Telecommunications

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Adelphia Communications Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

One North Main Street Coudersport, Pennsylvania 16915 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At Adelphia, we recognize that our present and future success depends on each customer's trust in our ability to deliver quality products and service. Our goal is to earn our customers' trust by making sure that every customer is satisfied with the outcome of every contact (s)he has with our people and service we p…

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Airtouch Communications Business Information, Profile, and History

One California Street San Francisco, California 94108 U.S.A. AirTouch Communications, one of the world's leading wireless telecommunications organizations, serves the needs of over three million cellular phone and paging customers in the United States, Europe, and Asia. AirTouch operates through four entities: AirTouch International, AirTouch Cellular, AirTouch Paging, and AirTouch Teletrac. AirT…

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Alcatel S.A. Business Information, Profile, and History

54, rue La Boetie 75008 Paris France Company Perspectives: Alcatel is: The leading architect of Internet communications solutions. Creating end-to-end networks that help people communicate smarter. At the center of the convergence revolution. Integrating communications onto a single broadband network. Making strong investments in people and technology. A company with unique international reach. F…

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Alltel Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

One Alltel Drive Little Rock, Arkansas 72202 U.S.A. The Alltel Corporation is a telecommunications conglomerate that provides local telephone service to more than 1.2 million customers in 25 states. In addition to this core activity, the company provides cellular mobile phone services throughout the Sunbelt states, performs information processing for the financial industry through a subsidiary, a…

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Alltel Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

One Allied Drive Little Rock, Arkansas 72202 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: During a period of rapid expansion for the company, we have nonetheless continued to offer more services and better value within our geographically clustered markets. We are committed to offering customers value through a single point of contact, a single bundled service package, and a single communications bill. By focusin…

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Ameritech Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

30 South Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois 60606 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Ameritech is a trustworthy and caring leader energized to create innovative, simple solutions for our customers' expanding communication needs. Ameritech Corporation is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the United States. Ameritech's Bell Group, which provides exchange telecommunications and local and long…

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Arch Wireless, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

1800 West Park Drive, Suite 250 Westborough, Massachusetts 01581 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Arch Wireless provides two-way messaging and universal access to your preferred information sources, giving you the ability to communicate with everyone, anywhere, anytime and in every direction. Arch Wireless keeps you connected to the wireless web, so you can receive continuous, automatic updates--from…

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At Wireless Services, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

7277 164th Avenue Northeast, Building 1 Redmond, Washington 98052 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We envision a world where wireless seamlessly and simply connects us to the people, information, and things we care about most, enabling us to be simultaneously connected and free. AT&T Wireless, Inc. is the third largest provider of wireless and data services for consumers and businesses in the United …

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Belgacom Business Information, Profile, and History

Bd E Jacqmain 166 1210 Brussels Belgium Belgacom, as Belgium's Régie des Télégraphes et Téléphones (RTT) has been officially known since 1991, exists primarily to run telecommunications services for Belgium, but is also determinedly equipping itself to compete in the increasingly dynamic international telecommunications marketplace. In its new incarnation as Belgacom, the company belongs to …

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Bell Canada Business Information, Profile, and History

1050 côte du Beaver Hall Montreal, Quebec Canada The Bell Telephone Company of Canada, which came to be called Bell Canada, is the country's largest provider of telecommunications services, supplying voice, data, and image communications to customers in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario and in the Northwest Territories. Most of Bell Canada's revenues are generated from its provision of local t…

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Bellsouth Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

1155 Peachtree Street N.E. Atlanta, Georgia 30309 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Each day, BellSouth connects 34 million customers to the worlds of data, the Internet, video, voice and entertainment, providing worlds of unlimited potential for investors. BellSouth Corporation is one of the world's largest communications companies, serving close to 34 million customers in the United States and in 18…

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Blackfoot Telecommunications Group Business Information, Profile, and History

