Far EasTone Telecommunications knows wireless communications no longer means keeping an ear to the ground. It offers traditional wireless phone services accessed using a SIM card -- a plastic card embedded with a chip that is inserted into a handset. It offers both post-paid (E-Tone) and pre- paid (IF Card) services to customers in Taiwan. Far EasTone, which also provides Internet services through FETnet.net, is combining its the two to offer mobile content including entertainment, financial, messaging, and information services.

VendTek offers a fresh take on prepaid. The company's eFresh software lets retail customers purchase prepaid wireless and long-distance phone service and reloadable debit cards through point-of-sale terminals and self-serve vending machines. Its software uses voucher or PIN numbers in place of the card, reducing the need for inventory in the retail store. Its Now Prepay division uses eFresh software to sell prepaid phone service through retail partners. VendTek sells to retailers, distributors, and service providers, focusing on the telecom and financial services markets. Customers have included Bank of America, Canada Post, Qwest, and Visa International. Privinvest Holding owns nearly one-quarter of the company.

Axesstel can soup up that old phone on your desk. Axesstel designs and manufactures fixed wireless voice and broadband data systems that link stationary office phones to the communications network via cellular connections. Axesstel's products include fixed wireless telephones, transmission terminals, and wireless modems. Axesstel mostly sells its products to telecommunications companies in developing countries that then resell the products to consumers. Axesstel has shifted its engineering and design operations to China in an effort to reduce operating expenses.

Plantronics, Inc. introduced the first lightweight communications headset in 1962 and is today the world's leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of lightweight communications headset products. Plantronics headsets are widely used in many Fortune 500 corporations and have been featured in numerous films and high profile events, including the historic "One small step for man" transmission from the moon in 1969. Plantronics offers mobile headsets to address the cordless and mobile phone market, next-generation computer audio headset products for computer applications and corded and cordless headsets and systems for the office, small office/home office and contact centers. Plantronics is a publicly held company (NYSE: PLT) headquartered in Santa Cruz, California with offices in 20 countries, including major facilities in Mexico, Tennessee, England and The Netherlands. Plantronics products are sold and supported through a worldwide network of authorized Plantronics partners, and are available through retail and consumer electronics stores.

WILLCOM provides wireless data and voice services to corporate and consumer customers in Japan. The company launched its service in 1995 and is the largest operator employing Personal Handyphone System (PHS) technology. PHS is a kind of stripped-down cellular service with relatively low charges; the technology was developed in Japan and most of its users live in Japan and China. A former subsidiary of KDDI, WILLCOM provides mobile service nationwide in Japan, serving more than 4 million subscribers. The Carlyle Group owns 60% of WILLCOM; Kyocera holds 30% and KDDI 10%. Burdened with debt of more than $2 billion, WILLCOM filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors in 2010.

Funkwerk is getting its groove on the move.Funkwerk company makes mobile communications products used in transportation and logistics applications. Its Traffic & Control Communication segment makes wireless terminals, logistics management systems, and video monitors used in airports and train stations to provide information and security to passengers. Its Automotive Communication unit makes products for use in vehicles, including hands-free kits, amplifiers, and the KomBox -- an integrated communications platform that provides automobiles with fax and Internet access. Funkwerk's Enterprise Communication unit makes paging and messaging systems for companies and institutions such as hospitals and prisons.

Expedite Video Conferencing Services, a worldwide voice and video solution provider, specializes in providing a broad range of products and services of the highest quality and security to its customers. Since 1996, Expedite has successfully designed and delivered custom and standard voice and video conferencing solutions to federal, state and local government agencies, as well as private and corporate accounts ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies in a diverse range of market verticals all over the world.Expedite's award-winning solutions have been implemented worldwide in the vertical markets of distance learning, government, corporate, telejustice, telemedicine, and others. Expedite's years of experience and commitment to its customers in these verticals is unmatched in the industry. Expedite also provides a suite of managed services to meet all the voice and video needs of its broad array of loyal customers. Expedite offers easy accessibility webcasting solutions in which any meeting can be broadcast live or archived over the internet.

Asante has offices in Taiwan and the US; UIC has sales offices around the world. Asante distributes its products through UIC's distribution network, as well as through agreements with resellers and systems integrators including SED International, Synnex, and Newegg. UIC bought Asante in 2008. Asante supplies wired and wireless computer network hubs, adapters, and Ethernet switches for customers in the consumer, education, enterprise, and government markets. Its products are sold worldwide under two main brands: FriendlyNet (small office, home, and education markets) and IntraCore (enterprise customers and ISP's). Asante company is a communications division of Taipei-based electronics manufacturer UIC Corporation.

Cambridge Broadband aims to transmit its broadband access equipment from Cambridge to the world. Cambridge Broadband company makes wireless broadband transmission gear used in telecom base stations and customer premises equipment. It also offers related software, which allows wireless operators to manage their networks. Cambridge Broadband sells its wares under the VectaStar brand name. High-tech veterans Peter Wharton (CEO) and John Porter (CTO) co- founded the company at the beginning of 2000. Cambridge Broadband's investors include Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, and TVM Capital.

Talk is cheap but doesn't go far without a phone, especially in one of the world's largest continents. That's where Vodacom Group comes in. Through its various subsidiaries, the company provides contract and prepaid cellular phone services to more than 34 million customers in southern African countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Lesotho, Tanzania, and Mozambique. The company primarily targets businesses and corporations for its contract services; however, a majority of Vodacom Group's customers use its prepaid services. About two-thirds of the company's shares are owned by UK-based Vodafone Group.

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