Armenia’s ArmenTel plans to triple 3G capacity
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Tripling of 3G communications capacity has been planned by national fixed line and mobile operator ArmenTel by the end of 2010. Working under the Beeline trademark of its parent Vimpelcom, more than 100,000 subscribers currently use the cellco’s mobile internet services, including 3G.
The Russian parent of the telco after the successful trials of a test LTE network in Kazakhstan has planned to roll out Long Term Evolution (LTE) in Armenia.
According to Armentel CEO Igor Klimko, it is very important to note that the decision on frequency harmonisation, in which the LTE network construction will be permitted in Armenia, will also have an impact on its plans and it is felt that frequencies within 700MHz-800MHz harmonisation will be optimal. Mixed views have been generated by the rivals of the telco. 4G service based on LTE technology is intended to be generated by VivaCell-MTS during 2010. Orange Armenia has made it clear that it does not plan to replace 3G+ (HSPA) technology with 4G.
Vimpelcom exceeds 2 mln internet subscribers
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The internet subscriber base of Russian operator Vimpelcom exceeded 2 million at the end of 2009. 1.073 million Has been the fixed Beeline internet subscribers and the mobile internet subscriber base reached 1.038 million at the end of 2009.
RUB 1.7 billion in Q3 2009 has been the total revenue from broadband services comprising RUB 626 million from mobile broadband and RUB 1.1 billion from fixed broadband.
Orange Armenia reaches 200K subscribers in three months
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: 200,000 subscriber marks has been crossed by Orange Armenia in less than three months after launching commercial services on 5 November 2009.The Company is owned by France telecom and hit the 100,000 subscriber mark in early December itself.
EUR100 million (USD148.5 million) has already been invested by Orange and is going forward to provide necessary expertise and investment to ensure the development of a high-quality 2G and 3G+ network offering nationwide coverage.
Before Orange’s entry in Armenia, the market was previously a duopoly of VivaCell-MTS and ArmenTel (Beeline).
However, a population of around 3.2 million people, including 1.1 million in the capital Yerevan, Armenia offered the FT group significant growth potential.
Ukrainian mobile content market worth 30 million
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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