Skopje-based cable TV provider Telekabel, together with an Austrian partner, has announced plans to enter the domestic fixed-line market in Macedonia.
The company says commercial launch is scheduled to take place on 1 September 2008, although it declined to reveal details about tariffs or call prices. Zoran Iliev, the head of Telekabel, said his firm is [...]
CosmoCom, the global leader in Contact Center Consolidation 2.0, today announced that Open Technologies, one of Russia’s largest solutions integrators, has agreed to be a distribution channel and a system integrator for CosmoCom’s flagship software product, CosmoCall Universe. The deal strengthens CosmoCom’s regional support for current customers and creates many new opportunities.
“CosmoCom’s technology meets the [...]
Telekom 4 wants to enter Hungary mobile phone market as the country’s first mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) — a company that provides mobile phone services by using other companies’ frequency allocations and infrastructure — or with its own frequency and its own network, Telekom 4 CEO Peter Neuman said on Wednesday.
Telekom 4 has been [...]
As a result of steady depreciation of average revenue per user seen by mobile operators since 2005, providers are searching for new services and applications for mobile devices to help generate revenue, most notably mobile TV.
Headed by Italy, around 2.6 million Europeans were using mobile TV at the end of 2007.
The technology is now gaining [...]
Elisa and other mobile operators have agreed on new interconnection fees for 1 January 2009 - November 2009. According to the deal the interconnection fees of the operators will gradually become equalised during 2007-2010 and the fees will be equal from 1 December 2009. The equal interconnection fee enforced by the operators starting from [...]
Vimpel-Communications (VimpelCom) announced today that it has signed a Joint Venture and Shareholders Agreement to establish a mobile telecommunications joint venture in Vietnam under the name of GTEL-Mobile Joint Stock Company. The other participants in the Joint Venture Company will be Global Telecommunications Corporation (GTEL), a Vietnamese state-owned enterprise and GTEL TSC, a subsidiary [...]
Azerfon (Nar Mobile) opened a new VIP shop today at 25, T.Aliyev St, Baku. Azerfon’s General Director Gido Helbikh said that variety of rendered services and high level of service in the shop will meet desires of the most exacting customers.
Helbikh went on to say: “The major feature of the new VIP centre from others [...]
Alcatel-Lucent announced that it has been awarded a EUR 32 million contract by Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC), the main telecommunication services operator in Bulgaria, to provide GSM/EDGE solutions to Vivatel, BTC’s GSM mobile subsidiary.
Alcatel-Lucent will replace half of Vivatel’s current GSM Base Station Subsystem network equipment and will also provide a full range of services [...]
Volantis, a supplier of ‘Intelligent Content Adaptation’ solutions for the mobile Internet, today announced that VimpelCom, a telco in Russia and the CIS, is to deploy the Volantis Mobile Content Storefront platform. Storefront is being deployed in order to simplify complex legacy systems, drive the adoption of mobile content and increase VimpelCom’s Value Added Service [...]
Russian based Comstar has announced that its Armenian subsidiary, Cornet-AM, an ISP in the region has built the first mobile WiMAX network in the Republic of Armenia.
The wireless broadband network, based on the 802.16e standard, consists of 24 base stations which are connected to each other via radio relay lines and rented telecommunications channels. Airspan [...]