Globul, Germanos to participate in Earth Hour (Bulgaria)
Globul with its retail partner Germanos will participate in in the ‘Earth Hour’ event to be held between 8.30 pm and 9.30 pm on March 26.
Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change.
In 2011, Globul and Germanos will be Earth Hour participants and ambassadors for the third year in a row. The two companies will turn off the electric lighting at their office buildings, at over 230 shops as well as at their major advertising facilities in Sofia, Varna and Burgas. Only the systems providing the seamless network operation and customer service will be left online. Globul supports this global initiative as part of its long-term environmental sustainability strategy dubbed ‘Globul Green’.
Bulgaria’s telecom watchdog to fine M-tel, Globul, Vivacom
Bulgaria’s Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) chairperson, Vesselin Bozhkov has stated that the regulator will fine the country’s three mobile operators – Mobiltel, Globul and Vivacom – a total US$1.07 million, as the companies broke number portability rules.
The regulator is acting on a number of complaints from customers in the past two weeks.
The mobile operators confirmed that they would most probably appeal against the penalties in the Supreme Administrative Court.
According to Bozhkov, in 2010, Mobiltel, Globul and Vivacom were fined a combined US$1.07 million and the 40 complaints lodged by customers would prompt penal provisions for the same amount.
Globul Bulgaria launches discounted bundle offers
Bulgaria’s Globul announced that it will offer a 5% reduction to mobile subscribers who also take out the Globul Landline service. also a 10% reduction will be offered to those who take the Mobile Internet Package as well.
Bulgarian wireless carriers at odds over mobile number portability
Bulgaria’s 3 wireless telecom operators have clashed over the approach that should be taken to subscribers changing carriers that want to keep their mobile phone number, it transpired after the Communications Regulation Commission adopted the rules for the mobile number portability. The service should be available from January 1, 2007. A year later, the carriers should have a joint database with all numbers that have migrated between cellular networks. According to Greek-owned Globul, one obstacle facing the rollout of the new service is the position of rival Mobiltel which is insisting that each telecom carrier should establish its own database. This means incoming calls to a Mobiltel number that has moved to another network will have to be routed through the Mobiltel network first, adding to the call tariff, said Globul. Creating a joint database is costly option that will take at least a couple of years, said Telekom Austria-owned Mobiltel. The telecom regulator is urging the carriers to adopt both approaches to ensure the service is up and running by January 1, 2007. The carriers have so far been mute on what extra-cost add-ons the new service will have for the end-user. Globul estimates the cost per operator at a six-figure amount in euro. That is in sharp contrast to Mobiltel’s estimates which range between 8- to 9-figure sums. The adoption of mobile number portability by other markets has shown that no more than 10% of existing subscribers take advantage of the service
Source- http://news.dnevnik.bg
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