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OTE plans Cosmofon sale (Macedonia)

October 22nd, 2008
5:15 am

Cosmofon’s Greek owner, OTE is planning to sale off the celco for USD336-USD402 million. OTE plans to sell Cosmofon following Deutsche Telekom’s acquisition of a strategic stake in OTE. The German incumbent also controls T-Mobile Macedonia and together with Cosmofon, they control 90% of market share. In order to avoid monopoly in the mobile market, DT must sell one of them off. OTE will start looking for a potential buyer once the Macedonian Competition Agency releases a document stating that the agreement between DT and OTE creates a monopoly on the mobile telephony market.
The divestment will take along with its equipment and national network.

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Macedonia to regulate mobile termination fees (Macedonia)

September 15th, 2008
9:57 am

Macendonia will now be regulating the prices of operators like Makedonski Telekom, T-Mobile Macedonia and Cosmofon charge to retail.
In previous agreements with these operators will now be invalid. According to the amendments to the Law on Electronic Communications, the Agency for Electronic Communications (AEK), as the market regulator is suppose to choose a new model to calculate prices and to intervene directly and lower prices, if it seems to be too high.
After the issue of warnings by EU, the concession agreement was also cancelled, saying that the agreements between state and telecommunications companies could not exist as it puts other players on the market in an unfair position.

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Macedonia looking for firms to bid for three more 3G licences (Macedonia)

September 3rd, 2008
12:00 pm

In a bid to liberalise the market and increase competition, Government of Macedonia is looking to license three more firms to offer 3G mobile services in the country. Ministry of Transport said the tender process for the 3G awards will be prepared in the coming months with starting prices for each concession expected to be set at USD14.5 million. A report reveals that Macedonian telecoms regulator, the Agency for Electronic Communications (AEC), awarded a 3G licence to domestic mobile operator Cosmofon following a tender it launched in November 2007. The licence again cost EUR10 million and will enable Cosmofon to deploy a UMTS network supporting data speeds of up to 3.6Mbps using HSDPA technology.

AEC also proclimed the introduction of mobile number portability (MNP) in the country, effective 1 September 2008. The advent of MNP, which affects Cosmofon, T-Mobile Macedonia and Mobilkom Macedonia (VIP Mobile), allows subscribers to change their service provider but retain their existing phone number and prefix. This move will bolster competition the competition in the mobile market.

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Fourth GSM licence attracts six bidders

June 19th, 2007
3:38 pm

According to Macedonia’s telecoms regulator, the Macedonia Agency for Electronic Communications (AEK), six companies have expressed an interest in bidding in the country’s forthcoming auction of a fourth GSM operating licence. The AEK says that four of those looking to take part are foreign concerns and two local; it declined to provide any further details. Under the regulator’s licensing conditions, the successful operator will be required to launch within six months of receiving its concession and provide network coverage to 30% of the population in the first year. By the end of the second year coverage must reach 50% of the population, rising to 90% by the end of year four.

Macedonia is home to three mobile operators, writes TeleGeography’s GlobalComms database: T-Mobile Macedonia (formerly MobiMak), Cosmofon (owned by OTE unit Cosmote of Greece) and new market entrant, Mobilkom, which is backed by Mobilkom Austria and won its concession earlier this year. At the end of December 2006 Macedonia had 1.417 million mobile users, a mobile penetration rate of 69.7%.

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