Though the Greek government's telecommunications monopoly might have come to a tragic end, Hellenic Telecommunications (OTE) is still the biggest player on its home stage. OTE has about 7 million fixed access lines in service and provides local, long-distance, and international telephone calling. It also offers broadband Internet services (through ISP OTEnet) to more than 800,000 residential and business customers. Other wired services include leased lines, data hosting, and wholesale telecom services. Subsidiary Cosmote provides wireless service to more than 6 million subscribers on its GSM-based network. OTE's international holdings include subsidiaries in Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia.

PAETEC Holding gets its paychecks from enterprise users of voice and data communication services. Operating through subsidiary PAETEC Communications, the company provides local and long-distance voice services, as well as broadband Internet services and electricity services to midsized and large businesses and institutions. PAETEC services are offered to end users and wholesale customers in 42 states from California to New Hampshire. The company also offers Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, enterprise telecommunications management software (Pinnacle), and it installs customer premise equipment. Chairman and CEO Arunas Chesonis founded the company in 1998.

Turkcell talks a lot of turkey. The dominant mobile phone operator in Turkey has more than 35 million subscribers, almost half the country's population. Turkcell operates a digital GSM (global system for mobile communications) network throughout Turkey for mobile voice and data services, while international coverage is offered through agreements with foreign providers. Turkcell has operations in six other countries across the Black Sea through equity stakes in subsidiaries. Founding investors include conglomerate Çukurova Group, Russian conglomerate Alfa Group, and Finnish telecom company TeliaSonera. A holding company controlled by Alfa and Çukurova owns 51% of Turkcell. TeliaSonera controls another 13%.

Founded more than a century ago, Consolidated Communications (NASDAQ:CNSL) is a family of companies providing advanced communications services to both residential and business customers in Illinois, Texas and Pennsylvania. Consolidated Communications offers a wide range of services over its technologically advanced IP-based network, including local and long distance telephone, Digital Phone, High-Speed Internet access and Digital TV. We have a continuing commitment to offer innovative products; reliable, high-quality services and exceptional customer care. We also are dedicated to maintaining strong local ties in the same communities where our employees live and work. Serving markets in three states, Consolidated Communications is the 13th largest independent local telephone company in the nation. Our related businesses complement our core telephone business and include directory publishing and advertising services, business systems, retail and wholesale operator services, call completion services and fully integrated telemarketing and fulfillment services.

North State Communications is the incumbent local-exchange carrier (ILEC) for a 600-square-mile service area in north central North Carolina, serving such communities as High Point, Thomasville, and Archdale. The company offers local and long-distance voice service, as well as dial-up and high-speed Internet access to residential and business customers. Other data services include Web and email hosting. It also sells wireless phone service through an arrangement with AT&T Mobility and satellite television through DirecTV under the Plex brand. The company additionally sells ads in and publishes the North State Yellow Pages directory. North State began operating in 1895 as the High Point Telephone Exchange.

Granite Telecommunications is one of the premier telecommunications solutions provider for businesses across the United States and Canada. With unparalleled North American coverage, Granite Telecommunications is the leading corporate phone service provider to multi-location companies through our scalable solutions, customized to manage all your local, regional and national locations.Through long- term commercial wholesale contracts, Granite Telecommunications offers dial-tone, infrastructure solutions and high speed broadband services to our customers at significant savings.

The family-owned company was founded in 1963 by Miller Pentecost, father of president Jim Pentecost. Power & Telephone Supply Company distributes telecommunications and cable television equipment to telephone companies and other network operators, as well as government agencies and commercial clients in such industries as health care, utilities, and transportation. The company, also known as Power & Tel, distributes products from such manufacturers as Blonder Tongue, CommScope, and Alcatel-Lucent to customers worldwide. Products include fiber optic supplies, broadband network equipment, and testing equipment. Its other services include cable cutting, materials management, and applications engineering.

Applanix has a simple mission - to be the industry leader in the development, manufacture, sales, and support of Mobile Mapping products and solutions. Our technology is specifically designed for commercial applications, including aerial survey and remote sensing, land-based mobile mapping, and marine survey operations – markets we helped pioneer. Applanix was founded in 1991 on defense and aerospace industry expertise. With global reach and innovative engineering excellence recognized worldwide, the company's Position and Orientation Systems (POS™) are now the industry-standard for airborne, land, and marine survey applications.Since 2003, Applanix has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB). Today, we focus on a range of products that provide dynamically accurate measurements of vehicle and sensor position and orientation. Applanix systems integrate precision GPS with advanced inertial technology to provide uninterrupted measurements of the position, roll, pitch and true heading of moving vehicles. By combining GPS and inertial technologies, Applanix offers a fully integrated, turnkey solution for high-productivity in-motion surveying, direct data georeferencing, and robust mobile mapping.

Birch Communications, over the past 13 years, has built a solid foundation for delivering great service with a very strong commitment to customer satisfaction. Birch Communications, headquartered in Atlanta, GA has customers in 32 states across the nation. Birch was the first in its class to deploy its own private IP network utilizing soft switch technology to deliver innovative, high quality, affordable communications services to small & medium business customers.

US Telecom sells, installs, and services new and refurbished business telephone systems made by the likes of Panasonic, Toshiba and NEC to businesses across the US. The company also offers videoconferencing products and it sells and installs structured cabling for voice and data communications. Its UST Dry Utilities division is a subcontractor for utility construction projects, including telecommunications infrastructure and street lights, in the Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan areas. US Telecom operates from four offices in California and one in Las Vegas. The company was founded in 1989.

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