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Articles tagged with: Mobitel
Cambodian Operators Argue Over Low Call Costs
Cambodia's newest network operator, Beeline - backed by Russia's Vimplecom - has been accused of reneging on a deal to stop offering tariffs that its competitors claimed were loss-leading for the operator. more
Related Tags: vimplecom, beeline, Cambodia
Nigerian Operator Orders WiMAX Infrastructure
Nigeria's mobitel has contracted Alvarion to deploy a WiMAX network in under-served areas throughout the country. Using Alvarion’s BreezeMAX solution in the 2.0 GHz, 2.2 GHz and 2.3 GHz frequency bands, mobitel will begin to offer voice and high-bandwidth data services, with the key cities of Lagos, Port-Harcourt, Warri and Abuja being start points. more
Related Tags: alvarion, wimax, Nigeria
Sudan Landline Operator Expects a Mobile License
Sudan based landline operator, Canartel says that it expects to get a mobile license by the end of the year, for a payment in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The company is also looking to expand its landline services into Darfur and southern Sudan. more
Related Tags: base-station, etisalat, capex, zain, landline, base-stations, Sudan
Bharti Airtel Says On Track to Launch in Sri Lanka by Year End
India's Bharti Airtel says that it expects to launch its network in neighbouring Sri Lanka by the end of this year - subject to sorting out a long running interconnection dispute with the incumbent operators. Bharti Airtel has accused the incumbents of offering it termination rates which are higher than the rates they offer each other. more
Related Tags: termination-rates, bharti, bharti-airtel, tigo, Sri Lanka
Zain Launches GSM Network in Southern Sudan
Sudan's mobitel - now a part of Kuwait based Zain has launched a GSM network in Southern Sudan, having deployed 50 base stations in the main urban areas. The company plans to spend US$150 million over the next few years on its network. more
Related Tags: zain, autonomy, base-stations, Sudan
Sri Lanka Telecom Results - Mobitel Consolidates 2nd Place
Sri Lanka Telecom, which operates the mobitel mobile network in Sri Lanka, has reported its Q4 07 Results, which reveal impressive growth to the subscriber base. Quarterly net additions of 288.2k - a company record - took the total number of subscribers to 1.401m at the end of 2007, with proportionate quarterly growth at 25.9%. Although this is slightly below the 28.9% recorded in Q4 06, it is still an excellent result. more
Related Tags: mtn, hutchison, tigo, storm, Sri Lanka
Mobitel Slovenia - Overall Decline Offset by 3G Growth
mobitel Slovenia's Q4 07 results show that it lost customers for the fifth successive quarter, finishing the year on 1.26 million. However, the loss was limited to 1.2% year-on-year, and given mobitel's dominant position in the Slovenian market this is not an overly worrying result in terms of the overall balance of power in the market. more
Related Tags: w-cdma, telekom-austria, Slovenia
Slovenian Operator Sees Mobile Internet Use Surging
The Slovenian mobile operator, mobitel has announced that the total number of visitors to its "Planet" mobile internet portal has now surpassed one million. The introduction of free browsing on the Planet stimulated the usage, and there is also an increasing interest in mobile video content on the Planet. Last year the mobile Planet was thoroughly overhauled. There are now over 200,000 regular visitors of the mobile Planet, and since its introduction the mobile Planet has counted over a million different visitors. more
Related Tags: mobile-internet, mobile-video, Slovenia
New GSM Network Launched in Kosovo
Kosovo's newest GSM network, Ipko has commercially launched its services, according to a note from infrastructure supplier, Ericsson Nikola Tesla. The two companies originally signed a contract in June 2007 to build out a greenfield network in a contract worth EUR37 million (US$49.8 million). The network operator is a consortium comprised of Telekom Slovenija, mobitel and Ipko. more
Related Tags: ericsson-nikola-tesla, Serbia and Montenegro
Fitch Affirms Sri Lanka Telecom's Debt Ratings
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Sri Lanka Telecom Plc's (SLT) Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'BB-' (BB minus) with a Negative Outlook. At the same time, the agency has affirmed SLT's Long-term local currency IDR of 'BB-' (BB minus), as well as its National Long-term rating at 'AAA(lka)' with Stable Outlooks, along with the 'BB-' (BB minus) rating on its senior unsecured notes maturing in 2009. more
Related Tags: fitch-ratings, capex, bharti, bharti-airtel, supreme-court, fitch, Sri Lanka