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4 unusual facts about Telecom


Institut Mines-Télécom

The group of telecommunications schools was established in the form of an Établissement public à caractère administratif (public establishment of an administrative nature), for the purpose of managing the three schools: the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications; the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne and the Institut national des télécommunications.

Télécom ParisTech in Paris and Sophia Antipolis (ex École nationale supérieure des télécommunications, Télécom Paris, or ENST)

Ric Salizzo

Salizzo brought Sportscafe back in 2008 for a return season, and again in 2011 for a series of live-streamed, online-only episodes in partnership with Telecom.

SAMENA Telecommunications Council

The Council’s membership comprises around 100 leading regional and international organizations, including Nokia Siemens Networks, Turk Telekom, Saudi Telecom, Etisalat, Qualcomm, Telecom Regulatory Commission (TRC) of Jordan, among others.


1998 abduction of foreign engineers in Chechnya

The four men had been working for Granger Telecom, a British telecommunication company which had won a £183m contract for the separatist government-run company Chechentelekom to install telephone lines, satellite links and a mobile phone system throughout the war-ravaged republic; the work was suspended after the four men were kidnapped.

Adeel Hussain

His first work as a director was a car commercial in 2008 for the HBL ‘Car to Car’ campaign and an unreleased brand entertainment project for the Telecom sector by the name of ‘Mera Mobile’ which he created and directed.

Anatella

Anatella is currently mainly used by telecom companies (MTN Group, Millicom, VOO, etc.) to create large datasets for predictive analytics (e.g. 85,000,000 rows/customer datasets with 2500 columns starting from 35TB raw text files).

Awudu Issaka

In July 2006 Issaka, joined the newly promoted Ghana Telecom Premier League club Tema Youth.

Being Digital

Negroponte called this "trading places," but his co-presenter George Gilder at an event organized by Northern Telecom called it the "Negroponte Switch" and the name stuck.

Centre for Excellence in Telecom Technology and Management

Centre for Excellence in Telecom Technology and Management (CETTM) located in Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, Mumbai is the telecom training centre of MTNL, the incumbent operator of Government of India (GOI).

Consequently in the year 2003, MTNL established the Centre for Excellence in Telecom Training and Management (CETTM), with capex plan of over Rs 100 crore, at Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, Mumbai, replacing the existing RTTC's and DTTC's.

In Mumbai circle the DTTC at Bandra and RTTC at Sakinaka served the telecom training needs initially.

Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom also holds substantial shares in other telecom companies, including Central European subsidiaries Slovak Telekom (Slovakia), Magyar Telekom (Hungary), and T-Hrvatski Telekom (Croatia), which are now fully consolidated into T-Com/T-Home.

Embarq

That same year United Telecom changed its name to Sprint due in large part to the increased brand recognition of Sprint, as a result of the successful Candice Bergen "Dime Lady" advertisement campaign.

Globe Telecom

Kickstart Ventures is a early-stage seed fund, wholly owned subsidiary of major telecommunications firm Globe Telecom, backed by SingTel and the Ayala Corporation.

Harry Heine

Painting commissions include the Canada I Society (America’s Cup), Telecom Canada, H.M.C.S. Malahat, the Government of B.C. and Beautiful British Columbia Magazine.

Hush-A-Phone v. United States

It and the related Carterfone decision were seen as precursors to the entry of MCI Communications and the development of more pervasive telecom competition.

Indian Telecom Spectrum Auction

Three of the eleven blocks, in each circle, were reserved or new telecom players for operators whose licences were cancelled by the Supreme Court on 2 February 2012, following the 2G spectrum scam.

Indus Towers

Vodafone Group offers telecom services in India under the brand name "Vodafone", Bharti Group under the brand name "Airtel" and Aditya Birla Group offers its services under brand name "Idea".

Infinite Computer Solutions

Infinite offers consulting and information technology services to companies in the BFSI, Telecom, Media & Content, Energy & Utilities, and Healthcare fields.

Jamie Byng

He is the second son of the 8th Earl of Strafford and Jennifer May, brother to the author Lady Georgia Byng, and through his stepfather, Sir Christopher Bland, the former Chairman of the BBC, British Telecom and Royal Shakespeare Company, he is the half-brother of print journalist and now Deputy Editor of The Independent newspaper, Archie Bland.

League of Legends

In October 2013, Korean team "SK Telecom T1" and Chinese team "Royal Club" competed at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Mobile banking

In Somalia, the many telecom companies provide mobile banking, the most prominent being Hormuud Telecom and its ZAAD service.

MobME

MobME serves an array of telecom operators by powering and managing SMSC, USSD, IVR and Outbound Dialler (OBD) services.