1221 North Russell Street Missoula, Montana 59808 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to anticipate, understand, and exceed our customers' expectations by offering leading edge communications technologies backed by exceptional service and support. Blackfoot Telecommunications Group, a customer-owned cooperative, serves over 20,000 consumers in eight counties in Montana and Idaho. A single…

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Brasil Telecom ParticipaçOes S.A. Business Information, Profile, and History

SIA Sul ASP, Lote D, Bloco B 71215-000 Brasília, D.F. Brazil Company Perspectives: Our mission: It is Brasil Telecom's commitment to assure quality and consistency of information, transparency and timely response to investors, respecting legal and regulatory requirements. Brasil Telecom Participaçoes S.A. is the holding company for Brasil Telecom S.A. Born from the breakup of Brazil's state-own…

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British Columbia Telephone Company Business Information, Profile, and History

3777 Kingsway Burnaby, British Columbia V5H 3Z7 Canada Canada's second largest telecommunications company, British Columbia Telephone Company (BC TEL) provides local and worldwide telephone and telecommunications services to subscribers in its operating territories. BC Tel operates as a public utility and is regulated by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) which…

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British Telecommunications Plc Business Information, Profile, and History

BT Centre 81 Newgate Street London EC1A 7AJ England British Telecommunications plc, commonly known as BT, is the largest company in the United Kingdom. It came into being in early 1984 through the transformation of a former state utility, at a turning point in the development of U.K. and European telecommunications. Since being privatized, BT has maintained its position as the dominant provider o…

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Carolina Telephone And Telegraph Company Business Information, Profile, and History

720 Western Boulevard Tarboro, North Carolina 27886 U.S.A. The Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company (CT&T) is an independent telephone company serving large portions of North Carolina. The company was formed at the turn of the century and remained independent when most of the rest of the American telephone industry was consolidated. It continued to grow as the area it served was developed. At…

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Centel Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

311 South Wacker Drive Suite 5200 Chicago, Illinois 60606 U.S.A. The Centel Corporation is an independent telecommunications company that provides local telephone service in seven states and cellular telephone operations to customers in 22 states. The company was founded by an Iowa entrepreneur at the turn of the century, and in the intervening years has merged with and acquired a large number of…

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Centennial Communications Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

3349 Route 138 Wall Township, New Jersey 07719 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Centennial Wireless is one of the nation's largest independent wireless providers. We provide the latest in digital phones, accessories, features, and services designed to meet your business or personal communication needs. As one of the first cellular companies, Centennial covers nearly 82,000 square miles of service are…

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Century Telephone Enterprises, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

100 CenturyTel Drive Monroe, Louisiana 71203 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We believe we have the right strategies, the right market focus and the right people to drive continued growth. Century Telephone Enterprises, Inc. (CenturyTel) is one of the few remaining large independent telephone companies in the United States, providing local exchange telephone service to 2.5 million customers in 22 st…

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China Netcom Group Corporation (Hong Kong) Limited Business Information, Profile, and History

Bldg. C, No. 156 Fuxingmennei Avenue, Xicheng District Beijing 100031 China Company Perspectives: Our Goal: We aspire to become one of the best telecommunications operators in the region, a leading broadband and regional corporate data services provider and a premier communications company in China and the Asia-Pacific region. China Netcom Group Corporation (Hong Kong) Limited is the Hong Kong St…

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China Telecom Business Information, Profile, and History

33, Er Long Lu, Xicheng District Beijing 100032 China Company Perspectives: We should always manage the entrusted businesses on behalf of our clients wholeheartedly and commit ourselves to making success for our customers through our untiring efforts. China Telecom dominates China's largest fixed-line telephone services with 95 percent of the services for 1.2 billion people in 31 provinces. In ad…

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Cincinnati Bell Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

201 East Fourth Street P.O. Box 2301 Cincinnati, Ohio 45201 U.S.A. Cincinnati Bell Inc. is a diversified telecommunications company that provides local phone service to customers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, and also offers marketing services and information processing operations. Originally a telegraph concern, the company became a member of the Bell System in the late nineteenth century. For…

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Comcast Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

