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RSS tele2Carphone Warehouse picks up Onetel for £132m
News Carphone Warehouse has plumped up its fixed-line telecoms business with two acquisitions today. The mobile phone retailer is buying Onetel, the phone business of British Gas-owner Centrica, for £132m in cash. [19 Dec 2005]
Swedish 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' strengths in the Benelux countries, where last... [18 Jul 2005]
In Search of an Edge MPLS Router
White Paper Tele2 is Scandinavia's largest alternate carrier, with a network operation spanning the Nordic region, the Baltic States, Eastern, Central and Southern Europe. To provide the best possible service offerings for their business customers, ensuring... [18 Apr 2005]
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 launched in... [08 Apr 2005]
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 authorities and... [28 Mar 2005]
Niklas Zennström: Telecoms troublemaker
Comment Though known for bearing a slight resemblance to Bill Gates, Niklas Zennström has concentrated on creating the sorts of upstart businesses that are a thorn in the side of big companies such as Microsoft. [05 Nov 2004]
Ringback tones coming to European mobiles
News The growth of ringback tones in Europe is set to mean hundreds of millions of euros in extra revenues for mobile phone operators - but that growth is below some previous estimates and held back by certain factors, not least confusion over what the... [24 Aug 2004]
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 for the... [29 Mar 2004]
BT cuts residential voice calls
News BT has announced price cuts which it says will make bills easy to compare and mean savings as compared to rival services. The telco is getting rid of its standard rate for residential customers and lowering prices on its three BT Together plans. [24 Mar 2004]
€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) technology. [10 Mar 2004]
Orange asks for Swedish 3G rain check
News Orange is to delay the launch of its 3G service in Sweden claiming it needs more time to ready the network. The mobile phone company has asked the Swedish authorities to allow it to postpone the launch for three years so it can build the extra... [07 Aug 2002]
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 fourth quarter... [04 Feb 2002]
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 evaluating the... [08 Jan 2001]
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 the firm was the only carrier... [02 Jan 2001]
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 Sweden 98 to... [18 Dec 2000]
