Solomon Islands plan to award 3rd mobile license
The Solomon Islands has confirmed that it is planning to offer the country’s third mobile license, just a few months after the country’s second network; B-Mobile launched its services.
Communications Commissioner, Nick Williams, made the announcement in Honiara, noting that the license will include an option to offer 3G services.
According to Williams, he hopes to award the license by March next year and to see the operator begin its service within 6 months. The incumbent operator had blocked the launch of the country’s second mobile network, B-Mobile for nearly ten months after its license was originally granted.
When the second license was tendered in 2009, Digicel applied for a license, but was rejected. Digicel had actually been granted a license in 2006, but Solomon Telekom successfully sued to block the network launch pending a review of its monopoly status.
Bhutan Telecom to invest BTN2.03 billion in network upgrade
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: An investment of BTN2.03 billion (USD43.99 million) in the networks has been planned by state-owned Bhutan Telecom over the next four years. The news came after an investment of BTN52.61 billion was announced by Druk Holding and Investment (DHI), the state-owned holding company, in its operations in the same time-frame.
Bhutan Telecom has revealed its plans to use the funds to expand the networks of its B-Mobile subsidiary, besides continuing work to upgrade the PSTN. Recently B- Mobile completed the expansion projects in the Paro, Samdrupjongkhar, Samtse, Chukha and Haa dzongkhags (regions) and it is currently upgrading its GSM network in the rural areas.
B.Mobile deploys Amdocs ChangingWorlds Personalized Mobile Portal solution (Brunei)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Amdocs, the leading provider of customer experience systems, today announced that B.mobile Communications Sdn Bhd, Brunei’s leading mobile provider, has deployed the Amdocs ChangingWorlds Personalized Mobile Portal solution. The Amdocs ChangingWorlds’ solution enhances content relevance through advanced personalization techniques, enabling B.mobile to offer a more compelling end-user experience by automatically delivering relevant, personalized mobile content and services to individual subscribers. The announcement was made at CommunicAsia taking place this week.
“B.mobile is committed to providing quality, reliability and innovation in 3G mobile communications which is why we view personalization capabilities as critical,” said Mr Song Kin Koi, Chief Executive Officer of B.mobile. “The Amdocs ChangingWorlds solution allows us to truly personalize customer experience by delivering relevant, valuable content and services to suit each customer’s needs and lifestyle. This level of personalization will also help us to increase data revenues through more effective targeted marketing campaigns and personalized advertising.” (more…)
B-Mobile working to increase capacity
Bhutan Telecom’s cellular subsidiary B-Mobile says it is increasing the capacity of its networks to combat clogging, which leaves subscribers unable to get a connection at peak times. The firm says the problem is most acute in the main urban areas in the early evening. Local news portal Kuensel Online reports that in the city of Thimphu there is just a 50% call success rate at peak times, while in Gelephu and Paro the rate is 33%. B-Mobile says it is doubling the network capacity in some areas, with the work expected to be completed by the end of this year. B-Mobile has around 70,000 subscribers, 98% of which use pre-paid options.
Source- telegeography Wireless Mobile Telecom
