Moldovan telco Moldtelecom reports 9% drop in revenue

On 03.15.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A fall of 9% in the revenue has been reported by Moldovan incumbent telco Moldtelecom for the year ended December 31, 2009, earning a revenue of MDL2.4 billion (USD188 million). However, company’s profit from operating activities increased 3% year-on-year to MDL384 million due to the reduction in the costs by 11% during 2009.

4% increase in revenue in 2010 has been expected by the operator to MDL2.5 billion. The profit is predicted to remain stable compared to 2009. The total subscribers’ base of the firm reached 1.34 million, including 1.11 million fixed telephony customers and 101,000 mobile users.

An investment of MDL739 million was made by Moldtelecom during 2009, MDL55 million of which was ploughed into the deployment of infrastructure for the company’s new IPTV service, MDL156 million was spent on the rollout of a 3G network and MDL153.3 million was invested in the PSTN. The remaining amount was put into fibre-optic cable layout, CDMA network roll out, and information technology.

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Reliance Comm reaches 100m customer landmark (India)

On 03.15.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A landmark of 100 million wireless customers has been crossed by India’s Reliance Communications (RCom). This has made it the 2nd largest wireless operator in the country, and the 4th in the world to achieve this milestone.

According to Anil Dhirubhai Ambani, Chairman, Reliance ADA Group, the landmark 100 million mobile customer base makes Reliance the youngest telecom operator to achieve this milestone in such a short span of time. Reliance Communications pioneered the mobile revolution in India and since then it has been the frontrunner of telecom innovations in the country. As the company takes the leap to achieve the 200 million mark, it will lead it from the front with more customer-centric innovations and service approach.

The aim of the company is to achieve 100 million customers within the next 1,000 days. The company is also contemplating to rollout CDMA mobile broadband network which will offer Internet speed of up to 3.1Mbps beyond 60 cities within the next 100 days. The planned roll out will take the total number of cities covered to 125 offering mobile broadband service.

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Motorola to roll out Android smartphones in China

On 03.12.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Android smartphones incorporated with the Bing search engine will be rolled out by US vendor Motorola in China by the end of this month. Bing search and map functions will be added by Motorola to its Android-powered smartphones, as part of a global alliance just signed with Microsoft. A new widget that also includes the Microsoft search engine along with a pre-loaded Bing bookmark on its mobile browsers will be included by the company.

A new feature on the Android handsets for China was announced by the company in the month of January in the wake of the Google-Chinese censorship debacle. The new article would have enabled the users to select their own search provider, including local search champion Baidu.

The first customized Android device supporting Wi-Fi and WAPI, the Motorola XT701 was launched by W-CDMA operator China Unicom earlier this week.

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HTC Supersonic adds its video on YouTube

On 03.08.10, In Mobile Phones, By Editor

A video of HTC Supersonic has been added onto YouTube in which it showing the Supersonic booting up and what it looks like on the back. The aim of the HTC Supersonic is to be one of Sprint’s first 4G (WiMAX) enabled phones of the year.

A few days ago the first video for the Incredible was previewed which was followed by some more pictures that pooped up out of nowhere. Now a real-deal video of Supersonic is available on the YouTube and it doesn’t know the interface, an individual can actually feel for what the device looks like in hand.

Compared to the Incredible, while the Supersonic is also set to be a CDMA device, it also runs Sense. The due share AMOLED screens, 5-megapixel camera and Android 2.1. With the Incredible going towards Verizon, seemingly, at least, the Supersonic does indeed look like it will be heading towards Sprint.

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Find the colors of the ocean in ‘Ascent Ti Neon’

On 03.08.10, In Mobile Phones, By Editor

Here comes a mobile phone, inspired by the colours of the ocean. We are talking about the new Ascent Ti Neon that comes with rubber on the back instead of the leather of the regular Ascent Ti, in a choice of four colours: green, orange, pink and white. What makes the phone so expensive could be attributed to its titanium chassis.

Providing a talk time of 4.5 hours (GSM) and a standby time of around 400 hours, the phone supports the quad band GSM coverage and WCDMA2100 throughout the world.

Ascent Ti Neon has a QVGA display, 4GB of internal memory, 3MP camera and supports Bluetooth interface.

Not to forget to mention, the phone comes with a high performance hands free loudspeaker.

The phone will go on sale in October and will cost nearly $9,900.

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Tata DoCoMo enters Gujarat (India)

On 03.08.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Indian state Gujarat would now receive Tata DoCoMo. GSM mobile service after the company launched the services across the state barring Ahmedabad, Baroda (Vadodara) and Jamnagar. Though the official announcement is yet to be made, all the information regarding list of circles, tariff and other details for future consumers of Tata Docomo across the state have been posted on the website.

The plans include the Tata DoCoMo life time prepaid card priced at Rs. 49 and the “pay as you go” scheme, with a pulse of one second, and a charge of 1 paisa per second. There is no difference in the tariff plan when compared to other circles in which the company operates

DoCoMo joins other big players already operating in the state including BSNL, Reliance (GSM and CDMA), Airtel, Tata Indicom (CDMA), Idea Cellular, and Vodafone.

