In the United Kingdom, landline telecommunications services were provided exclusively by BT until 1984 when the industry was deregulated, and the number of independent operators providing fixed-line domestic telephone services increased.

Trade was liberalized, whilst telecommunications, banking and financial services were deregulated or privatised.

Beginning in 1987, the New Zealand telecommunications market was progressively deregulated.

Originally the company targeted just corporate customers, but from 1 December 1998, when the Irish telecommunications market was fully deregulated, domestic customers were also targeted, under the Esat Clear brand name.

Tiscali was formed in 1998 by Renato Soru when the Italian telecommunications market was deregulated.

During the intervening period, bmobile has obtained a virtual stranglehold on the cellular telecommunications market in the British Virgin Islands by a combination of low prices and aggressive advertising, as well as significant investment in infrastructure and technology.

The limited market in Brunei means that development in the telecommunications sector is stagnant.

* Telstra and Optus in the Australian telecommunications market.

* Verizon and AT & T in the U. S. telecommunications market.

INDOTEL, Instituto Dominicano De Telecomunicaciones, regulates and supervises the development of the country telecommunications market.

The Dominican Republic is considered one of the countries with the most advanced telecommunications infrastructures in Latin America, with over 8. 9 million cell phones connected ( on just about 10 million populants, with 3. 5 million of them on extreme poverty conditions ) and large companies like Codetel and Orange ( FR ) on the telecommunications market.

The telecommunications and postal services market in Greece is regulated by the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission ( EETT ).

Since the liberalization of the telecommunications market, OTE has been slowly losing market share to " alternative ", competing telecom operators, such as Vivodi, Q-Telecom, Tellas and Forthnet.

number of telecommunications operators has grown rapidly since the fixed-line market opened to competition in 2003 ; combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular subscribership is roughly 125 per 100 persons.

Until 2003 Lattelecom had a monopoly in the fixed telecommunications market.

In June 2003, legislation passed allowing other private telecommunications operators to enter the market.

However, following the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ) at the WTO, the 1988 Telecommunications Act was replaced with by the Telecommunications Act of 1998 which provided the legal framework to enable the emergence of a free and democratised telecommunications market on the island.

Through the 1990s, the MIPS architecture was widely adopted by the embedded market, including for use in computer networking, telecommunications, video arcade games, video game consoles, computer printers, digital set-top boxes, digital televisions, DSL and cable modems, and personal digital assistants.

The Office of Telecommunications ( Oftel ) ( the telecommunications regulator ) was a department in the United Kingdom government, under civil service control, charged with promoting competition and maintaining the interests of consumers in the UK telecommunications market.

In 2008 Pakistan was the world ’ s third fastest growing telecommunications market.

This prompted the government to take a series of actions to improve the service by opening the telecommunications market.

In July 2003 the government introduced a Deregulation Policy for the Telecommunication Sector, which allowed and encouraged foreign companies to invest in the Pakistani telecommunications market.

When the Russian economy ’ s collapse came about in August 1998, the market shrank drastically and the ruble fell several cellular operators were squeezed between low traffic and huge foreign currency denominated credits and telecommunications equipment bills.

Since the mid-1990s, the Ministry of Information and Communications ( MIC ) has pursued a policy of high-speed telecommunication infrastructure as a foundation to build a “ knowledge-based society .” In the telecommunications sector, competition was allowed on an incremental basis and, in the market for value added services, full competition was allowed.

Sonatel, Senegal ’ s main telecommunications operator, continues to dominate the market.

In 2009 Belgium has 20 major media companies active in numerous telecommunications media subsectors.

A fiber-optic telecommunications network has been completed in Botswana connecting all major population centers.

* General assessment: an extensive but antiquated telecommunications network inherited from the Soviet era ; quality has improved ; the Bulgaria Telecommunications Company's fixed-line monopoly terminated in 2005 when alternative fixed-line operators were given access to its network ; a drop in fixed-line connections in recent years has been more than offset by a sharp increase in mobile-cellular telephone use fostered by multiple service providers ; the number of cellular telephone subscriptions now exceeds the population

The Burkinabé government, in its telecommunications development strategy, has stated its aims to make telecommunications a universal service accessible to all.

In recent years, Frankston has been an outspoken advocate for reducing the role of telecommunications companies in the evolution of the internet, particularly with respect to broadband and mobile communications.

Since being liberalized in 1991, the Colombian telecommunications sector has added new services, expanded coverage, improved efficiency, and lowered costs.

As a result of increasing competition, Colombia has a relatively modern telecommunications infrastructure that primarily serves larger towns and cities.

In large part thanks to international aid programs, Moroni has international telecommunications service.

In, the object-oriented paradigm has been applied in areas such as engineering and spatial databases, telecommunications and in various scientific domains.

U. S. support for El Salvador's privatization of the electrical and telecommunications markets has markedly expanded opportunities for U. S. investment in the country.

Greenland has, by law, only one service provider for telecommunications and internet, TELE Greenland, which is fully owned by the Greenlandic Home Rule government.

Indonesia has had a complex history of communications due to its spread over an extended archipelago-the importance on non-electronic means in the past has given away to a considerable infrastructure of telecommunications in the contemporary Indonesia.

In many countries, such as the UK and Australia, ISDN has displaced the older technology of equalised analogue landlines, with these circuits being phased out by telecommunications providers.

Japan has been the world leader in telecommunications in the 1980s, but this position that has been challenged by the United States ' dot-com industry in the 1990s and the emerging tiger states in Asia.

As part of the upgrading process, the government has attempted to sell a majority interest in the state-owned telecommunications company, Kyrgyztelecom, to foreign bidders.

There is a major telecommunications project under construction-The Trans-Asia-Europe Fiber Optic Line, connecting Shanghai, China and Frankfurt, Germany, with the capacity of 622 Mbit / s, where Kyrgyzstan has completed its part.

In the past, Malawi's telecommunications system has been named as some of the poorest in Africa, but conditions are improving, with 130, 000 land line telephones being connected between 2000 and 2007.