BH Telecom launches seven-digit numbering (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
BH Telecom has become the first mobile telephony operator in the country to launch seven-digit numbering on a commercial scale.
The seven-digit numbering will be offered with the new code 060, because the company has surpassed the capacity of six-digit numbering with the code 061 and 062.
The new seven-digit numbering will at first be available to large-scale customers, and later to other users.
HT Mostar appoints Boris Galic as new board (Bosnia and Herzegovina)member
The supervisory board of Hrvatske telekomunikacije Mostar (HT Mostar) has appointed Boris Galic as a new board member and executive director of Finances.
During his carrier, he worked for T-HT Zagreb, Slavonske banka, Fair & Correct / Deloitte & Touche, among others.
HT Eronet sponsors Melodije Mostara music festival (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
HT Eronet will sponsor the Melodije Mostara (Melodies of Mostar), a music festival held annually in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
An agreement concerning this sponsorship has been signed by HT Eronet CEO Vilim Primorac and the president of the festival Dragan Dzidic. The festival will be held on 7 and 8 May.
BH Telecom provides access to live mobile TV (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
BH Telecom is offering all its mSurf package users with the possibility of receiving 10 live TV channels as part of its Mobile TV service.
The channels available are Televizija Kantona Sarajevo, ATV Banja Luka, Nezavisna Televizija Kakanj, Radio Televizije Republike Srpske, Radio Televizija Bosansko-podrinjskog Kantona Gorazde, Radio Televizija Unsko-sanskog Kantona Bihac, Radio Televizija Zenica, RTV Slon – Tuzla, RTV HIT BrÄko and Pink BH.
Mobile devices need to support multimedia playback functionality with recorded streaming settings. The service works best on the 3G network, with access to the service through BH Telecom’s WAP portal.
m:tel launches etop-ups at post offices (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
m:tel has enabled customers of its prepaid service Friend to top up their accounts at post office counters of BH Posta.
Electronic payment via POS terminals is now possible in the Sarajevo, Tuzla, Zenica-Doboj, Western Bosnia, Una-Sana, Bosnia-Podrinje and Central Bosnia cantons.
After completion of the transaction, the user will get a SMS confirming the top-up. The minimum value is US$ 1.48 and the maximum US$37.03.
BH Telecom threatened to shut (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
BH Telecom has reportedly been warned to halt operations by the Securities Commission of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It is implicated that such a move could be made because BH Telecom has only elected six members to its supervisory board, one less than required by the operator’s legal provisions. The telco voted in the current six members in May 2010 for a transitional period of 90 days, and it has now been given until 23 December 2010 to hold a shareholder’s meeting and elect a board that fulfils its legal obligations.
The Securities Commission meanwhile has also reportedly pointed out that any decisions made by the current board could be re-examined.
BH gives Ericsson’s Croatian unit new 5.9Mn GSM contract (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: BH Telecom given Croatia-based technology provider Ericsson Nikola Tesla a new contract for GSM mobile network expansion worth HRK30 million (USD5.9 million). With immediate effect, the contract covers expansion of BH Telecom’s GSM/GPRS/EDGE infrastructure to allow for continued user base growth, as well as faster and more reliable mobile voice and data access across the network. Gordana
Kovacevic, President of Ericsson Nikola Tesla, said, ‘I am very pleased with the continued cooperation [with] BH Telecom in mobile telephony. It should provide a foundation for even larger projects with our strategic customer in further mobile network modernisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.’
RAK decides to slash licence fees for telecom operators (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Regulatory Communications Agency (RAK) has decided to slash the fee paid by mobile operators, from BAM 600,000 to BAM 550,000. The agency also voted in favour of reducing the fees paid by fixed telephony providers, from BAM 500,000 to BAM 450,000.
Sales of mobile phones drop by 50% (Bosnia Herzegovina)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Mobile phone sales dropped by 50% in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the beginning of 2009, according to the local distributor of Nokia products. The manager of Mobis Elektronika, Nebojsa Biskup, reportedly said that the Nokia dealership registered a 50% drop in sales during the first quarter in comparison to the same period in 2008, although the situation improved in the second quarter, when the decrease was only 40%. He pointed out that the number of Bosnians who use mobile phones is less than 60% of the population, which shows that the drop was caused by the economic recession, rather than market saturation. He estimated that sales could stabilize by the end of this year.
