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Maritime Telephone and Telegraph Company - Maritime Telephone and Telegraph Company (MT&T) was founded around 1910 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and operated as such until 1998 when it merged with Island Telecom (parent of IslandTel), Bruncor (parent of NBTel), and NewTel Enterprises (parent of NewTel Communications) to form Aliant.

Warid Telecom - Warid Telecom is an Abu Dhabi based enterprise, backed by the most powerful financers in the corporate world. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority ("PTA"), as part of the government's initiative to improve national telecom services and to bring in foreign investment and expertise in the telecommunication sector, awarded one of the two new cellular licenses to Warid Telecom (Pvt) Limited owned by the Abu Dhabi Consortium of UAE.

Wataniya Telecom Maldives - Wataniya Telecom Maldives (also refered to as Wataniya Maldives), a sister company of Wataniya Telecom International, is the second mobile operator in the Maldives. Currently they are providing GSM services to Malé and nearby islands, with other value-added services.

Telecom Italia Mobile - TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile) is Telecom Italia's mobile phone subsidiary, and runs a GSM network in Italy (with a nearly 99% coverage), as well as in Greece, Turkey, Brazil and Bolivia.

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