Ericsson's customers, mainly mobile phone operators, have stopped spending money on new networks as they try to reduce debt accrued during the telecommunications boom.

It was the company's first full-year gain in sales and profit since 2000, at the peak of the telecommunications boom.

The telecommunications boom of the late 1990's was cruel to Cisco Systems.

In 1999, at the peak of the telecommunications boom, Dominic Turner took his government's advice.

The company cut more than 30,000 jobs after rapid expansion during the telecommunications boom of the late 1990's.

Marconi took a gamble on the telecommunications boom in the late 1990's, shedding other businesses to focus on phone equipment just as the market collapsed.

At the height of the telecommunications boom about five years ago, Mr. Ebbers was worth $1 billion on paper.

Toward the end of the telecommunications boom in the late 1990's, Qwest and other long-haul fiber carriers routinely swapped capacity on one another's networks.

During the telecommunications boom of the late 1990's, Asian companies were also-rans, many hobbled by restrictive government owners.

Long considered the bluest of Canada's blue chips, Nortel was a darling of the telecommunications boom.