Although Telecom Namibia holds ownership in SAT-3 / WASC, Namibia has no landing point.

Namibian internet users currently have no access to SAT-3 / WASC, because Telecom Namibia would have to purchase capacity from Telkom SA, and due to Telkom SA's high prices has so far refused to do so.

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

Broadband internet services are available through five local providers which are BlueWave Communications, Wi-Manx, Domicilium, and Manx Telecom.

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

Some, primarily producing telephone bills, were still in commercial use with GPO Telephones, forerunner of British Telecom, until 1981, which remained usable through parts cannibalised from redundant LEOs purchased by the GPO.

Mauritania has three operators, the original monopoly, Mauritel ( now owned by Vivendi's Maroc Telecom ), Mattel ( owned by Tunisie Telecom ) and Chinguitel, which will start operations in December 2006.

From 1985, Overseas Telecommunications Services, which subsequently became Mauritius Telecom Limited took over.

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

Telephone service is provided by Telecom Niue, the sole provider, which services 1, 100 landlines and fixed wireless lines.

Abdullahi Mohammed Hussein of Telecom Somalia explained this by stating that " the government post and telecoms company used to have a monopoly but after the regime was toppled, we were free to set up our own business ", The Economist cited the telephone industry in anarchic Somalia as " a vivid illustration of the way in which governments … can often be more of a hindrance than a help.

Competing phone companies have agreed on interconnection standards, which were brokered by the United Nations funded Somali Telecom Association.

The material elaborated in GSM and its WP1 subgroup was handed over in Spring 1987 to a new GSM body called IDEG ( the Implementation of Data and Telematic Services Experts Group ), which had its kickoff in May 1987 under the chairmanship of Friedhelm Hillebrand ( German Telecom ).

France Telecom proposed a 33 billion Euro acquisition offer for TeliaSonera on 5 June 2008, which was promptly rejected by the company's board.

In 1992 the Overseas Telecommunications Commission, a separate government body established in 1946, was merged with the Australian Telecommunications Corporation into the short-lived Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation ( AOTC ) which continued trading under the established identities of Telecom and OTC.

This standard was superseded in 2001 by American National Standard T1. 523-2001, Telecom Glossary 2000, which is published by ATIS.

There is also branches of École Supérieure d ' Électricité – Supélec and Telecom Bretagne in the east of the city ( Cesson-Sévigné ), a campus of the École pour l ' informatique et les nouvelles technologies, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Rennes and the grande école Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, which is next to the " École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes ".

At that time, France Télécom also took over several other international firms ( GlobalOne, Equant, Internet Telecom, Freeserve, EresMas, NTL, Mobilcom ...), some of which have since been sold back.

In March 2004, the mergers made by France Telecom between its mobile phone subsidiary Orange, bought at full price during the dot-com bubble, and its internet provider subsidiary Wanadoo which was renamed Orange led to a controversy.

The NeXT scheme ( 2006 – 2008 ) was the recovery plan for France Telecom which aimed at, among other things, reducing costs, especially wage costs, carrying on a converging policy for its products and services, and grouping together all the brands under a unique one ( Orange ), except for the activities dealing with fixed line telephone which would stay under the designation France Telecom.

In summer 2003, France Telecom sold a 48 % shareholding in Telecom Argentina, which it had jointly run with Telecom Italia, to the Argentinian Werthein family.

There has been only one major installation of DECT for public access: in early 1998 Telecom Italia launched a DECT network known as " Fido " after much regulatory delay, covering major cities in Italy.

; 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

The Moriarty Tribunal has sat since 1997 and has investigated the granting of a mobile phone license to Esat Telecom by Michael Lowry when he was Fine Gael Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications in the Rainbow Coalition of the mid-1990s.

The mobile phone network operated by Manx Telecom has been used by O < sub > 2 </ sub > as an environment for developing and testing new products and services prior to wider rollout.

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.

Mauritius has several operators like Mauritius Telecom, Nomad, Mahanagar Telephone Mauritius Limited ( MTML ) & Emtel.

The former state owned telephone monopoly ( TPSA ) has been mostly privatised, with France Telecom buying the largest share.

Fiber to the x infrastructure has been expanded rapidly in recent years, principally by regional players including Southern Telecom Company, SibirTelecom, ER Telecom and Golden Telecom.

After a change in qualification of a part of the liabilities from long-term to short-term in order to get a better interest rate, the stakeholders realized that between 2002 and 2005, France Telecom has to pay back between 5 and 15 billion euro of debt each year.

France Telecom has already begun merging the different internal divisions managing each platform and they now almost all operate under the Orange brand.

As a member of the Institut Telecom, it has three campuses:

Telecom Bretagne has been the source of breakthroughs in the world of telecommunications, notably the turbo codes ( first published in Proc.

Cellular service has been in place since 2004, and though service is still spotty in some locations, it is expected to improve. USA Today from 2005 about Iraq and its telecommunications Iraqna, an Orascom Telecom company, is the biggest GSM cellular service provider in Iraq.

Telecom has a subsidiary Internet service provider, Arnet.

Telecom regulation has always enforced a high level of confidentiality on these very sensitive customer communication bills and the underlying records.

However this has changed a lot in the recent years and there are many important consulting and telemarketing companies based in the area or with important offices, such as France Telecom, IBM and CapGemini.

At the provincial level, privatized former Crown corporations include Alberta Government Telephones ( which merged with privately owned BC Tel to form Telus ), BCRIC, Manitoba Telecom Services, and Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan which retained its name and has become the world's largest producer of potash.

The loss of her Dáil seat has also been attributed to her association with and the championing of, the privatisation of Telecom Éireann, which proved a financial disaster for many small investors, due to the share price falling radically, post privatisation.

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.

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

By 1985, Voice-mail ® was offered by British Telecom, Deutsche Telecom and Voice-mail Swenska and the company eventually secured licenses for thirty Voice-mail ® centers in twelve countries. Fortune Magazine-September 30, 1985-Corporate Performance – Voice-mail International Japan was the first to introduce Voice-mail ® on the Pacific Rim. Nikkei Industry Newspaper, June 11, 1985 – Promising Voice-mail VMI was responsible for worldwide introduction of voice mail as an efficient and cost effective way to deliver messages and information by telephone. Information Week, July 1985-Use it While you ’ re in, not out.

Founded in 1991 Ionica offered an alternative to British Telecom, but technology costs and limiting factors caused the company to cease trading.