閱讀提示：冰島電信（冰島語：Síminn），也叫作Landssíminn，是冰島前國有公司。在2005年的7月28日，公司以6千6百7十億的價(jià)格賣給了Skipti公司。冰島電信在電視業(yè)投資巨大，擁有電視頻道Skjár 1，Síminn同樣通過ADSL和寬帶進(jìn)行廣播。
Iceland Telecom, (Icelandic: Síminn), also known as Landssíminn, is the previously state-owned telecom company in Iceland. On July 28, 2005, the company was sold to Skipti for ISK 66,7 billion (ca. $1 billion).
Síminn has invested heavily in the television industry in Iceland and owns Skjár 1, an Icelandic television channel. Síminn also broadcasts over ADSL and broadband.
In December 2005 the company announced that the three companies, Síminn, slenska sjónvarpsfélagi (English: The Icelandic Television Company) (which owns Skjár 1) and the parent company, Skipti, would be merged into one company, called Síminn.
History
Landssími slands was founded by the Icelandic government in 1906 when Iceland was, for the first time, in contact with other countries via phone. In the beginning there were many demonstrations against the idea of the phone but Hannes Hafstein, Iceland's first prime minister was able to push the subject through.
It took 54 years to put phone lines in the Icelandic country side.
In 1935, Landssími slands merged with the Icelandic postal service and a new company, Póstur og Sími, was created. In 1998 the company was split up, the postal service, slandspóstur, and the phone service, Landssími slands. Today Landssími slands uses the name Síminn in Iceland because it is more market friendly.
Competition
Síminn has always been the biggest player on the Icelandic phone and Internet market. This is because Síminn was, until recently, the only phone company in Iceland. This did change when the first competitor, TAL, started providing mobile services on reduced prices. Others followed, the biggest one being slandssími. On the Internet market the competition was a lot tougher, with big names like slandssími, Halló!, Margmilun and the list goes on. In 2003 TAL, slandssími and Halló! merged under the name OgVodafone. OgVodafone has since then bought a few Icelandic Internet Service Providers, including the oldest private one, Margmilun.
Since TAL was founded, prices have been become a lot lower, specially when it comes to mobile phones as well as Internet connections. Recently a new ISP was founded in Iceland called HIVE (ISP), providing free download from abroad sparking a new price war on the Icelandic Internet market.
閱讀提示：葡萄牙電信是葡萄牙的電信運(yùn)營商，主要在葡萄牙和巴西運(yùn)作。同時(shí)葡萄牙電信也是葡萄牙的一家電信運(yùn)營商，直到1994年它還一直是家壟斷型企業(yè)。后來政府逐漸放開對(duì)公司的控制，在2000年的時(shí)候葡萄牙電信成為了股份制公司。從那以后，它在自由的葡萄牙市場上保持統(tǒng)治地位。
由于其占據(jù)大量的市場份額，葡萄牙電信仍舊被認(rèn)為是葡萄牙固定電話市場中的實(shí)際壟斷公司。
Portugal Telecom (Euronext: PTC, NYSE: PT) is the biggest telecom operator in Portugal. It operates mainly in Portugal and Brasil.
Portugal Telecom was the only telephone operator in Portugal, being a monopoly, until 1994, when the government gradually retired its control over the corporation and in 2000 Portugal Telecom became a publicly owned company. Since then, it has held a dominant position in the liberalized Portuguese market.
Due to its large market share, Portugal Telecom is still considered a de-facto monopoly in fixed telephony in Portugal.
Businesses
Portugal Telecom is the largest corporation in Portugal and has a large presence in Brasil. It owns PT Comunicaes, the largest fixed phone and ADSL operator in Portugal, Telecomunicaes Móveis Nacionais, SA (TMN), the largest mobile phone operator in Portugal and SAPO Saber & Lazer, SA, an Internet subsidiary, Páginas Amarelas, S.A., the publisher of the Portuguese Yellow Pages edition, Lusomundo Cinemas, a film distributor and a large chain of cinemas around Portugal, TV Cabo Portugal, a cable/satellite company involved in broadband cable networks and television programming content, Vivo, the largest mobile phone network in Brasil. Vivo is a joint-venture with Telefónica.
閱讀提示：德國電信（Deutsche Telekom AG）是德國也是歐洲的電信公司。
Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE: DT) (TYO: 9496 ) (LSE: DEU) (abbreviated DTAG) is the biggest telecommunications company both in Germany and the EU.
Deutsche Telekom was formed in 1996 as the former state-owned monopolist Deutsche Bundespost was privatized. As of 2005, the German government still holds a 15.7% stake in company stock. Its headquarters are in Bonn, Germany.
Holdings
All subsidiaries of the Telekom have a name starting with "T-".
