www.WirelessFederation.com/news: VIP Mobile is offering holiday roaming rates for Montenegro. The operator will charge only RSD 10 per minute for outgoing calls from Montenegro to Serbia between 15 June and 30 September. Incoming calls are charged at RSD 6 per minute, and SMS cost RSD 7 per message. The offer is applied to the calls made on the Montenegrin T-Mobile network, and the prices do not include VAT or the connection fee. The subscribers of VIP Mobile Serbia visiting Montenegro this summer will be able to top up their prepaid cards at over 1,300 points-of-sale in all Montenegrin tourist resorts.
On 06.01.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Promonte, the Montenegrin mobile operator, has introduced a new prepaid offer for tourist visiting Montenegro. The new pack costs EUR 5 and includes a Sim card, an instructions guide, a tourist map of Montenegro and 10 discounts which can be redeemed at various places. An online portal for tourists was also created to complement the Tourist Pack service. On the portal, customers can find Promonte information, data about the locations which accept coupon discounts as well information about various services for tourists.
An online portal has also been created for the tourists. On the portal, customers can find Promonte information, data about the locations which accept coupon discounts as well information about various services for tourists.
On 05.27.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Montenegro has ended April with 1.08 million mobile telephony connections, down by 0.6% since March and 4.5% since April’08. According to the latest data from the Agency of Electronic Communications, the number of active mobile connections in the country has been falling continuously from past eight months, with the last growth registered in August 2008.
ProMonte lead the market with 427,650 active connections (39.5%), followed by T-Mobile with 369,490 (34.1%) and M-tel with 286,250 (26.4%). Subscribers of all the three networks have sent 96.84 million SMS, of which more than half were sent from M-tel’s network.
On 05.06.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: T-Mobile Montenegro has introduced the new ‘tribe’ prepaid package, which offers free SMS messages for a period of 2 months. Subscribers can make calls and send SMS to a favourite T-Mobile number. The package is priced at EUR 5 with EUR 5 of credit included.
On 05.05.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: T-Mobile CR, has launched a new roaming add-on, dubbed as Cestovatel (‘Traveller’). Until 31 July, subscribers can receive free incoming calls and send SMS at discounted prices of CZK 5 per SMS and CZK 10 per MMS (VAT included).
The service will also be available in summer resorts across Greece and Bulgaria. The Cestovatel roaming add-on is available in Montenegro, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Slovakia, Great Britain and the US. Calls within the visited country and to the Czech Republic are charged at CZK 4.76 per minute, plus the call set-up fee of CZK 34.51.
On 08.14.08, In Mobile, By Editor
According to the reports of Montenegro’s telecommunications agency, the country’s registered mobile phone users are nearly double the population. While Montenegro has some 620,000 citizens, the number of mobile phone users reached 1.22 million, by the end of June.
Montenegro has three mobile phone operators: the leader being Deutsche Telecom’s T-Mobile, followed by Norwegian Telenor’s Promonte and Serbian state-run Telecom.
On 08.12.08, In Mobile, By Editor
ProMonte, Montenegrin wireless network operator, announced it’s UMTS network expansion to six municipalities in the north, a year after launching 3G services in the coastal resorts of Podgorica, Niksic and Cetinje. Berane, Bijelo Polje, Rozaje, Plav, Pljevlja and Zabljak are now covered by the W-CDMA/HSDPA network, with Kolasin, Mojkovac and Danilovgrad in line for an upgrade in the autumn.
In the next four years ProMonte has targeted to cover 97% of the inhabited territory in Montenegro.
On 02.15.08, In Mobile, By Editor
Montenegro’s mobile phone penetration rate rose to 174.6 percent at the end of January from 169 percent a month earlier, according to the country’s telecommunications regulator. The market share of ProMonte fell to 39.65 percent, T-Mobile increased its share to 34.3 percent, and M:tel was up to 26 percent. In comparison to December, the number of mobile telephony users was up 3.5 percent to 1.08 million. Compared to the same period last year, the number of users in January was 67 percent higher. The majority of the mobile telephony users in Montenegro, around 80 percent, are prepaid. A total of 103.4 million SMS messages were registered on Montenegro’s mobile networks in January, one third more than in December.
On 09.25.07, In Mobile, By Editor
Comverse Technology has announced that Montenegro’s newest cellco, MTEL, has deployed its converged billing suite and various value-added services. MTEL, an affiliate of Telekom Srbija, began commercial operations in July 2007, just 75 days after acquiring licences to provide 2G (GSM) and 3G (UMTS) services. MTEL currently claims a 12.8 % market share with around 130,000 subscribers. Beside its wireless licences, MTEL holds a WiMAX concession, which it expects to launch commercially in October 2007.
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On 08.27.07, In Mobile, By Editor
The number of mobile telephone users in Montenegro has achieved a new record, surpassing 142 percent of the total population, according to the latest market figures. The previous record in the number of users was achieved last September, when a 127.6 percent penetration rate was registered. Out of the total 881,500 mobile telephony users in Montenegro at end-July, only 17.4 percent were post-paid. On an annual level, the number of subscribers in July grew by more than one quarter. ProMonte is still leader with a 54.7 percent market share, followed by T-Mobile with 40.14 percent and M:tel with 5.16 percent. In July, the users of all three networks sent around 73.4 million SMS messages or 18 percent more than in June. Outgoing traffic totaled 79.4 million minutes, 15 percent more vs the previous month.
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