OrangeOrange is the brand used by France Télécom for its mobile network operator and Internet service provider subsidiaries. It is the eighth largest telecom operator in the world, with over 189 million customers as of 2009. The brand was created in 1994 for Hutchison Telecom’s UK mobile phone network, which was acquired by France Télécom [...]
Sprint NextelSprint Nextel Corporation is a telecommunications company based in Overland Park, Kansas. The company owns and operates Sprint, the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, with 49.9 million customers, behind Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility. Sprint is a global Internet carrier and makes up a portion of the Internet backbone. In the [...]
Verizon WirelessCellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, is the largest mobile telecommunications network and wireless phone provider in the United States. The network has 102.2 million subscribers as of Q4 2010, ahead of the second largest carrier, AT&T Mobility, which had 95.5 million subscribers as of Q4 2010. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, the [...]
AT&TAT&T Inc. is the largest provider of fixed telephony in the United States, and also provides broadband and subscription television services. As of January 2011, AT&T is the largest provider of mobile telephony service in the United States, with over 95.5 million wireless customers, just ahead of Verizon Wireless’ 94.1 million, and more than 210 [...]
O2.comTelefónica Europe plc is a European broadband and telecommunications company that trades as O2 (typeset as O2). The company originated as a collection of worldwide telecommunications companies, known in the later half of the 1990s as BT Wireless, and a global mobile data business known then as Genie Internet, both subsidiaries of British Telecommunications. Telefónica [...]
Vodafone.comIn 1980, Sir Ernest Harrison OBE, chairman of Racal Electronics plc’s, the UK’s largest maker of military radio technology, agreed a deal with Lord Weinstock of General Electric Company plc to allow Racal to access some of GEC’s tactical battlefield radio technology. Briefing the head of Racal’s military radio division Gerry Whent to drive the [...]
T-Mobile.comT-Mobile is a German wireless services provider, owned by Deutsche Telekom. It operates several GSM networks in Europe and the United States. T-Mobile also has financial stakes in mobile operators in Central and Eastern Europe. Globally, T-Mobile has some 150 million subscribers, making it the world’s tenth largest mobile phone service provider by subscribers and [...]