1500 Market Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Comcast Corporation is a diversified global leader in entertainment services and telecommunications. Comcast Corporation is a leading cable, telecommunications, and entertainment firm. The company's earliest roots are in cable television, and Comcast Cable is now the fourth largest cable company in the United States,…

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Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

100 CTE Drive Dallas, Pennsylvania 18612-9774 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We are a team of passionate, highly effective experts providing advanced solutions to deliver communications, information and entertainment services to both business and residential users in a rapidly expanding set of select U.S. markets. Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises, Inc. is the 13th-largest independent local-exchan…

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Comsat Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

6560 Rock Spring Drive Bethesda, Maryland 20817 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Comsat has refocused on its core strengths in international satellite communications services and network services and technology. Our goal is to increase profit, reduce debt and return significant value to the shareholders. We are building our future with a solid base of assets, strong cash flows from our satellite serv…

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Ddi Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

Ichibancho FS Bldg 8 Ichibancho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102 Japan DDI Corporation is a Japanese long distance telephone company established to challenge the monopoly of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation. From its conception in the early 1980s, DDI has grown much faster than any of the other monopoly challengers and has achieved a large portion of long distance market share in Japan. The idea f…

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Deutsche Telekom Ag Business Information, Profile, and History

Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 140 53113 Bonn Germany Company Perspectives: Deutsche Telekom is Europe's largest telecommunications company and one of the worldwide engines of innovation in the industry. Our products and services set standards not only in Germany, but also around the world. We make sure that our customers always have access to state-of-the-art solutions - from high-speed network access se…

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Eircom Plc Business Information, Profile, and History

114 St. Stephen's Green West Dublin 2 Ireland Company Perspectives: eircom's strategic objective is to strengthen its position as the principal provider of telecommunications services to Ireland and to become the recognized provider of selected services in the extended home market of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as in other locations where eircom has existing customers or traffic. …

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Excel Communications Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

9101 LBJ Freeway, #800 Dallas, Texas 75243 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Excel provides the finest long distance programs in America today. In addition to all the standard services offered by other major long distance companies, Excel offers the opportunity for our customers to save up to 50% on their long distance calls. We also offer a personal 800 service that can't be beat, and all of our cust…

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France Telecom Group Business Information, Profile, and History

6 place d'Alleray 75740 Paris Cedex 15 France Company Perspectives: We intend to be a world-class service enterprise that is universally recognized for both the quality of our network and the quality of our customer relationships. To achieve this, we have made concrete commitments to all our customers--residential customers, small businesses and large corporations. Because each of these customer …

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Frontier Corp. Business Information, Profile, and History

180 South Clinton Avenue Rochester, New York 14646-0700 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We commit ourselves to the following values that must guide our performance each and every day. We listen and respond to customers' expectations at all times, determined to be their first choice. We conduct our business guided by the highest standards of ethics. We build a diverse team of employees, hiring and pr…

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Golden Telecom, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

1 Kozhevnichesky Proezd 115114 Moscow Russia Company Perspectives: Golden Telecom anticipates strong growth in the next three to five years as the company expands with the expected strong growth of the Russian economy over the same period. Expanding demand from business customers for modern telecommunications services will drive the growth. Our main strategies are to: Pursue consolidation opportu…

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Grameen Bank Business Information, Profile, and History

Mirpur Two Dhaka 1216 Bangladesh Company Perspectives: Grameen Bank (GB) has reversed conventional banking practice by removing the need for collateral and created a banking system based on mutual trust, accountability, participation and creativity. GB provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh, without any collateral. At GB, credit is a cost effective weapon to fight poverty …

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Hungarian Telephone And Cable Corp. Business Information, Profile, and History

1201 Third Avenue, Suite 3400 Seattle, Washington 98101 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: With competition fully in place in Hungary, the Company faces new opp ortunities and challenges. The Company's goal is to provide the broad est array of telecommunications services with exceptional quality and service at reasonable prices by becoming the most efficient full ser vice telecommunications provider in…

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Idb Communications Group, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

