NHH, the Hungarian communication authority, has fined the nation’s second largest mobile operator Magyar Telekom, for levying high penalties on customers who canceled or modified fixed-term contracts. NHH levied a fine of 100 million forints ($511,000) on Magyar Telekom.
“The investigation proved that Magyar Telekom made it disproportionately difficult for its customers to change providers and make use of intermediary providers and thus it had limited competition,” the NHH said in a statement.
NHH has ordered the operator to amend the contract within one month’s time.
Magyar will reportedly appeal against the regulators decision.
On 06.30.09, In Mobile, By Editor
On 06.24.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The three Hungarian mobile operators Pannon, T-Mobile and Vodafone had 607,479 mobile internet subscribers at the end of May, up from 565,510 in April, according to market regulator NHH. Hungarian mobile users sent a total of 763,178GB of data last month, in comparison with 743,254GB in April, while average traffic per subscriber was 1.52GB down from 1.56GB in the previous month. T-Mobile’s Mobile share of data subscribers stood at 48.51%, Followed to this is Vodafone with 28.22% where as Pannon recorded a market share of 23.27%.
On 05.25.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Hungary posted a total mobile internet subscriber base of 566,000 at April’09-end, up from 542,000 a month earlier, reports the National Communications Authority (NHH). The total number of actively sending or receiving data rose from 458,000 to 476,000 in the same period, although the total volume of data sent dropped to 743,000GB from 840,000GB in March.
According to the watchdog, T-Mobile Hungary claimed to be the market leader for mobile internet with a total market share of 49.43%, ahead of Vodafone with 27.11% and Pannon with 23.46%.
On 03.31.09, In Mobile, By Editor
The three Hungarian mobile operators Pannon, T-Mobile and Vodafone had 526,775 mobile internet subscribers at the end of February, up from 508,000 in January, according to market regulator NHH. Mobile users sent some 769,427 GB of data in February, up from 761,000 GB in January, while average traffic per subscriber also increased to 1.77 GB. T-Mobile’s share of mobile data subscribers stood at 51.96% at the end of February, while Pannon and Vodafone recorded market shares of 24.52% and 23.52%, respectively. Based on the volume of traffic, T-Mobile’s market share was 42.83%, Vodafone’s share equaled 35.14% and Pannon had 22.03% of the market. Accordingly, in February the largest volume of data was transferred by the customers of T-Mobile (274,000 GB), while Vodafone’s customers reached a total volume of 270,000 GB, and Pannon’s customers transmitted 170,000 GB. In February, traffic per subscriber, calculated on the basis of subscriptions involved in data transfer, totaled 2.71 GB in Vodafone’s network, 1.59 GB at Pannon and 1.44 GB at T-Mobile.
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On 02.05.09, In Mobile, By Editor
The Hungarian incumbents Pannon, Vodafone and T-Mobile have together added 284,000 new subscribers in December, the total reaching to 12.24 million at the end of 2008, reports Hungarian telecom regulator NHH. Pannon experienced a fall in its market share from 35.18% at November’08-end to 35.09% at December’08-end followed by T-Mobile from 43.94% to 43.86%. On the other hand, Vodafone’s market share rose to 21.04% at December’08 from 20.89% in November. The number of active subscription grew to 10.97 million, up by 227,000 compared to November. Mobile penetration rose to 121.8% in December’08 compared to 119.15 in November.
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