Mobile phone companies

AAPT is an Australian telecommunications company owned by Telecom New Zealand. The company was formed by the division of the communications businesses of Australian Associated Press. In 1992 AAPIS was formed with News Corporation and John Fairfax Holdings as majority shareholders with MCI and Todd Capital also possessing shares in the company. ...more on Wikipedia about "AAPT"

ACeS (Asia Cellular Satellite) is an Asia-specific satellite telecommunications facility. ...more on Wikipedia about "ACeS"

Advance Info Service PCL (AIS; also Advanced Info Service) is Thailand's largest GSM mobile phone operator with 15.815 million customers as of June 2005. Founded in March 1990 and acquiring Shinawatra Paging in June 1992, the highly profitable company is controlled by the Shin Corporation, headed by Thailand's prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Singapore Telecommunications holds a 21.5% stake in the company. ...more on Wikipedia about "Advance Info Service"

AirTel is a brand of cell phone services in India operated by Bharti Televentures. ...more on Wikipedia about "AirTel"

Albanian Mobile Communications (AMC), headquartered in Tirana and launched in May 1996, is the first Albanian mobile phone operator. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albanian Mobile Communications"

Astelit is one of the four Ukrainian GSM mobile telephone network operators. In January 2005, Astelit launched a new GSM-1800 service under the life:) brand. Through aggressive marketing, Astelit has attracted over 1.2 million prepaid and postpaid subscribers by November 2005 and plans to reach 2 million by the year end. ...more on Wikipedia about "Astelit"

au (エーユー; pronounced Ē-yū) , or au/kddi (au by KDDI) , is a mobile phone brand in Japan marketed by KDDI Corporation in the main islands of Japan and Okinawa Cellular in Okinawa. Its name is based on the Japanese verbs for "meet" (会う) and "unite" (合う) (both pronounced au). ...more on Wikipedia about "Au (mobile phone operator)"

BASE is one of Belgium's three mobile telecommunications operators. It competes with Proximus, owned by Belgacom and Vodafone; and Mobistar, owned by Orange SA. It is a subsidiary of the former Dutch PTT, KPN. ...more on Wikipedia about "BASE (mobile)"

Bahamas Telecommunications Company, BTC Bahamas - (BaTelCo) is the government-owned, full telecommunications service provider for the islands of the Bahamas. The services provided by BaTelCo include telephone, internet and wireless services. ...more on Wikipedia about "BaTelCo (Bahamas)"

Bee Line GSM ( Russian:"Би Лайн GSM") is a trademark of the second largest cell-phone operator in Russian Federation. The company name is VimpelCom. Its headquarters are located in Moscow. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bee Line GSM"

: Bouygues Télécom, the sponsor of this team, is primarily a French mobile phone company, part of the Bouygues group. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bouygues Télécom"

BSNL or Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is India's largest Communication Service Provider (CSP), and seventh largest in the world. Previously known as DoT(Department of Telecommunications) when it was under federal government control, it became a corporation in 2000. BSNL operates across the length and breadth of India (except the metropolitan cities of Mumbai and New Delhi which is managed by MTNL) and commands over 45 million landlines and mobile connections. Since its corporatisation in October 2000, BSNL has been actively providing connections in both Urban and Rural areas and the efficiency of the company has drastically improved from the days when one had to wait for years to get a phone connection to now when one can get a connection in even hours. Pre-activated Mobile connections are available at many places across India. BSNL has also unveiled very cost-effective Broadband internet access plans targeted at homes and small businesses. BSNL aims to have 150 - 175 million active connections by the year 2010. With the frantic activity in the communication sector in India, the number will be easily achievable. Today, BSNL is the No. 1 Telecommunications Company and the largest Public Sector Undertaking of India with authorized share capital of $ 3977 million and networth of $ 14.32 billion. It has a network of over 45 million lines covering 5000 towns with over 35 million telephone connections. With latest digital switching technology like OCB,EWSD,AXE-10,FETEX,NEC etc. and widespread transmission network including SDH system upto 2.5 gbps, DWDM system upto 80 gbps,Web telephony,DIAS,VPN, Broadband and more than 400,000 data customers. ...more on Wikipedia about "BSNL"

