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.

Plans for a satellite bouquet managed by OTE ( the Greek telecommunications company ) never went past the test phase, with OTE leasing frequencies on the Hotbird satellite, rebroadcasting several smaller Greek TV stations as well as many radio stations free-to-air.

Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S. A. (), usually known by its Greek initials OTE, is the dominant telecommunications provider in Greece.

RomTelecom: OTE owns 54 % of the share capital of RomTelecom, the main telecommunications operator in Romania, providing fixed-line services ( voice, broadband, data and leased lines ) and satellite TV services to the local market.

The OTE Group mobile telecommunications subsidiary, COSMOTE, is also present in mobile telephony in:

Romtelecom is the largest telecommunications company in Romania ; the majority of shares are held by the Greek telecommunications company OTE ( 54. 01 % of shares ).

OTE is the national telecommunications provider of Greece.

Later on, as the network became more stable, the founders decided they could extend the functionality to network themselves and some friends together, overcoming the inability of the state-run telecommunications company of Greece, OTE, to deliver high-speed internet access in the city of Patras.

DT also holds shares in in the Hellenic telecommunication operator OTE, which also have shares in several other companies like the mobile operators Cosmote Greece, Cosmote Romania, Globul Bulgaria, AMC Albania, the IT & C retailer Germanos and the Romanian telecommunication operator Romtelecom.

Vivodi's logo Vivodi is a private telecom operator in Greece that offers low telephone rates for OTE subscribers through call-by-call, carrier preselection or prepaid cards, and for business customers, also offering leased line solutions.

OTE Group offers broadband services, fixed and mobile telephony, high-speed data communications and leased lines services.

On 3rd October, 2011, TLC Greece is already broadcasting at Conn-x TVIPTV and OTE TV satellite.

* OTE TV in Greece

Otenet was a major internet service provider of Greece The company is now consolidated into the parent company OTE.

Several other broadcasters around the world use the VideoGuard system, including Hot ( Israel ), Yes ( Israel ), Viasat ( Scandinavia ), SKY Italia ( Italy ), Sky Brazil ( Brazil ), Sky Network Television ( New Zealand ), Foxtel ( Australia ), Airtel DigitalTV ( India ), Tata Sky & Hathway ( DVB-C ) ( India ), Astro ( Malaysia ), D Smart ( Turkey ), TotalTV ( Balkan ), ONO ( Spain ), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( Canada ), China Central Television ( China ), Serbia BroadBand ( Serbia ), Telewizja Polska ( Poland ) and KabelBW ( Germany ), Vivacom ( Bulgaria ), STAR TV / Fox International Channels ( Asia ), Cignal Digital TV ( Philippines ), Aora TV ( Indonesia ), Telecom Italia ( Italy ), OTAU TV ( Kazakhstan ), OTE TV ( Greece ).

OTE Tower is a 76-metre-tall tower located in the Thessaloniki International Exhibition Center in central Thessaloniki, Greece.

Sundance channel launched in Greece in July 18, 2011 as a linear channel on OTE TV ) and also it broadcasts on HD as Sundance Channel HD only via satellite.

OTE, the former state monopoly, is the main player in fixed-line telephony.

In 2009, Greek Telecommunications giant OTE launched IPTV service called Conn-x TV which will initially be available in Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Larisa & Iraklion.

On 30 June 2009 Zapp Mobile was acquired by OTE and it is in the process of integration in OTE's Romanian mobile unit Cosmote Romania.

Subscriber numbers starting with 0 are assigned to the former monopoly OTE.

Thus, for geographical numbers, one cannot be sure that a subscriber number that starts with a 0 is operated by OTE or that a toll free number that starts with 800-11 is operated by OTE.

At present, OTE companies employ over 30, 000 people in 4 countries.

Starting in 1996, the Greek State gradually decreased its participation in OTE ’ s share capital.

Following an agreement between the Greek State and Deutsche Telekom, as of November 2008 each party held 25 % plus one share of OTE ’ s share capital.

