www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Axiata Bangladesh, Aktel, has reportedly reached a subscriber base of 10 million. AKTEL’s chief executive officer Jefri Ahmed Tambi said, ‘When AKTEL started its operations, it had just 150 employees and 20 base station towers. Now we have 1,500 employees and 5,000 base stations.’
On 08.13.09, In Mobile, By Editor
On 08.06.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Orange Dominicana has reportedly introduced the country’s first GSM network powered entirely by solar energy. Orange claims that the new solar-powered base stations are ten times more efficient than traditional electric-powered cell sites, adding that the new units offer zero carbon dioxide emissions and zero noise. In the first phase, telco aims to build 30 base stations.
On 08.06.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Entel Movil reportedly plans to deploy 276 new base stations by March 2010. The telco anticipates to have a total of 1,057 base stations in operation by that date, giving coverage of 90% of the population in the Oruro, Tarija and Pando departments, and overall coverage of 75%. The cost of the infrastructure expansion is estimated at BOB500 million (USD72.75 million). Presently, the telco covers approximately 2,600 rural municipalities, and it is anticipated to add a further by the end of this year.
On 07.31.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Azerfon LLC has announced on installation of more 20 base stations in different regions of the country.
New stations were installed in Absheron region (2), Baku (16), Sheki (1) and Gabala (1) cities. At present Azerfon LLC provides 1.3 million of subscribers with high-quality communication covering area with 90 % population of the country.
For convenient inter-connection of subscribes Azerfon LLC will continue installation of new transmitting stations throughout the whole country.
On 07.22.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The state-run TOT has reportedly asked Advanced Info Service (AIS) to use some of the latter’s 12,000 base stations to quicken its plans to launch 3G mobile services across the country within the next two years. TOT intends to launch 2100MHz W-CDMA/HSDPA-based services across 500 existing GSM base stations of its subsidiary Thai Mobile in the capital at a cost of THB1.7 billion (USD50.6 million), before launching a 3,800 base station network across the country, costing around THB20 billion.
AIS president Wichien Mektrakarn said the company was ready to co-operate since it operated under a build-transfer-operate (BTO) concession with TOT, although as AIS had the first right to use its facilities under the BTO agreement, TOT would have to notify the company about any changes in usage.
A TOT director acknowledged that AIS’s base stations at some sites could not be adapted for 3G because some equipment and antennae were too heavy for the structures.
On 07.10.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: O2 Germany has upgraded its wireless network which now supports speeds of up to 7.2Mbps downlink and 2Mbps uplink. All base stations deployed by Huawei in the south and most other cell sites have been upgraded. O2 ended March with a subscriber base 14.5 million and holds a market share of 13.6%.
On 07.06.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: China Unicom is gearing up for 3G service, expects to lure as many as 30 million users for 3G telecom business one year after the service is launched. China Unicom has kept CNY 38.7 billion or USD 5.6 billion for the expansion of its 3G commercial network in 2009, unveiled sources. It started trail 3G commercial services after setting up a network covering 55 cities across the country on May 17, 2009, according to earlier reports.
China Unicom intends to set up 78,600 base stations in the first phase of commercial network construction in 2009, expanding its network to 284 cities throughout the country and making its 3G signal available to 74% of the population.
On 06.26.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: CMPak (Zong), mobile operator of Pakistan, is reportedly planning to spend approximately USD500 million on increasing the number of base stations it has in operation to approximately 9,000 by the end of 2009.
According to the report, Zong plans to double the number of cell sites it has in certain areas of the country, and claims that the project is one of the largest undertaken in Pakistan. China Mobile, the parent company of Zong has already made an investment around USD1.66 billion in its Pakistan unit to date, USD600 billion of which was spent in the second half of the 2008-2009 fiscal year alone.
On 06.17.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Alfa, the mobile operator, managed by Orascom Telecom announced that it is keeping on strengthening its network all over Lebanon in order to enhance the quality of transmission, improve the network coverage and increase its capacity to support the subscribers’ traffic and growth.
Thus, 99 Stations have been installed progressively in the different regions since the first of February 2009, and several update operations have been implemented in addition to the expansion of 231 pre-based Stations.
It’s worth mentioning that Alfa has been managed by “Orascom Telecom Holding” (OTH) since the 1st of February 2009. Orascom Telecom is the leading mobile operator in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. Orascom Telecom counts over 80 million subscribers.
In compliance with this strategy, the company announced that it is constantly executing operations of enhancement and development for the network’s quality in order to offer the best services to its subscribers and to provide them regularly with the best quality of transmission.
Furthermore, Alfa’s network capacity can cater for a million subscribers with its services, and it is working now on the expansion of the network to be able to serve 1.2 million subscribers, in addition to the execution of the plans aiming to develop and enhance the network.
About Alfa
Alfa is the brand name of one of the two Lebanese mobile networks owned by the Republic of Lebanon. Alfa is managed by Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) since February 1, 2009.
Alfa capitalizes on its expertise in the telecom field in order to deliver a global and professional solution for the GSM sector in Lebanon. Its main target is to reach one million subscribers by end of 2009.
About Orascom Telecom
Orascom Telecom is a leading international telecommunications company operating GSM networks in high growth markets in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, having a total population under license of approximately 498 million with an average mobile telephony penetration of approximately 48% as of March 31st, 2009. Orascom Telecom operates GSM networks in Algeria (“OTA”), Pakistan (“Mobilink”), Egypt (“Mobinil”), Tunisia (“Tunisiana”), Bangladesh (“banglalink”), and North Korea (“Koryolink”). OTH has an indirect equity ownership in Globalive Wireless which has been granted a spectrum license in Canada. OTH was also awarded the management contract of one of the two Lebanese mobile telecommunications operators from the government of the Republic of Lebanon. Through its subsidiary Telecel Globe, OTH also operates in Burundi, the Central African Republic, Namibia and Zimbabwe. Orascom Telecom had over 80 million subscribers as of March 31st, 2009.
Orascom Telecom is traded on the Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchange under the symbol (ORTE.CA, ORAT EY), and on the London Stock Exchange its GDR is traded under the symbol (ORTEq.L, OTLD LI).
For more information, please visit www.orascomtelecom.com