Online giants are still firmly in the telecoms ascendancy

Something fundamental has gone askew in the industry when telco vendors forecast a contracting infrastructure market, and the likes of Facebook and Google take it upon themselves to figure out how to connect the roughly 4 billion people worldwide who still don't have the Internet.With 4G network deployments now largely complete in major developed markets, andmacroeconomic uncertainty in some emerging countries, at least two of the world's three remaining major telecoms infrastructure players ar