Callers, clickers, and cable aficionados connect with Tele2. The pan-European telecommunications network operator provides fixed-line and mobile phone services, data transmission, and Internet access to nearly 30 million customers in 11 countries. Outside of Sweden, its top markets are Russia and the Netherlands, while nations in the Nordic, Baltic, and northern European regions round out Tele2's service area. Wireless services make up well over half of total sales. Other Tele2 units provide systems integration services (Datametrix) and cable television broadcasting (Kabelvision). Swedish investment group Investment AB Kinnevik owns 30% of the company and controls 48% of the voting rights.

Alcatel Egypt SAE company began operations in Egypt in 1986. Alcatel Egypt does the bidding of its parent, telecom equipment firm Alcatel-Lucent, in the Middle East and Africa. The company operates in nearly 70 countries from Afghanistan to Guinea selling hardware for voice, data, and video transmission to telecom carriers and ISPs. Major customers include Pakistan Telecommunications, Dubai Metro, Etisalat, Vodafone, Nile Online, Saudi Telecom, and Orascom. Alcatel Egypt supports both fixed line and mobile operators, running a dozen mobile networks in infrastructure-challenged locales like Yemen, Algeria, and Afghanistan. Its also offers voice, video, and data services directly to customers in Kuwait and Pakistan.

Cisco Systems Limited provides routers and switches used to direct computer network traffic. Its switch line includes equipment based on Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and ATM technologies. Cisco Systems Limited company also supplies remote access servers, IP telephony equipment, optical networking components, data storage network equipment, and network security products. A regional subsidiary of US-based Cisco Systems, Cisco Systems Limited company markets to telecom service providers, government agencies, healthcare providers, and large enterprises, as well as smaller businesses and consumers.

Rauland-Borg dates back to 1922; Rauland-Borg Corporation joined with Borg-Warner (now BorgWarner) in 1948 to become Rauland-Borg. Rauland-Borg Corporation company is owned by the founding Rauland family. Rauland-Borg helps open up communications, whether you're in the hospital, in prison, or in school. Rauland-Borg Corporation makes integrated communications systems, incorporating handsets, intercoms, software, and other elements. Rauland-Borg has three main product lines: Responder, for use by nurses and other staff in health care; Telecenter, for school buildings and school- district administration; and SecurePlex Systems, for correctional facilities. The Telecenter system allows users to stream video throughout a school from a central console.

Forget walkie talkies, PeopleNet Communications has a high- tech alternative for the North American transportation industry to keep on top of its fleet. It provides commercial vehicle management and telecommunication hardware that includes an onboard computer, GPS satellite tracker, message display, voice handset, engine diagnostics tool, and event recorder to track driver performance. This telematics system can be custom assembled depending on the type of fleet: private, tanker, truckload, less-than-truckload, and food distribution, among others. PeopleNet's services include custom reporting, project management, and user training. Customers include Groendyke Transport, Sherwin-Williams, and Tyson Foods.

Teleste is an international technology group founded in 1954, which is specialised in broadband video and data communication systems and services. The group is active in two business segments, Video and Broadband Solutions and Network Services; in both fields, the company is among the global leaders. Video is at the core of the company business activities, with a focus on the processing, transmission and management of video and data for operators and public authorities who provide multiple video-related information, entertainment and security services to end-users. Video and Broadband Solutions business segment has the emphasis on product solutions for broadband access networks, video service platforms and video surveillance applications. Network Services segment deliver comprehensive network service solutions including new construction, rebuilding, upgrading, planning and maintenance services of cable networks. In 2009 the group's net sales totalled EUR 142 million and the group employed 1260 persons at the year-end. The company has approximately 30 offices world-wide and over 90% of Teleste's net sales are generated outside Finland. The company is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd.

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.

CEO Jim Litton capitalized on a 30-year career in the senior management of numerous electronics firms to found NavCom Technology in 1992. Every move you make, every step you take, NavCom Technology could be watching you -- if you want it to. The Deere & Company subsidiary provides wireless and Global Positioning System (GPS) communications equipment. Its GPS technology is used for land, marine, and aeronautical uses. The company's equipment is used in surveying, construction, agriculture, and mining, among other uses. It also offers engineering consulting for precise positioning, wireless communications, and robotics, as well as the StarFire Network, a satellite-based system for precision positioning.

Wireless phones have usurped Hermes' role as messenger to the Greeks, and WIND Hellas Telecommunications may need to sprout winged sandals of its own to keep up with market leader Hellenic Telecommunications (OTE). WIND Hellas provides mobile voice and data services to about 6 million consumer and business customers throughout Greece. The company enables international roaming in 155 countries for travelling subscribers through agreements with other carriers. It also provides cellular and satellite-based vehicle management and tracking services. WIND Hellas is owned by investment firm Weather Investments, a company led by Cairo-based Orascom Telecom's founder and chairman, Naguib Sawiris.

If listening in on a call serviced by Orange Switzerland, you are likely to hear a conversation in French, German, or Italian. Officially known as Orange Communications SA, the subsidiary of Paris-based Orange SA provides a variety of wireless telecommunications services to business and consumer customers in trilingual Switzerland. In addition to voice service, the company offers mobile messaging services, including email, Internet, and text-messaging. Parent company Orange is the leading mobile provider in France serving more than 110 million callers. The company agreed to merge with rival Sunrise Communications in 2009, but the deal was was blocked by the Swiss Competition Commission in 2010.

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