Bulgarian Telecommunications Company

Type	joint stock company
Founded	1992
Location	Sofia, Bulgaria
Key people	Dennis Wallach, CEO
Industry	telecommunications
Products	fixed line telephony, Internet services, mobile telephony (as Vivatel)
Revenue	113.12 million leva (first half of 2005)
Employees	~20,000
Website	http://www.btc.bg

The Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (Bulgarian: Българска телекомуникационна компания, Balgarska telekomunikatsionna kompaniya, abbreviated as БТК, BTC) is the largest telecommunications company in Bulgaria and a former state-owned monopoly. Founded as a joint stock company in the end of 1992 as part of the separation of Bulgaria's post and telecommunication services into separate companies, it serves a total of 2.9 million fixed phone lines and employs about 20,000 people. Image File history File links Btc-bg-logo. ... A joint stock company is a special kind of partnership. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Nickname: Motto: Official website: sofia. ... BlackBerry 7100t Telecommunications is the communication of information at a distance. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with landline. ... In telecommunication, Telephony encompasses the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances. ... An Internet service provider (ISP, also called Internet access provider) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ... Mobile phones from various years An Arabic language mobile phone A mobile phone or cell(ular) phone is an electronic telecommunications device. ... The logo of Vivatel, presented on Musala in September 2005 Vivatel is the third Bulgarian GSM operator, started in 2005. ... Revenue is a US business term for the amount of money that a company can receive from its activities, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Image File history File links Red_Arrow_Down. ... The Lev (lv) (Bulgarian: лев, plural - лева, левове) is the currency of Bulgaria, and it has been used since 1881. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... BlackBerry 7100t Telecommunications is the communication of information at a distance. ... In economics, a monopoly (from the Greek monos, one + polein, to sell) is defined as a persistent market situation where there is only one provider of a kind of product or service. ... A joint stock company is a special kind of partnership. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with landline. ...

65% of the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company were sold to Viva Ventures, owned by Advent International, for €280 million in June 2004. As part of the deal, BTC was provided a GSM operator license and launched Vivatel, Bulgaria's third GSM operator, in 2005. An UMTS license was additionally purchased in May 2005. The euro (€; ISO 4217 code EUR) is the currency of twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. ... 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: June 2004 in sports Deaths in June • 28 Anthony Buckeridge • 26 Naomi Shemer • 26 Yash Johar • 22 Bob Bemer • 22 Thomas Gold • 22 Francisco Ortiz Franco • 16 Thanom Kittikachorn • 10 Ray Charles • 5 Ronald Reagan... Not to be confused with Get Some Mates The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ... The logo of Vivatel, presented on Musala in September 2005 Vivatel is the third Bulgarian GSM operator, started in 2005. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is one of the third-generation (3G) mobile phone technologies. ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in May May 26: Eddie Albert May 25: Ismail Merchant May 25: Sunil Dutt May 25: Graham Kennedy May 22: Thurl Ravenscroft May 21: Howard Morris May 21: Subodh Mukherjee May 21: Stephen Elliott May 20...

Besides serving the vast majority of fixed telephone lines in the country, BTC is also the biggest Bulgarian ADSL Internet service provider. Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a form of DSL, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional modem can provide. ... An Internet service provider (ISP, also called Internet access provider) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ...

External links

• Official website (in Bulgarian)
• Official website (in English)