Cable & Wireless (West Indies) Ltd. is a leading wholly owned telecommunications subsidiary of the British-based parent company Cable & Wireless (C&W) plc. This regional subsidiary covers 15 former British colonies of the Caribbean region and is made up of several fairly autonomous Cable & Wireless telecommunications business units. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cable & Wireless (Caribbean)"

Cell C is South Africa's third mobile phone network operator, having commenced operations in November of 2001. The dialing prefix for Cell C is 084. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cell C"

Cellular One is the trade name of the cellular service offered by several mobile phone providers, most recently Dobson Cellular. It was originally the trade name of one of the first mobile telephone service providers. In 1977, the American Radio Telephone Service and Motorola formed Cellular One to offer service to the Baltimore/ Washington D.C. area. In 1984, cellular service began in the Baltimore/DC area. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cellular One"

China Mobile Communications Corporation (中国移动通信 Zhongguo Yidong Tongxin) ）, also known as China Mobile or CMCC, is China's largest mobile phone operator. It is the world's largest mobile phone operator ranked by number of subscribers, with over 200 million customers. By turnover it is second to Vodafone. A state-owned enterprise, it was spun off from former monopoly China Telecom in 2000, and now has a 37.4% share of the highly competitive Chinese mobile market. ...more on Wikipedia about "China Mobile"

China Netcom, full name China Netcom Corporation Limited (CNC) （ ), ( ), was originally formed in August 1999 to build high speed Internet communications in China. It now offers a variety of wireline telecommunication services in the People's Republic of China. ...more on Wikipedia about "China Netcom"

Connex-Vodafone is Romania's second-largest mobile phone network operator. It launched in April 1997 as the first GSM network in Romania (although not the first mobile phone network). Until October 2005, it was known as Connex, after which it was rebranded Connex-Vodafone. From early 2006, the Connex name will be dropped, and the operator will be known simply as Vodafone Romania, so as to align itself with the global Vodafone brand. ...more on Wikipedia about "Connex-Vodafone"

Cosmote România is a Romanian mobile phone operator. It is the smallest mobile phone operator in the country, after Orange Romania, Connex-Vodafone and Zapp Mobile and seventh on the list of phone networks in Romania. (After Orange, Connex, Romtelecom, Zapp, RDS.tel and Astral IPphone). It is a GSM network with around 80.000 subscribers, having less than 1% market share. It started operations under the brand name Cosmorom, but was rebranded in 6 december 2005 after the takeover by the greek Cosmote in august 2005 as Cosmote România. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cosmote România"

Crazy John's is a mobile phone retail chain started up by Turkish-Australian businessman John Ilhan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crazy John's"

CYTA (short for CYpriot Telecommunication Authority) or ATHK (Αρχή Τηλεπικοινωνιών Κύπρου) in Greek) is the national telecom provider of Cyprus and the main operator of phone, Internet and mobile communications (CytaMobile, operated by Vodafone) in Cyprus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cyta"

:Digi may also refer to Digi International, or British musician Digi ...more on Wikipedia about "DIGI"

Digicel is the leading mobile phone network provider in the Caribbean region. Based in Jamaica, the company witnessed a well received success in the Jamaican market and has expanded its mobile services into neighbouring islands such as: Aruba, Barbados, the Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Grenada, Haiti, Saint Lucia, and the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines islands in recent years. ...more on Wikipedia about "Digicel"

E-Plus is a mobile telecommunications operator in Germany. With 8.5 million subscribers as of 2004 E-Plus is the third largest mobile operator in Germany, after T-Mobile (26.7 million subscribers) and Vodafone (25 million subscribers). ...more on Wikipedia about "E-Plus (operator)"

Elisa Oyj (Elisa) is a Finnish telecommunications company founded in 1882 (known until July 2000 as HPY or Helsingin puhelinyhdistys). Elisa Oyj employs about 5600 people. The company's annual turnover for 2004 was about €1.36 billion. Mobile operations of Elisa were known as Radiolinja before. Works together in co-operation with Vodafone. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elisa Oyj"

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