EghtesadOnline: Extortionist hackers who may be using leaked computer exploits from the U.S. National Security Agency infiltrated computers in dozens of countries in a fast-spreading attack that forced British hospitals to turn away patients and breached systems at Spain’s Telefonica SA and organizations from Russia to Taiwan.

EghtesadOnline: Seeking to escape a cycle of falling prices and tight regulation, big telecom operators from Vimpelcom, to Telefonica , are set to reinvent themselves as internet players to escape the industry's straight-jacket of low growth.