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Fitch affirms Negative Outlook to Sprint Nextel

On 03.05.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The Issuer Default Rating (IDR) assigned to Sprint Nextel at ‘BB’ with a negative outlook has been affirmed by Fitch Ratings. Fitch’s action has affected an outstanding debt of approximately US$18.9 billion.

In the midst of an economically challenged environment, the ongoing challenges face in the stabilization of the postpaid segment of their wireless business has been encompassed in the Sprint Nextel’s ratings.

By improving the customer experience, strengthening the brand and promoting aggressively valued pricing plans, progress was demonstrated by Sprint Nextel during the second half of 2009. It also resulted in a material shift in its share of industry gross additions. However, lagging perceptions and exclusive handsets with other operators resulted in continued pressure on churns and at the end f 2009; only modest churn improvements were visible.

Fitch believes that if the CDMA business segment of the company stabilizes by the second half, Sprint Nextel will continue its progress with the reduction in the postpaid subscriber losses in 2010. However, Fitch also believes the iDEN segment will continue to lose postpaid subscribers in 2010, albeit at a lower rate, with subscriber losses in the range of at least 1 million to 1.5 million.

In the longer term, Sprint Nextel is required to leverage its scale across handsets and distribution of its prepaid business. At the same time it will continue executing on its strategic marketing initiatives to effectively address competitive responses pressurizing profitability.

By removing an anticipated $1.5 billion of annualized costs, Sprint Nextel is expected to vehemently control costs to offset further revenue pressures in 2010. The financial performance declined and leverage increased to 3.3 times (x) compared to 2.8x at the end of 2008 due to past operational pressure, which was within Fitch’s rating expectations.

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Orange Jordan to launch first 3G network

On 03.05.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The 3G network launched by Orange Jordan is expected to cover some two million Jordanians by the end of the summer. The rolling out of W-CDMA network will be conducted in three phases.

In the first phase roll out, west Amman, Irbid and Zarqa will be covered. The second phase will be carried out in April and it will be expanded over the entire capital and Aqaba while in the third phase due by summer 2010, most urban locations will be covered. After the roll out, 70% of populated areas will receive the service, equivalent to around two million people.

JOD50 million (USD70 million) license for the introduction of 3G services had been granted to Orange by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) in August last year. A year of exclusivity will be enjoyed by the company after which, on agreeing to the same license conditions, other mobile operators will be allowed to introduce 3G services.

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Tata Tele Services customers to earn money for faulty service (India)

On 03.05.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: About 60 million subscribers of Tata Teleservices in India are going to witness another unique level of customer care services and customer experience. The GSM and CDMA operator while unleashing an interesting initiative has decided that if the company fails to meet pre-determined levels of service standards, the subscribers would be compensated with monetary benefits.

Almost all the spectrum of customer complaints has been covered in the current service charter of the company, thus enhancing customer experience.  If issues related to bill disputes, call drop, handset replacement and deficiency in service standards remain unresolved for 3 days; customers will get a benefit of $ 0.55 for every additional day to resolve the complaint. If the Call drops increases from promised 1.5 percent of total calls, 2.5 per cent of the customer’s last billed amount will be refunded. Trials for the value added service will also be provided by TTSL.

After the implementation of mobile number portability (MNP) from May, the new customer service will help TTSL to retain its customers which will continue to avail the service owing to improved customer experience. With so many operators with similar rates and no differentiation, customer experience is expected to become the key focus area in the future. The initiative also aims at commemorating the 171st birth anniversary of Tata Group founder, Sir Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata.

The service is expected to be extended to all the subscribers of Tata DoCoMo and Virgin Mobile in India. Apart from the above mentioned services, a customer will also receive a loaner handset if a handset could not be repaired over the counter at TTSL’s I-Care centers.

Subscribers can also access the call centers 24 hours and seven days a week and would be answered within 90 seconds. If the call is not answered within the stipulated time period, the company would call the customer back within two hours.

With so many offers rolled out by TTSL, the customers are really going to have a gala time enjoying all these facilities while the other operators will take a plunge with similar services to retain their customers. But as of now, TTSL has already scored a notch above others.

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Mehboob Chowdhury named the new CEO of Citycell (Bangladesh)

On 03.03.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Mr. Mehboob Chowdhury has been named as the new CEO and Mr. David Lee as the new Chief Operating Officer of Bangladesh based mobile network operator, Citycell, at present owned by Singtel, Pacific Group and Far East Telecom.

Currently, Mr Chowdhury is the Chairman of South Asia Mobile Forum. Earlier, he was the Director Sales and Marketing of Grameenphone and later Chief Commercial Officer of Banglalink. Mr. Lee previously worked as Deputy Chief Commercial Officer at Pakistan’s Warid Telecom.¬

According to Citycells new CEO Mehboob Chowdhury, as the country’s lone CDMA mobile phone operator, Citycell has already achieved a lot in gaining customers satisfaction and is moving towards to offer better products and services and in his new role he will work towards making Citycell the most preferred telecom operator of Bangladesh.

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