Articles tagged with: Mobistar and Roaming

Mobistar Profits Up Despite Price Pressures

Belgium based mobistar has reported a slight rise in first-quarter revenues of 2.5% to reach EUR 371.2 million (US$483.8 million) - although its customer base rose by 6.4% over the same period. The company said the disparity was determined in part by the continuing price pressure in a highly competitive market, by the regulatory decisions (lowering of the mobile termination rates in May and July 2008) and a reduced activity in the business market.  more

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Mobistar - MVNOs Boost Growth but ARPU Drops Again

Third-party net additions have outstripped net additions from retail services for the third successive quarter at second-placed Belgian operator, mobistar, majority owned by France Telecom. The operatorÃ's first MVNO, in the form of quad-play telco Telenet, launched in August 2006 and was followed less than a year later by Lycamobile, the pan-European MVNO offering low-cost international calls. It was this latter player which contributed the bulk of the 155k net additions seen in Q4 2007 - the highest number in any quarter for over six years - whilst the two MVNOs in combination provided 72.7% of the new customers.  more

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