* OTEGlobe ( 100 %): International carrier with presence in SE Europe and the wholesale arm of OTE Group.

* OTE Estate ( 100 %): management of OTE Group ’ s real estate assets.

OTE Group ’ s turnover in 2011 amounted to € 5, 038. 3 million showing an 8. 1 % decrease year-on-year.

On 4 April 1927, following an agreement signed between the Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España, the Spanish incumbent telecommunications operator, and the Gibraltar City Council, direct communications between Spain and Gibraltar were established.

In April 2007, Verizon sold its shares to Telekom Slovenije which is the incumbent telecommunications operator in Slovenia and is quoted on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange.

An incumbent local exchange carrier shall provide such unbundled network elements in a manner that allows requesting carriers to combine such elements in order to provide such telecommunications service.

A typical scenario for this characteristic involves a network that was the incumbent telecommunications company in a specific country or region, usually tied to some level of government-supported monopoly.

Telenor Group is the incumbent telecommunications company in Norway, with headquarters located at Fornebu, close to Oslo.

To allow new entrants enough time to fully build out their own networks, the Act requires the incumbent local exchange carriers to make available to entrants, at cost-based wholesale rates, those elements of their network to which entrants needed access in order not to be impaired in their ability to offer telecommunications services.

A competitive local exchange carrier ( CLEC ), in the United States, is a telecommunications provider company ( sometimes called a " carrier ") competing with other, already established carriers ( generally the incumbent local exchange carrier ( ILEC )).

Oi ( then known as Telemar ) was formed as Tele Norte Leste to merge sixteen state-owned incumbent local exchange carriers, during the privatization of Brazilian telecommunications system.

He deftly deflected all the mud the incumbent MP slung his way, and through deft manipulation of the mob mentality and telecommunications Smith achieved an electoral upset by defeating Bagshaw.

The Stentor Alliance is a formal alliance of Canada's major telecommunications companies, specifically its incumbent local exchange carriers.

Telecom was launched as the country's digital radio trunking operator under a B. O. T agreement with the incumbent operator STC, with an estimated 100, 000 subscribers as of Nov ' 07.

Failure to resolve his debts resulted in the controlling stake in Celcom being sold to Telekom Malaysia, the government-owned incumbent fixed line operator in 2003.

This enabled the Belgian incumbent operator to free considerable sums to finance its objectives.

2004 was also the year in which the incumbent operator carried out its first digital TV tests with a view to finding new sources of income in an increasingly competitive market.

Most countries fund their USO by requiring the incumbent operator to be the designated USO provider or USP.

NTT Docomo is a subsidiary of Japan's incumbent telephone operator NTT.

In many cases this has resulted in competition in markets which typically only had access through an existing incumbent DSL ( or similar ) operator.

A specialist simulation was developed by Nokia called Equilibrium / Arbitrage to have over a two day period five teams of top management of one operator / carrier play a " wargame " against each other, under extremely realistic conditions, with one operator an incumbent fixed and mobile network operator, another a new entrant mobile operator, a third a fixed-line / internet operator etc.

There were 2 companies competing for the National Lottery franchise in 2001, Camelot, the incumbent operator and a rival operator organised by Sir Richard Branson called The People's Lottery.

For example in the case of a utility with millions of electricity meters on end points the costs of a SIM swap in each of these devices creates a big barrier to entry for a competing operator and in so doing creates a commercial risk that the incumbent operator is in a very strong position to negotiate subsequent price increases.

In January 2007, the airline applied for Essential Air Service subsidies to serve Clovis and Silver City, New Mexico from Albuquerque, competing with a bid from incumbent operator Great Lakes Aviation, and to serve Hobbs and Carlsbad, New Mexico, competing with a bid from incumbent operator Air Midwest.

At the same time it announced that its CEO would be replaced early in 2010, the incumbent, Bob Lawrence, who had been at the helm of JT since 1991 would step down in favour of Graeme Millar, formerly Chief Commercial Officer of Mobile TeleSystems, the Russian mobile operator.