 1997, the communications giant is to divide itself into a long-distance telephone company, an equipment company and a computer manufacturer.

He is employed as a business consultant for corporate communications giants, Wish Communications.

Mr. Ebbers built a tiny long-distance telephone company into a communications giant.

Officials of the communications giant have said that they do not want to compete in the local telephone business.