Ucell adds 3G roaming partners (Uzbekistan)

By Editor on March 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Uzbekistan mobile operator, Ucell has signed agreements with new roaming operators. Subscribers can now roam on â€˜One network’ in Macedonia.

Ucell also added new 3G roaming partners: Zain in Jordan, Expresso in Senegal, Dauphun Telecom in French Antilles, Qcell in Gambia and Airtel in Ghana.

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Zain brings mobile banking to over 100 million East Africans

By Editor on September 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Leading mobile telecommunications provider Zain today announces the revolutionary enhancement of Zap, its rapidly expanding mobile banking service currently available to over 100 million people in East Africa and run in partnership with CitiBank and Standard Chartered Bank. From today Zap customers can swiftly and securely receive money from any bank account around the world and easily send money to any bank in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. This is the first time in the world any mobile bank account has been configured so that its users can receive funds from anywhere in the world directly to their mobile handset as well as send funds directly to their Bank accounts.

In addition Zap allows customers to use their mobile phone 24 hours a day to:

Manage their bank accounts
Pay for goods and services and settle their utility bills
Receive Zap money – and send Zap money to their friends and family
Top up their airtime account – or top up someone else’s
Check their balance and keep on top of their payments

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Egypt to sign 3rd mobile license contract with UAE company-led consortium

By Editor on August 15, 2006 · Leave a Comment

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

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