TCI is a private company owned by Telecom New Zealand ( TNZ ) Ltd ( 60 %) and the Cook Islands Government ( 40 %).

The only permanent link with the outside world is a satellite earth station built in just four days by engineers from Telecom Cook Islands and in 2004 it received its first telephone system.

In 2005 the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority ( JCRA ), the Jersey Telecommunications Regulator, in cooperation with Ofcom, the UK telecommunications authority with responsibility for spectrum allocation in the Channel Islands under the Communications Act 2003 and Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 extended by Order in Council, allotted a 3G spectrum license to JT and 2G and 3G spectrum licenses to Cable and Wireless Jersey, Jersey Airtel and COLT Telecom Group plc to operate mobile services in Jersey.

With this marriage, Fermina Montojo became stepmother to her husband's three young children: Jacobo ( father of polo player billionaire Enrique Zobel de Ayala y Olgado ), Alfonso ( father of photographer billionaire Jaime Zobel de Ayala y Pfitz ) and the youngest, Mercedes Zobel de Ayala y Roxas de McMicking ( a. k. a. MacMicking ) who owned the majority of shares in the Ayala Corporation, Bank of the Philippine Islands, Globe Telecom, Cebu Holdings, Honda Philippines, and was, together with husband Joseph McMicking, developer of the Sotogrande in Spain and the entire Makati central business district, including Forbes Park.

The Zóbel de Ayalas own and control the Ayala Corporation, the country's largest and oldest conglomerate that includes the Bank of the Philippine Islands, Ayala Land Inc., the Manila Water Company, and Globe Telecom, one of the largest mobile phone networks in the Philippines.

On 1 January 1988, British Telecom ( BT ) and the Government of Gibraltar formed a joint venture company called Gibraltar Telecommunications International Ltd ( known by its commercial brand Gibtel ) to operate Gibraltar's international telecommunications services.

ISPs in Kyrgyzstan include Kyrgyz Telecom, Elcat, Asiainfo, Transfer Ltd, Totel, Megaline, Aknet, Intranet, Saima Telecom, Rikonet, AlaTV, ExNET, and IPSWICH.

With privatisation, national and international activities were merged to form Mauritius Telecom Ltd.

* Zanzibar Telecom Ltd ( ZANTEL )

* Ranks Telecom Ltd. – Currently off air, license re-awarded

* Jalalabad Telecom Ltd. – branded under the name Bijoy Phone

* National Telecom Ltd. – Currently off air, License cancelled by BTRC

* S. A Telecom System Ltd.

Sheba Telecom Ltd .: Branded as Banglalink

Emery Telecom is the local telephone and high speed internet provider while Satview Broadband Ltd is the local cable television company.

* SureSoft Systems Pvt Ltd .,-Middleware and Application for Digital Consumer & Telecom Products

* Daewoo Telecom Ltd., which concentrated on the telecommunications ( sub-branch Daewoo Informations Systems Co. Ltd .)

Part of the privatisation included the granting of a licence for a UK telecommunications network, Mercury Communications Ltd, as a rival to British Telecom.

Also in 1995 Telecom created First Media Ltd to develop a cable television network across Auckland and Wellington, called First TV.

* Telecom purchases Gen-i Ltd ( May ).

* Telecom purchases Computerland Ltd ( September ).

Six shareholders jointly own Soutec, these are Guangzhou Southern China Information Technology ( Group ) Co., Ltd., The Seventh Institute under the Ministry of Information, Guangzhou Jinpeng Group Co., Ltd., Beijing Huahong IC Design Co., Ltd., State Development and Investment Corp., and Guangzhou Telecom Corporation.

China Telecom Corp. Ltd. ( simplified Chinese: 中国电信集团公司, 中国电信 ) (, ) is a Chinese state-owned telecommunication company.

China Telecom ( Europe ) Ltd. on 2008-10-23 said it would expand its Asian-European services, aiming to increase its market share in Europe.

As of 2006, major investors included Telkom Group ( about 13 %), France Telecom ( 12. 08 %), Nitel ( 8. 39 %); TCI, a subsidiary of AT & T ( 12. 42 %) and VSNL ( 8. 93 %).

Digital Access Signalling System 1 ( DASS1 ) is a proprietary protocol defined by British Telecom to provide ISDN services in the United Kingdom.

Digital Access Signalling System 2 ( DASS2 ) is an obsolescent protocol defined by British Telecom for digital links to PSTN based on ISDN.

Currently, there is a single company in charge of Landline Telephony, Telecom Egypt which is also government-controlled.

; Telephone system: large system ; underwent extensive upgrading during 1990s and is reasonably modern ; Telecom Egypt, the landline monopoly, has been increasing service availability and in 2006 fixed-line density stood at 14 per 100 persons ; as of 2007 there were three mobile-cellular networks and service is expanding rapidly

Telecommunications in Ethiopia is currently a monopoly in the control of Ethio Telecom, formerly the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation ( ETC ); all telephone service and internet access requires Ethio Telecom to be involved.

Fox News Channel is currently offered by Access Communications, Bell TV, Cogeco, Eastlink, Manitoba Telecom Services, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw Cable, Shaw Direct and Telus TV.

The company is co-owned by the Government of Gibraltar and Slovenia Telecom.

The main telephone provider on the Isle of Man today is Manx Telecom.

* Sure ( Mobiles only, Broadband and Home Phone is operated by Manx Telecom landlines )

France Telecom offers ISDN services under their product name Numeris ( 2 B + D ), of which a professional Duo and home Itoo version is available.

Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since the 1929-30 season.

Most of the telecoms infrastructure is owned by Jersey Telecom.

Econet Telecom Lesotho is part of the Econet Wireless group and operates as a stand-alone entity with full local board and management control.

The monopoly is retained by Mauritius Telecom ( MT ) which provides dial-up & ADSL services over existing telephone lines.

The Mongolia Telecom Company is the national telecommunications company.

MTC is a joint venture with Korea Telecom and partially publicly owned.

Meditel's biggest competitor is Maroc Telecom, holding 60. 71 % of the market.

A former state monopoly now controlled by French entertainment giant Vivendi, Maroc Telecom is one of the region's fastest-growing multinational telecoms operators, actively pursuing expansion across northwest Africa, including Gabon, Mauritania and Burkina Faso.

Similar to Méditel, Maroc Telecom 3G is offered in the same different speeds and almost the same prices.

However the company is known to the general public by the brand name Nepal Telecom as registered trademark.