European politicians criticize NSN for shipping tech to Iran

On 02.12.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Nokia Siemens Networks has been strongly criticized by the ¬European politicians for shipping telecoms monitoring equipment to the Iranian government. EU institutions have immediately called on the European Parliament to “ban the export of surveillance technology by European companies to governments and countries such as Iran”.

Last year, it was reported that NSN supplied the equipment that was being used to monitor protests against the re-election of President Ahmadinejad.

According to the company, although it had provided Lawful Intercept capability solely for the monitoring of local voice calls in Iran, it had not provided any deep packet inspection, web censorship or Internet filtering capability to Iran.

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Orange Armenia receives more frequencies from regulator

On 02.12.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: In order to improve the quality of communications between the base stations, additional radio frequencies have been provided to start-up mobile operator Orange Armenia by the country’s regulator, the Public Services Regulation Commission (PSRC).

PSRC has also announced to have established tariffs for interconnection between fixed line telecoms operators in the country. A business model concerning interconnection between former monopoly ArmenTel (Beeline) and alternative operators has been approved by the committee.

PSRC has set rates independently for the capital at AMD2.5 and AMD10f or other region.

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TuneWiki financing led by Motorola Ventures

On 02.10.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A new strategic investment in social media music solutions provider TuneWiki has been led by Motorola Ventures arm of Motorola. Intellect Capital Ventures, HillsVen Capital LLC and Novel TMT along with TuneWiki’s previous venture capital investor, Benchmark Israel participated in the round.

The TuneWiki social media music player promises mobile users subtitled song lyrics in tandem with music and music videos and the lyrics are translated into over 45 languages. The additional features include real-time mapping, geographical charting and social networking. Lyrics and translations are also contributed and updated by TuneWiki.

New funding is expected to expand and enhance its product offerings for mobile platforms and the Internet. However, the main focus will be on exploiting new features found in advanced smartphones

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Jordan Telecom’s net profit rises by 3%

On 02.09.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: With the captured market share in mobile and data services, 3.7 percent increase in net profit and 0.3 percent fall in the revenue for 2009 has been reported by Jordan Telecom Group. The net profit of the group reached JOD 104 million and revenue JOD 400.1 million.

The subscriber base of the fixed-line, internet and data services of the group, in which France Telecom owns a 51 percent stake, rose 9.2 percent to 2.75 million as of December 2009 compared with a year before.

1% drop in the revenue from Jordan Telecom’s fixed and internet services has also been reported by the telco. However, revenue from mobile unit Orange rose 0.6 percent to JOD 181 million.

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Orascom extends management contract with Alfa (Lebanon)

On 02.05.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The management agreement between Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) and Lebanon’s Alfa Network has been extended by the former for a period of 6 months ending on July 31, 2010.

A monthly sum of US$2.5 million in addition to 8.5% of total revenues is received by OTH under this contract. All the operational expenses (OPEX) of the network are OTH’s liability which is also entitled to keep the remainder as management fees. The Republic of Lebanon is fully responsible for the CAPEX during the contract period.

According to Khaled Bichara, Orascom Telecom’s CEO, the company is glad of the achievements made in the Lebanese mobile market through its management of Alfa during the past year, and are hoping to secure a presence for OTH within the long term plans of the Republic of Lebanon for its mobile communication market.

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Lebanon’s network privatizations postponed until end of year

On 02.01.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The sale of two mobile phone networks in Lebanon which has already been delayed many a times is again delayed till the end of this year. US$7 billion was expected to be raised through this sale for the heavily indebted government, although valuations have fallen since the economic downturn.

10- Year Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) agreement led to the set up of Lebanon’s two operators in June 2001. However, the government controversially cancelled the BOT licenses held by LibanCell and Cellis which were not due to expire until 2004 and invited bidders to manage the networks on its behalf, and the concession was eventually awarded to Zain and Alfa.

Political turmoil in the country had led to the failure of network sales.

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