The Orga system was chosen by the Astelit as its billing system, for its capacity as a real-time charging and billing system on a single platform to support more than 12 million subscribers.
Astelit officials say they want to be able to offer next-generation services in real-time, to all customers, on a single platform and database [...]
Comstar, the largest integrated telecommunications provider in Moscow and 66 Russian cities, announced that the Russian Federation’s Federal Tariff Service has introduced new tariffs for the local connection services and line rental provided by Comstar’s 55.73 percent owned subsidiary, Moscow City Telephone Network (MGTS). MGTS tariffs will increase at an average rate of 8 percent, [...]
Sky Link opened a live video from the Moscow Zoo available to its subscribers on their mobile phones. Subscribers can now watch cheetahs living in a media house, not just on the computer screen, but also on mobile phones, specifically the Ubiquam U520 and Ubiquam U300.
Watching the cheetahs has become a large attraction on the Sky [...]
Croatia is set to get its first MVNO following Telcro’s announcement that it has secured a network leasing contract with T-Mobile Hrvatska. In an interview with the local Poslovni Dnevnik, company director, Krešimir Profaca confirmed that he expects the firm to launch its services during the summer of 2009.
“I’m optimistic because the MVNO entry to [...]
Azercell Telecom LLC has put into operation its international roaming service with UK’s Jersey Telecom and Belarus’ BeST operators.
Azercell reports that this is the sixth roaming agreement with the United Kingdom and the third with Belarus.
“Currently, Azercell subscribers can benefit the services of UK’s Vodafone, T-Mobile, Hutchison 3G UK Ltd, Orange, O2 (Cellnet) Telefonica and [...]
The incumbent Slovenian telco Telekom Slovenije’s operating income rose by 10 percent to EUR 643.6 million in the first nine months of this year.
It also increased EBITDA by 7 percent to EUR 245.1 million and net profit amounted to EUR 71.8 million. According to the telco, it had around 280,000 broadband connections in Slovenia at [...]
Russia’s Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) says that it has launched 3G networks in Chelyabinsk and Irkutsk, bringing the total count of cities covered to 10. When MTS launched the first pan-regional 3G network in Russia in May 2008 it began with St. Petersburg followed by Sochi, Yekaterinburg and Kazan.
In August 2008, MTS expanded its 3G network [...]
Five companies submitted bids for Hungary’s sale of licences to the 450 MHz and part of the 26 GHz mobile telecommunications frequencies, the country’s NHH communications authority said Friday.
It didn’t reveal the identities of the bidders.
NHH added that a separate deadline for submitting bids for a ‘full mobile service’ license for the 900/1800/2100 MHz frequency [...]
Financial services group ING launches its first ING Mobile Payments trial in Romania in partnership with MasterCard. The NFC mobile payments trial takes place in Romania’s capital Bucharest and will last 6 months.
The program will focus on consumer and merchant experience and will include a maximum of 500 consumers equipped with Nokia 6212 NFC-enabled handsets [...]
Limun.hr is reporting that state-owned telco BH Telecom has debts of approximately BAM 50 million (USD 32.4 million) according to the Tax Administration of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH).
The revelation was made after a document listing the debts was confirmed as legitimate and the debts are believed to consist of taxes on subsidies [...]