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Vodafone Malta offers prepaid packages with all BlackBerry smartphones

On 08.31.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Following Vodafone Malta’s introduction of its prepaid mobile Internet service, making it the first company in Malta to offer the option, the company is now introducing tailor-made prepaid packages with BlackBerry smartphones.

The prepaid BlackBerry® Internet Service from Vodafone offers unlimited e-mail, unlimited Internet browsing and BlackBerry® Messenger. The packages available for purchase are e20 for unlimited data usage expiring after 30 days and e7 for unlimited data usage expiring after seven days.

As a special launch incentive, Vodafone is also offering its prepaid customers a special discounted price on the BlackBerry Storm smartphone of e450 instead of e565, which also includes three months free prepaid BlackBerry Internet Service.

The prepaid BlackBerry Internet Service from Vodafone enables customers to connect to people and places and includes features to help the subscriber remain in touch from almost anywhere. With e-mail and text messaging, instant messaging and social networking applications such as Facebook and MySpace, customers can easily stay in touch with their colleagues, family and friends while on the go.

“We’re pleased to offer our customers BlackBerry smartphones with the flexibility, value and benefits on a prepaid service. One simply has to purchase the Internet bundles from Vodafone’s website,” said Rachael Demicoli, Marketing Executive at Vodafone Malta.

The prepaid BlackBerry solution works with Vodafone prepaid SIM cards. The data within the bundle includes only local usage. Terms and conditions apply. For more information, contact Vodafone Customer Service on 247 from your Vodafone mobile or dial 999 99247 from any other line. Alternatively, visit www.vodafone.com.mt or visit one of Vodafone’s retail outlets.

Nokia launches Nokia Money, a mobile financial service

On 08.27.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Nokia has introduced Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service offering consumers with mobile device access to basic financial services. For many consumers, this will be the first time they have had any access to such financial services.
Nokia Money has been designed to be as simple and convenient as making a voice call or sending an SMS. It will enable consumers to send money to another person just by using the person’s mobile phone number, as well as to pay merchants for goods and services, pay their utility bills, or recharge their prepaid SIM cards (SIM top-up). The services can be accessed 24 hours a day from anywhere, meaning savings in travel costs and time. Nokia is building a wide network of Nokia Money agents, where consumers can deposit money in or withdraw cash from their accounts.
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Mobily roamers get local phone numbers (Saudi Arabia)

On 08.27.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Visitors to Saudi Arabia who roam with Mobily won’t need to dump their mobile handsets and tuck away their home SIM cards. The Kingdom’s fastest growing mobile operator announced this week that visitors can get local phone numbers from Mobily using the same SIM cards they brought with them, and hence can make and receive calls on their own mobile phones, thus eliminating the need for them to use two different SIMs in two different phones, and the subsequent need to buy a second handset. The service is one of many that manifest the competency of the technology the company employs and their compatibility with international standards of global operators.

Along with millions of giveaways, Mobily is working around the clock to help visitors get in touch with their loved ones.
Mobily’s agents in 15 points in local airports, seaports, border crossings and Miqats, as well as in hotels in Makkah and Madinah, show visitors how to select Mobily’s network on their handsets and inform them of the great promotions the company has to offer them.
Additionally, as has become a tradition every year for the company, Mobily launched its annual grand prize for visitors on Saturday – with one difference: now it’s twice as big. Ten visitors, whether here for Omrah, Hajj, business or just visiting, will win SR100,000 each, effectively doubling last year’s combined prizes to SR1 million. The competition runs from the beginning of Ramadan to the end of Hajj. To stand a chance of winning, all a visitor has to do is select Mobily as his or her roaming network through their phone settings. Winners will be contacted and their names published in national newspapers.

Mobily enjoys a great many roaming deals with international operators, so as its subscribers, and visitors, can get in touch wherever they are. The deals also cover such advanced services as Internet connectivity, video calling and MMS, to name a few.

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Russia adds 2Mn subscribers in July

On 08.20.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Russia added 2million new subscribers in July, half of which were added by MegaFon. As many as one in three Russians have more than one SIM card – 199.9 million were in use at the end of July.
MTS and VimpelCom on the other hand added 511,000 and 599,000 new subscribers respectively. However, MTS gains came from outside Moscow. In the Russian capital, the total number of mobile subscribers fell since MTS shed 504,000 subscribers, far more than the number of Muscovites who signed on with VimpelCom or MegaFon.

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Ukraine adds 354,000 subscribers in July

On 08.20.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Ukraine has reportedly added 354,000 subscribers in July, mostly added by Russia’s OAO Vimpel Communications (VIP) and Turkcell-controlled (TKC) Astelit. Ukraine ended July with 55.2 million active SIM cards, and penetration rose to 119.9% from 119.1% at the end of June.
VimpelCom added 122,000, taking the total base to 2.06 million subscribers. Astelit added 140,00 new subscribers.

