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Central & Eastern Europe

Five into two for 3G licences! Romania's long hot 3G summer continues

Regional Trends - Central & Eastern Europe

Wednesday, 16 August 2006 20:00

On August 1, the deadline for buying competition documents, a press release from Romania's General Inspectorate for Communications and IT (IGCTI, the entity dealing with the 3G contest) announced five contenders for the last two 3G licences in Romania, bringing the number of 3G networks in the country to four. Taking into account this huge interest in the last two 3G licences in both the region and in Europe, the long hot summer is continuing for 3G in Romania.

Romania's mobile interconnection game

Regional Trends - Central & Eastern Europe

Saturday, 29 July 2006 12:57

A press release dated 10 July from Romania's regulatory body (National Agency for Regulation in Communications - ANRC) stated that ANRC had informed Vodafone Romania and Orange Romania of its obligation to reduce interconnection tariffs by 11.3% over four stages between September 1, 2006 and January 1, 2009, writes Dr Nicolae Oaca.

Long hot summer for 3G in Romania - last two licences up for bidding

Regional Trends - Central & Eastern Europe

Sunday, 02 July 2006 17:42

On 21 June Romania's president of the General Inspectorate for Communications and IT (IGCTI), Marius Catalin Marinescu, announced the start of a beauty contest, the competitive process for the last two 3G licences in Romania bringing the number of 3G networks in the country to four).

Listing for Romanian fixed telecoms likely this autumn

Regional Trends - Central & Eastern Europe

Monday, 05 June 2006 01:00

On May 3 this year the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCTI) signed a contract with Credit Suisse First Boston to provide consultancy for the listing of the Romanian   State 's shares in fixed telephony operator RomTelecom...

Cosmote Romania - a difficult way forward?

Regional Trends - Central & Eastern Europe

Sunday, 04 June 2006 17:45

After more than two years of hesitating to make a decision, CosmoRom was taken over by Greece's Cosmote and commercially re-launched on December 6 2005 under the new brand name Cosmote Romania. Developing Telecoms welcomes its new Central and Eastern Europe analyst Dr Nicolae Oacã, who fills in the gaps in a complex market.

Deutsche Telekom base in Central/Eastern Europe up 12%

Regional Trends - Central & Eastern Europe

Monday, 13 March 2006 12:30

Deutsche Telekom AG has registered a growth in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) which is pla yi ng an active role in underpinning the group total earnings.

Insight: Russia & the CIS with Andrew Corp

Regional Trends - Central & Eastern Europe

Monday, 13 February 2006 12:02

Andrew Corporation has been a major player in emerging markets for many years. In Russia and the CIS they are working with all three main operators and have around 30% market share with tier 2 and 3 operators. Julia Sudakova is Head of Sales for Andrew in the CIS & Mongolia. Here she talks with Developing Telecoms about these markets and how Andrew Corporation see communications services developing in the region in future.

Czech Republic leads as C&E Europe broadband catches up West

Regional Trends - Central & Eastern Europe

Friday, 20 January 2006 16:41

ImageDuring the first week of January this year, the number of ADSL-based broadband Internet subscribers in the Czech   Republic reached 275,000, that is to say an increase of 175% over January 2005 - almost 3 fold growth.

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