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Countries of Eastern Europe and Russia ranked by mobile penetration:
Change in Rank
Q-on-Q
Rank By Teledensity
Country
Subscribers 4Q07
Population
Mobile Penetration
0
1
Montenegro
1,056,283
598,000
176.64%
0
2
Lithuania
4,868,247
3,369,600
144.48%
0
3
Bulgaria
10,108,600
7,639,000
132.33%
0
4
Czech Republic
13,084,000
10,349,372
126.42%
0
5
Estonia
1,647,800
1,342,409
122.75%
Azercell Telecom LLC, Azerbaijan’s cellular network operator, has put into operation international roaming service with Afghanistan, Etisalat (GSM 900/1800) operator. This is the first roaming agreement with the Afghanistan mobile companies. Azercell has signed up 347 roaming agreements with mobile communication operators from 141 countries of the world.
Azerfon have announced changes in the management structure. General Director/CEO, John Armley has decided to leave the company as of mid-May and Guido Helbich will assume his position.
Norwegian telecoms group Telenor is looking at the possibility of a merger with Swedish rival TeliaSonera, and is using the services of Nordea and JP Morgan to analyse a potential deal, according to Svenska Dagbladet newspaper, who cite ‘people with insight into the process’.
The incumbent Polish telco TPSA ended 1Q with 49,000 subscribers to its IPTV service, up 9,000 from three months earlier. It also finished with 405,000 Livebox and 164,000 VoIP subscribers at the end of 1Q, while its retail broadband subscriber total was 2,079,000. TPSA are going to launch Poland’s fourth DTH platform later this year.
Fixed-line incumbent in Hungary Magyar Telekom (MT) has announced plans to buy out its partner IKO Production and purchase 100 percent stakes in domestic media content firms IKO New Media and IKO Content and Rights, according to Reuters.