Banco Azteca to launch tender for Iusacell shares (Mexico)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The local financial institution of Mexican mobile network operator Iusacell, Banco Azteca is preparing to launch a tender for the 6.1% of shares in the cellco. Currently, these shares are occupied by minority shareholders.
According to a filing made by Iusacell to the Mexican stock exchange notes that the bank will offer MXN49.05 (USD4.03) per share for all of the shares it does not hold, with the total value of the deal expected to be around MXN371.8 million.
The tender commenced on April 21 and will run until May 18.
Armenian cellco K-Telecom reaches 2.1m subscribers mark
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The subscribers’ base of Armenian cellco K-Telecom (trading as VivaCell-MTS) reached 2.1 million on February 28, 2010.
75% of the domestic mobile market had been controlled by VivaCell-MTS at December 31, 2009. With 19% market share, the mobile arm of national PTO ArmenTel (Beeline) was close to MTS and it was followed by market newcomer Orange Armenia with the remaining market share. Orange signed its 200,000th subscriber just last month having launched services on November 5, 2009.
Given the threat posed by its rivals, VivaCell-MTS is now looking to new, advanced technologies to maintain its competitive edge. Plan to deploy 4G mobile broadband services based on Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in 2010 has been recently revealed by the company.
Out of 2.045 million-strong customer base of the cellco, around 600,000 subscribe to some form of data product (i.e. GPRS, EDGE or UMTS technology), including around 400,000 3G subscribers.
VivaCell is a subsidiary of Russian powerhouse Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS), a leading telecoms operator in Russia and CIS countries.
Portuguese cellco Optimus selects Tekelec to monitor performance
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Tekelec, a performance management company has been selected by Portuguese cellco Optimus to monitor the performance of its converged next generation network (NGN).
Tekelec’s performance management service will be used by the telco to gain visibility into its network services and subscriber usage as it converges its mobile and fixed assets into a single platform.
In order to increase storage and processing capacity to handle the dramatic increase in subscriber usage data, Optimus is migrating to Tekelec’s next generation Linux-based performance management platform.
Five Operators May Get To Offer 3G Services This Year
Business Standard:The department of telecommunications is preparing a strategy for the release of 3G spectrum. Based on this, the defence ministry may be required to vacate 25 MHz by the end of December 2006, and another 35 MHz by 2007-end. Telcos require a minimum of 5 MHz each to run 3G operations. Which means not all eight big cellular telcos will be able to provide 3G services this year.
However, by next year, there is likely to be enough spectrum for all. But for now, five cellcos will be selected to provide 3G. The cellular association COAI has suggested that they can be selected on the basis of their ability to cough the investment (there will be a licence fee), the cheap 3G tariffs offered and so on.
Related:
COAI offers Rs. 300 Crore For 3G; Is 3G worth it?
3G Spectrum Is Not Free For Sure; Only Quantum Of Fee Needs To Be Fixed
TRAI To Suggest 3G Fee Of Rs 425 Crore Per Circle Per Operator
Source- http://www.contentsutra.com
