Atlantic alliance

Ninety-eight years ago, Guglielmo Marconi sat on a Newfoundland hill and, pressing a speaker close to his ear, listened to a wireless transmission from England. The young Italian's genius helped spark a telecommunications revolution that begat vast industries on both sides of the Atlantic. Largely responsible for the word 'globalization' entering the vernacular, telcos have themselves outgrown continental boundaries. When the prize is nothing less than a worldwide market, scale is everything. So