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Ericsson wins Kibris’ W-CDMA/HSPA contract (Cyprus)

October 16th, 2008
1:21 pm

Ericsson wins Kuzey Kibris Turkcell’s contract to deliver a W-CDMA/HSPA network in northern Cyprus. Ericsson wil further provide with services such as consulting and systems integration under the terms of the agreement.

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Turkcell plans foriegn acquisitions and investment in country’s mobile broadband (Turkey)

September 15th, 2008
5:14 am

Turkcell, the Turkish mobile operator, plans to make acquisitions in Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Iraq, said the company’s chief executive.
“Our team is looking at some other Eastern European countries, northern African countries as well as our Middle Eastern neighbors,” CEO Sureyya Ciliv said.
The company is evaluating as to how it could enter the Iraqi market and also looks for opportunities in India and Pakistan.
Turkcell had also competed for mobile phone licenses in Iraq wbut after it was put to tender last year the telco pulled out after bids for these licenses reached over $800 million, which it said was too high a price.
“We won’t enter any market at any cost it would have to be at the right price,” Ciliv said.
Apart from Turkey, the company also operates in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, northern Cyprus and the Ukraine.
Turkcell owns nearly 56% of market share in Turkish mobile phone market.
“We think that our market share will continue to go down as we face intense competition but what is important to us is our revenues and profitability going forward,” Ciliv said. He also sees a lot of potential for growth with ever increasing penetration rates and also minutes of usage, which is being targeted as the area of profitability.
In terms of capital expenditure Turkcell is planning to invest heavily into mobile broadband.
“We’re expecting the tender of third-generation networks (to enable mobile broadband) in November. 3G will bring some new investment requirements. First we need to buy the license from the government, then make the necessary infrastructure investments very quickly to roll out mobile broadband to millions of Turkish subscribers,” Ciliv said.
He added the company Turkcell is also expected to have a 70% to 80% market share of the Turkish mobile broadband market as soon as the 3G-network becomes available.

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Reel catch: PrimeTel hooks Reliance to land undersea whopper

April 19th, 2008
8:58 am

Reliance Globalcom, part of India’s Reliance Communications, has agreed to connect its multi-terabit next-generation DWDM undersea cable system at a landing station in Cyprus operated by alternative telco PrimeTel. Triple-play broadband provider PrimeTel is constructing a submarine landing station in Yeroskipos and has secured 5Gbps of global capacity with an option for future upgrades. PrimeTel hopes that the project, scheduled to be completed by the end of this year, will attract corporate business to Cyprus by increasing international broadband capacity, providing alternative routing and lowering prices.

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Cyta ups its speed

August 6th, 2007
3:05 pm

Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta), has announced that it will upgrade the upstream speed of its ADSL services on 1 September, with the Home i-choice1000 package upload rate increasing from 128kbps to 256kbps and the BusinessLite package from 128kbps to 512kbps. The downstream speed for both packages will remain at 1Mbps. The incumbent telco also announced that it is introducing two new higher speed packages in September, the Home i-Choice2000 with 2Mbps download and 512kbps upload, and the i-Choice BusinessPlus (4Mbps/512kbps down/uplink). Home i-Choice2000 carries a monthly subscription fee of CYP23 (EUR 39.33), with a connection charge of CYP46, while the i-Choice BusinessPlus costs CYP97.75 per month plus a one-off fee of CYP115. Existing subscribers of Cyta’s Home and i-Choice Business packages will be able to upgrade to i-Choice2000 and i-Choice BusinessPlus, free of charge, until 1 December.

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PrimeTel pleased with triple-play take-up

July 17th, 2007
3:07 pm

Cypriot broadband provider PrimeTel has announced that it has signed up 8,000 residential users of its triple-play services, which include its PrimeTV IPTV service, offering over 100 TV channels, interactive games and video-on-demand library. PrimeTel launched triple-play broadband internet, telephony and IPTV services over ADSL2+ connections for residential and business users in April 2006, providing internet download speeds of up to 24Mbps.

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Ericsson wins pilot FTTH order from Cyta

July 16th, 2007
3:20 pm

Swedish technology provider Ericsson has won an order from Cypriot incumbent telco Cyta for a pilot fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network project based on its GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) system. No financial details were disclosed. Cyta is piloting the network with a view to offering advanced broadband services, such as High Definition TV (HDTV), games, on-demand services, VoIP telephony and optional surveillance and security services.

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Ericsson signs GPON deal in Cyprus

July 12th, 2007
1:45 pm

Ericsson and CYTA, an operator in Cyprus, have Wednesday signed a contract for a Fiber-To-The-Home network based on Ericsson’s GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) solution.CYTA has started to provide advanced broadband services, such as High Definition TV (up to two channels per home), games, on-demand services, Voice over IP (VoIP) while there is also the option of Surveillance and Security services.

The contract includes delivery of central office optical equipment and devices for the homes, EDA1200 and EDA1500, and passive infrastructure such as fiber systems and cables.

Apart from the GPON network (point-to-multipoint configuration), the pilot project includes also a point-to-point network, using Ericsson’s equipment (switches and CPEs).

The contract also encompasses a comprehensive portfolio of Services, such as education and knowledge transfer, business consultancy, network design and supervision.

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