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WIND Hellas - Budget brand continues to burgeon

The weather Investments-backed company WIND Hellas operates two brands in Greece, WIND and Q-Telecom. The combined customer total of the two was 5.27m at the end of Q1 09, a gain of 73k in the quarter and 687k in the year. Both of these figures showed improvements compared to the year-earlier figures of 59k and 418k respectively. On a proportionate basis, annual growth stood at 15.0%, up from 10.0% for the prior twelve-month period.  more

Related Tags: wind-hellas, q-telecom, Greece


Comptel Wins Greek Number Portability Contract

Greek operator WIND Hellas has selected Comptel to provide a Provisioning and Activation Solution, as well as Mobile Number Portability (MNP) functionality. This deal follows the announcements in 2007 of Comptel being chosen as preferred supplier by Orascom Telecom, which is controlled by weather Investments - the owner of WIND Hellas.  more

Related Tags: wind, mobile-number-portability, number-portability, oss, wind-hellas, comptel, orascom, Greece


Fitch Downgrades the Debt Ratings of Greece's WIND Hellas

Fitch Ratings has downgraded Greek mobile operator, WIND Hellas' Long-term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to 'B-' (B minus) from 'B' on concerns about its leverage and future cashflow generation. The short-term rating is affirmed at 'B'. The outlook is Stable.  more

Related Tags: arpu, fitch-ratings, driving, wind, capex, termination-rates, tax, wind-hellas, fitch, termination, Greece


Wind Group - ARPU holds up in Italy as Greek business improves profitability

Both European subsidiaries of Naguib Sawiris' weather Investments have recently reported first quarter results, both showing net subscriber growth of less than 2% in the traditionally slow first quarter. In Greece, the combined total of WIND Hellas and prepaid-only unit Q-Telecom recorded an increase of just 1.3% in Q1. Meanwhile in Italy, WIND managed 1.9% growth, although there is an error margin here of more than 0.3pp due to the fact that customers tnumbers are only released to the nearest 0.1m.  more

Related Tags: roaming, arpu, telecom-italia, wind, wind-hellas, q-telecom, termination, Italy


Sawiris Denies Italian Corruption Claims

Eygptian telecoms billionaire, Naguib Sawiris has denied Italian police allegations he could be involved in a corruption scandal over the 2005 acquisition of Italian mobile phone operator Wind. In a statement, he denied even being told that there is an investigation at all.  more

Related Tags: naguib-sawiris, police, Italy


France Telecom Denies Wants To Buy Stake In Weather Holdings

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- France Telecom denied a report Thursday that it may bid for a stake in weather Investments, the holding company that owns Italian telecommunications operator Wind. more

Related Tags: france-telecom, wind


Tim Hellas - Seasonality Continues as Weather Moves In

With the mobile community's focus on Vodafone's multi-billion dollar acquisition of Hutch in India, which was confirmed on Sunday 11th February, it might have been easy to miss the news a few days earlier that weather Investments - the vehicle of Orascom's owners the Sawiris family, which also owns Wind in Italy - had agreed to acquire Greek operator TIM Hellas from the private equity funds Apax Partners and Texas Pacific Group (TPG) which purchased it in June 2005 from Telecom Italia. more

Related Tags: texas, tim, wind, cosmote, hutch, apax-partners, apax-partners


Orascom Favors Hutchison Telecoms Dividend

BARCELONA -(Dow Jones)- Orascom Telecom Holding believes Hong Kong-based Hutchison Telecommunications International should consider paying a dividend to shareholders following the sale of its Hutchison Essar unit, Orascom Chairman Naguib Sawiris said Wednesday.  more

Related Tags: tim, orascom-telecom, bharti, naguib-sawiris, orascom-telecom-holding, hutchison, essar, hutchison-essar, hutchison-telecommunications-international, hutchison-telecommunications


Enel Denies Report Of Quick Sale Of 26% Weather Stake

ROME -(Dow Jones)- Italy's largest electricity company Enel, Friday denied a newspaper report that it plans to proceed speedily with the sale of its 26% stake in telecommunications group weather Investments to Egyptian Chairman Naguib Sawiris, who owns the rest of the company. more

Related Tags: wind, orascom-telecom, leo


Orascom Chm: Weather Investments IPO Not Before 2Q 06

MILAN (MF-Dow Jones)--Orascom Telecom founder and Chairman Naguib Sawiris said Wednesday that an initial public offering of weather Investments "won't happen before the second quarter of 2006," according to Italian newswire MF-Dow Jones.  more

Related Tags: wind, naguib-sawiris, hutchison-whampoa, dubai, dubai, fastweb


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