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Articles tagged with: Telefonica and Vodafone
Moody's: Vodafone has stronger credit profile than Telefonica and Telecom Italia
Vodafone has a stronger credit profile than its peers telefonica and Telecom Italia partly because its 45% equity stake in US mobile operator Verizon Wireless makes it more geographically diversified away from peripheral Europe and because its financial flexibility is higher, says Moody's Investors Service in a Peer Comparison CreditFocus report published today. more
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Fitch: Cut in Handset Subsidies Would Be Positive for Operators
Telecom operators would benefit from a market-wide cut in handset subsidies because the cost and quality of the network would become the driving force in customers' buying decisions, rather than the desire for a new phone, Fitch Ratings says. more
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UK Networks Investigated Over Joint Mobile Commerce Plans
The European Commission has opened an investigation into the proposed joint venture in the UK between Vodafone, Telefónica and Everything Everywhere in the field of mobile commerce. more
Related Tags: european-commission, everything-everywhere, UK
German Networks Using QR Codes to Grant Access to Museums
Three of Germany's mobile networks -- telefonica, T-Mobile and Vodafone -- are launching a new offer for their shared mobile payment service, mpass. Smartphones can now be used as digital admission tickets for a special exhibition at Berlin's Museum Island. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, qr-code, mpass, mobile-ticketing, telefonica,, Germany
Germany Networks Working Towards Mobile Payments Launch by Year-End
Germany's three largest mobile networks, Telefónica Germany, Telekom and Vodafone are pushing ahead with their joint activities in mobile payments. The three networks intend to register their payment service mpass as an independent company, and have signed a letter of understanding to this effect. The new company is due to begin operating as early as this year. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, mpass, Germany
Spanish Networks Face Investigation over Wholesale Messaging Costs
Spain's National Competition Commission (CNC) has opened an investigation into the country's three largest mobile networks, telefonica, Vodafone and Orange after it said that wholesale pricing applied to SMS and MMS messages could be excessive. more
Related Tags: orange, sms, mms, termination, telefonica,, Spain
Contract Awarded for Spanish Mobile Number Portability
The Spanish mobile operators are reported to have awarded a contract to local form, Indra to manage their mobile number portability platform from February 2010. The contract is worth €4.7 million over a three year period. more
Related Tags: indra, cmt, mobile-number-portability, orange, yoigo, number-portability, Spain
Fitch: European High-Grade Telecoms Maintain Good Liquidity
Fitch Ratings says, in report published today, that European high-grade telecom issuers have continued to maintain good liquidity and that their access to capital markets remained relatively healthy during the course of Q109. more
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EU calls on mobile operators to continue to improve child safety policies
Half of 10 year-old, 87% of 13 year-old and 95% of 16 year-old children in the EU have a mobile phone, but half of European parents worry mobile phone use might expose their children to sexually and violently explicit images (51%) or bullying by other children (49%), according to a survey. The European Commission has now called on mobile operators to do more to keep children safe while using mobile phones by putting in place all the measures in the voluntary code of conduct, signed by 26 mobile operators in 2007. more
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Tower Sharing Could Save $8 Billion Over 5 Years in MEA Region
Delta Partners has published a white paper about the potential of network sharing in the MEA region. The paper notes that there are currently over 200,000 mobile network towers in operation across the Middle East and Africa, in which operators invest annually between 10-20% of their revenues to rollout new sites or upgrade existing sites. Operators continue to make large investments in order to upgrade technologies and capacity as well as population coverage, especially in rural Africa. more
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