In Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is the sixth-largest country in the world, the only one to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia/ Oceania. It also includes a number of secondary islands, the largest of which is Tasmania, an Australian State. Australia is...
Australia, the name and brand of the See also Orange (disambiguation) for other meanings of the word. Orange SA is a major mobile phone operator, initially a division of Hutchison Whampoa and a successor to their failed point to point mobile telephone system known as Rabbit. Despite being originally from the UK, it has been acquired by...
Orange group are used under license by Hutchison Whampoa Limited (HWL, 和記黃埔有限公司), (HKSE: 0013) , of Hong Kong, is one of the largest companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. It is headed by Li Ka Shing, the wealthiest Chinese individual. Company It has over 150,000 employees worldwide Industries...
Hutchinson Whampoa. Thus, although equally branded, Orange Australia does not belong to the Orange Group. Note that Orange Australia uses 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. Other widely used multiple access techniques are Time...
CDMA ( Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a wireless telecommunications research and development company based in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1985 by Irwin Jacobs and Andrew Viterbi, who previously founded Linkabit. Qualcomms first products and services included the OmniTRACS satellite locating and messaging service, widely used by long-haul...
Qualcomm's cdmaONE, aka Interim Standard 95 (IS-95), is the first CDMA-based digital cellular standard pioneered by Qualcomm. The brand name for IS-95 is cdmaOne. IS-95 is also known as TIA-EIA-95. It is now being supplanted by IS-2000. It is used in the US and in Korea...
IS-95) cell phone technology, while the rest of the Orange companies use GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. GSM phones are used by over a billion people across more than 200 countries. The ubiquity of the GSM standard makes international roaming very common with roaming agreements between mobile phone operators. GSM...
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A mobile phone operator (also wireless carrier) is a telephone company that provides phone services for mobile phone subscribers. The process of becoming a mobile phone operator within a country usually begins by acquiring a radio spectrum licence from the Government. The precise spectrum obtained does depend on the type...
Mobile Phone Networks by region ( World These are the worlds largest mobile phone companies, by number of subscribers. The primary cellular technology used by each carrier is shown in parentheses. China Mobile (GSM) - 158.6 million Vodafone (GSM, UMTS) - 151.8 million China Unicom (IS-2000, GSM) - 100.1 million T-Mobile1 (GSM, UMTS...
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Multiregional: Vodafones corporate logo is the outline of a SIM card Vodafone is a multinational mobile phone operator with headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom and Düsseldorf, Germany. It is the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world, with equity interests in 26 countries and Partner Networks (networks...
Vodafone | T-Mobile logo T-Mobile is a multinational mobile phone operator. It is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom and belongs to the Freemove alliance. T-Mobile operates GSM networks in Western Europe and the United States. It has financial stakes in mobile operators in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. The...
T-Mobile | See also Orange (disambiguation) for other meanings of the word. Orange SA is a major mobile phone operator, initially a division of Hutchison Whampoa and a successor to their failed point to point mobile telephone system known as Rabbit. Despite being originally from the UK, it has been acquired by...
Orange | 3 is the name of a mobile phone operator in Europe, Australia, and Hong Kong, by Hutchison Whampoa Telecommunications. It is the 3G offering from the company, and one of the first 3G networks in the world. 3 is offering 3G services in the following countries: UK, Italy, Denmark, Sweden...
3 | Tim is a 1985 (see 1985 in music) album by The Replacements. The album was a huge success among critics and on college radio, and helped the bands fanbase grow considerably. Tim is somewhat more clean and accessible than The Replacements previous efforts, but still maintains a garage rock...
TIM | movistar is a major mobile phone operator owned by Telefónica Móviles. It operates in Spain and many Latin American countries. Many movistar networks were acquired from BellSouth. The movistar name became effective on April 5th, 2005. Countries where movistar operates wireless networks Argentina (formerly Telefó...
movistar | Virgin Mobile plc, is a virtual cellular phone service provider operating in the UK, US and Australia, and preparing to launch in Canada. The company does not maintain their own network, and instead has contracts to use the existing network of other providers. In the UK, Virgin Mobile uses the...
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GSM usage statistics for Africa [1] List by country Communications in Angola Communications in Benin Communications in Botswana Communications in Burkina Faso Communications in Burundi Communications in Cameroon Communications in Cape Verde Communications in the Central African Republic Communications in Chad Communications in Comoros Communications in Côte d...
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Map of the Pacific Rim and List of the Pacific Rim Nations The Pacific Rim is a political and economic term used to designate the countries on the edges of the Pacific Ocean, as well as the various island nations within the region. The commercial, military and political center of...
