The Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited is the government owned telephone service provider in the cities of Bombay, New Delhi and New Bombay in India. The company was a monopoly till 2000 after which the government threw open telephone services to other providers. ... A telephone handset A touch-tone telephone dial Telephone The telephone or phone (Greek: tele = far away and phone = voice) is a telecommunications device that transmits speech by means of electric signals. ... This article or section should be merged with Mumbai Mumbai (previously known as Bombay) is the worlds most populous conurbation, and is the sixth most populous agglomeration in the world. ... New Delhi ( नई दिल्ली ) is the capital of India, and is part of the National capital territory of Delhi. ... New Bombay (also known as Navi Mumbai) is a satellite twin of the city of Bombay, India. ... The Republic of India is the second most populous country in the world, with a population of more than one billion, and is the seventh largest country by geographical area. ... This article is about economic monopoly. ...

MTNL provides fixed line telephones, cellular connection of both GSM — Dolphin and WLL (CDMA) — Garuda and internet services through dialup and DSL. Phone numbers belonging to MNTL start with the prefix 2. MTNL also provides other services such as virtual private networking and leased lines through its sister concerns BSNL and VSNL (now Tata Indicom. GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ... General Information Generically (as a multiplexing scheme), code division multiple access (CDMA) is any use of any form of spread spectrum by multiple transmitters to send to the same receiver on the same frequency channel at the same time without harmful interference. ... Garuda (also called Krut, Thailand: Pha Krut), the eagle, is a lesser Hindu and Buddhist god, the mount (vahanam) of Vishnu, one of the main forms of God in Hinduism. ... In telecommunication, the term dial-up has the following meanings: Dial-up access, typically to the Internet A service feature in which a user initiates service on a previously arranged trunk or transfers, without human intervention, from an active trunk to a standby trunk. ... DSL is a TLA that can stand for Digital Subscriber Line Damn Small Linux Domain-specific language This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A Virtual Private Network, or VPN, is a private communications network usually used within a company, or by several different companies or organizations, communicating over a public network. ... BSNL or Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is Indias largest Communication Service Provider (CSP), and seventh largest in the world. ... Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) is Indias phone carrier for international calls. ...