Ukraine mobile operators oppose universal service fund planUkrainian mobile operators Kyivstar, MTS Ukraine, Astelit and Beeline Ukraine are opposed to the proposed universal service fund, saying it's inefficient and doesn't correspond to the needs of consumers.
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Worldwide mobile phone sales grow 13.8% in Q2Worldwide mobile device sales to end users totalled 325.6 million units in Q2, up 13.8 percent from the same period in 2009, according to a study by Gartner. Smartphone sales to end users accounted for 19 percent of worldwide mobile device sales, an increase of 50.5 percent from the second quarter of 2009.
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Mobile Banking Usage Nearly Doubled Since Last YearMobile banking usage has almost doubled over the past year, reports IDC Financial Insights. However, according to the survey, while mobile banking may have finally turned the corner with customer acceptance, it is not a mainstream channel and in order to be successful, financial institutions need to be strategic about their mobile offerings. In addition, realistic expectations, an understanding that there are few to no revenue opportunities around mobile currently, and the backing of senior management, are all key to mobile success.
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Vodafone of the EastMikhail Fridman has always set his sights high. The Russian oligarch started his working life cleaning windows in the early 1990s, but a decade on and he is one of the most successful businessmen in Russia. The Alfa Group that he built up has interests in oil, finance, real estate and even tea, but in April he cleared away the last obstacle to fulfilling his dream: to build a "Vodafone of the east."
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Ukraine to review Vimpelcom-Kyivstar mergerNorway's Telenor and Russia's Alfa-Group had an unexpected obstacle thrown in the path of their asset merger when Ukraine's anti-monopoly regulator said it would review its March approval of the deal.
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Communications in Ukraine: “Hot” financial statisticsThe Ukraine's State Committee on Statistics has released the financial results of communications field for January-November, 2009.
So, revenues from telecommunications services in Ukraine for 11 months amounted to 42, 074 billion UAH or 3,4% less, compared to the same period in 2008.
The decline in revenues was due to decrease from mobile services (4%), postal services (by 8,2%), urban (by 13,9%) and long-distance telephone communications (19,3%).
While total income from the Internet in Ukraine for 11 months of 2009 increased by 39,4% (comparing with January-November 2008) or to 2,58 billion UAH.
In particular, revenues from providing services to the individual users amounted to 1, 4 billion UAH (or 70,8% higher than in January-November 2008).
The Internet’s share in the total revenues pie has reached to 6%.
Revenues from cable TV for 11 months of 2009 amounted to 1,164 billion UAH (or compared with January-November 2008, by 28,6%).
The cable TV share in the total revenues pack equalled to 2,9%.
Revenues from mobile communication in Ukraine decreased by 4% in January-November 2009 and amounted to 25. 8 billion UAH.
In particular, revenues from providing mobile services to the individuals in January-November decreased by 17,8%, compared to the same period in 2008 (or to 8.7 bln UAH.
The mobile share in total revenues amounted to 60,8%.
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life:) – very cheap night and unlimited InternetMobile operator life:) announces the expansion of mobile Internet services and launching new products - "Unlimited Internet" and "Night Internet". Now life:) subscribers can not only view websites and email, but download files, music and even movies.
For those who spend a lot of time in the Internet, but is unable to pay more, life:) offers the service called "Night Internet." This service enables you to use at night up to 10 GB of mobile Internet for just 30 UAH per month.
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Mobile Internet from Utel near the Sphinx and the Pyramids3G (UMTS) mobile operator «Ukrtelecom (TM Utel) introduced to its subscribers mobile Internet thanked to its Egyptian roaming partner Etisalat Egypt, as the company's press service reported.
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Out There Media and MTS announce mobile advertising partnership in UkraineOut There Media, an international specialist in mobile advertising, has announced the signing of a partnership agreement with MTS, a mobile operator in Ukraine with a customer base of 17.74 million mobile subscribers and a 32% market share.
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More MTS in UkraineIn November MTS has brought its mobile facilities to 11 settlements of Ukraine where no mobile connections were registered before.
Within November 1-30, 2009 MTS Ukraine, the mobile octopus that had covered the country with easy-to-use mobile services added 35 new base stations, as a part of its communication quality improvement and coverage expanding program.
It's worth mentioning, that increased capacity of the existing network is carried out both by building new, and by expanding the existing base stations. During the above mentioned period 47 additional units for the MTS base stations were built and put into operation.
As the result, the quality of mobile communication in densely populated regions of Ukraine has been much improved.
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