Telecommunications 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"

ACN Inc., is a private company headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan. It is a direct-selling company that specializes in re-selling telecommunications services. ACN, formerly known as American Communications Network, Inc., relies on multi-level-marketing (M-L-M) (or Network Marketing) for the source of its customers. ...more on Wikipedia about "ACN Inc."

Advanced American Telephones is the name of a consumer telephone division of VTech, formerly a part of AT&T Consumer Products, a sales division retained by AT&T after its 1984 breakup. ...more on Wikipedia about "Advanced American Telephones"

The Afghan Wireless Communication Company provides wireless voice and data services with national and international connectivity in Afghanistan. It is a joint venture between Telephone Systems International in the United States and the Afghan Ministry of Communications. The company currently provides GSM services in Kabul, Herat, Mazar-i-sharif and Kandahar. ...more on Wikipedia about "Afghan Wireless Communication Company"

Agile Communications is a licensed national telecommunications carrier based in South Australia and was the first South Australian based company to gain this license. The company is a sister company to Internet service provider Internode. The company was founded by Managing Director Simon Hackett and is based in Adelaide. ...more on Wikipedia about "Agile Communications"

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

AirTouch Communications was a U.S.-based wireless service provider that was created when PacTel Cellular was spun off from Pacific Telesis on April 1, 1994, forming both AirTouch Cellular and AirTouch Paging. On June 30, 1999, AirTouch Communications merged with U.K.-based Vodafone Group Plc, and the new company was called Vodafone AirTouch Plc. In September 1999, Vodafone AirTouch announced a $70-billion joint venture with Bell Atlantic Corp. to be called Verizon Wireless, and which would be comprised of the two companies' U.S. wireless assets: Bell Atlantic Mobile, AirTouch Cellular, PrimeCo Communications, and AirTouch Paging. This wireless joint venture received regulatory approval in six months, and began operations as Verizon Wireless on April 4, 2000. On June 30, 2000, the addition of GTE Wireless' assets, in connection with the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE to form Verizon Communications, made Verizon Wireless the nation's largest wireless communications provider (until Cingular's acquisition of AT&T Wireless in 2004). For the joint venture, Verizon Communications owns 55% and U.K.-based Vodafone Group (formerly Vodafone AirTouch) owns 45%. ...more on Wikipedia about "AirTouch"

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Ameritech (American Information Technologies) is a U.S. telecommunications company that arose out of the 1984 AT&T divestiture. Ameritech was one of seven RBOCs, or Regional Bell Operating Companies divested. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ameritech"

AMTELCO is a call center operator, founded in 1976. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amtelco"

AT&T Inc. , based in San Antonio, Texas, is the largest provider of both local and long distance telephone services and wireless service (through its Cingular joint venture with BellSouth) in the United States. The modern company was formed by SBC Communications' purchase of its former parent company, AT&T Corp., in 2005. As a part of the merger, SBC shed its name and took on the iconic AT&T moniker (originally American Telephone and Telegraph) and the famed T stock-trading symbol (for "Telephone"). ...more on Wikipedia about "AT&T"

AT&T Alascom is an Alaskan telecommunications company; specifically, an interexchange carrier (IXC). AT&T Alascom is currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of AT&T. AT&T Alascom, previously known as Alascom and many other names, was the first long-distance telephone company in Alaska. AT&T Alascom has extensive telecommunications infrastructure in Alaska, including three satellites, undersea and terrestrial fiber-optic cable, and numerous earth stations. ...more on Wikipedia about "AT&T Alascom"

AT&T Computer Systems is the generic name for AT&T's unsuccesful attempt to compete in the computer business. In return for divesting the local Bell Operating Companies ( Baby Bells), AT&T was allowed to have an unregulated division to sell computer hardware and software. ...more on Wikipedia about "AT&T Computer Systems"

Automatic Electric Company was a telephone equipment supplier for independent phone companies similar in many ways to the Bell System's Western Electric. ...more on Wikipedia about "Automatic Electric Company"

Avea is the only GSM 1800 operator in Turkey. It has been founded in 2004 with the merger of the two GSM operators Aycell ( Turk Telekom) and Aria (joint venture of Is Bankasi (51%) and Telecom Italia Mobile (49%)). TIM and Turk Telekom own 40% stake each and Is Bank Group holds 20%. Its competitors, Turkcell and Telsim, both use the GSM 900 standard and have been founded in 1994. ...more on Wikipedia about "Avea"

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)"

(BCTel) BC Tel was the legal operating name for the holding company BC TELECOM Inc. created in 1993 to manage the assets of the British Columbia Telephone Company, which in turn was established in 1923. The federal charter for the British Columbia Telephone company was obtained in 1916. ...more on Wikipedia about "BCTel"

Belgacom SA ( ) is a Brussels-based Belgian telecommunications company. The Belgian government holds 50% of the shares. ...more on Wikipedia about "Belgacom"

The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, or Bell of Pennsylvania, is the former name of the Bell Operating Company serving Pennsylvania. In 1984, the Bell System Divestiture split Bell of Pennsylvania off into a Regional Holding Company, along with the 20 other BOCs AT&T had a majority stake in. On January 1, 1984, Bell of Pennsylvania became part of Bell Atlantic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bell of Pennsylvania"

The Bell System was a trademark and service mark used by the US telecommunications company American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) and its affiliated companies to co-brand their extensive circuit-switched telephone network and their affiliations with each other. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bell System"

BellSouth Corporation is a U.S. telecommunications company based in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after the U.S. Department of Justice forced the American Telephone and Telegraph Company to divest itself of its regional telephone companies on January 1, 1984. It is also the only " Baby Bell" or Regional Bell Operating Company ( Cincinnati Bell was an independent Bell System franchise) that still uses the Bell symbol in its logo. ...more on Wikipedia about "BellSouth"

BT Group plc (formerly known as British Telecommunications) which trades as BT (and previously as British Telecom) is the privatised former UK state telecommunications operator . It is still the dominant fixed line telecommunications provider in the United Kingdom. ...more on Wikipedia about "BT Group plc"

C&P Telephone was a d/b/a name for four of AT&T's, and after January 1, 1984, Bell Atlantic's Bell Operating Companies. ...more on Wikipedia about "C&P Telephone"

Cable and Wireless ( ) is a British telecommunications company. In the mid-1980s, it became the first company in the UK to offer an alternative telephone service to British Telecom (via subsidiary Mercury Communications, merged into C&W in 1997). The company later offered cable TV to its customers, although their cable assets were sold to NTL in 2000. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cable & Wireless"

Cbeyond Communications is a company based in Atlanta, Georgia that provides various communications services to small businesses, including telephone service and T-1 Internet access. Technologies employed by the Cbeyond network include VoIP and Cisco Systems equipment. Cbeyond provides service in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and Denver. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cbeyond"

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