T-Com, covering the conventional telephone and fixed network
T-Mobile, the mobile phone subsidiary
T-Online, the internet service provider (ISP)
T-Systems, for large business customers, also including the R&D department
Deutsche Telekom also holds substantial shares in other telephone companies, including Eastern European subsidiaries Slovak Telekom (Slovakia), Magyar Telekom (Hungary), and T-Hrvatski Telekom (Croatia), which are now fully consolidated into T-Com.
Facilities
As running of transmission services many remarkable facilities belong to Deutsche Telekom.
閱讀提示：貝爾南方是一家起步于美國的喬治亞州亞特蘭大的美國電訊公司。貝爾南方是在1984年1月1日被美國司法部強(qiáng)制AT&T（美國電話與電報(bào)公司）分成的7家地方性子公司之一，也是一家在其商標(biāo)中延用貝爾標(biāo)識(shí)的子公司，也被叫作“貝爾孩子”。貝爾南方主營無線及寬帶業(yè)務(wù)，與AT&T合資（40%股份）的無線電話服務(wù)公司Cingular為貝爾公司的收入提供了大量的來源。
BellSouth Corporation (NYSE: BLS) 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.
The subsidiaries Southern Bell and South Central Bell have now been combined to operate under the corporate name BellSouth. Services provided in the BellSouth operating area include telephone and DSL/Dial-Up Internet services in the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
BellSouth is realigning itself in two important areas, wireless and broadband. A 40 percent joint venture with AT&T (formerly SBC) in U.S. wireless telephone service Cingular provides a large percentage of BellSouth's revenue. Continued increase of broadband penetration and applications in the consumer market is a key strategy to the company. These activities are being funded in part by the sale of Latin America operations.
BellSouth is currently the only "Baby Bell" that does not operate pay telephones. By 2003, BellSouth's payphone operation was discontinued because it had become too unprofitable, most likely due to the increased availability of cell phones. Cincinnati Bell has taken BellSouth's place for payphones in northern BellSouth territory; independents have set in further south.
BellSouth operates many companies to provide the services that customers consider as coming from BellSouth. The BellSouth Corporation is the holding company. The operating companies include BellSouth Telecommunications (local phone company), BellSouth.net (the ISP), BellSouth Long Distance (the long distance carrier), and Cingular Wireless (formerly BellSouth Mobility, jointly owned with AT&T). There are other operating companies, like the publishing and advertising companies, but the ones mentioned above are the main ones.
The BellSouth - AT&T relationship goes further than just Cingular Wireless. BellSouth & AT&T also co-own yellowpages.com (formerly RealPages.com and SmartPages.com)
Iceland Telecom, (Icelandic: Síminn), also known as Landssíminn, is the previously state-owned telecom company in Iceland. On July 28, 2005, the company was sold to Skipti for ISK 66,7 billion (ca. $1 billion).
Síminn has invested heavily in the television industry in Iceland and owns Skjár 1, an Icelandic television channel. Síminn also broadcasts over ADSL and broadband.
In December 2005 the company announced that the three companies, Síminn, slenska sjónvarpsfélagi (English: The Icelandic Television Company) (which owns Skjár 1) and the parent company, Skipti, would be merged into one company, called Síminn.
History
Landssími slands was founded by the Icelandic government in 1906 when Iceland was, for the first time, in contact with other countries via phone. In the beginning there were many demonstrations against the idea of the phone but Hannes Hafstein, Iceland's first prime minister was able to push the subject through.
It took 54 years to put phone lines in the Icelandic country side.
In 1935, Landssími slands merged with the Icelandic postal service and a new company, Póstur og Sími, was created. In 1998 the company was split up, the postal service, slandspóstur, and the phone service, Landssími slands. Today Landssími slands uses the name Síminn in Iceland because it is more market friendly.
Competition
Síminn has always been the biggest player on the Icelandic phone and Internet market. This is because Síminn was, until recently, the only phone company in Iceland. This did change when the first competitor, TAL, started providing mobile services on reduced prices. Others followed, the biggest one being slandssími. On the Internet market the competition was a lot tougher, with big names like slandssími, Halló!, Margmilun and the list goes on. In 2003 TAL, slandssími and Halló! merged under the name OgVodafone. OgVodafone has since then bought a few Icelandic Internet Service Providers, including the oldest private one, Margmilun.
Since TAL was founded, prices have been become a lot lower, specially when it comes to mobile phones as well as Internet connections. Recently a new ISP was founded in Iceland called HIVE (ISP), providing free download from abroad sparking a new price war on the Icelandic Internet market.
