- November 19th, 2008
- 11:18 am
A new entrant in European mobile phone market is soon going to give tough competition to the existing one. An independent distribution company called Hyundai Mobile Europe have been set up by Austrian distributor Leitz Austria. They are planning to sell Hyundai phones in 23 Western and Eastern European countries. The company was launched in September and has already marketed eight mobile phones in Austria. CEO of Hyundai Mobile Europe, Norbert Winkler said that they are confident that the company will break even in 2009 and reach a market share of between 3 and 5% within the next five years.
Hyundai mobile has inked agreements with Hungarian mobile operator Pannon and Slovenian mobile operator Mobiltel to market its mobile phones, while deals with mobile operators in Austria are expected to be finalised soon. The firm is planning to roll out between 10 and 15 mobile devices in the categories Basic, Music, Lifestyle, Innovation and Business.
Wireless Mobile Telecom Wireless News
- January 19th, 2008
- 6:45 am
Telekom Austria Group announces that the number of fixed net access lines fell to 2.4 million at end-2007, from 2.6 million at end-2006, as the fixed-to-mobile migration continued. The Fixed Network division added 28,600 net xDSL customers in Q4 2007, compared to 23,700 customers added in Q4 2006, to reach a total of 750,600 at end-2007, compared to 693,600 at end-2006. The group boosted its mobile customers by 44.6 percent to 14.8 million in 2007, boosted by the contribution of the recently-acquired MDC in Belarus and positive development across all countries. Excluding MDC, group mobile customers reached 11.7 million in 2007, up by 14.7 percent from 2006, with 510,700 net additions in Q4, compared to 454,000 net additions in Q4 2006. Mobilkom Austria added 105,600 net mobile customers in Q4, compared to 101,100 added in Q4 2006, to end with 3.96 million customers, up by 9.1 percent from end-2006. Mobilkom Austria boosted its market share to 40.3 percent at end-2007, from 38.7 percent at end-2006.
Mobiltel in Bulgaria added 284,900 net mobile subscribers in Q4 2007, versus 231,600 net additions in Q4 2006, to end with 5.1 million customers, up 19.5 percent from end-2006. Its market share fell from 52.5 percent in 2006 to 50.3 percent in 2007 in the face of stiff competition. MDC in Belarus had 3.06 million customers at end-2007, up 23 percent from end-2006, for a market share of 43.4 percent. Croatian mobile operator Vipnet ended 2007 with 2.18 million customers, up 14 percent from 2006, adding 102,600 net subscribers in Q4, compared to 106,700 net additions in Q4 2006. Vipnet’s market share was 43 percent at end-2007. Si.mobil in Slovenia had 497,200 mobile customers at end-2007, up 18.2 percent year-on-year, adding 17,400 net customers in Q4, compared to 15,000 net additions in Q4 2006. Its market share was 26.9 percent at end-2007.
Wireless Mobile Telecom Wireless News
- January 10th, 2007
- 2:09 pm
Telegeography writes…Mobiltel, Bulgaria’s largest cellco, has refused to agree to wireless number portability (MNP) rules proposed by the country’s telecom regulator the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC). According to local daily Dnevnik, the company announced its decision just a day before the deadline for approval of the procedure. The other two carriers, Globul and BTC’s Vivatel, accepted the terms, but under current legislation MNP cannot take effect unless all three carriers agree to it. Portability had been expected to become operational from 1 January 2007.
According to Nikolai Kichev, head of Mobiltel’s regulatory policy department, under the current telecom law the CRC has no regulatory oversight on the market for mobile telecom services. Mobiltel cited gaps in the effective legislation as the reason for its refusal to adopt MNP, claiming that the legislators gave wireless number portability a very brief and ‘fuzzy’ definition and failed to designate oversight to any state body. A new bill on electronic communications, which has yet to be adopted by parliament, will fill the existing legislative gaps, said Mobiltel. The company said it was ready to launch the service once the new bill is enacted.
Wireless Mobile Telecom
- January 10th, 2007
- 11:34 am
Sofiaecho writes…Bulgaria’s leading mobile phone operator MobilTel refused to sign a mobile number portability agreement, drafted by GloBul and Vivatel operators.
Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) obliged the there Bulgarian operators to agree on number portability by January 10 2007 as it featured among the requirements for Bulgaria’s EU accession.
Portability enables customers switch between operators without changing their mobile phone number.
GloBul and Vivatel agreed on number portability on January 8 2007 and CRC accepted the agreement, Darik Radio said.
MobilTel boycotted the discussion. The company said that current Bulgarian legislation failed to determine the conditions under which the number portability should be introduced.
The company said that the other operators could introduce the new service for their clients but MobilTel preferred to wait for the new communications law.
According to CRC the service could not be introduced before the three mobile phone operators came to an agreement.
Number portability introduction took an average of 29 months in other EU countries, Darik said.
MobilTel said that it could introduce the service by the end of 2007 if the new communications law became effective in January or February 2007. Only one to five per cent of MobilTel’s clients would use the new service, the company said.
Wireless Mobile Telecom
- September 19th, 2006
- 10:00 am
Telekom Austria Group’s Bulgarian mobile subsidiary Mobiltel has reached the 4 million subscriber mark on 14 September. The company also announced that within the next days Mobiltel will launch HSDPA modems on the Bulgarian market within the framework of its Vodafone partnership. The HSDPA modem allows fast internet connection and mobile data transfer of up to 1.8 Mbps.
Source- http://www.telecompaper.com
Technorati : Bulgaria, Mobile, Mobiltel, Vodafone
Ice Rocket : Bulgaria, Mobile, Mobiltel, Vodafone
- September 17th, 2006
- 2:29 pm
Telekom Austria Group’s Bulgarian mobile subsidiary Mobiltel has reached the 4 million subscriber mark on 14 September. The company also announced that within the next days Mobiltel will launch HSDPA modems on the Bulgarian market within the framework of its Vodafone partnership. The HSDPA modem allows fast internet connection and mobile data transfer of up to 1.8 Mbps.
Source- http://www.telecompaper.com
Technorati : Austria, Bulgaria, Mobile, Mobiltel, Telecom
Ice Rocket : Austria, Bulgaria, Mobile, Mobiltel, Telecom
Hyundai handsets, coming soon in European mobile phone market
