Meteor Mobile Communications was established in 2001 having been awarded Ireland's 3rd mobile licence. Meteor Mobile Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of eircom Group plc. As an Irish mobile communications provider, Meteor aims to bring real competition, and its benefits, to the Irish mobile market. Meteor has enjoyed unprecedented growth in recent years and now has 972,000 customers and over 18% market share (January 08).
eircom is the leading provider of fixed-line telecommunications services in Ireland and has a 69% revenue market share of the Irish fixed-line market.* As the incumbent fixed-line telecommunications provider, eircom has the most extensive fixed-line telecommunications network in Ireland in terms of both capacity and geographic reach. The company has over 1.2 million customers and provides a comprehensive range of advanced voice, data and internet services to the residential, business and enterprise markets.
Wind or Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA was established in 1997 and is an Italian telecom operator which offers integrated fixed, mobile and Internet services.
Between 1999, the year it was established in Milan, FASTWEB invested over € 3,6 billion in a new-generation fiber network spanning more than 26,000 km. and covering 50% of the Italian population. Today, TLC operators all over the world are promising NGNs, the super-fast next-generation networks integrating voice, data, video and advanced services. At FASTWEB, the NGN is already a reality: by implementing the IP protocol on its alternative fiber network, FASTWEB provides a triple play offer of voice, data/Internet and video services, available simultaneously on a single connection, for residential and business clients.
Shareholder with 100% - Orange SA/France Telecom has extensive international experience in the rapid establishment of new high performance GSM 1800 communications networks. The company history is a famous case of successful pioneering. Orange has set up one of the two largest GSM 1800 networks in the world and its operation in the UK. is, with over 11 million customers, the world's most successful GSM 1800 network.
COSMOFON is a company owned 100% by the OTE Group, the leading telecommunications group in Greece and the largest integrated telecommunications operator in Southeastern Europe. The vision of OTE is to rank among the top telecommunications companies in Europe. COSMOFON is a company managed by COSMOTE, leading mobile operator in Greece with the fastest growth in Europe. Cosmote commenced its work in 1998 and has significantly influenced the telecommunications market in Greece.
Interdnestrcom is a Transnistrian telephone company providing mobile communication services for the unrecognised state of Transnistria in Moldova. It was established in 1998. As well as providing mobile phone services, they also provide dial-up and ISDN internet access.
Unité is a mobile network operator in Moldova. Working in CDMA standart, 450 Mhz frequency. Began its activity on the 1 March 2007. Number of customers - 6 500 (on April 1 2007). Moldtelecom is 100% shareholder of the operator.
Mtel is a telecommunications company in Montenegro. It is a 51-49% joint venture between Telekom Srbija and Ogalar BV (Dutch-based company controlled by Delta Holding). On 9 May 2007, the company obtained a licence to become the third mobile operator in Montenegro, along with a license for GSM and UMTS technologies. The company officially launched its business on 9 July 2007 using the 068 dialing prefix.
T-Mobile Netherlands has a turnover of 1.318 billion Euros in 2007. Since the first of October 2007 the mobile and internet activities of Orange Netherlands are a part of T-Mobile Netherlands. Together Orange and T-Mobile serve 4.9 million customers in The Netherlands. T-Mobile offers products and services for the consumer market as well as for business users. In the Netherlands T-Mobile owns a state of the art mobile network for voice and data services as well as a fast growing number of HotSpot locations where users have access to a high speed mobile internet connection.
