D-AMPS was a digital, 2G standard used mainly by AT & T Mobility and U. S. Cellular in the United States, Rogers Wireless in Canada, Telcel in Mexico, Telecom Italia Mobile ( TIM ) in Brazil, VimpelCom in Russia, Movilnet in Venezuela, and Cellcom in Israel.

While UMTS2100 is the most widely deployed UMTS band, some countries ' UMTS operators use the 850 MHz and / or 1900 MHz bands ( independently, meaning uplink and downlink are within the same band ), notably in the US by AT & T Mobility, New Zealand by Telecom New Zealand on the XT Mobile Network and in Australia by Telstra on the Next G network.

In June 2001 the France Telecom Mobile brands, Mobicarte ) are replaced by the Orange brand (“ mobicarte ” becomes the name of one of Orange ’ s offers, and the two other brands dropped ).

There are currently five companies in Israel which offer cellular communication service ( with network technology used listed in ): Pelephone and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System | UMTS, Cellcom and UMTS, Partner Communications ( Orange ) and UMTS, Mirs ( HOT Mobile ) and Integrated Digital Enhanced Network | iDEN, and Golan Telecom.

* Mobile Money Ventures, a joint venture with SK Telecom

* XT Mobile Network, a Telecom New Zealand mobile network

Mobile service providers in New Zealand, such as Vodafone and Telecom NZ, provide up to 2000 SMS messages for NZ $ 10 per month.

In June 2009, three major Chinese carriers — China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom — imposed limits on text messaging in order to crack down on spam SMS.

* Telecom Mobile, the mobile division of Telecom, celebrates 1, 000, 000 customers connected to its mobile network.

* 8 June: Telecom Mobile announces a plan to build a hybrid W-CDMA / UMTS-CDMA network, based on the WCDMA HSPA technology, to eventually replace its current CDMA EV-DO network.

* 27 April: Telecom releases first Android ( operating system ) handset on the XT Mobile Network the LG GW620

Telecom announced on 8 June 2007 the intention to build a W-CDMA / UMTS network, to be called XT Mobile Network, based on WCDMA HSPA technology, to replace its current CDMA EV-DO network.

The following shows customer numbers and market share information for Telecom Mobile, including both the now-shut-down TDMA network and current CDMA and XT network customers.

As of November 2008 the CDMA operations have been moved to China Telecom and UMTS ( Universal Mobile Telecommunications System ) has just launched in major cities across China on May 17, 2009.

Recently Sina. com started developing its business in the field of wireless internet, in the meantime collaborating with China Mobile, China Telecom, Ericsson.

In early 2007, the Chinese government instructed the dominant cellular carrier, China Mobile, to build commercial trial networks in eight cities, and the two fixed-line carriers, China Telecom and China Netcom, to build one each in two other cities.

SK Telecom was established in March 1984 under the name Korea Mobile Telecommunications Services Co., but was renamed Korea Mobile Telecommunications Corp. ( KMT ) in May 1988.

In the company's international stage ( 1997 – 2000 ), Korea Mobile Communication Corporation was transformed to SK Telecom.

As of September 2012, SK Telecom operates 2G IS-95 / CDMA 2000, 3G WCDMA / HSPA +, 4G Mobile WiMAX, and LTE network.

# Twins 2002 advertisement: New World Telecom Twins Mobile

Mobitex in the UK was marketed by RAM Mobile Data, the UK part of which became Transcomm and was then purchased by BT ( British Telecom ) in 2004.

Telecom Cook Islands Ltd ( TCI ) is the sole provider of telecommunications in the Cook Islands.

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

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.