10525 West Washington Boulevard Culver City, California 90232 U.S.A. The fourth largest U.S.-based international long-distance carrier and the largest U.S.-based international private line carrier, IDB Communication Group, Inc., emerged as a rising giant in the telecommunications industry during the late 1980s and early 1990s, giving chase to telecommunications heavyweights AT&T Co., MCI Communic…

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J2 Global Communications, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

6922 Hollywood Boulevard, Suite 500 Hollywood, California 90028 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: j2 is the result of a marriage of a revolutionary patented suite of s ervices and a financially strong and disciplined organization. This s uccess benefits our customers, who are looking for a stable service p rovider for their advanced messaging needs; our shareholders, who loo k for increasing financial…

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Lci International, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

8180 Greensboro Drive, Suite 800 McLean, Virginia 22102 U.S.A. LCI International, Inc. is a long-distance telephone and telecommunications company, originating and placing telephone calls throughout the continental United States and placing calls in more than 200 countries worldwide. Based in Virginia, LCI offers a wide variety of domestic and international voice and data services to commercial a…

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Lincoln Telephone Telegraph Company Business Information, Profile, and History

P.O. Box 81309 Lincoln, Nebraska 68501 U.S.A. Lincoln Telephone & Telegraph Company is one of the largest telephone companies operating in a contiguous geographical location. The company's activities are concentrated throughout the entire state of Nebraska and reflect growing trends within the telecommunications industry, including the consolidation of resources and the development of the cellula…

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Magyar Telekom Rt Business Information, Profile, and History

Krisztina krt 55 Budapest Hungary Company Perspectives We have reached a major milestone not only in the life of our company but also of domestic telecommunications since Hungary's largest re-branding ever started on May 6, 2005. The Magyar Telekom Group members T-Com, T-Online, T-Mobile, T-Systems and T-Kábel joined their skills to enable you to use the possibilities of communications in a more…

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Manitoba Telecom Services, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

333 Main Street Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 3V6 Canada Company Perspectives: MTS is Manitoba's preeminent, full-service telecommunications company. Seamlessly blending innovative solutions and world class technology, MTS connects its customers to the world. Manitoba Telecom Services, Inc. (MTS) is the leading telecommunications company in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The company handles local te…

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Mci Worldcom, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

515 East Amite Street Jackson, Mississippi 39201-2702 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: MCI WorldCom is a new kind of communications company. With revenue of more than $30 billion, MCI WorldCom combines financial strength and a depth of resources to pursue the industry's best growth opportunities with an advanced global network built for the data-intensive era of communications. MCI WorldCom, Inc. is …

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Mediacom Communications Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

100 Crystal Run Road Middleton, New York 10941 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our objective is to be the dominant provider of entertainment, information and telecommunications services in the markets we serve. Mediacom Communications Corporation is a cable television multiple system operator (MSO), the eighth largest in the United States. Based in Middletown, New York, the company concentrates on s…

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Mercury Communications, Ltd. Business Information, Profile, and History

New Mercury House 26 Red Lion Square London WC1R 4HQ United Kingdom Mercury Communications, Ltd. is one of the largest providers of telephone services--local, long distance, and international--in the United Kingdom. Both an ambitious business venture and an experiment in telecommunications competition, Mercury was created in 1982 and competes chiefly with British Telecommunications plc, the Briti…

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Mfs Communications Company, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

One Tower Lane, Suite 1600 Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois 60181 U.S.A. A leading provider of communication services for businesses and government agencies in the United States, MFS Communications Company, Inc. competes with regional telephone companies by supplying such customers with telephone and data services through fiber-optic networks, enabling its customers to place long-distance telephone cal…

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Mobile Telesystems Ojsc Business Information, Profile, and History

4 Marksistskaya Street 109147 Moscow Russia Company Perspectives: Our primary goal is to maintain our position as a leading national mobile operator in Russia. In addition, we intend to take advantage of opportunities to expand our network coverage in the Russian Federation and other countries of the CIS. Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS) provides cellular phone service to nearly 13 million subscribe…