閱讀提示：葡萄牙電信是葡萄牙的電信運(yùn)營商，主要在葡萄牙和巴西運(yùn)作。同時(shí)葡萄牙電信也是葡萄牙的一家電信運(yùn)營商，直到1994年它還一直是家壟斷型企業(yè)。后來政府逐漸放開對(duì)公司的控制，在2000年的時(shí)候葡萄牙電信成為了股份制公司。從那以后，它在自由的葡萄牙市場上保持統(tǒng)治地位。
由于其占據(jù)大量的市場份額，葡萄牙電信仍舊被認(rèn)為是葡萄牙固定電話市場中的實(shí)際壟斷公司。
Portugal Telecom (Euronext: PTC, NYSE: PT) is the biggest telecom operator in Portugal. It operates mainly in Portugal and Brasil.
Portugal Telecom was the only telephone operator in Portugal, being a monopoly, until 1994, when the government gradually retired its control over the corporation and in 2000 Portugal Telecom became a publicly owned company. Since then, it has held a dominant position in the liberalized Portuguese market.
Due to its large market share, Portugal Telecom is still considered a de-facto monopoly in fixed telephony in Portugal.
Businesses
Portugal Telecom is the largest corporation in Portugal and has a large presence in Brasil. It owns PT Comunicaes, the largest fixed phone and ADSL operator in Portugal, Telecomunicaes Móveis Nacionais, SA (TMN), the largest mobile phone operator in Portugal and SAPO Saber & Lazer, SA, an Internet subsidiary, Páginas Amarelas, S.A., the publisher of the Portuguese Yellow Pages edition, Lusomundo Cinemas, a film distributor and a large chain of cinemas around Portugal, TV Cabo Portugal, a cable/satellite company involved in broadband cable networks and television programming content, Vivo, the largest mobile phone network in Brasil. Vivo is a joint-venture with Telefónica.
閱讀提示：德國電信（Deutsche Telekom AG）是德國也是歐洲的電信公司。
Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE: DT) (TYO: 9496 ) (LSE: DEU) (abbreviated DTAG) is the biggest telecommunications company both in Germany and the EU.
Deutsche Telekom was formed in 1996 as the former state-owned monopolist Deutsche Bundespost was privatized. As of 2005, the German government still holds a 15.7% stake in company stock. Its headquarters are in Bonn, Germany.
Holdings
All subsidiaries of the Telekom have a name starting with "T-".
T-Com, covering the conventional telephone and fixed network
T-Mobile, the mobile phone subsidiary
T-Online, the internet service provider (ISP)
T-Systems, for large business customers, also including the R&D department
Deutsche Telekom also holds substantial shares in other telephone companies, including Eastern European subsidiaries Slovak Telekom (Slovakia), Magyar Telekom (Hungary), and T-Hrvatski Telekom (Croatia), which are now fully consolidated into T-Com.
Facilities
As running of transmission services many remarkable facilities belong to Deutsche Telekom.
閱讀提示：貝爾南方是一家起步于美國的喬治亞州亞特蘭大的美國電訊公司。貝爾南方是在1984年1月1日被美國司法部強(qiáng)制AT&T（美國電話與電報(bào)公司）分成的7家地方性子公司之一，也是一家在其商標(biāo)中延用貝爾標(biāo)識(shí)的子公司，也被叫作“貝爾孩子”。貝爾南方主營無線及寬帶業(yè)務(wù)，與AT&T合資（40%股份）的無線電話服務(wù)公司Cingular為貝爾公司的收入提供了大量的來源。
BellSouth Corporation (NYSE: BLS) 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.
The subsidiaries Southern Bell and South Central Bell have now been combined to operate under the corporate name BellSouth. Services provided in the BellSouth operating area include telephone and DSL/Dial-Up Internet services in the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
BellSouth is realigning itself in two important areas, wireless and broadband. A 40 percent joint venture with AT&T (formerly SBC) in U.S. wireless telephone service Cingular provides a large percentage of BellSouth's revenue. Continued increase of broadband penetration and applications in the consumer market is a key strategy to the company. These activities are being funded in part by the sale of Latin America operations.
BellSouth is currently the only "Baby Bell" that does not operate pay telephones. By 2003, BellSouth's payphone operation was discontinued because it had become too unprofitable, most likely due to the increased availability of cell phones. Cincinnati Bell has taken BellSouth's place for payphones in northern BellSouth territory; independents have set in further south.
BellSouth operates many companies to provide the services that customers consider as coming from BellSouth. The BellSouth Corporation is the holding company. The operating companies include BellSouth Telecommunications (local phone company), BellSouth.net (the ISP), BellSouth Long Distance (the long distance carrier), and Cingular Wireless (formerly BellSouth Mobility, jointly owned with AT&T). There are other operating companies, like the publishing and advertising companies, but the ones mentioned above are the main ones.
The BellSouth - AT&T relationship goes further than just Cingular Wireless. BellSouth & AT&T also co-own yellowpages.com (formerly RealPages.com and SmartPages.com)