Zain not to sell stake in Morocco’s telecoms venture
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The 31% stake in Zain’s Morocco’s telecoms venture Wana, will be kept by the company which it bought for $324 million last March. The purchase was made less than a month after Wana won the concession to operate the North African country’s third wireless phone network.
Wana will launch its mobile phone operation next Tuesday under the trade name Inwi and currently offers limited-range mobile, fixed-line and Internet services.
According to Wana’s Managing Director Frederic Debord, Inwi’s mobile network capacity is ready to receive two million clients from the first day of the beginning of its operation and noted that there is a huge potential growth in the mobile phone market in Morocco where more than 80 percent of the population owns a mobile phone.
TeliaSonera’s mobile portal SurfPort breaks one million record
TeliaSonera’s mobile portal SurfPort breaks one million record
The number of unique users of TeliaSonera’s mobile Internet portal
SurfPort exceeded one million per month this summer, signifying an
increase of over 60 percent in one year. SurfPort is the leading
mobile portal in the Nordic and Baltic countries.
SurfPort, TeliaSonera’s mobile Internet portal, has been developed to
make it easier for TeliaSonera customers to surf the internet using the
mobile phone and to access both useful and entertaining mobile services.
During 2005 and 2006, SurfPort has been rolled out in Sweden, Finland,
Norway, Denmark, Lithuania and Estonia. This summer the number of regular
users per month exceeded one million. The number includes only SurfPort
users. The total number of mobile Internet users among TeliaSonera
customers is considerably higher.
Surfing the Internet on the mobile has become substantially easier,
as the mobile network capacity has been increased. In addition, an
increasing number of users have a mobile phone that supports mobile
Internet surfing.
- It is great that so many people have discovered the benefits of
SurfPort. One million regular visitors who use several of the services on
the portal each month proves that SurfPort is well on its way to becoming
a service for the mass market, says Henrik Nilsson, head of SurfPort at
TeliaSonera AB.
The focus in the development of SurfPort has been on user friendliness.
Customers and partners were involved early in the process and contribute
constantly with thoughts and ideas about how to further improve the
service.
- SurfPort can be described as a department store which you can visit
wherever you are. We have an extensive service offering, which is
important in view of TeliaSonera’s broad customer base. The most popular
services vary from country to country, and the combination of both
international and local content is an important success factor,
says Henrik Nilsson.
In Sweden, the newspaper Aftonbladet is the most visited service on
SurfPort, but TV, music and stock exchange information are also popular.
In Estonia, where SurfPort was launched this summer, banking services
are attractive
For further information journalists can contact:
Carina Kampe, TeliaSonera Press Service, tel. +46 8 713 58 30
TeliaSonera is the leading telecommunications company in the Nordic and
Baltic regions. At the end of December 2005 TeliaSonera had 19,146,000
mobile customers (69,887,000 incl associated companies) and 7,064,000
fixed telephony customers (7,688,000 incl associated companies) and
2,263,000 internet customers (2,331,000 incl associated companies).
Outside the home markets TeliaSonera has extensive interests in the
growth markets in Russia, Turkey and Eurasia. TeliaSonera is listed on
the Stockholm Stock Exchange and the Helsinki Stock Exchange. Net sales
January-December 2005 amounted to SEK 87.7 billion. The number of
employees was 28,175.
Source- http://www.kauppalehti.fi
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