It became a subsidiary of Mannesmann in 1999 and was acquired by France Telecom in 2000.

In 1998, France Telecom becomes a shareholder of the company and uses its search engine ( active since 1999 ) for its Wanadoo. fr ( later Orange. fr ) portal.

Scottish Telecom rebranded as Thus plc in October 1999 and floated on the London Stock Exchange.

As Bord Telecom Éireann, the company was state owned until 1999 ; as a private company it continues to dominate many areas of Irish telecommunication.

Telecom Éireann (, meaning " Telecommunications of Ireland ") was a state-owned telecommunications company in Ireland from 1983 to 1999.

Telecom Éireann was privatised in 1999 and renamed as eircom plc.

* Procédé et dispositif de codage à au moins deux codages en parallèle et permutation améliorée, et procédé et dispositif de décodage correspondents ( Apparatus and device for the encoding with at least two parallel encoders and enhanced permutation, and associated process and decoding device ) by Claude Berrou and Alain Glavieux ( Institut TELECOM ; Telecom Bretagne ; GET ), France, July 1999.

Also in 1999, Esat bid for Cablelink Limited, the cable and television company owned jointly by Telecom Éireann and RTÉ.

In 1999, Esat Telecom was the first wholly owned Irish company to lay two optical submarine cables between the Republic of Ireland and the UK.

Eventually, in November 1999, Telenor bid for the entire share capital of Esat Telecom Group plc as a way of solving the situation.

Olivetti then launched a hostile bid for Telecom Italia in February 1999, despite being less than a seventh of the size of its target.

The current firm is the successor to Aliant Inc., formed from the 1999 merger of Maritime Telephone and Telegraph Company ( MT & T ), Island Telecom, Bruncor ( parent of NBTel ), and NewTel Enterprises ( parent of NewTel Communications ), then the four main incumbent telephone companies in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador respectively.

In 1999 ADC acquired Saville later sold to Intec Telecom Systems.

From 1990 to 1999, the official name of the league was PTT Telecompetitie ( after the sponsor, PTT Telecom ), which was changed to KPN Telecompetitie in 1999 and to KPN Eredivisie in 2000.

* 1999: Hong Kong Telecom was renamed to Cable & Wireless HKT.

Securicor sold its share in the company to British Telecom in 1999, resulting in the formation of BT Cellnet, which was later spun off as O2.

Nationwide dialup access was provided in 1999, and Paradise was one of the first ADSL providers in 1999, after Telecom Xtra.

City Telecom was listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited ( Stock Code: 1137 ) in August 1997 with an ADR Listing on the Nasdaq National Market ( Ticker Symbol: CTEL ) in the US in November 1999.

On October 19, 1999, the CRTC issued Telecom Decision 99-16, defining basic service as including security features such as Caller ID, local dial-up connectivity to the Internet, access to long distance service, among other things.

Intel, Compaq and Microsoft were able to rally the support of all of the US RBOCs and five of the largest international carriers ( NTT, British Telecom, France Telecom, Deutch Telecom, and Singapore Telecom ), collectively representing the Promoters, to drive the major communications equipment manufacturers ( the Supporters ) to demonstrate interoperability of products based on the G. Lite specification at SUPERCOMM in June of 1999.

Category: Companies established in 1999

These include Word of God ( established in 1967 ), a charismatic inter-denominational movement ; and the Thomas More Law Center ( established in 1999 ), a religious-conservative advocacy group.

Κόρινθος ), established in 1999 after the merger of Pankorinthian Football Club ( Παγκορινθιακός ) and Corinth Football Club ( Κόρινθος ).

The Honduras-El Salvador Border Protocol ratified by Honduras in May 1999 established a framework for a long-delayed border demarcation, which is currently underway ; with respect to the maritime boundary in the Golfo de Fonseca, the ICJ referred to the line determined by the 1900 Honduras-Nicaragua Mixed Boundary Commission and advised that some tripartite resolution among El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua likely would be required.

* In 1999, Yale University established the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for works in the history of slavery and abolition, in his honor.

* Mike Lowell ( 1999 – 2005 ) — Lowell a native of Coral Gables, FL had successful years in Florida and established himself as one of the elite third baseman in the league.

In 1999, the Government of Canada established the Forum of Federations as an international network for exchange of best practices among federal and federalizing countries.

The Financial Modernization Act of 1999, commonly referred to as " Gramm-Leach-Bliley ", established a comprehensive framework to authorize affiliations between banks, securities firms, and insurers, and once again acknowledged that states should regulate insurance.

The Mars Society French chapter was established in 1999 as " Association Planète Mars ", a non-profit organization with its headquarters in Paris.

The 2002 edition of The World Book Dictionary does not note a negative connotation, defining it simply as: " a follower of Sun Myung Moon "; nor does the 1999 edition of the Webster's II New College Dictionary, which defines it as " a member of the Unification Church established and headed by Sun Myung Moon.

In 1999, Kehilat Nitzan, Melbourne's first Conservative ( Masorti ) Congregation was established, with foundation president Prof John Rosenberg.

Category: Companies established in 1999

The country's more than roads are administered by the Roads Authority, a state-owned enterprise established by Act # 17 of 1999.

Niue has free Internet service through the efforts of the Internet Users Society Niue, established 1999.

The Government of National Unity ( GNU ) established under the interim constitution ostensibly remained in effect until the 1999 national elections.

Formed in 1991 as a coalition of centre-left parties, it was formally established as a single party on 15 April 1999.

Most of the members who established the party in 1999 had previously been members of the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland ( SdRP ) and the Polish Social Democratic Union, the two parties that were formed out of the remains of the Polish United Workers ' Party ( PZPR ).

Category: Political parties established in 1999

In 1999, game designer Ian Millington developed an early work called Ergo which established the basis for collaborative role-playing.

A commercial court was established in September 1999 as a division of the High Court.

The current Scottish Parliament was established by the Scotland Act 1998 and its first meeting as a devolved legislature was on 12 May 1999.

The 1999 national elections were held under a new electoral system established by a 1996 constitutional amendment.

The 1999 national elections were held under a new electoral system established by a 1996 constitutional amendment.

Vya, established in 1999, is an American vermouth produced in Madera County, California.