Alcatel-Lucent and Kvazar-Micro are jointly deploying a CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A mobile network in Ukraine for UMC. The network, deployed in the 450 MHz spectrum band, will enable UMC to introduce high-speed 3G mobile data services such as enhanced messaging and audio and video streaming services in major Ukrainian cities. As part of this project, Alcatel-Lucent will provide its CDMA Modular Cell 4.0 Compact base stations for the 450 MHz spectrum band and CDMA2000 1xEV-DO radio network controllers (RNC). The Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ethernet service switch (ESS) will also be deployed as a multi-layer switch. Alcatel-Lucent will also provide network design, planning, deployment, operation, maintenance and personnel training services, while Kvazar-Micro will be responsible for overall network integration.
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At the end of April there were 51.3 million mobile subscribers in Ukraine, down 0.1 percent from the previous month, according to figures from iKS Consulting. The number of mobile subscribers fell for the first time by 22,600 because Kyivstar and UMC no longer count inactive subscribers. However, Ukrainian Radio Systems (Beeline) added more than 91,000 new users during the month and Telesystems of Ukraine (Peoplenet) saw its subscriber base triple in April. The mobile penetration stood at 110.5 percent in April.
Kyivstar ended April with 21.97 million mobile customers, down 110,000 from the previous month, and UMC reported 20.68 million subscribers, down 71,658. Astelit added 46,000 new customers to end April with 5.92 million subscribers, and URS saw its customer base go up to 2.42 million after winning 91,124 new customers. Velton. Telecom ended the month with 103,276 customers and added 2,485 new subscribers. ITC saw its customer base grow by 4,190 to reach 74,330, and Intertelecom ended the month with 51,938 customers after adding 7,684 new subscribers. Golden Telecom was stable at 51,000, and CST-Invest added 759 new customers to reach a total of 14,028. Ukrainian Wave ended April with 12,815 customers and Telesystems of Ukraine’s customer base surged to 10,000 after adding 6,800 new subscribers.
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Kiev, August 18, PRIME-TASS. According to a study carried out by ComNews Research, Ukraine’s content services market volume stood at around 30 million dollars in the first six months of 2006, excluding indirect gains from mobile marketing and content sold independently of mobile operators.
Analysts state that the five leading content providers control 48 percent of the market. Jump Ukraine holds the top position for the first half of 2006 with 17%, while the daughter company of Russian provider Inform-mobile comes in second with 12%. The Ukrainian branch of the Russian company Solvo International takes 8%, and Ukrainian content providers Point Com and Dnepr Telecom have 7 and 4 percent respectively.
The success of the top five is mostly attributable to their participation in projects to provide content under mobile operator’s brands or sub brands: Kievstar, Djuice, JEANS, UMC and Beeline.
The Ukrainian daughter companies of Russian market leaders i-Free, Infon and Logoton were in the next five, along with UPT-Mobile and Mobiline Media. Their appearance in the rating highlight trends in the development of the Ukrainian mobile content market. UPT-Mobile specialises in WAP projects and partners with the majority of popular Russian WAP sites. The content provider Mobiline Media is an offspring of ‘1+1′, one of Ukraine’s largest TV channels.
ComNews Research analysts predict that providers specialising in WAP projects will see a long-term growth in market share. They also foresee the migration of successful content projects to WAP, conditional to operators opening WAP-CPA. Media projects will also enjoy an increased share, although they are overly tied to competing media such as television and printed publishing, whose ratings are difficult to predict.
The analysts consider the Ukrainian content services market attractive for investment, and expect to find such major Western players as Jamba and Jet Multimedia entering the market in the near future.
Source- http://world.procontent.ru
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