Comviva to provide SMS Router to Ezypt’s Mobinil
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Comviva’s SMS Router has been selected by Egypt’s largest GSM operator Mobinil to enhance SMS traffic delivery across its network. With the help of a new class of message intelligence from SMS Router, Mobinil can optimize delivery, improve handling of high throughput requirements, efficient load share and integrate SMSCs.
Mobinil can hugely improve its message handling capacity as SMS Router will integrate all SMSCs across the network into one virtual SMS processing platform, thus reducing the burden on some SMSCs and exploit latent SMS processing power elsewhere.
35 mobile operators in the MENA region has been given solution by the Comviva and the solution now reaches over 500 million subscribers globally and 130 million subscribers across the Middle East and North Africa.
According to Sabri Amireh, VP, Middle East & North Africa, Comviva, the company is happy to work in partnership with one of the region’s most dynamic operators, Mobinil and also confident of adding value to Mobinil’s services in the Middle East region.
Mobinil may seek its own international gateway licence (Egypt)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Mobinil, the Egyptian mobile telephone operator, may have to buy its own international gateway licence if its current provider does not cut prices. Mobinil now wants Telecom Egypt (TE) to reduce charges for leasing circuits and telephone exchanges and for international calls.
Yasser Radwan, Mobinil’s Commercial Vice President, said, “Mobinil wants to obtain better prices than anyone else seeking its service,”.
Radwan also stated that every company may start getting its own licencef, if TE does not provide for the needs of its customers at competitive rates for international calls.
Egypt to sign 3rd mobile license contract with UAE company-led consortium
The Egyptian government is expected to officially sign on Aug. 21 the third mobile-network license contract with a consortium led by Etisalat, a UAE-based telecom company, the state-run daily Al-Gomhuria reported.
Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif will attend the signing ceremony, said the daily.
The new company led by Etisalat is set to begin providing mobile services by mid-February in 2007 in major Egyptian cities and resorts, such as Cairo, Alexandria, Hurghada and Sharm el- Sheikh, according to Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Tareq Kamel.
The Etisalat-led consortium has deposited the full amount of the license fees to an designated Egyptian bank account, said Amr Badawi, Chairman of the National Agency for Regulation of Telecommunications.
On July 4, Etisalat beat eight other bidders to win the third mobile phone network license, along with its three other Egyptian partners, namely, the Egypt Post, the National Bank of Egypt and the Commercial International Bank.
The consortium won the bid by offering a staggeringly high price at about 2.9 billion U.S. dollars.
The new service provider will use the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) system and the third-generation (3G) technology for its network.
The current Egyptian mobile service market is shared by Vodafone Egypt and Mobinil, a joint venture between Egypt’s Orascom Telecom Holding and France Telecom.
Vodafone Egypt and Mobinil had a combined subscribers of about 13 million at the end of 2005.
Source- http://english.people.com.cn
Technorati : 3G, Egypt, GSM, Mobinil, Orascom, Vodafone Egypt
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