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Mobitel recieves a new dialling code and two million phone numbers (Bulgaria)

October 8th, 2008
7:11 am

Bulgaria’s Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) grants Mobitel, after ten months of it’s request, new dialling code and two million new phone numbers. Now Mobitel, which operates on 88 dialling code will also be using 98 code. The all new 2 million mobile numbers will have the 988 and 989 prefixes.
Mobitel had requested the regulator for a vancant code in 2007, but was rejected as the operator then was using only 60% of the allocated numbers.
The operator argued that with five million subscribers, one million SIM cards on sale, another million for internal systems synchronisation and yet more used to provide data services, it was running low on resources.
M-Tel had taken the regulator to court for the rejection of the requst for additional numbers, which were needed as it was looking forward to launch new services with the new code.
According to telco, the resource will not be used for new SIM cards because the old capacity has not been depleted. The CRC will allocate two million numbers for Mobiltel’s rivals, Globul and Vivatel, although neither has requested additional numbers.

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M-tel, Vivatel and Globul align their roaming call tariffs to the Eurotariff (Bulgaria)

August 29th, 2008
11:46 am

Three Bulgarian mobile operators have revealed that they’ll align their roaming call tariffs to the Eurotariff, which came into being last year.
The directive states that the price ceiling for calls made will shall decrease to 0.46 euro and 0.43 euro, and for calls received to 0.22 euro and 0.19 euro, on 30 August 2008 and on 30 August 2009, respectively.

M-tel and Vivatel, will adjust their roaming tariffs at the last moment while Globul did the same in 2007.

The calling tariffs will now be become 1.08 lev a minute, for calls made and 0.56 leva a minute for the recieved.

Mobiltel and Vivatel said the tariff reduction will have no adverse effect on their financial performance.

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Bulgaria set to auction another wireless license (Bulgaria)

June 11th, 2008
2:43 pm

Bulgaria will auction a mobile phone license on July 29 that will allow the launch of a fourth wireless operator in the European Union newcomer, a Reuters report said.

Some 12 companies, including Turkish mobile operator Turkcell, have expressed initial interest in acquiring the 20-year GSM license, the report said.

The tender will have a starting price of 38 million leva (€19.4 million) according to the regulator.

Interested suitors should express their interest in taking part in the auction by July 11.

The three current mobile phone operators in the Balkan country of 7.7 million people have so far not expressed interest in the tender, although initially Telekom Austria’s Mobiltel and Cosmote’s Globul considered it.

Bulgaria’s third GSM operator, Vivatel, part of telecoms BTC and owned by US insurance giant AIG, has not expressed interest.

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Mobile Number Portability Dispute

January 15th, 2007
6:25 am

Bulgaria’s Globul and Vivatel have signed the procedure for Mobile Number Portabily, which was adopted by the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) on December 22, 2006. The Procedure, though adopted by CRC and signed by Globul and Vivatel cannot come into force without the consent of all mobile operators.

“We believe that very soon people in the country will enjoy the advantages which the European citizens have who consume mobile services - the right to chose a mobile operator”, said vivatel CEO Richard Shearer. “Today, the youngest operator signed officially the rules of the procedure for the implementation of number portability in mobile networks and proved once more it’s determination to be a driving force in the development of the mobile services market.

M-Tel for its part, says that it will only sign the mobile number portability procedure only after the revision of some parts that will cause problems to the customers.

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LEADING MOBILE PHONE OPERATOR IN BULGARIA OPPOSES NUMBER PORTABILITY

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.

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