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The iPhone 3G will be launched in twenty more countries on August 22. All the operators concerned have made their formal announcements. 10 countries are Latin American.It is predicted that SingTel will also join the mix, but the reports are yet to be confirmed.

August 22 releases

    * Argentina - Telefonica and America Movil
    * Chile - Telefonica and America Movil
    * Colombia - Telefonica and America Movil
    * Czech Republic - O2
    * Ecuador - Telefonica and America Movil
    * El Salvador - Telefonica and America Movil
    * Estonia - Eesti Mobii Telefon
    * Guatemala - Telefonica and America Movil
    * Honduras - America Movil
    * Hungary - T-Mobile
    * India - Bharti Airtel and Vodafone
    * Paraguay - America Movil
    * Philippines - GlobeTelecom
    * Peru - Telefonica and America Movil
    * Poland - Orange and Era
    * Romania - Orange
    * Uruguay - Telefonica and America Movil

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Eesti Telekom, has reported its Q2′08 financial results revealing a net profit of USD10.3 million  (EUR6.5 million), a 6.4% fall from June 2007.

Revenues fell to USD158 million (EUR100.1 million), as a result of the reduction in interconnection fees by the state regulator in November 2007.

Eesti also indicated that slowing sales of telecoms equipment had impacted revenues, with the operator also confirming it is to continue its strategy of reducing personnel to cut operating costs. Wireless subscriber figures show a rise from last year, up to 755,000.

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Finnish operator Elisa reported fourth-quarter sales of EUR 402 million, up from EUR 401 million a year earlier. EBITDA, excluding one-time items, rose 8 percent to EUR 128 million, while EPS grew to EUR 0.32 from EUR 0.31. Growth came mainly in the mobile market, as fixed-line operations were under pressure. While the number of broadband customers grew 5 percent last year to 521,844, analogue and other lines were down 10 percent to 471,542. The number of mobile customers rose to 2.657 million, including 322,800 in Estonia, from 2.489 million at the end of 2006, while mobile ARPU improved to EUR 30.1 from EUR 29.9 in Q3. Elisa now has over 1 million 3G customers, with network coverage at 75 percent of the population. Further growth in 3G and efficiency measures are expected to lead to further revenue and EBITDA growth in 2008. Capex for this year was forecast at 10-12 percent of revenues, while cash flow will substantially exceed last year’s level.

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JumpTap, the leading mobile search and advertising solutions provider, today announces that it has signed a multinational deal with TeliaSonera, the leading mobile operator in the Nordic and Baltic regions. This strategic move will see JumpTap deploy a comprehensive search and advertising solution across seven different network operators in Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Estonia and Lithuania.
JumpTap will be TeliaSonera’s exclusive partner for all mobile advertising and paid search ads served on SurfPort, TeliaSonera’s mobile Internet portal, and on SurfOpen, an Internet toolbar to be launched throughout the group during 2008, which follows the user both on and off portal.
Dan Olschwang, president and CEO at JumpTap, comments: “This is a monumental move for TeliaSonera and is testimony to the fact that the world’s most innovative and progressive operators are deploying integrated white label search and mobile advertising services.”
Benefits for TeliaSonera and Subscribers
- JumpTap’s white label solution will enable TeliaSonera to secure a sustainable position in the mobile advertising value chain, a market expected to be worth over US$14bn by 2011(1)
- TeliaSonera will capture long term advertising revenue, along with subscriber loyalty, as the gateway to the mobile Internet
- SurfPort and SurfOpen will both incorporate JumpTap’s built-for-mobile search and advertising solutions, to create a richer, simpler mobile web experience for end-users, and in turn encourage repeat usage and increase mobile web traffic
- TeliaSonera will be able to leverage search intelligence to enable highly targeted advertising
Benefits for Advertisers
- TeliaSonera’s networks enable advertisers to reach the largest subscriber bases in Scandinavia and the Baltics
- JumpTap’s fully integrated search and advertising solutions will use insight from search behaviour along with operator gateway data, to deliver the most targeted and tailored ad-delivery system available on mobile, no matter where users navigate to on the mobile web
- An extensive range of mobile advertising solutions to help marketers better engage with customers and achieve their marketing objectives
“SurfOpen is an important step into Mobile 2.0,” says Indra Åsander, Senior Vice President, Head of Content Services, Europe Mobility Services, at TeliaSonera. “SurfOpen will bring improved options to the market to communicate with our mobile customers in seven countries. Our partnership with JumpTap will help our customers quickly and easily access to their favourite content and services wherever it exists on the Internet.”
Olschwang concludes: “The full potential of the mobile marketing industry is only realised when subscribers are satisfied with their mobile web experience. By combining intelligence from search with operator gateway data, users get fast access to everything they are searching for in the most intuitive way possible. TeliaSonera understands the importance of openness and of simplifying the mobile web, which is why SurfOpen and JumpTap’s search and advertising solutions work together to provide a positive user experience.”

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A recent global survey by Nielsen has shown that despite all the new forms of advertising that have developed over the years, consumers around the world still place their highest level of trust in other consumers.
Text ads on mobile phones are the least trusted with only 18 % of respondents saying that they would trust them. The survey was conducted among nearly 27,000 internet users across 47 global markets and was aimed at comparing 13 different types of advertising.

“Advertisers around the world are able to reach consumers across an increasingly diverse range of media platforms,” said David McCallum, the global managing director for Nielsen’s Customized Research Services. “And even though new media technologies are playing a role in ‘globalizing’ society, many purchasing decisions are still based on firmly held national and cultural attitudes. Furthermore, given that nothing travels faster than bad news - with estimates that reports of bad experiences outnumber good service reports by as many as 5:1 - the importance of responsive, high quality customer service is yet again highlighted.”

47 Markets Covered: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Thailand, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UAE, United Kingdom, US and Vietnam.

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Telegeography writes…The Estonian National Communications Board (ENCB) has announced that it has voided its decision of 29 December 2006 to award the country’s fourth 3G licence to RealGroup Systems. According to a statement, the decision was made as a result of RealGroup’s failure to pay the promised licence fee of EEK82 million (USD). As a result the concession is now being offered to the next highest bidder, ProGroup Holdings, whose bid, at EEK71,000,100, was only just above the minimum EEK70 million.

This is the ENCB’s last chance to award the 3G concession having now offered the licence to all bidders. The tender was launched in September 2006, and two months later the regulator announced that domestic private equity firm Grosson Capital was the winner with a bid of EEK100.1 million (USD8.1 million), EEK7 million more than was offered by second-placed Renberg Investments of Russia. Within a month, however, the ENCB eliminated Grosson from the competition after it failed to come up with the licence fee, and offered the concession to Renberg, which declined. The concession was then offered to third-placed RealGroup, which accepted but then also failed to deliver the licence fee. It is now up to the fourth and only other bidder, ProGroup, to decide whether it will accept the licence.

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 Russia’s largest mobile handset retailer Euroset has opened its 5,000th outlet, the company said in a press release Friday.

The milestone was reached Friday when the chain opened a new outlet in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, the company said.

As of October 1, 2006, Euroset operated in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Lithuania, Estonia and Moldova. The company’s sales in January-September amounted to US$3.1 billion.

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The number of unique users of TeliaSonera’s mobile internet portal SurfPort exceeded one million per month this summer, an increase of over 60 percent in one year. The number includes only SurfPort users, the total number of mobile Internet users among TeliaSonera customers is considerably higher, the company said. SurfPort is available in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Lithuania and Estonia.

Source- http://www.telecompaper.com

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