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Zain Tanzania deploys personnel in strategic areas, eases Sim cards registration

On 07.28.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Zain Tanzania has installed personnel in strategic areas to help subscribers register their Sim cards as per the requirement by the sectoral regulator. The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority set December 31 as the deadline for registering the cards.

Chief commercial officer Chiruyi Walingo said in a statement in Dar es Salaam yesterday that the initiative had been undertaken to ensure the registration is completed within the stated time.
The registration is being done free of charge.

”Our customers also have an option for enrollment to the Zain Zap service and enjoy the added benefits of our Zap service which include money transfer, paying bills such as water and electricity recharge to mention a few” he said.

He assured customers that the national Sim card registration would not affect Zain’s borderless ‘One Network Service’.

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BSNL selects ITI Ltd to supply SIM Cards (India)

On 07.27.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: BSNL, the state-owned mobile operator, has selected ITI Ltd. to supply subscriber identity module, or SIM cards. The deal signed is worth INR66.14 million and under the deal, ITI will supply 4.63 million SIM cards by the end of September.

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Mobile subscribers rise1.9 Mn in June (Russia)

On 07.17.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: According to a report, the number of Russian mobile phone subscriptions grown 1.9 million in June to 196.6 million. Mobile TeleSystems, took 46% of the new subscribers, grabbing most new subscribers for the second consecutive month.

Penetration, or the number of valid SIM cards for each 100 people, rose to 135.4% in June from 134.1% in May, report said.
Following is the breakdown of the largest operators’ subscriber details for Russia. The figures don’t include subscribers of MTS, Vimpel Communications and MegaFon elsewhere in the former Soviet Union.

Operator     June           May           On Month
Kyivstar     22.224m     22.729m     -505,000
MTS          17.781m      17.731m     +50,000
Astelit       11.679m      11.570m     +127,000

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Vodafone introduces new Lifelong prepaid plans (India)

On 07.15.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vodafone Essar, leading mobile operator of India, has introduced a range of new Lifelong Prepaid Plans for new and existing subscribers. With the tariff plans of Rs 48, Rs 101 and Rs 149, prepaid subscribers can now make a call on all local mobile phones for as low as 50p/min. These recharges also benefit subscribers with lifelong validity on their SIM cards.

RC 48: This recharge offers all local calls at 50p/min, local SMS at 25p and a talk time of Rs 5. The tariff is valid for 3 months from the date of recharge.

RC 101: Make calls to local Vodafone mobiles within the same tariff at 30p/min, to other local mobiles at 50p/min, STD at Re 1/min and 100 local SMS free daily. (Daily: first 2 SMS will be charged at Re 1/SMS and first STD call charged at Rs 1.50/min). Tariff validity is 1 year from the date of recharge.

RC 149: Make calls to local Vodafone mobiles within the same tariff at 30p/min, to all other local mobiles at 50p/min, SMS at 10p and also get Rs 75 as talk time, Customers can enjoy this tariff for 1 year from the date of recharge.

K. Sankara Narayanan, Chief Executive Officer – Karnataka, Vodafone Essar South Limited, says “It’s our constant effort to innovate and offer value products and tariff propositions to prepaid customers in Karnataka. By offering local calls at 50p/min and special SMS rates, we are confident that these affordable recharges will appeal to a large number of our subscribers and enable them to stay connected at economical rates. With add on Bonus Cards, prepaid customers can opt for specific or need based tariff benefits in tune with their usage patterns”.

With these lifetime preaid plan, all STD and Night Speak Bonus cards can be used, allowing subscribers to enjoy the benefit of low calling tariffs for long distance and night calling.

The new recharges can be purchased at any Vodafone Store, Vodafone Mini store or at any mobile retail outlet across Karnataka.

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Megafon offers corporate tariffs in E-shop with delivery at door (Russia)

On 07.06.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Megafon corporate subscribers can now order SIM-card in E-shop and it will be delivered to your office any time convenient for you. Besides, E-shop provides opportunity to choose any mobile number you like.

E-shop presents all MegaFon proposals for Moscow and Moscow region entrepreneurs including unlimited tariffs with subscriber’s fee less one thousand rubles per month (“Delovoy 926” and “Nochnaya smena”, unique tariffs “Firmenny”, “Professionalny” and others). Subscription is available for any legal entities of any proprietary form or individual entrepreneurs. It’s enough to buy just one SIM-card to get the status of MegaFon-Moscow corporate client.

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