Articles tagged with: Kpn and Orange

Orange buys Spanish MVNO from KPN

­Orange Spain announced today the acquisition of 100% of Simyo, the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) owned by kpn in Spain, which has around 380,000 customers.  more

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KPN Close to Sale of Spanish MVNO

­Orange Spain is reported to be close to a deal to buy the Spanish MVNO, Simyo from its Dutch owners, kpn for around EUR30 million.  more

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EU calls on mobile operators to continue to improve child safety policies

Half of 10 year-old, 87% of 13 year-old and 95% of 16 year-old children in the EU have a mobile phone, but half of European parents worry mobile phone use might expose their children to sexually and violently explicit images (51%) or bullying by other children (49%), according to a survey. The European Commission has now called on mobile operators to do more to keep children safe while using mobile phones by putting in place all the measures in the voluntary code of conduct, signed by 26 mobile operators in 2007.  more

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Bouygues Telecom Confirms MVNO Deal With KPN in France

PARIS -(Dow Jones)- Bouygues Telecom, a division of Bouygues, Wednesday confirmed it has agreed to sell mobile network capacity in France to Dutch operator Royal kpn.  more

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Comfone Launches Remote Wi-Fi Test Service

Comfone says that it has launched a Wi-Fi remote test service to facilitate the testing and rollout of Wi-Fi roaming services. The service enables operators and software suppliers to remotely test the inter-operability between WISPr client software and over 30 test hotspots located in a single location in Bern, Switzerland.  more

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Ericsson Expands Dutch Network Management Contract

T-Mobile Netherlands has signed a four-year strategic-partnership contract with Ericsson, which follows T-Mobile's acquisition of Orange in the Netherlands, and will result in the continuation and expansion of existing contracts.  more

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Europe Telecom Giants Call the Shots Again as M&A Picks Up

As the global financial crisis nears its one-year anniversary, Europe's top telecom operators are rediscovering an appetite for deals and preparing to pounce on vulnerable rivals, armed with solid balance sheets and needled by a rising threat from newcomers like Google and Apple.  more

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Ben's Back - T-Mobile to Relaunch Ditched Dutch Brandname

T-Mobile is to reintroduce the Ben brand into the Netherlands, some five years after the company dropped the brand from its acquisition of the company of the same name. T-mobile originally entered the Dutch market by the acquisition of Ben in September 2002, and rebranded the network under the international T-Mobile identity the following February.  more

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