Unlike AT&T, Vodafone or Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison does not aspire to build a global telecommunications empire.

When he returned he went into business, and during the late 1980s began building a successful telecommunications empire.

This year, apparently anticipating Telmex's inevitable loss of market share, Mr. Slim began building a diverse international telecommunications empire.

Mr. Winnick envisioned a telecommunications empire with undersea fiber optic cables that would become a worldwide network to transmit information via the Internet.

His work lives on in his son's telecommunications empire, which spans everything from cable television to Internet access.

How could Lucent Technologies, the once highflying descendant of the 132-year-old telecommunications empire formed by Alexander Graham Bell, consider selling out to the French?

The newspaper became his personal mouthpiece, and he used the profits to build a publishing, broadcasting, and telecommunications empire.

First, the division, as part of a telecommunications empire, has operations spanning a wide geographical area.

The paper is owned by Rupert Murdoch, whose expanding media and telecommunications empire is finding the Tories slow in opening the doors for further expansion.

But more and more people here think that Mr. Yamaguchi, who heads the telecommunications empire, is fighting a lost cause.