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Articles tagged with: Proximus and Mobistar
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, gsm, 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 operator'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, 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: 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: mvno, arpu, belgacom, Belgium
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
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Mobistar 1st Half Net Profit +9.2%, Outlook Upbeat"
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- Mobistar, Belgium's second-biggest mobile player by market share, posted a 9.2% increase in first-half net profit and raised its outlook for full-year revenue and profit growth to the top end of its earlier forecast. more
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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
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
Related Tags: kpn, swisscom, belgacom, tele2, telenet
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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The Belgium 3G auctions finished on Friday, after just one round. The government has raised a total of US$419 million, far less than the expected US$1.4 billion. Mobistar and KPN Orange paid US$139.6 million and proximus paid slightly more at US$139.8 million. The proximus license has a slightly different spectrum to the other two licenses, which should reduce interference problems, hence the higher price. The licenses are for 20 years, and commercial services must start by the end of the year." more
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