Modesto Agosto Alicea

Agosto worked as Senior Project Engineer for Telecom Engineering Consultants and Bemac Technical Services during the 70s and 80s.

Negroponte switch

Negroponte called this "trading places," but his co-presenter (George Gilder), at an event organised by Northern Telecom called it the "Negroponte Switch" and that name stuck.

New Zealand Post Office

Telecom was sold to two United States Baby Bells, and PostBank was sold to the Pacific banking conglomerate Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, ANZ.

Nitel

An RPG Group company based in Bhopal State in India, working in telecom infrastructure

Onafhankelijke Post en Telecommunicatie Autoriteit

Headquartered in The Hague it was created to ensure competitiveness in the newly opened Dutch market for telephony and other telecom activities.

OpenCloud

OpenCloud implements these standards in its telecom service layer products to provide products that bridge the SS7 circuit-switched and IP packet-switched telecom networks.

Piramal Foundation

Over the last four years of its existence, Source for Change has worked with clients such as India's leading education NGO Pratham, India's largest private corporate group (with their Telecom arm), and leading universities in the US in a wide array of services.

Quack.com

Quack.com was spoofed in The Simpsons in March, 2002 in the episode Blame It on Lisa in which a "ComQuaak" sign is replaced by another equally crazy telecom company name.

Ramadan T20 Cup

The Ramadan T20 Cup (also known as Advance Telecom Ramadan T20 Cup) is a professional Twenty20 cricket league held in holy month of Ramadan, in Pakistan.

Seongnam

Bundang-gu is now home to prominent companies such as KT (formerly Korea Telecom), Korea Gas Corporation, KEPCO, and Korea Land Corporation.

Short Message Service

The material elaborated in GSM and its WP1 subgroup was handed over in Spring 1987 to a new GSM body called IDEG (the Implementation of Data and Telematic Services Experts Group), which had its kickoff in May 1987 under the chairmanship of Friedhelm Hillebrand (German Telecom).

Silicon Institute of Technology

Sabyasachi Mishra, popular film star, completed his B Tech in Electronics & Telecom from silicon institute of technology.

SK Broadband

In February 2008, Hanaro Telecom was acquired by local wireless giant SK Telecom.

Stewart Island / Rakiura

Oban has a fully functional phone and broadband (ADSL), but cellphone coverage is limited to Telecom's XT/3G network and all these services rely upon a radio link to Bluff, so broadband speeds are limited.

Telco cable

A telco cable, also known as a Telecom cable or Amphenol cable, is a thick cable used for connecting multiple voice or data lines for LANs or telecommunications.

TeleCAD-GIS

By definition, OSP represents all telecom equipment and services related to the network installation from the exchange Main Distribution Frame (MDF) or Optical Distribution Frame (ODF) to the subscriber premises (or to other MDF/ODF).

Telecom Application Map

The Application Framework is not a part of either the SID or the eTOM definitions but links to both in an easily understandable way and also provide a mapping between the telecom application map eTOM and SID.

Telecom Center Station

It is named after the adjacent Telecom Center building, which was previously the headquarters for Tokyo Metropolitan Television (Tokyo MX).

Telecom Lesotho

In 2007 Telecom Lesotho and Econet Lesotho merged to form Econet Telecom Lesotho The company publishes an online telephone directory and operates a Web portal in partnership with AC Braby.

Teledata Networks

The company had an installed base of millions of lines in over 100 countries worldwide, including Germany (Deutsche Telekom), Turkey (Turk Telekom), Brazil (Brazil Telecom, Telefonica & Global Village Telecom), Chile (Telefonica), Mexico (Telmex), Costa Rica (ICE), Israel (Bezeq), South Africa (Telkom), Australia (Telstra), Russia (Uralsviazinform & North West Telecom), Serbia (Telekom Srbija, Telenor) and Kazakhstan (KazakhTelecom).

Teligent Telecom

Teligent Telecom is a company based in Nynäshamn Sweden, which produces and markets Value Added Services for Telecommunication operators, such as Voicemail, Mobile Office, IN services, IMS Service Brokers and Real-time Charging Gateways.

Terry Matthews

After an apprenticeship at British Telecom's research lab at Martlesham Heath, Matthews left Britain and joined MicroSystems International, a chipmaking operation affiliated with Northern Telecom (which became Nortel Networks) in Ottawa, Canada.

Yahoo!Xtra

In December 2006, Telecom made a new agreement, founding a joint venture with Australia's Yahoo!7 – itself a joint company between the Seven Network and Yahoo! – to form Yahoo!Xtra.

Zamil Industrial

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