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Nevada Bell Telephone Company Business Information, Profile, and History

P.O. Box 11010 Reno, Nevada 89520 U.S.A. Nevada Bell was one of the telephone companies that changed forever due to the AT&T divestiture in 1984. When the Bell System divested its long-distance service from all local operations on January 1 of that year, Nevada Bell Telephone Company immediately came under new ownership. The Pacific Telesis Group, Nevada Bell's new parent company, had just been f…

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Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

1-1-6 Uchi-Saiwaicho Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100 Japan Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is the largest investor-owned company in Japan, with an annual turnover equivalent to 10% of the Japanese national budget. Until 1986 NTT was the sole telecommunications organization in Japan, but after privatization NTT not only had to cope with fierce competition from newly legalized common carriers…

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Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

3-1 Otemachi 2-chrome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8116 Japan Company Perspectives: NTT Group aims to optimize corporate value of the entire group by boosting business and management efficiency throughout the Group. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is the largest telecommunications firm in the world. In 1999, NTT was reorganized as part of Japan's telecommunications reform and became a ho…

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Nynex Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

335 Madison Avenue New York, New York 10071 United States NYNEX Corporation is one of seven regional telephone holding companies in the United States, each handling local telephone service in its region. NYNEX also publishes telephone directories, sells computers, and offers cellular telephone and other communications services. The company had been one of the more troubled of the seven, emeshed i…

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Olivetti S.P.A. Business Information, Profile, and History

Via Jervis 77 10015 Ivrea (TO) Italy Company Perspectives: The Italian telecommunications market is extremely dynamic, young and with wide margins for growth. Olivetti intends to make the most of these opportunities, magnified by the current liberalization process, creating a leading industrial group within Europe, capable of providing telecommunications services and technological infrastructure …

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Paging Network Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

4965 Preston Park Blvd. Plano, Texas 75093 U.S.A. Paging Network Inc., known as PageNet, is the largest provider of wireless digital messaging services in the United States with more than 4.1 million pagers in service. According to PageNet's 1993 annual report, the company has a subscriber base three times as large as that of its nearest competitor. PageNet operates in all 50 states and the Distr…

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Portugal Telecom Sgps S.A. Business Information, Profile, and History

Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo 4 Lisboa P-1069-300 Portugal Company Perspectives: Mission and Outlook We intend to be the largest Portuguese business group and to be amongst the largest international infocommunications groups. To reach this aim we will keep up the strong growth and will create shareholder value through: Leadership in all national business; International growth and leadership; Bel…

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Price Communications Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

45 Rockefeller Plaza New York, New York 10020 U.S.A. Price Communications Corporation has historically been a nationwide communications company owning and then disposing of a number of television, radio, newspaper, cellular telephone, and other communications and related properties. Its primary holding in 2001 was Price Communications Wireless, Inc., which was engaged in the construction, develop…

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Qwest Communications International, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

1801 California Street Denver, Colorado 80202 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: From our first days as a new company, Qwest has been dedicated to harnessing the power of technology to deliver the benefits of the Internet to customers. We have come a long way in a short period of time. From its origins as a fiber-optic network-building subsidiary of Southern Pacific Transportation Co., Qwest Communicat…

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Rochester Telephone Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

Rochester Tel Center 180 South Clinton Avenue Rochester, New York 14646 U.S.A. Rochester Telephone is the thirteenth largest diversified American telecommunications company and the largest telephone company in New York. It provides local telephone service to customers in 14 states and operates subsidiaries in a number of related fields. The company was founded in the fledgling days of the telepho…

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Rogers Communications Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

333 Bloor Street East Toronto, Ontario M4W 1G9 Canada Company Perspectives: As a "Made in Canada" communications organization, the Rogers Group of Companies are working together to ensure a strong Canadian presence on the national information, communications and entertainment services stage. There are few companies that offer the breadth and diversity of opportunities that Rogers does. These oppo…

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Rural Cellular Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

