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Articles tagged with: Proximus
Belgian Operator Fined for Market Abuses
Belgium's Competition Council has fined the mobile network operator, proximus a total of EUR 66.3 million (US$92.6 million) for allegedly abusing its dominant market position. The fine covered actions the network operator carried out in 2004/5 to abuse its position as a subsidiary of Belgacom to squeeze out its competitors. more
Related Tags: belgacom, Belgium
Belgium Regulator Not to Automatically Extend GSM License Terms
Belgium's telecoms regulator, BIPT and Government Minister van Quickenborne have declined to automatically renew the GSM licenses for two of the country's mobile operators, proximus (owned by Belgacom) and Mobistar (majority owned by France Telecom). more
Related Tags: european-commission, 3g-license, mobistar, gsm, Belgium
Belgacom Buys Specialist in Mobile-Phone Parking Payments
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- Belgian leading telecommunications company Belgacom said Thursday it is taking over Mobile-for, a specialist in mobile payments for parking services. more
Related Tags: sms, mobile-payments, belgacom, Belgium
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
Related Tags: roaming, mobistar, mvno, arpu, Belgium
German Regulator to Investigate Complaints Against Vodafone/T-Mobile
Netherlands based KPN has announced that the Federal Cartel Office in Germany has opened abuse proceedings on the German mobile communications market. The proceedings were initiated following a complaint made by KPN to the Bundeskartellamt on suspicion that the market leaders t T-Mobile and Vodafone have abused their dominant position. more
Related Tags: mobistar, kpn, compete, termination-rates, belgacom, e-plus, Germany
Belgacom Shows Good Q4 Customer Growth – But at Some Cost
At the end of 2007, Belgacom remained the market leader in Belgium, but its market share fell to 43.8%, its lowest ever level. The latest quarterly fall of 0.4pp was the 23rd successive quarterly fall, an astonishing run which stretches back to the second quarter of 2002. more
Related Tags: mobistar, mvno, arpu, belgacom, Belgium
Vodafone's First Half Results - An in Depth Study
This article, supplied by The Mobile World contains more charts and data in their subscription service. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, mobile-messaging, mobile-data, telekom-malaysia, verizon-wireless, eu, arpu, swisscom, vodacom, essar, telecom-egypt, telsim
Belgium Starts Payments by Mobile Phone
Belgium's mobile operators have teamed up to offer secure payments over their mobile phones. The service will be made accessible to anyone having a Bancontact/Mister Cash bank card and a GSM operating on one of the three Belgian mobile telephone networks. more
Related Tags: sim-card, mobistar
Ericsson Wins Mobile TV Contract
Belgian operator proximus has awarded Ericsson a contract for an end-to-end mobile TV solution, including Ericsson's Channel Selector. Ericsson will provide proximus with a channel selector solution - changing from one channel to another needs just one click on the mobile handset. This saves time and brings the mobile TV experience closer to that of a home TV experience. The launch of the solution is planned in the course of 2007. more
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Belgian Operator Offers Windows Messenger Service
Belgium's proximus has announced that it will launch Microsoft Windows Live Messenger (formerly known as MSN Messenger) within the next couple of weeks on its network. Through this service, customers will have a similar look and feel as Windows Live Messenger with an adapted user experience for the mobile. Customers will be able to see if their contacts are online and exchange messages between Windows Live Messenger on a PC and mobile phone and vice versa. more
Related Tags: instant-messaging, windows-live