Now it appears that the nation's largest telecommunications and industrial companies are the ones losing sleep.
Etisalat is the sixteenth largest telecommunications firm in the world.
A number of the country's largest telecommunications and computer companies, as well as several commercial Internet service companies, are bidding on the project.
The company was created to continue what was originally a research project at Telenor, the largest Norwegian telecommunications company.
These were the largest commercial telecommunications satellites ever launched.
It is one of the largest telecommunications services companies in the world and has operations in over 170 countries.
Opera began in 1994 as a research project at Telenor, the largest Norwegian telecommunications company.
Sprint Nextel (One of the largest telecommunications companies in the world.
Qualcomm has agreements to provide technology to China Unicom, the country's second largest telecommunications corporations.
The sale creates one of the world's largest independent telecommunications equipment makers.