3905 Dakota Street Alexandria, Minnesota 56308 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: RCC serves rural areas where tourism, agriculture, and small businesses are prevalent. These areas are adjacent to metropolitan areas or include significant highway corridors. We have acquired companies with histories of strong operating results, superior network infrastructures, similar corporate cultures, and commitment…

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Sbc Communications Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

175 East Houston Street San Antonio, Texas 78205 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: SBC Communications Inc. is a global telecommunications company offering a wide range of innovative services and solutions to meet customers' needs. Through leading brands, the SBC Telecom strategy (an initiative to expand nationally into 30 top markets outside of our traditional service region), and investments in telec…

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Softbank Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

24-1, Nihonbashi-Hakozakicho Chuo-ku Tokyo 103-8501 Japan Company Perspectives Vision: Softbank aims to leverage the power of the digital information revolution to make knowledge available to people no matter who or where they are and, by doing so, to foster the realization of a better life for all. Softbank Corporation has reinvented itself, again, as the driving force behind Japan's fast-growin…

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Southern New England Telecommunications Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

227 Church Street New Haven, Connecticut 06510 U.S.A. The Southern New England Telecommunications Corporation (SNET) is the primary telecommunications company in Connecticut. SNET provides a variety of services beyond local phone service to the citizens of its New England home state. Founded as a member of the Bell system, the company retained affiliation with AT&T --part owner of SNET--up until …

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Sprint Communications Company, L.P. Business Information, Profile, and History

8140 Ward Parkway Kansas City, Missouri 64114 U.S.A. Sprint Communications Company, L.P., is the third-largest long distance telephone company in the United States and the principal subsidiary of the Sprint Corporation. The often confusing relationship between the two entities stems from the frequent changes in ownership of the long distance provider that occurred during the 1980s. United Telecom…

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Sprint Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

2330 Shawnee Mission Parkway Westwood, Kansas 66205 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: From its small-town roots, Sprint has evolved into a global communications company that serves 23 million customers in more than 70 countries. With more than 80,000 employees worldwide and an unmatched portfolio of telecommunications products and services, Sprint is continuing its legacy of leadership and innovation …

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Starhub Ltd. Business Information, Profile, and History

51 Cuppage Road, Suite 07-00 StarHub Centre Singapore Company Perspectives Driven by a passion for listening and providing what customers want, StarHub endeavours to bring affordable and premium quality services with innovative and useful features to all its customers. StarHub raises the level of competition in Singapore, challenging others as well as itself, to constantly introduce new world-cla…

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Stc Plc Business Information, Profile, and History

1B Portland Place London W1N 3AA United Kingdom STC, formerly Standard Telephones and Cables, is Britain's second-largest electronics group, a major manufacturer of computers, telecommunications equipment, and transmission cables, both wire and fiber optic. STC has been a world leader in underwater cable, laying several intercontinental lines. It is working with U.S. and European telecommunicatio…

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Swisscom Ag Business Information, Profile, and History

Alte Tiefenaustrasse 6 3050 Bern Switzerland Swisscom AG is the leading telecommunications company in Switzerland. Formed from the breakup of the country's PTT post and telephone monopoly, Swisscom remains that country's leading provider of fixed and mobile telephone services, broadband Internet access, and wireless telecommunications services. Swisscom is also the country's leading Internet serv…

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Talk America Holdings, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

12020 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 250 Reston, Virginia 20191 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Talk America is a leading integrated communications service provider with programs designed to benefit the residential and small business markets. Talk America has a state-of-the-art telecommunications network, and real-time online billing platform and provides savings to its customer base. Talk America Hold…

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Tdc A/S Business Information, Profile, and History

Norrgade 21 Copenhagen C DK-0900 Denmark Company Perspectives: It is TDC's vision to be the best provider of communications solutions in Europe. TDC will strive to be a company that always provides excellent service, always offers new innovative and interesting services--and a company that always takes good care of its customers and offers outstanding customer care. TDC is for people who want com…

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Telecom Australia Business Information, Profile, and History