Asia Pacific Optus is a telecommunications company in Australia. Subsidaries Optus is comprised of a number of subsidiaries: Optus TV (aka Optus Vision,Optus TV) Cable television service provided in Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane Optusnet (aka Optus Net) Broadband Internet (via cable and ADSL) in All States Dial-Up Internet in All...
Optus | Orange Australia | Telstra Corporation is an Australian telecommunications company, holding a superdominant position in landline telephone services and with a large share of mobile telecommunications, domestic consumer (including dial-up access and broadband cable modem, satellite and ADSL services under the BigPond and Hypermax brands) and business data services, and cable television...
Telstra | China Mobile Communications Corporation (中国移动通信 Zhongguo Yidong Tongxin), also known as China Mobile or CMCC, is Chinas and the worlds largest mobile phone operator, with over 130 million customers as of 2003. A state-owned enterprise, it was spun off from former monopoly...
China Mobile | China Unicom, full name China United Telecommunications Corporation, is a state-owned telecommunication operator in the Peoples Republic of China. China Unicom was founded as a state-owned corporation, established on July 19, 1994, by the Ministries of Electronic Industry, of Electric Power and of Railways and approved by...
China Unicom | NTT DoCoMo, Inc. (TYO: 9437) , (NYSE: DCM) is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan. The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase Do Communications Over the Mobile Network, but also means “everywhere” in Japanese. DoCoMo was spun off from NTT in August 1991 to take over...
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Airtel | BSNL or Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is Indias largest Communication Service Provider (CSP), and seventh largest in the world. BSNL operates across the length and breadth of India (except the metropolitan cities of Mumbai and New Delhi) and commands over 45 million landlines and mobile connections. Since its corporatisation...
BSNL | Reliance Infocomm is one of the biggest telecommunications service provider in India and it belongs to the biggest business group called Reliance Industries Limited. The group is held by the Ambani family, the richest family in India. Categories: Companies of India | Corporation stubs ...
Reliance Infocomm | Telecom New Zealand (NYSE: NZT) is a telecommunications company, owns most of the New Zealand telephone network and is the second largest mobile phone operator. Telecom was formed in 1987 from a division of the New Zealand Post Office and privatised in 1990. The selling price is considered by many...
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List by country Communications in Albania Communications in Andorra Communications in Austria Communications in Belarus Communications in Belgium Communications in Bulgaria Communications in Croatia Communications in Cyprus Communications in the Czech Republic Communications in Denmark Communications in Estonia Communications in the Faroe Islands Communications in Finland Communications in France Communications...
Europe SFR | The Bouygues group is a French industrial group founded in 1952 by Francis Bouygues and since 1989 led by his son Martin Bouygues. In 2003 it had over 124,000 employees in 80 countries and generated nearly 22 billion euros in sales, of which 6 outside of France. Originally in...
Bouygues | E-Plus is a mobile telecommunications operator in Germany. With 8.5 million subscribers as of 2004 E-Plus is the third largest mobile operator in Germany, after T-Mobile (26.7 million subscribers) and Vodafone (25 million subscribers). E-plus is owned by Dutch telecommunications operator KPN. Categories: Corporation...
E-Plus | A mobile phone communications company operating in Hungary, Pannon GSM Telecommunications Ltd. is a consortium of the following companies: Telenor Mobile Communications A/S (74,99%) Telenor Magyarország No. 4 Távközlési Holding Rt. (15,18%) Telenor Magyarország No. 3 Vagyonkezelő Kft. (2,69%) Telenor...
Pannon GSM | Meteor Mobile Communications operate a GSM cellular communications network in the Republic of Ireland. They issue their new numbers with the code 085, although the introduction of total-number-portability makes access codes a little less relevant on mobile phone systems. Launched on the 22nd of February, 2001 after a...
Meteor | Wind | Royal KPN NV (Koninklijke KPN NV) (NYSE: KPN), often abbreviated KPN, is a Dutch telecommunications company. The company was formerly called Koninklijke PTT Nederland, and before that Staatsbedrijf der Posterijen, Telegrafie en Telefonie (State Company of Post, Telegraphy and Telephony), or PTT. Before the spinoff of TPG, the company also...
KPN | Telfort NV (Telfort NV), often abbreviated Telefort, is a Dutch telecommunications company. As of 2004, Telfort is active in the Dutch telecommunication market. In the Netherlands, Telfort is the owner of a mobile telecommunications, with the brand Telfort. External links Categories: Companies of the Netherlands ...
Telfort | Mobile TeleSystems or MTS is the largest mobile operator in Russia and CIS with more than 34 million subscribers. MTS works in GSM standart. It currently holds licences to provide mobile services in 87 out of 89 regions in Russia and the entire territories of Ukraine, Belarus and Uzbekistan. External...
