Gooch & Housego (G&H) manufactures precision optical components. The company's products are designed primarily for use in light measurement instrumentation and crystal manufacturing. It was founded in 1948 to make precision glass and crystalline materials; it still makes precision optics, such as coatings, lenses, prisms, and mirrors. G&H also offers acousto-optic devices, such as frequency shifters, tunable filters, fiber-coupled modulators, and standard and custom Q-switches. In 2007 G&H acquired SIFAM Fibre Optics for £5 million. The next year it bought the assets and business of General Optics from GSI Group for $21 million. Gooch & Housego PLC company does much of its business in North America.

AmeriVision Communications, which does business as Affinity4, resells discounted wireless telephone services along with long-distance and Internet access services.AmeriVision Communications is also a DIRECTV dealer. Other goods and services sold by AmeriVision include private-label Visa cards, prepaid calling cards, and Internet service. AmeriVision Communications courts charitable-minded customers by donating a designated portion of eligible revenues to non-profit Christian and conservative organizations. Recipients of AmeriVision/LifeLine's largesse have included Promise Keepers, Gun Owners of America, the Republican Victory Fund, and Operation Rescue.

China Mobile Communications is a wireless winner. With more than 450 million customers, it is the largest wireless network operator in the world in terms of subscribers (ahead of China Unicom at home and surpassing UK-based wireless giant Vodafone Group on the global stage). China Mobile Communications operates primarily through its publicly- listed operating subsidiary China Mobile Limited which provides wireless services under the GoTone and M-Zone brands in 31 regions of mainland China. In addition to mobile voice and data services in China, it offers international roaming access through agreements with network operators worldwide. The company is controlled by China's Ministry of Information Industry.

Nortel Inversora S.A., through its subsidiary, Telecom Argentina S.A., provides telecommunication services in Argentina and Paraguay. It offers voice, data, and Internet services that include local area, national long-distance, and international communications; supplementary services comprising call waiting, itemized invoicing, and voicemail; interconnection with other operators; data transmission consisting of private networks, point-to-point traffic, radio, and TV signal transmission; outsourcing of IT solutions; and Internet services. The company also provides wireless services, including high-speed wireless, videoconferencing, full track download, multimedia messaging, online streaming, corporate mailing, and BlackBerry solutions over various networks; and involves in the sale of wireless communication devices, such as cellular phones, 3G modems, 3G hotspots, wireless Internet, and netbooks. Nortel Inversora S.A. was founded in 1990 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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.

Alvarion wants to blow away the broadband competition.Alvarion company specializes in equipment based on the WiMAX wireless standard. Telecommunications carriers, ISPs, private network operators, and other communications service providers use its BreezeMAX products to build high- speed broadband networks. In addition to its WiMAX-based products, the company sells wireless local network (BreezeNET) and point-to-multipoint (BreezeACCESS) products based on OFDM technology. Its AlvariSTAR network software manages WiMAX and non-WiMAX networks. Alvarion sells primarily through distribution channels to customers in more than 150 countries.

Terabit hopes to build a better router (or at least cobble a better one together).Terabit company, which is conducting research and development for the US Department of Defense (through DARPA), is developing a commercial products it calls "metarouters" that combine off-the-shelf network data routers into larger systems using its proprietary network switches and software. Based on an IP standard, metarouters provide the architecture for a scalable network that handles integrated data, voice, and video without requiring specialized hardware.

Verizon West Virginia provides telecommunications services for residents in the "Wild and Wonderful" state. Verizon West Virginia is an operating unit of New York City-based incumbent carrier Verizon Communications. Verizon Communications is a leading telecom services provider in the US with services in 29 states and Washington, DC providing local exchange access, long-distance, Internet services, data services and systems integration, customer premises equipment (CPE), billing and collections, and inventory management services. Verizon Wireless , the company's joint venture with Vodafone Group, is the #2 US wireless provider.

The fabless apple doesn't fall far from the wireless tree. Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), founded as a division of QUALCOMM in 1995, designs integrated circuits (ICs) and software for wireless communications equipment based on the CDMA standard. QCT products go into mobile phones, navigation devices, notebook computers, and other consumer electronics. QUALCOMM pioneered the use of CDMA in commercial wireless applications and is the leading supplier of CDMA chipsets. Its products include baseband, radio- frequency, and power amplification chips. QCT is the largest segment of QUALCOMM, accounting for about 60% of sales.

The Newton Group, which operates as Strategic Products and Services (SPS), provides voice, data, and video networking services, including network design and installation, training, and technical support. Serving customers ranging from small businesses to multinational corporations, it integrates technology from Avaya, Cisco Systems, Extreme Networks, Juniper Networks, and Microsoft. In addition to design and installation, SPS provides phone, Internet, and other data services through partnerships with such carriers as AT&T. Established in 1988, the company has offices throughout New England and the Midwest, as well as the Mid- Atlantic and South Atlantic states.

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