Telecom Italia owned 81% of TIM (short for Telecom Italia Mobile) Hellas at the time.
China Telecom is an integrated telecom service provider of China offering both mobile and landline services.
Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom and British Telecom, to take but three, have had their credit ratings slashed.
In this, British Telecom, alongside firms such as South Korea Telecom, is one the leaders, according Mr Neil.
Argentina's two main phone firms are owned by Spain's Telefonica and an alliance of Telecom Italia and France Telecom.
The telecom department's order on 3G services is one of several regulatory issues faced by telecom operators in India.
It acquired a research lab in India from Swedish telecom titan Ericsson and a telecom-chip design firm in Austria.
No telecom mutual funds in the telecom sector allocate enough value to attractive-or-better-rated stocks to earn an attractive rating.
So which telecom of the dividend paying telecom stocks are the best buy?
Kaufman, who is also founder and CEO of Linwood Communications, a telecom agency that helps customers purchase telecom solutions.
Under the Act, the Secretary of State, as well as British Telecom, could licence other operators to run telecom systems.
K. Chandolia, a member of the Telecom Commission K. Sridhar and Deputy Director General in the Department of Telecom A.K. Srivastava.
We must also consider that this situation must be an embarrassment for France Telecom, which has a 49.7% interest in Polish Telecom.
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Its telecom joint venture unraveled in the wake of a telecom corruption scandal which led to the mass cancellation of 2G licences.
Sacconaghi thinks Apple is likely to expand distribution to additional Asian carriers, including China Telecom, KDDI in Japan and LG Telecom in Korea.
In South Korea, the country's three incumbent carriers, SK Telecom, KT Freetel, and LG Telecom, are already the defacto winners of three licenses.
Extending his footprint outside Thailand, Thaksin has forged links with Singapore Telecom and Telekom Malaysia, and cooperates on telecom projects in Laos and Cambodia.
Asiacell is one of three major Iraqi telecom companies, along with Zain Iraq, part of Kuwait's Zain, and Korek, an affiliate of France Telecom.
European telecom firms have been some of the highest-yielding companies in the world for the past few years, and France Telecom is no exception.
Other residential providers include Adept Telecom, Axis Telecom, Eze Talk and iTalk, while TalkTalk Business, Titan Telecoms and Optimum Calls offer ARCs to business users.
The telecom industry in China has seen steady growth as even competitors China Mobile and China Telecom saw growth in their subscriber base.
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Deutsche Telecom ( DT) is paying 9.1%, Telecom Italia ( TI) 5.4%, France Telecom ( FTE) 11.1% and Vodaphone Group ( VOD) a 7.9% dividend.
France Telecom (FTE) and Telecom Eireann also have cable operations, however.
Reliance Industries is working on a plan to launch telecom operations complete with voice and data services by September, a potential game-changer in India's telecom market.
In Hong Kong, telecom plays were among the outperformers, with China Telecom rising 4.1% on news it would begin offering Apple's popular iPhone 4S next month.
The relatively unknown Bharti snatched the prized mobile license for Delhi, then reeled in Telecom Italia and British Telecom as partners (they later sold out from Bharti).
If you compare HK Telecom to any other cellular phone company in Asia, I'd say over the medium to long term HK Telecom is a far safer bet.
Depreciation rules that assign lives of 15 years to telecom switches that grow obsolete in 15 months make "the capitalization of expenses" a mandatory part of telecom business.
As my colleague Dolia Estevez reported, the telecom bill is part of a larger set of economic reforms the new administration is crafting in education, telecom and energy.
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