Non-ProZ.com Dec 4, 2002:

2 "The Philippines is the only case in the Asia Pacific in which both the incumbent and competing operators are under private instead of public ownership." Here incumbent operators are opposed to competing operators, sounds like incumbent operators are non-competing but (state-supported?)

Non-ProZ.com Dec 4, 2002:

1 "The French and German incumbent operators France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom said they would jointly develop a state-of-the-art telecoms network linking Europe's main financial centres to offer corporate communication services." If you change 'incumbent' to 'existing' here, it won't make much sense as there's hardly any need to point out that these operators actually exist :)

Non-ProZ.com Dec 4, 2002:

Incumbent - probably not exactly "existing" Still, I'm not quite sure about the word 'incumbent', here's a couple of examples that make me doubt: