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RSS tele2Swedish Tele2 to buy Dutch Versatel
News Rumours of the sale of Dutch telecoms firm Versatel were proved mostly correct today when Sweden's Tele2 made an offer to buy the company for €1.34bn. Tele2 is looking to exploit the two companies'... [18 Jul 2005]
Tele2 cuts Pink Elephant's Net costs
News Pink Elephant - a provider of IT management services - claims to have cut its Internet access costs by 83 per cent after opting for a digital wireless service from Tele2. A Tele2 Speedbox provides up to... [16 Mar 1999]
easyMobile moves into the Netherlands
News Low-cost mobile operator easyMobile is set to launch in the Netherlands this summer after announcing a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) agreement with Dutch mobile operator Telfort. This is the second market for easyMobile, having... [08 Apr 2005]
BT presented with ADSL price challenge
News The company, which has 600 commercial customers in the Thames Valley and the Midlands, is to offer cheaper instant access to consumers. Its 999 service offers home users continuous 150Kbps internet access for £9.99 a month. [31 Oct 2000]
Swedish telco defies the downturn
News The second largest telco in Sweden has beaten the sector downturn with a profit for 2001 after adding new subscribers, it said in a preliminary statement. Profits before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) for the... [04 Feb 2002]
Telia heads for showdown with regulator over auction failure
News Last month, PTS, the authority that regulates the radio, telecom and communications industries in Sweden, decided to award UMTS licences to Europolitan, HI3G, Orange and Tele2 and reject Telia's bid. The decision meant... [02 Jan 2001]
Orange misses out on Norwegian 3G licence
News The winners included three Norwegian companies: the state-owned Telenor; Netcom, recently bought by Sweden's Telia and Broadband Mobile, a joint venture between Norway's Enitel and Sonera of Finland. The fourth winner was Sweden's... [30 Nov 2000]
Shared Networks for WCDMA
White Paper In August 2002 the European Commission announced a plan to approve sharing agreements in the UK and Germany between the operators T-Mobile and mmO2. This clearly indicates the willingness of the European Commission, competition... [03 Jul 2008]
Shared Networks for WCDMA
In August 2002 the European Commission announced a plan to approve sharing agreements in the UK and Germany between the operators T-Mobile and mmO2. This clearly indicates the willingness of the European Commission, competition... [28 Mar 2005]
Sweden's incumbent telco not fit to operate 3G
News The Swedish regulator - National Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) - said Telia has failed to prove it has the technical capacity to fulfil the promises made in its 3G licence application. A PTS spokeswoman said: "Telia said it would give... [18 Dec 2000]
Telia takes Swedish regulator to court over UMTS
News Telia claims the regulator made a series of faults regarding formalities of the UMTS distribution process and incorrect technical calculations. In a statement, Marianne Nivert, president and CEO of Telia, accused the regulator of not... [08 Jan 2001]
€1m contact-centre win for TTG
News Telco TTG Netherlands has won a €1m extension to its contract with Wolfson Contact Center in Belgium. Wolfson will use ISDN to connect to TTG's network and DSL to link branches to its 270-seat hub using virtual private network (VPN)... [10 Mar 2004]
BT Cellnet first to roll out GPRS services
News BT Cellnet has become the first mobile operator to roll out GPRS (general packet radio service) services, narrowly beating a similar offering from T-Mobile in Germany. The technology offers businesses high-speed access to the internet... [28 Jun 2000]
Thus keeps growing
News Thus is predicting double-digit growth in turnover and a 50 per cent cut in operating losses as it moves into the close period before announcing its results in May. In a trading statement, the telco also claimed to be free cash positive... [29 Mar 2004]
Online banking, Orange is a 3G loser and concerns grow at Sema
News Intelligent Finance - IF.com - will now be launched at the end of the year amid a flurry of prime time television advertising that claims the service represents a revolution in financial services, and the company is confident that this... [30 Nov 2000]
