Telefónica O2 Europe is a European telecommunications company delivering both fixed and mobile communication products, usually under the styled brand O2. The company has its origins in a combination of a European subset of a collection of worldwide mobile operator interests known in the latter half of the 1990s as BT Wireless within BT Group plc and an operator-independent global mobile data business then known as Genie Internet, which was also a subsidiary of BT Group.
E-Plus is a mobile telecommunications operator in Germany. With 15.0 million subscribers as of 2007, E-Plus is the third largest mobile operator in Germany, after T-Mobile (30.7 million subscribers) and Vodafone (30.4 million subscribers).
Vodafone Group is a mobile network operator headquartered in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. It is the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world by turnover and has a market value of about £100 billion (December 2007). Vodafone currently has equity interests in 25 countries and Partner Networks (networks in which it has no equity stake) in a further 39 countries. The name Vodafone comes from Voice data fone, chosen by the company to "reflect the provision of voice and data services over mobile phones.
In Germany, its home market, T-Mobile is the largest mobile phone operator with almost 36 million subscribers (as of January 2008), closely followed by its primary rival, Vodafone. The highly profitable GSM network in Germany is scheduled to be supplemented and ultimately replaced by UMTS, for which T-Mobile spent €8.2 billion in August 2000 to acquire one of the six licenses for Germany.
The Bouygues Télécom is a French mobile phone company, part of the Bouygues group. In 2005 along with SFR and Orange SA, Bouygues Télécom was found by the Conseil de la Concurrence (the French competition body) to have acted against the best interests of consumers and the economy by sharing confidential information between 1997 and 2003. The 3 companies were collectively fined 535 million Euros in total. In November 2007 Bouygues Télécom went to court seeking cancellation of this decision.
SFR is a French mobile phone company. It has 17 million clients, including (as of January 2007) over 2 million using 3G (specifically UMTS) technology.
Orange is the brand used by France Télécom for its mobile network operator and Internet service provider subsidiaries. Orange also belongs to the FreeMove mobile phone alliance. Orange is now the unique commercial façade of almost all France Télécom services.
DNA Oy is a Finnish on telecommunications company. It was born in 2007 after a merger. DNA offers cellular phone services, ADSL, cable television and regular telephone service.
TeliaSonera has declared that it will dismantle its countryside landline networks. However, Finland’s minister of communications, Suvi Lindén, has demanded that TeliaSonera first commit to a list of conditions pertaining to, among others, emergency calls and broadband speed.
debitel AG, is one of the largest mobile services provider in Europe, offering a wide range of telecommunication products – mobile and fixed-line telephony as well internet services. In Germany, debitel's largest market, the business has a 47% market share of the mobile service provider market and 12.4% of the overall mobile telephone market as of 2004. The company has over 10.2 million customers of which 8.3 million are resident in Germany. It also has subsidiaries in The Netherlands, Denmark, France and Slovenia and achieved revenues of around €3.0 billion in 2003.
