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North Central Mobile Subscriber Stats: 4Q 2007

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Blycroft’s Mobile Network Subsriber Statistics for North Central Europe covers 3 countries and 102,905,091 subscribers:

Azercell changes name

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Azercell Telecom, Azerbaijan’s largest mobile operator, has changed its ownership title. In accordance with the new Charter registered on 1 April 2008 by the Department for Organization of the State Registration of Commercial Legal Entities of the Baku Tax Department of the Ministry of Taxes of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Azercell Telecom Ltd [...]

Sistema takes CDMA to India

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Sistema’s strategy to beat the huge demand for GSM spectrum in India by seeking bandwidth to deploy CDMA technology has worked, as the Department of Telecom has decided to allocate radio waves to the company in 3 circles ahead of other new licencees.

NTT open office in Moscow

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Japanese operator NTT Communications is establishing a physical presence in the Russian market by opening a representative office in Moscow on 1 April.

Government may float TP stake on stock market

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It would appear that the Polish Government’s Telekomunikacja Polska (TP) remaining stake may be floated on the stock market if no deal is reached with France Telecom.
Polish Treasury Minister Aleksander Grad said, “If we get a favourable deal, we will sell the stake to France Telecom. If not, we will be selling it on the [...]

Telekom Austria to give everyone unlimited data

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Telekom Austria Czech Republic, which operates under the Volny brand, has abolished the data limits on all ADSL services. A high-speed internet connection at a speed of 2 Mbps will be priced at CZK 429 (including VAT).
Volny has offered high-speed internet without data limits since 2006, but the service was available only in the Volny [...]

Arna loses connection

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Kazakh ISP Arna has had its access to Kazakhtelecom’s network backbone suspended due to failure to pay for services. Arna owes Kazakhtelecom KZT 637.99 million (USD 5.29 million), a debt it has been accumulating since 2003.
In 2005 Arna and  Kazakhtelecom sign two agreements to pay off the debt but Arna has failed to comply, Kazakhtelecom [...]

Belarus not to liberalise telecoms

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Concerning its WTO membership the Belarusian Ministry of Communications has said that the Government has no plans to liberalise the telecoms market in the near future, adding that any changes to the telecoms law could be done only after a tariff rebalancing procedure. However, the ministry says that in the instance of a rebalancing, the [...]