The Serbian government plans to launch an IPO for incumbent fixed-line telco Telekom Srbija in the first quarter of 2009, according to the country’s Finance Minister.
The minister added that the operator’s current market value is estimated at EUR 4 billion. Greek telco OTE currently has a 20 percent stake in Telekom Srbija, with the rest [...]
The telecoms watchdog in Hungary the National Communications Authority of Hungary (NCAH) has imposed fines totalling HUF 30 million (USD 205,100) on 21 fixed-line operators in the country for signing ‘irregular’ contracts with individual subscribers.
Realdeal.hu reports that the regulator’s findings concern contracts concluded in the period 2006/07. The NCAH found that of the 100 or [...]
T-Mobile Montenegro will soon officially launch a mobile TV service using 3G. The service is already in a test phase providing programming of In Televizija with four further TV channels to be added soon. The service will also include video clips and news.
Postpaid users will be able to watch TV free of charge and access [...]
Cosmote Romania mobile communitarians operator will reduce by up to 50 percent the prices for GPRS data services when roaming on 15 of its 30 European partner networks, with new prices coming into effect into force on 1 August.
The prices for data services will be cut down to 4 euros per Mb of data packages [...]
Estonia has one of three commercially launched UMTS 900 networks, according to a report from Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), the other two being in Finland and Thailand.
The majority of 3G/UMTS deployments are in the 2100 MHz band (IMT-2000 core band), particularly in Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, however, radio propagation path-loss at [...]
The Serbian city of Zrenjanin has introduced free wireless Internet access along its main street, as the result of a partnership between the city authorities, business association BID and ISP BeoTelNet.
According to BeoTelNet director, Gordana Mileusnic, the system is made up of several base stations enabling a high quality Internet service with speeds of 512 [...]
The Serbian government has revoked the decision made by the Ministry of Telecommunications according to which this ministry has taken over the authority of the country’s telecommunications agency Ratel for a period of 120 days.
According to Deputy Prime Minister, Bozidar Delic, the government established that ministry has violated the law, but that this does not [...]
Slovenian company Gospodarstvo Rast has reached an agreement to sell its 25 percent share in telecommunications operator T-2 to the financial company Finetol, announced the Archdiocese of Maribor.
The data on the size of the share and the exact price are not known yet. The Archdiocese of Maribor owns T-2 through its company Gospodarstvo Rast.
The largest Slovenian companies in the ICT industry in 2007 were telecommunications operators Telekom Slovenije, Mobitel, and Si.mobil, according to the list of the 50 biggest ICT companies published by local business daily Finance.
Hermes Softlab and S&T Slovenia, which operate in the programme equipment sector, were ranked 4th and 5th, respectively.
They are followed by Avtera [...]
Uzbekistan’s Uzbek Mobile has completed a USD 6.6 million upgrade of its CDMA450 network, Uzmobile’s technical director Galina Gafurbekova told the Interfax news agency. The infrastructure, consisting of 70 base stations was supplied by China’s Huawei.
“We have test-launched a CDMA450 network in nine regions. Now that this project has been completed we can provide the [...]