With this swift expansion Swisscom aims to underscore its claim of offering Switzerland's best mobile network.

ENGADGET: Swisscom rolls out first LTE in Switzerland on November 29th

Swisscom also offers a USB modem for notebooks from Huawei and a mobile hotspot from ZTE.

ENGADGET: Swisscom rolls out first LTE in Switzerland on November 29th

As a result, the volume of data transmitted over the Swisscom mobile network is currently doubling every 16 months.

ENGADGET: Swisscom rolls out first LTE in Switzerland on November 29th

Swisscom had paid 100% of the premium for Deily, 38, his wife, Mary-Ellen , also 38, and their 2-year-old, Matthew.

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They sell passage to any company that operates its own global data network: from Qatar Telecom to Swisscom, Facebook to Goldman Sachs.

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Swisscom's present 3G network already covers over 97 percent of the Swiss population and currently enables speeds of up to 42 Mbps.

ENGADGET: Swisscom rolls out first LTE in Switzerland on November 29th

Minick also offers a "no spam" feature that allows those with a Swisscom mobile phone to remove their address from the broadcast list.

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Notable partners include Neustar and Swisscom, and Innotribe is involved.

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The man who hopes to silence the critics is Jeffrey Hedberg, a 38-year-old American who has been running Telekom's international activities since he was poached from Swisscom last year.

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The proposal, which was leaked today, has been allegedly introduced by ETNO (European Telecommunications Network Operators Association), a Brussels-based group representing such companies as Belgacom, SwissCom, Cyta, Eircom and Deutsche Telecom, and will be officially discussed at the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in December.

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The other telecom operators that currently own Infonet, including Swisscom (nyse: SCM - news - people ), the Netherlands' KPN (nyse: KPN - news - people ) and Australia's Telstra (nyse: TLS - news - people ), apparently "see little strategic benefit in retaining their stakes in this business at the current market price, " the analysts note.

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