GT-TELL seeks strategic investor (Cambodia)

On 08.22.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The only one CDMA mobile operator in the Kingdom of Cambodia GT-TELL (Cambodia) Investment Company Ltd., is said to be seeking strategic investor for its expansion of its network to cover the whole territory of Cambodia. Currently the GT-TELL Company company is operating under “EXCELL” trade mark and offers services both voice and data, including EVDO (3G) Mobile Broadband services in Phnom Penh and surrounding province.

Commercial operations of the company started July 2, 2008 and during the first year of operations the company achieved outstanding results in attracting new subscribers. Total number of subscribers reached 40K subscribers. Furthermore, EXCELL’s attractive rates are very popular among Mobile Internet and Mobile Broadband users. EXCELL offers one of the lowest and most reliable Mobile Internet in Phnom Penh. During the short period of time the Company earned it own market share in this highly competitive market.

Currently, the Company is said to be looking for future expansion of its network; therefore, is seeking strategic investor. The company decided to explore more opportunities in teaming up with new investor in order to capitalize advances of the CDMA technology, which offers lower operational cost, as well as faster deployment, fewer BTS compare to its GSM rivals.

It is said that interested parties can contact the company at +855 18 700017 or +855 18 700022.
E-mail: gttell@gmail.com or biloliddin@excell.com.kh

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Millicom sells Mobitel to Royal Group for $346Mn (Cambodia)

On 08.15.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Millicom International Cellular has reportedly agreed to vend its Cambodian operations, Mobitel, to its local partner, the Royal Group, for a price of $346 million.
The deal includes Millicom’s 58.4% holdings in CamGSM, Royal Telecam, and Cambodia Broadcasting Services and values the Cambodian operations at $605m.
Mikael Grahne, president and CEO of Millicom, said: “We are delighted to reach agreement on the sale of our Cambodian operations to our local partner, the Royal Group. We are very proud of having played an important role in the development of the leading mobile operator in Cambodia and are very confident of the continued success of Mobitel and its people within the Royal Group.”

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Royal Group to acquire MIC’s Cambodian operations

On 08.12.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederaion.com/news:  Millicom International Cellular (MIC) has inked an agreement with the Royal Group of Cambodia for the sale of its Cambodian operations, worth  USD346 million in cash. The Royal Group will acquire MIC’s 58.4% stake in CamGSM, which provides mobile services in the country under the Mobitel banner, as well as its holdings in Royal Telecam International and Cambodia Broadcasting Services. If the regulator gives consent over it, the sale is expected to be completed by the end of 2009 and would bring the Royal Group’s shareholding in Mobitel to 100%.

Mikael Grahne, President and CEO of MIC, said, ‘We are delighted to reach agreement on the sale of our Cambodian operations to our local partner, the Royal Group. We are very proud of having played an important role in the development of the leading mobile operator in Cambodia and are very confident of the continued success of Mobitel and its people within the Royal Group.’

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Smart Mobile & Wing to launch mobile payment service in Cambodia

On 08.11.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Smart Mobile, the Cambodian mobile operator has repotedly selected Wing mobile payment system to offer m-payment services to its subscribers. Owned by the ANZ banking group, the system enables payments and money transfers by mobile phone using the Wing Tinh Card top-up system. Non-users can receive money via the Wing Wei Luy service using a security code for access to cash at Wing Cash Xpress points.

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Smart Mobile extends “TalkLikeCrazy!” promotion (Cambodia)

On 08.11.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: With the popularity among many customers joining “TalkLikeCrazy!” promotion as well as the request from customers who are enjoying the promotion to the company to extend “TalkLikeCrazy!” promotion, now anybody who uses Smart Mobile (010/ 093) still can enjoy unlimited calls within network for only 10 cents (about 400 riels) a day from 12am till 6pm with the unlimited calls of up to 120 minutes a day. Beyond that, the within network call rate is 2.2 cents per minute.

Therefore, keep enjoying your calls to your family, to your friends and to your important partners freely and happily with no worry of more charges. You are so smart to choose Smart Mobile.

To join the promotion, just dial *010#. The offer is valid until 30th September 2009.
Use Smart Mobile today to enjoy unlimited calls and other benefits as well as new promotions coming on the way.

More information: Please dial 888 or 010 200 888, or visit www.smart.com.kh

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NTT DoCoMo shows interest in Mobitel stake (Cambodia)

On 08.09.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese mobile operator, has reportedly shown interest in acquiring stake in Millicom International Cellular’s (MIC) Combodian subsidiary, Mobiltel, Toshinari Kunieda, senior vice president and managing director of DoCoMo’s global business, reportedly unveiled. The acquisition, according to DoCOmO will boost its presence in the South-East Asia. Kunieda added that DoCoMo is also considering investing in Sri Lanka, and could look at Luxembourg-based MIC’s Sri Lanka asset Celltel among other possibilities.

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Millicom sees interested bidders for Asian operations

On 07.02.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Millicom, the mobile operator, has reportedly revealed that several parties have shown interest in acquisition of its Asian operation. The company appointed Goldman Sachs to look at strategic options for the activities, including a possible sale. The Asian operations, which include operators in Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Laos, generated revenues of $68 million and net profit of $4 million in Q1′09.

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Axiata plans acquisitions in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka & Cambodia

On 06.18.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Axiata, the mobile operator group, is planning and looking for acquisitions in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Sri Lanka, to boost profitability. The global economic recession called for review of its operations in the above mentioned three nations and now the company plans to consolidate its position in these markets, CFO Yusof Annuar Yaacob reportedly said. Axiata also intends to move out from Pakistan, where the Group operates has a fibre optic network which is too small.

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Axiata plans to launch consumer brand of its own

On 06.16.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Axiata, the mobile operator group, intends to launch its own consumer brand, a media report cited CEO Jamaludin Ibrahim. Operators like Celcom (Malaysia), Dialog (Sri Lanka), Hello (Cambodia), and XL (Indonesia) have already added the Axiata logo to their own brand identity. Axiata has also slashed the IDD tariffs by 50% across regional operators.  The offer will be available for calls to Singapore, India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

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Sotelco launches Comverse ONE Billing & customer management solution (Cambodia)

On 06.16.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Comverse announced today that Sotelco, a new Cambodian mobile operator, has launched the ComverseONE Billing and Active Customer Management™ solution to support prepaid and postpaid subscribers and roll out bundled multi-play service offerings.
Sotelco, whose majority owner is VimpelCom Group (NYSE: VIP), also will implement Comverse’s voice and messaging services from the Comverse HUB, including SMS, MMS, ringback tones, call completion services, and management of mobile data services.

“The commercial start under the Beeline brand in Cambodia is an important stage in the international development of VimpelCom following our success in Russia and CIS,” said Vladimir Riabokon, Executive Vice-President, VimpelCom. “Following the successful deployment of Comverse ONE at Sotelco, we strongly consider the opportunity to work with Comverse to expand this platform to additional affiliates and markets in the region.” Comverse ONE Billing and Active Customer Management is a comprehensive Business Support System (BSS) solution that saves operators time and money because convergent billing, order management and customer management are built around the same data model, thereby removing integration points and speeding deployment times. This approach allows operators to support new business models, and is scalable to meet evolving business needs and phased transformation goals. (more…)

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