199 William Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia The Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation (Telecom Australia) is a government-owned, regulated, public utility that provides 95 percent of Australian households with telephone service. It is the telecommunications leader in the Asia/Pacific region, as well Australia's second largest employer. In no other country in the world h…

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Telecom Corporation Of New Zealand Limited Business Information, Profile, and History

Telecom Networks House 68-86 Jervois Quay Wellington New Zealand Company Perspectives: Telecom's goal is to be the best performing, customer-focused online and communications company in Australasia. Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Limited is that country's dominant telecommunications company, providing fixed line and mobile telephony, Internet, data network, and wireless network services. The …

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Telecom Italia Mobile S.P.A. Business Information, Profile, and History

Via Luigi Rizzo 22 Roma I-00136 Italy Telecom Italia Mobile S.p.A., or TIM, is not only Italy's leading mobile communications company--with more than 26 million lines in Italy alone, it is also the largest mobile telecommunications group in Europe. In Italy, the company remains the dominant mobile player, in a market that, with more than 97 percent penetration, has achieved one of the world's hig…

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Telecom Italia S.P.A. Business Information, Profile, and History

Via Flaminia 189 I-00196 Rome Italy Company Perspectives: With its new, dynamic culture, Telecom Italia is poised to compete with top telecommunications companies in Italy and worldwide. Telecom Italia is a group on the move—innovative and ready to embrace globalization, technological advance, and all the challenges of the New Economy, dynamic and ready to meet the demands of an ever-changing m…

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Telekom Malaysia Bhd Business Information, Profile, and History

Level 51, North Wing Menara Telekom Off Jalan Pantai Baharu Kuala Lumpur 50672 Malaysia Company Perspectives: Our vision is to be the communications company of choice--focused on delivering exceptional value to our customers and other stakeholders. To achieve our vision, we are determined to do the following: be the recognised leader in all markets we serve; be a customer-focused org anisation th…

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Telenor Asa Business Information, Profile, and History

Snaroyveien 30 Fornebu N-1331 Norway Company Perspectives: Telenor's vision is: Telenor--ideas that simplify. Telenor shall be a driving force in renewing, developing and introducing new solutions that simplify our customers' workday. Telenor's vision is demanding, setting an ambitious goal for the organisation and its individual employees. Renewal and simplification of our own structures and rou…

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Telephone And Data Systems, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

30 North LaSalle Street Suite 4000 Chicago, Illinois 60602 U.S.A. Telephone and Data Systems, Inc., or TDS, is one of the most highly praised telecommunications enterprises in the United States. While only a fraction the size of General Telephone Corporation and the Baby Bell companies, TDS has consistently grown at twice the rate of its larger counterparts, and it is the ninth largest non-Bell t…

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Teliasonera Ab Business Information, Profile, and History

Mårbackagatan 11 SE-123 86 Farsta Sweden Company Perspectives: Group Strategy: TeliaSonera's overall focus is on best serving our customers in our core business and creating value for our shareholders through stronger profits and cash flows. TeliaSonera will focus specifically on: core business in the Nordic and Baltic regions; pursuing profitable growth opportunities in the East; adopting a str…

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Telstra Corporation Limited Business Information, Profile, and History

242 Exhibition Street, Level 41 Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia Company Perspectives: Our vision is to enhance our position as the leading full-service, telecommunications and information services company in Australia and to expand our presence internationally. Telstra Corporation Limited is a full-service telecommunications, information services, and network platform company that competes in …

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U.S. Cellular Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

8410 West Bryn Mawr Avenue Suite 700 Chicago, Illinois 60631 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: United States Cellular exists to provide quality wireless communications services for our customers and to rapidly grow our customer base, revenue, and profits. The Company is committed to professional growth for our associates and good corporate citizenship in the communities we serve. U.S. Cellular Corpora…

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United Telecommunications, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

