Articles tagged with: Mobistar

EU Court Rules Most Mobile Phone "Mast Taxes" Are Legal"

LUXEMBOURG -(Dow Jones)- The European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that most taxes imposed on mobile phone masts are legal. more

Belgian Mobile Operator BASE Increases Market Share

BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- Belgian mobile operator BASE said Tuesday that it had increased its subscribers by 31% last year to 1.64 million from 1.25 million and its from market share last year to 17% from 15%. more

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Belgacom: Focus Remains On Growing Belgian Market

BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)--Belgian telecom operator Belgacom SA (BELG.BT) Friday said it will focus on growing its domestic operations. more

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Belgium network reports subscriber rise

Belgium's mobistar says that it finished last year with 2,615,368 active customers registered, compared with an active customer base of 2,305,390 at the end of 2002. This translates as a net increase of 309,978 active customers, or a growth of more than 13% in one year. The last quarter of the year was particularly optimistic with mobistar witnessing a net increase of 107,120 active customers in three months. more

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Euro operator claims top search spot

After signing a contract with T-Mobile in Germany, United Kingdom, and Austria, the French start-up company MotionBridge says that it has become European market leader in the field of mobile search and navigation. With over 40 million search requests, the company has by far the largest audience in Europe. MotionBridge is being funded by Siemens Mobile Acceleration since August 2002 and has been steadily increasing its customer base, serving operators such as Orange in France, mobistar in Belgium, O2 in the UK, and now T-Mobile. The company's next goal is to launch their product in the Japanese market next year. more

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Orange re-launches itself

France Telecom controlled Orange has unveiled a widely expected refocus in an effort to boost earnings and says that it will team up with a group of rival operators to create a marketing rival to Vodafone. The company is starting a process of centralising its processes, in order to work as a single company, as opposed to a series of individual networks. The new organisational changes will see a more global approach to policy to ensure the Orange Group operates consistently and effectively. The Orange Group will take a more centralised approach to those areas where it makes clear business sense to leverage its size and strengths. This structure will give Orange transparent internal reporting of all financial, marketing and customer data. more

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Code of conduct for MMS content providers

In the light of the development of SMS and MMS information and entertainment services,Belgium's mobistar and Proximus, have presented a code of conduct intended for providers of these services. This code of ethics sets out a series of rules and recommendations aimed at ensuring that mobile operator customers receive better information and protection. This code will be appended to contracts concluded between operators and service providers. more

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Orange secures non-exclusive Disney deal

Orange has secured a European content distribution agreement with Walt Disney, giving Orange customers access to their favourite Disney characters via their Orange phone. The service will be available to Orange customers in the UK, as well as in Belgium (mobistar) and Portugal (Optimus). more

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MMS interconnection spreads

Portugal's Vodafone Telecel is giving its customers the facility to send MMS's to any phone and to any Portuguese network. Vodafone Telecel has signed an interconnection agreement with TMN and Optimus allowing Vodafone Telecel customers to exchange multimedia messages with these operators' networks. more

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Changing cell phone use in Belgium drive tariff changes

A study conducted recently by the market survey company INRA at the request of Belgium's mobistar shows a very marked trend in the use of different means of telecommunication by Belgian households. A few major trends were identified. Belgians have more than one mobile phone per household and they are increasingly eliminating fixed lines in favour of mobiles, or they are opting for a complete range of equipment: one or more mobile phones, a fixed line and a fast Internet connection. mobistar also found that mobile phones had become a veritable link between family members. In response to these trends, as from 28 August, mobistar is offering a new formula specially designed for families, mobistar Family, based on the principle of sharing monthly call time between all members of the family. more

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