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ArmenTel fined for anti-trust violations

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Armenian fixed-line incumbent ArmenTel was fined AMD 300 million (USD 1 million) by state anti-trust regulators for trying to put rival ISPs out of business, specifically referring to the telco’s recent launch of a high speed broadband Internet service offering end users Internet access at a much lower cost, a service with which no other [...]

17 companies apply for Armenian tender

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Susanna Tonoyan, Armenia’s press secretary Ministry of Transport and Communications has told online newspaper Panorama.am that 17 companies have applied for documents to take part in the country’s auction for a third mobile licence.
The companies applying are:

France Telecom (France)
CEO Blackrock Communications (Ireland)
V-Tel (Jordan)
GEO (UK)
M&A Tele2 (Switzerland)
Knightsbridge International Telecommunications Holding (Austria)
Aetos Consulting Limited (UK)
Kalba International (Egypt)
AAA [...]

Telenor Serbia announce revenues

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Mobile operator Telenor Serbia’s revenues increased to NOK 773 million in the second quarter, from NOK 723 million in the same period last year.
EBITDA rose to NOK 336 million, compared to NOK 281 million and operating profit increased to NOK 171 million from NOK 136 million a year ago. Revenues in local currency increased 10 [...]

Meridian to pre-install Opera Mini

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Meridian has entered into a partnership with software developer Opera Software to pre-install Opera Mini, a mobile web browser on Meridian Mobile’s Fly E310 handset. The Opera Mini enables Fly E310 mobile phone owners to browse all the favourite websites including news, e-mail and social networks right on the handset. The Fly E310 handset is [...]

VimpelCom select Mabixell services

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Russian and CIS mobile operator VimpelCom has selected multimedia and advertising services provider Mobixell Networks’ mobile multimedia adaptation services to power its multimedia content services and provide a centralised system.
Mobixell’s services provide automated, optimised content production for off-line, on-line and time sensitive environments including content download, browsing the operator’s portal and A2P MMS push services. [...]

Solorz-Zak acquiring Sferia

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Zygmunt Solorz-Zak, the main shareholder in pay-TV provider Polsat and digital TV platform Cyfrowy Polsat, has acquired additional shares in telecom operator Sferia, reports the Warsaw Business Journal.
Solorz-Zak previously owned a 10 percent stake in Sferia and said he has applied to the competition regulator to take control of Sferia. The Polish operator is currently [...]

Macedonia still working on MNP

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T-Mobile Macedonia and Makedonski Telekom have announced the successful completion of tests on the central database necessary for the introduction of the number portability service. T-Mobile and MakTel have invested more than EUR 4 million and EUR 3.5 million respectively in establishing the service.
Both companies claim the service cannot be launched until all mobile and [...]

T-Mobile appoint Altmann

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T-Mobile Macedonia have appointed Gabor Altmann as its Chief Marketing and Sales Officer, effective 1 August. Altmann currently serves as Deputy Director of Business Strategy and Marketing at T-Systems, Magyar Telekom’s Business Services business unit. He joined the Magyar Telekom Group in 2002, as product management director of Makedonski Telekom in Skopje.
Altmann has worked for [...]

Teo release 2Q financial data

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Lithuanian telecommunications company Teo reports first-half revenue of LTL 410 million, up 8.3 percent year-on-year.
The share of revenue from its Internet and data communication services increased to 29.8 percent, whilst the share from traditional voice telephony services continued to decline to 63.2 percent of total revenue. Between January and June 2008, the number of broadband [...]

Tele2 Estonia subscribership marginally higher

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Tele2 Estonia added 8,000 new mobile users during the second quarter, taking its mobile subscriber base to 503,000, up 2 percent year-on-year. The operator’s fixed user base dropped by 2 percent or 1,000 users, to 18,000 customers. The operator’s total user base was up by 1 percent in the quarter, reaching 521,000 customers.
Net sales fell [...]