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Skype, a VoIP company based in Luxembourg, has released a Java-based application for mobile phones to users in selected markets, namely Estonia, Finland, Poland, Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Denmark, Sweden and the UK. It includes features such as Skype-to-Skype and SkypeOut calls.
Uzbek State Committee for Demonopolisation, Supporting Competition and Entrepreneurship (antimonopoly committee) fined two mobile operators last week, the Uzbek-Scandinavian Coscom joint venture was fined for about USD 1,108 for violating the law on advertising, and the Uzbek-US Rubicon Wireless Communications, which offers CDMA services under the Perfectum Mobile brand, for USD 1,582.
Kazakhstan’s largest cellco by subscribers GSM Kazakhstan (GSM-K) says it plans to invest USD 264 million this year, up from USD 223 million in 2007, as it pushes ahead with the expansion of its network.
Telenor ASA posted first quarter profits marginally lower than expectations, due mostly to the recent appreciation of the Norwegian crown, but said it is maintaining its full-year guidance on sales and EBITDA margins.
Orange, Slovakia’s largest cellco, has won a tender for a new mobile frequency, Slovak telecommunications office spokesman Roman Vavro told AFP.
The board of Russia’s Sistema group has approved the sale of its stake in long-distance operator Multiregional TransitTelecom (MTT).
Profits at Poland’s TP Group showed a rise that was beyond expectations in the first quarter, rising by 31.5 percent year-on-year to PLN 681 million, helped by a 2 percent increase in sales to PLN 4.53 billion.
Slovenian cellco Mobitel has announced that its whole UMTS network has been upgraded to HSPA technology, covering 73 percent of the population.
MTS Belarus has contracted Sitronics Smart Technologies, in conjunction with Sicap and Giesecke & Devrient, to deliver a DSTK (Dynamic Sim ToolKit) which will enable MTS subscribers to manage a dynamic STK-menu, through which they gain access to a variety of information and entertainment services on the mobile phone.
Nikolai Pantelei, Belerus’s Minister of Communications and Informatisation, says his country now has 170,000 broadband Internet users, which is a penetration rate of 6.3 percent, out of a total of 2.7 million Internet users in the Republic overall.