Telekom Slovenije has registered a lower market share in the first quarter in fixed and mobile telephony, as well as in broadband internet access market, according to Slovenia’s Agency for Post and Electronic Communications (APEK).
In the broadband internet access market, Telekom’s share fell 4%, year-on-year, to 49.2%. Second place T-2 increased its market share to 16.8%, followed by Amis (8.8%), UPC Telemach (8.3%) and Tus Telekom (3.2%).
On the mobile front, Telekom Slovenije’s Mobitel is still market leader with 63.8%, although it lost 5% share. Simobil was second with 26.2% (up 24.1%), followed by MVNOs Debitel (5.4%), Izimobil (2.5%) and Tusmobil (1.5%).
Telekom Slovenije remained the leader in VoIP with a 47.9% share.
In fixed telephony, IP telephony doubled its market share to 17.3% on the year.
In the IPTV market, Telekom Slovenije gained a 60.4% market share, down by over 3% on the year, followed by T-2 (36.3%), Amis (2.4%) and Tus Telekom (1%).
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The Slovenian wireless operator TusMobil is preparing to launch its 3G/3.5G network just a month after signing an equipment supply deal with Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). ‘We are witnessing one of the fastest 3G rollouts in the history of mobile communications,’ said Marko Fujs, TusMobil CEO. ‘Our users will very soon enjoy incredible data speed in TusMobil network.’ NSN was contracted in late April to deploy 400 UMTS and HSPA base stations and expand the cellco’s core network with a new mobile switching solution. TusMobil launched Slovenia’s third mobile network in October last year and now competes with established operators Si.Mobil and Mobitel.
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Slovenian mobile operator Tus Mobil and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) have signed a contract to upgrade and expand the fledgling cellco’s GSM network by deploying 400 of NSN’s 3.5G HSPA-enabled base stations and MSC Server mobile softswitch. According to a press release, the upgrade will improve network efficiency and coverage, allowing Tus to offer new services to its customers, including high speed mobile data applications and multimedia content such as mobile TV. The network is due to be ready for commercial launch by the end of the year. The contract marks an extension of the partnership between domestically owned Tus Mobil and NSN dating back to 2006, when the Finnish technology giant was chosen as GSM/EDGE core and radio network supplier.Tus launched commercial services over its own GSM network at the end of October 2007, and was awarded Slovenia’s fourth 3G mobile licence free of charge earlier this month, after no other interested parties came forward.
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- January 19th, 2008
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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.
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- January 7th, 2008
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The Slovenian government has received three binding bids in the second round of the sale of 49.13 percent of Telekom Slovenije, according to local daily Dnevnik. The three bids came from Iceland’s Skipti, Magyar Telekom and a consortium of Bain Capital and Axos Capital. Croatia’s T-HT withdrew from the tender, and Australia’s Macquarie Bank failed to submit a bid. The Privatisation Commission decided that bidders have until 15 January to submit completed bids.
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- December 11th, 2007
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Mobile service provider Mobitel Slovenia has introduced a fixed-line mobile-internet convergence service called m:stik. The m:stik service is the successor to the m:komunikator service, introduced in the summer, which enables users to make video calls between computers and mobile phones on Mobitel’s UMTS network. Mobitel’s m:stik service allows users to equip their internet-connected desktop or laptop computer with the functions of the mobile phone that include SMS and MMS messaging, as well as video telephony. Calls made through m:stik abroad are charged at the same rates as on Mobilte’s home network, while received calls are free of charge. The m:stik service also enables users to use the short MPO numbers of business virtual private mobile networks, when making and receiving calls at home or abroad. All the hardware and software is located on a handy USB key, so the service doesn’t require any software installation. The m:stik service allows the user to keep his or her mobile phone number, so that he or she is also reachable when using the mobile phone or the m:stik on a desktop or notebook computer. M:stick is priced at EUR 59, and has a monthly subscription fee of EUR 7.49 and an activation charge of EUR 4.99.
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- October 30th, 2007
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Slovenia is getting a new third mobile operator. Tusmobil will launch its mobile telephony operations on 30 November and is currently intensively building its own network. Until the network is competed, it will lease the network from the largest Slovenian operator Mobitel. Tusmobil’s network currently covers 39.2 percent of the population and the company allocated EUR 200 million to a three-year investment cycle. Tusmobil is a subsidiary of Tus Telekom, with the group providing fixed and mobile telephony, internet access and IPTV.
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- October 1st, 2007
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Middle East telecoms holding company Oger Telecom and its largest subsidiary Turk Telekom are interested in investing in the Romanian and Slovenian fixed line telephony markets, according to a report by Reuters. In related news, French media and telecoms group Vivendi is interested in buying up to 33% of Oger Telecom.
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- September 20th, 2007
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Slovenia’s largest cellco by subscribers, Mobitel, owned by incumbent Telekom Slovenije, has posted revenues of EUR211 million (USD293 million) for the first half of 2007, an increase of 5% year-on-year, Slovene Press Agency reports. EBITDA rose 6% to EUR71.2 million and operating profit was up 9% at EUR36.3 million. At 30 June Mobitel reported 1.268 million GSM subscribers, with 59% of users on post-paid plans, and claimed to have a market share of 69%. The operator also said that its 3G W-CDMA coverage had reached 72% of the population, whilst it had signed up 160,000 regular 3G service users, with 660,000 customers using mobile data transfer services. Mobitel also said that it will soon launch a commercial upgrade of its 3.5G HSDPA platform to HSUPA, to enable theoretical maximum upload speeds of 5.76Mbps.
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- September 3rd, 2007
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Telekom Slovenije has posted operating revenues for the first half of 2007 of EUR380.8 million (USD519.2 million), up 5% year-on-year, but net profit dropped 12% to EUR46.3 million, as the group earmarked a record EUR145.2 million for investments in the six months to end-June. The company is diversifying to exploit alternative revenue streams following a drop in turnover from core fixed line services. Telekom Slovenije has eleven subsidiary companies, including Slovenia’s largest mobile operator by subscribers, Mobitel. The government has published a call for bids for acquiring a 49% stake in the telco. The call is open until 15 October, but ‘registered bidders’ need to file a complete bid by 28 September. Around ten to fifteen hopefuls are expected to submit non-binding bids, and selected registered bidders will then have to submit binding bids on the basis of due diligence ahead of a final auction process. Telekom Slovenije is 62.5% directly owned by the Republic of Slovenia. Funds and others (including brokerage firms, investment companies) hold around 27%, whilst around 10.5% is held by private investors. Taking into consideration the state funds KAD and SOD, the government indirectly controls around 74% of Telekom. In line with its privatisation strategy, the state intends to retain 25%-plus-one-share in the incumbent.
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Telekom Slovenije loses marketshare (Slovenia)
