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'''OTE''' ({{nyse|OTE}}) is the national [[telecom]] provider of [[Greece]]. |
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Revision as of 21:24, 20 November 2005
OTE (NYSE: OTE) is the national telecom provider of Greece.
Standing for Hellenic Telecommunication Organization (Οργανισμός Τηλεπικοινωνιών Ελλάδος), OTE is the incumbent telecommunications operator of Greece. Up to 1998, the telecommunications market in Greece was a monopoly. The market was opened to competitors and OTE was gradually privatized. As a result, the Greek government currently holds under 50% of the company's stock. Along with the rest of the telecomms market, OTE is regulated by the National Telecommunications and Post Commision (Εθνική Επιτροπή Τηλεπικοινωνιών και Ταχυδρομείων - EETT).
The company covers the whole country with digital PSTN and ISDN telephone lines and also offers ADSL in all urban areas. OTE is a group of companies owning, besides the OTE fixed-line company, an ISP (Otenet), a mobile phone company (Cosmote) and many other companies including OTE International Investments which in its turn owns lots of telcos in Armenia and in Southeastern Europe (Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, etc.). OTE also runs a TETRA network.
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Greece, as of July, 2005, holds the record as the country with the most expensive fees in Europe on both its aDSL and POTS services.
OTE and COSMOTE (the mobile phone company of OTE) sponsor of the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
Area codes can be seen at List of dialing codes in Greece