MTS | Bee Line GSM ( Russian:Би Лайн GSM) is a trademark of the second largest cell-phone operator in Russian Federation. The company name is VimpelCom. As of January 2005 Bee Line has more than 25 million subscribers in 74 of 89 Russian regions, and in Kazakhstan...
BeeLine | O2 plc (known until March 2004 as mmO2) is a British telecommunications company specialising in mobile phones, previously part of BT Group plc. The company headquarters are in Slough, with major offices in Leeds, Bury, and Preston Brook. There are technology sites dotted around the UK. Originally launched in 1985...
O2 | Connex GSM is one of Romanias two largest mobile phone network operators. Connex is owned by MobiFon SA, which is in turn owned by Telesystems International Wireless and Vodafone. It launched in April 1997 as the first GSM network in Romania (although not the first mobile phone network). It...
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World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is the third largest continent in area and in population after Eurasia and Africa. It is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the...
North America Bell Mobility is the division of Bell Canada which sells wireless services in Canada. Bell Mobility boasts over 4.5 million subscribers, and for having the most rate plans of any provider in North America. Their cellular network utilizes AMPS, CDMA and 1xRTT technology. Their handset lineup includes phones from...
Bell Mobility | Cingular Wireless is the largest United States mobile phone company, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Cingular, formed in 2001, is a joint venture of the American landline telephone companies SBC and BellSouth. The two companies hold 60% and 40% stakes in Cingular, respectively, based on the value of...
Cingular | Microcell Telecommunications is a Canadian wireless PCS telecommunications service provider. Microcell was the first carrier in Canada to launch a GSM-based network and Fido was the first wireless service provider in North America to offer General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) on its network. Fido has a data roaming agreement...
Fido | Verizon Wireless was the largest wireless phone company in the United States, before Cingulars acquisition of AT&T Wireless. In June 2004, the company added its 40 millionth customer. Verizon Wireless was formed in 2000 as a joint venture between US-based Verizon Communications (56%) and UK-based...
Verizon Wireless | Rogers Wireless Rogers Wireless is a division of Rogers Communications, part of the Ted Rogers Empire. Rogers Wireless is a leading Canadian cell phone provider from coast to coast. They offer the following services: AMPS on the 800 MHz A band IS-136 (aka TDMA) on the 850 MHz band...
Rogers Wireless | This article is about the telecommunications company; see sprints for the running term. Sprint Corporation (NYSE: FON) is one of the worlds largest telecommunication companies. It is a global communications provider and a major competitor in the American cellular phone market, through its Sprint PCS service based on CDMA...
Sprint PCS | Nextel Communications (NASDAQ: NXTL) is a telecommunications firm based in the United States which provides a national mobile communications system. Unlike other cellular operators, Nextel utilizes the specialized mobile radio band (SMR) and was one of the first operators in the United States to offer a national digital cellular coverage...
Nextel | ALLTEL (NYSE: AT) is a telecommunications company located in Little Rock, Arkansas. As of August 2004 the company claimed over 12 million customers and $8 billion in annual revenue. ALLTEL provides wireless, local telephone, long-distance, Internet and high-speed data services to residential and business customers in 26 states...
ALLTEL | Western Wireless is a wireless telecommunications (i.e. cellular) provider in the western United States that specializes in rural cellular service. Western Wireless primarily operates under the Cellular One brand. It has offices in Bellevue, Washington and Amarillo, Texas. They provide cellular services in 19 states in the western, midwestern...
Western Wireless | TELUS is a phone company in Canada. The brand name TELUS was first used, in 1990, as a new name for the former Alberta Government Telephones after this organization was privatized by the Alberta provincial government. In 1995, TELUS purchased Ed Tel from the City of Edmonton, ending the era...
TELUS | Sasktel | Manitoba Telecom Services, or MTS, (formerly Manitoba Telephone System) is the primary telecommunications carrier in the Canadian province of Manitoba and the third largest telecommunications provider in Canada. It employs 7000 employees. Its stock symbol on the Toronto Stock Exchange is MBT. It provides local and long-distance phone services...
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South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. South America is situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. It became attached to North America only recently, geologically speaking, with the formation of the Isthmus of Panama...
South America This article is about the videocard acronym. For the streaming format, see Vivo_Software. Acronym for Video In Video Out. Featured on some AGP/PCI Express video cards, such as the Nvidia GeForce range and the ATI Radeon series. It enables the card to have bidirectional video transfer (input and output...
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Yet this craggy region, marked by extinct volcanoes and plunging hills, is one of Australia's highest altitude and coolest winegrowing zones, and to a certain type of winemaker and wine...
Orange is the most interesting Australia appellation that I've never heard of.
I'm sure I'm not alone in my lack of familiarity with the Orange appellation, but one winery in the region is aiming to make sure that doesn't last for long.