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Articles tagged with: Weather and Wind Hellas
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: weather-investments, q-telecom, Greece
Fitch Places WIND Hellas' Ratings on Negative Watch on Liquidity Concerns
Fitch Ratings has placed the ratings of Greek mobile operator, WIND Hellas
Telecommunications, on Rating Watch Negative due to liquidity concerns, which
are mainly related to seasonal working capital outflows in H109.
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Related Tags: eu, arpu, itu, fitch-ratings, wind, capex, termination-rates, mtr, mobile-termination-rates, 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, weather-investments, 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, weather-investments, fitch, Greece
Wind Group - ARPU holds up in Italy as Greek business improves profitability
Both European subsidiaries of Naguib SawirisĂ' 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, weather-investments, q-telecom, Italy