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Telecom startups

Companies in Telecom, with their founders — newest and most notable first.

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HuaweiPrivate 🦄 Unicorn

Telecom · People's Republic of China · 1987

True CorporationPrivate

Telecom · Thailand · 2023

Dhanin Chearavanont

AiraloPrivate

Telecom · Singapore · 2019

Abraham Burak, Ahmet Bahadır Özdemir, Duran Akcaylier

YesimPrivate

Telecom · Switzerland · 2019

Dmitri Verbovski, Max Pankratov

rainPrivate

Telecom · South Africa · 2016

Brandon Leigh, Henri Kivioja, Jarne Atsar, Jussi Mäki, Alex Bradford, Akbar Khan, Gilberto Tadeu Garcia, Fred Choquette, Farooq Malik, Charles Naut, Charles Yoo-Naut

Obi WorldphonePrivate

Telecom · United States · 2014

YU TeleventuresPrivate

Telecom · 2014

OnePlusPrivate

Telecom · People's Republic of China · 2013

Carl Pei, Pete Lau

KymetaPrivate

Telecom · United States · 2012

TelexfreePrivate

Telecom · United States · 2012

ZenoRadioPrivate

Telecom · 2012

Baruch Herzfeld

FreedomPopPrivate

Telecom · Mexico · 2011

Stephen Stokols, Steven Sesar

MessagebirdPrivate

Telecom · Netherlands · 2011

Robert Vis, Adriaan Mol

Rami Levy CommunicationsPrivate

Telecom · Israel · 2011

Golan TelecomPrivate

Telecom · Israel · 2010

Michaël Boukobza

NextDCPrivate

Telecom · Australia · 2010

Yes 4GPrivate

Telecom · Malaysia · 2010

MobilicityPrivate

Telecom · Canada · 2009

UcomPrivate

Telecom · Armenia · 2009

BanglalionPrivate

Telecom · 2008

First MediaPrivate

Telecom · Indonesia · 2007

James Riady, Peter F. Gontha

JioPrivate

Telecom · India · 2007

ModuPrivate

Telecom · Israel · 2007

O3b Networks, Ltd.Private

Telecom · Netherlands · 2007

Zayo GroupPrivate

Telecom · United States · 2007

Dan Caruso, John Scarano, Matt Erickson

Cisco MerakiPrivate

Telecom · United States · 2006

Sanjit Biswas, John Bicket, Hans Robertson

InfobipPrivate

Telecom · 2006

Silvio Kutic, Izabel Jelenic, Roberto Kutic

Lightwire LimitedPrivate

Telecom · 2006

Murray William Pearson

FonPrivate

Telecom · Spain · 2005

Martín Varsavsky

NavizonPrivate

Telecom · United States · 2005

Arista NetworksPublic

Telecom · USA · 2004

Andy Bechtolsheim, David Cheriton, Kenneth Duda, Ken Duda, Jayshree Ullal (CEO)

DigitAlbPrivate

Telecom · Albania · 2004

Reliance CommunicationsPrivate

Telecom · India · 2004

TelioPrivate

Telecom · Norway · 2003

Afghan WirelessPrivate

Telecom · Afghanistan · 2002

AlticePrivate

Telecom · Luxembourg · 2001

Boingo WirelessPrivate

Telecom · United States · 2001

DigicelPrivate

Telecom · 2001

IHS TowersPrivate

Telecom · 2001

Lebara GroupPrivate

Telecom · United Kingdom · 2001

Ratheesan Yoganathan, Rasiah Ranjith Leon, Baskaran Kandiah

PIPE NetworksPrivate

Telecom · Australia · 2001

Steve Baxter, Bevan Slattery

América MóvilPrivate

Telecom · Mexico · 2000

Boost MobilePrivate

Telecom · United States · 2000

InfineraPrivate

Telecom · United States · 2000

David Welch, Jagdeep Singh, Drew Perkins

MicromaxPrivate

Telecom · India · 2000

OpenwavePrivate

Telecom · United States · 2000

Spice DigitalPrivate

Telecom · 2000

AircelPrivate

Telecom · India · 1999

Chinnakannan Sivasankaran

Cogent CommunicationsPrivate

Telecom · 1999

David Schaeffer

Cyfrowy PolsatPrivate

Telecom · Poland · 1999

Zygmunt Solorz-Żak

DigiumPrivate

Telecom · United States · 1999

HKBN LimitedPrivate

Telecom · People's Republic of China · 1999

InwiPrivate

Telecom · Morocco · 1999

Virgin Mobile UKPrivate

Telecom · United Kingdom · 1999

Richard Branson

Global Telecom HoldingPrivate

Telecom · Netherlands · 1998

JazztelPrivate

Telecom · Spain · 1998

Martín Varsavsky

MascomPrivate

Telecom · Botswana · 1998

Strive Masiyiwa

GrameenphonePrivate

Telecom · Bangladesh · 1997

Robi AxiataPrivate

Telecom · Bangladesh · 1997

A. M. Zahiruddin Khan

@Home NetworkPrivate

Telecom · United States · 1996

William Randolph Hearst III