Nigeria's telecom regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission ( NCC ), introduced the Unified Licencing Regime with the expiration of the exclusivity period of the main GSM network providers.

Anatel, Brazil's telecom regulator, requires the carrier to unlock free of charge the mobile phone if required by the user.

* TRAI ( telecom regulator ) is established.

On 27 December 2009, both Etisalat and Du ( telco ) have been mandated by the UAE telecom regulator to start filtering BlackBerry users ' web access and block illegal content.

However, an agreement between Blackberry's developer Research In Motion and UAE's telecom regulator has been reached, and the announced BlackBerry services suspension has been canceled.

However, Anatel, the Brazilian telecom regulator, didn't allow this practice.

The logo of EETT, the Greek telecom and post regulator.

; Contingency Fee Based Audit: Business Process Outsourcing BPO, telecom consultant companies can provide a contingency fee based independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the compliance of telecom service providers with telecommunication contracts and State and Federal Tariffs.

Later dominant telecom providers also started to provide Internet services.

* Privacy: Hoyer claimed to oppose providing immunity to telecom companies but has come under fire for negotiating a bill, described by Senators Patrick Leahy and Russ Feingold as a " capitulation ", that would provide immunity to any telecom company that had been told by the Bush administration that their actions were legal.

In 2003 press reports indicated Iraqi officials under investigation over a questionable deal involving Orascom, an Egypt-based telecom, which in late 2003 was awarded a contract to provide a mobile network to central Iraq.

These manage modern telecom networks and provide the data that is needed in the day-to-day running of a telecom network.

IP Multimedia Subsystem or IMS is a standardized Next Generation Networking ( NGN ) architecture for telecom operators that want to provide mobile and fixed multimedia services.

Having a critical requirement to always provide dial-tone for health and safety reasons, the telecom industry created elaborate mechanisms which allowed quick service restoration using alternative communication pathways which were physically and logically separate from the voice traffic itself.

Various departments namely engineering, mechanical, electrical, signal & telecom, operations, commercial, safety, accounts, security, personal and medical are headed by a Senior Administrative Grade / Higher Administrative Grade officer, provide technical and operational support to the divisions in train operations.

Telecommunications providers such as telephone and cable companies, and some technology companies that supply networking gear, argue telecom providers should have the ability to provide preferential treatment in the form of tiered services, for example by giving online companies willing to pay the ability to transfer their data packets faster than other Internet traffic.

In datacom and telecom applications nowadays small connectors ( e. g., LC ) and multi-fiber connectors ( e. g., MTP ) are replacing the traditional connectors ( e. g., SC ), mainly to provide a higher number of fibers per unit of rack space.

A new satellite named GSAT-11 will provide advanced telecom services from 2013.

Which included McLean Thermal Management, Aspen Motion Technologies, and Electronic Solutions, all of which provide thermal management products and integration services to the telecom, medical, and security industries.

Since March 1, 2010, Ostelecom CJSC started to provide telecom services in the South Ossetia under MegaFon brand.

Call accounting software can reconcile multiple telecom carrier's billing reports by integrating telecom invoices, wireless billing, long distance charges and calling cards into a single platform, allowing your business to use the convergent expense software to provide management reports, analytic reports, alerts and robust presentations

Jordan's telecom industry remains the most competitive in the Middle East.

Advocates of green broadband schemes and more competitive telecom services often advocate aggressive expansion of transit exchanges into every municipal area network so that competing service providers can place such equipment as video on demand hosts and PSTN switches to serve existing phone equipment, without being answerable to any monopoly incumbent.

) but they allow separation of concerns ( and healthy business competition ) that over time permitted the build up of a broad set of services that could not have been proposed by a single telecommunication operator ( ranging from broadband Internet access, voice over IP or IPTV, competitive telecom operators etc.

After this regulation most telecom operators started voluntarily unlocking the devices as soon as it was purchased so one could leave the store with an unlocked phone.