2330 Shawnee Mission Parkway Westwood Kansas 66205 United States United Telecommunications, Inc., (United Telecom) provides voice, data, and videoconferencing transmission and related products for the global market. It is the only large U.S. company offering both local and long-distance services. The company history extends back to 1892 when Cleysen Brown connected a generator to his father's gri…

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Verizon Communications Business Information, Profile, and History

1095 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10036 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Driven by our belief in the power of networks, the value of customer connections, and the magic of a unified brand, Verizon is becoming one of the world's leading communications companies. With our unparalleled national scale in landline and wireless networks and a significant global presence, Verizon delivers the b…

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Verizon Communications Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

140 West Street New York New York 10036 U.S.A. Company Perspectives To make strong progress in delivering on our promise to be the nation's best provider of quality local, data and long distance services. Verizon Communications Inc., formed in June 2000 with the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE, is a leading provider of communications services. The company's business is split into four main operat…

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Vodafone Group Plc Business Information, Profile, and History

The Courtyard 2 - 4 London Rd Newbury Berkshire RG 14 1JX United Kingdom Company Perspectives: We aim to be the world's leading wireless telecommunications and information provider bringing more customers more services and more value than any other of its competitors. Since its landmark merger with Mannesmann AG, Vodafone Group PLC has become the first truly global wireless phone company. The lar…

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Vodafone Group Plc Business Information, Profile, and History

The Courtyard 2 - 4 London Rd Newbury Berkshire RG 14 1JX United Kingdom Company Perspectives: We aim to be the world's leading wireless telecommunications and info rmation provider bringing more customers more services and more value than any other of its competitors. Vodafone Group Plc is the world's leading cellular telephone operator , boasting more than 165 million subscribers and annual sal…

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Vonage Holdings Corp. Business Information, Profile, and History

23 Main Street Holmdel New Jersey 07733 U.S.A. Company Perspectives We believe that our strong brand identity and reputation for quality communications services are instrumental to building our customer base. Our core business strategy is to enhance our brand image and the quality of our services in order to attract new customers. As we build on our leading brand and our above-mentioned strengths…

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Warwick Valley Telephone Company Business Information, Profile, and History

47 Main Street Warwick, New York 10990 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The company's mission is to be the choice provider of quality communication services and products by offering superior customer care and value for traditional and new markets in the Tri-State Region and beyond. Doing business as WVT Communications, Warwick Valley Telephone Company is an independent telecom company serving a mostl…

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Western Wireless Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

3650 131st Avenue Southeast, Suite 400 Bellevue, Washington 98006 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our domestic strategy is to be the premier rural communications company in the United States. We have created the largest regional wireless operation in the continental United States. In contrast to the strategies of national carriers that focus on breadth, we focus our resources on meeting the vast ran…

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Williams Communications Group, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

One Williams Center Tulsa, Oklahoma 74172 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We recognize and enthusiastically accept our responsibility to the communities we serve, through acting as a good neighbor and through involvement and support for community activities. We are committed to protecting the public, the environment and our natural resources by operating in a safe, reliable manner. We maintain a cor…

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Wisconsin Bell, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

727 North Broadway Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 U.S.A. Wisconsin Bell, Inc., is the legal name of what has publicly been known as Ameritech Wisconsin since 1993. The largest provider of local telephone service in the state of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Bell focuses its attention on larger population centers, leaving less populous areas to Wisconsin's many small, independent telephone companies. Wisconsin…

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Working Assets Funding Service Business Information, Profile, and History

101 Market Street, Suite 700 San Francisco, CA 94105 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Working Assets is a long distance, credit card, and online services company that was created to build a world that is more just, humane, and environmentally sustainable. The company was established in 1985 to help busy people make a difference in the world through progressive philanthropy and political activism. Wor…

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Zapata Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

1717 St. James Place Houston, Texas 77210 U.S.A. Slated to become one of the ten largest Internet companies in the world, Zapata Corporation is involved in Internet and electronic-commerce businesses, operating an Internet portal and two on-line magazines, Word and Charged. Formerly an international oil and gas conglomerate, Zapata suffered profound financial losses during the 1980s, which eventu…

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