Telecommunications in Gabon include radio,television,fixed and mobile telephones,and the Internet.
Posts and telecommunications have long played an essential role in Lebanon,a small country with an expansive diaspora,a vivid media landscape,and an economy geared toward trade and banking. The sector's history has nonetheless been chaotic,marked by conflict but also,and perhaps most importantly,a deeply rooted legacy of state control,weak competition,and intense politicization. A combination of poor services and high prices culminated in popular protests against the government's attempt,in October 2019,to tax the widely used messaging service WhatsApp. The anger this measure triggered captured a more general sense of dissatisfaction,and contributed to tipping the country into a protracted crisis. Civil unrest coincided with Lebanon's default on its ballooning debt;in the ensuing economic collapse,telecommunications have been among the infrastructure most affected.
Telecommunications in Mongolia face unique challenges. As the least densely populated country in the world,with a significant portion of the population living a nomadic lifestyle,it has been difficult for many traditional information and communication technology (ICT) companies to make headway into Mongolian society. With almost half the population clustered in the capital of Ulaanbaatar,most landline technologies are deployed there. Wireless technologies have had greater success in rural areas.
Nepal's telecommunication network has increased over the years significantly,with the number of telephone users reaching 40,789,198 subscribers as of 14 May 2019.
Telecommunications in Sri Lanka commenced in 1858 after the first telegraphic circuit between Colombo and Galle was commenced. The sector continues to grow in the modern times.
Telecommunications in Iceland is a diversified market.
The liberalization of Bangladesh's telecommunications sector began with small steps in 1989 with the issuance of a license to a private operator for the provision of inter alia cellular mobile services to compete with Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB),the previous monopoly provider of telecommunications services within Bangladesh. Significant changes in the number of fixed and mobile services deployed in Bangladesh occurred in the late 1990s and the number of services in operation has subsequently grown exponentially in the past five years.
The Free Patriotic Movement is a Lebanese political party. Founded by Michel Aoun in 1994,the party is currently led by Aoun's son-in-law Gebran Bassil since 2015.
Ncell Axiata Limited is a mobile service provider from Nepal. Ncell is Nepal's first largest company in terms of revenue market share and second largest telecommunications company,after Nepal Telecom in terms of subscriber base. The company was founded in 2004.
Sri Lanka Telecom PLC,doing business as SLT-MOBITEL,is the national telecommunications services provider in Sri Lanka and one of the country's largest companies with an annual turnover in excess of Rs 40 billion. The company provides domestic and corporate services which include fixed and wireless telephony,Internet access and IT services to domestic,public and business sector customers. As of 2018 SLT-MOBITEL was Sri Lanka's second largest mobile network operator with over 7.9 million subscribers.
Rostelecom (Ростелеком) is Russia’s largest provider of digital services for a wide variety of consumers,households,private businesses,government and municipal authorities,and other telecom providers. Rostelecom interconnects all local public operators’networks into a single national network for long-distance service. In other words,if one makes a long-distance call or originates Internet contact to or from Russia,it is likely that Rostelecom is providing part of the service. The company's stock trades primarily on the Moscow Exchange.
The Internet in South Africa,one of the most technologically resourced countries on the African continent,is expanding. The internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .za is managed and regulated by the .za Domain Name Authority (.ZADNA) and was granted to South Africa by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 1990. Over 60% of Internet traffic generated on the African continent originates from South Africa. As of 2020,41.5 million people were Internet users.
Since its beginnings in 1995,the Internet in Malaysia has become the main platform for free discussion in the country's otherwise tightly controlled media environment. As of Q1 2017,Malaysia had broadband penetration rates of 103.6% and 81.8%.
Internet in Moldova is one of the fastest and least expensive in the world. The country ranks 3rd in the world by gigabit coverage with around 90% of the population having the option to subscribe to a gigabit plan. The overall infrastructure is well developed which allows many users to experience good quality services throughout the country. However,despite high speeds and cheap prices,the penetration level is quite low when compared with many EU or CIS countries. In 2018,49% of Moldovan households had broadband access. In 2015,there were 80 registered Internet Service Provider's (ISP's) in the country,with the majority being local or regional with only a few offering their services throughout the country. Moldtelecom and StarNet are the country's leading providers sharing around 88% of the market. The remaining 12% are shared between other ISPS,like SunCommunications,Arax Communications and others. Almost all ISPs that offer their services across the country have their headquarters located in the capital-city of Chişinău.
Internet in Afghanistan is available in all of its 34 provinces,and is used by over 9 million people as of 2022. The internet officially became available in 2002 during the presidency of Hamid Karzai. Prior to that year,it was prohibited because the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan believed that it may be used to broadcast obscene,immoral and anti-Islamic material,and because the few internet users at the time could not be easily monitored as they obtained their telephone lines from neighboring Pakistan.
Like many developed and developing countries,the Internet in Bangladesh has witnessed significant growth. Although facing many constraints in expanding Internet access and use,development of the Internet and Information Technology are high government priorities. In March,2021 Internet users in Bangladesh increased to 116 million. On 19 February 2018,Bangladesh started the 4G network service.
MagtiCom,Ltd was founded on February 12,1996 by Dr. George (Gia) Jokhtaberidze. On September 22,1997 the Company made the first commercial call from its mobile network. The services offered by MagtiCom involve as follows:mobile telephony;mobile internet;Cable fixed telephony (VoIP);internet television (IPTV) and fiber-optic internet. Since 2016 MagtiCom started to provide IPTV,VoIP and fiber-optic internet.
3G mobile telephony was relatively slow to be adopted globally. In some instances,3G networks do not use the same radio frequencies as 2G so mobile operators must build entirely new networks and license entirely new frequencies,especially so to achieve high data transmission rates. Other delays were due to the expenses of upgrading transmission hardware,especially for UMTS,whose deployment required the replacement of most broadcast towers. Due to these issues and difficulties with deployment,many carriers delayed acquisition of these updated capabilities.
Ralph Yirikian is an Armenian businessman who is the current CEO of Ucom,and was formerly the CEO of VivaCell-MTS,a 2005 startup company which became Armenia's leading telecommunications operator and one of the top taxpayers. As reported,he left the company in 2022 to concentrate in his own business. The factual reasons behind this move is not reported.
Airtel India commonly known as Airtel,is the second largest provider of mobile telephony and third largest provider of fixed telephony in India,and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services. The brand is operated by several subsidiaries of Bharti Airtel,with Bharti Hexacom and Bharti Telemedia providing broadband fixed line services and Bharti Infratel providing telecom passive infrastructure service such as telecom equipment and telecom towers. Currently,Airtel provides 5G,4G and 4G+ services all over India. Currently offered services include fixed-line broadband,and voice services depending upon the country of operation. Airtel had also rolled out its VoLTE technology across all Indian telecom circles.