Infotel Broadband, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, won pan-India licence in the auction across 22 circles, the only telecom operator other than state-owned BSNL / MTNL to do so.

In some countries, such as the United Kingdom, Telegraph poles have sets of brackets arranged in a standard pattern up the pole to act as hand and foot holds so that maintenance and repair workers, can climb the pole to work on the telecom lines.

In this case, the gate is connected to the telecom circuit power supply ( via a diode or transistor ) so that the device will crowbar if the transient exceeds the power supply voltage.

The new headquarters of Norway's telecom giant Telenor are located in the area.

Services tunnels were constructed to carry water mains and telecom cables past the new ticket hall.

Following the purchase on 7 June by the telecom, travel and internet entrepreneur Grant Miller, the new online Daily Sport was re-launched on 17 August 2011 with sports coverage plus classified advertising for the first time in its 20 year history.

In 2006, NTT Communications, a Japanese telecom giant, developed a new way to display odors during the release of Terrence Malick's The New World.

In 2008 the Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed into law a new terrorist surveillance bill including the telecom immunity provisions opposed by Blumenthal.

He was the Director of Innovation of the short-lived 3GMobile, an attempt to launch a new mobile telecom player in Switzerland.

On September 20, 1995, Bob Allen, American Telephone & Telegraph Chairman of the Board and CEO, announced the " trivestiture "-the 3-way split of American Telephone & Telegraph into the new service-oriented American Telephone & Telegraph, a newly independent NCR, and the new telecom equipment business which would later be named Lucent Technologies.

George Mason University fellow Adam Thierer has argued that " any government agency or process big enough to control a major sector of our economy will be prone to influence by those most affected by it ", and that consequently " for all the talk we hear about how the FCC's move to impose Net Neutrality regulation is about ' putting consumers first ' or ' preserving Net freedom and openness ,' it's difficult to ignore the small armies of special interests who stand ready to exploit this new regulatory regime the same way they did telecom and broadcast industry regulation during decades past.

MTNL was set up on 1 April 1986 by the Government of India with the aim of upgrading the quality of telecom services, expanding the telecom network, introducing new services and raising revenue for the telecom development needs of India's key metros-Delhi and Mumbai.

The new stadium includes a Trans-Lux video screen in right field, a state-of-the-art sound system, 300 Internet stations and the latest in telecom equipment.

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.

In any event, the high prices paid put some European telecom operators close to bankruptcy ( most notably KPN ).

It allows operators to differentiate themselves by providing value-added services in addition to the standard telecom services such as PSTN, ISDN and GSM services on mobile phones.

They were universally embraced by telecom suppliers and operators, although many variants were derived for use in different parts of the world ( see Variants below ).

The country ’ s leading telecom operators have partnered up to build high speed next generation networks.

In 1992, VMA members conducted an “ Information Week Tour of the U. S .”, sharing ideas with major telecom operators.

In the 2000s, telecom companies started significant deployments of Fiber to the x such as passive optical network solutions to deliver video, data and voice to compete with cable operators.

SLAs have been used since late 1980s by fixed line telecom operators as part of their contracts with their corporate customers.

Internationally, Telecom Italia is present in professional telecom services for other operators or coprorations through TI Sparkle.

The company, through its business units, is a global provider of optical communications network infrastructure equipment and services to a broad range of telecom concerns, including multinational telecommunications operators, local municipalities, MSOs, corporate and consumer high speed G-Internet service providers, and data storage and cloud computing providers.

* ARGELA Software and Information Technologies is a company selling technologies and services for the telecom operators.

The Alliance has a growing membership base of 20 leading global telecom operators, most of which are integrated telecom operators owning both fixed and mobile networks.

Kreatel is a business-to-business company, and sells its products to telecom operators, broadband operators ( ISPs ) and utility companies ( with fiber networks ) which deploy IPTV and Triple Play ( voice telephony, video and Internet access ) services to consumers.