Lebanese cellco Alfa launched its commercial LTE 4G mobile broadband network, with coverage initially in Central Beirut, offering data services for USB dongle modems, tablets and Wi-Fi routers for post- and pre-paid users, TeleGeography CommsUpdate reported. Alfa built its 4G network in cooperation with European vendors Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks, according to its press Read more >>
Irish alternative telecoms operator Digiweb purchased United Kingdom-based Viatel for an undisclosed sum, creating an enlarged pan-European group with revenues of USD78 million, profits of USD10 million and a workforce of more than 200 people, TeleGeography CommsUpdate reported. The Digiweb Group now has operations in Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the Read more >>
Mexico’s telecoms regulator Cofetel proposed a public-private partnership to make optimum use of frequencies in the 700MHz band, TeleSemana reported. Cofetel said in a report that if the auction of 700MHz spectrum was directed solely at the private sector, there would be a risk that any new network would reach only 85 percent of the Read more >>
Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) – in industry lobbying group – plans to ask the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) to request the cancellation of 19 licenses held by Tata Teleservices (TTSL), NDTV reported. The COAI believes TTSL’s licenses were cancelled as part of the Supreme Court’s controversial February 2012 order that invalidated concessions allocated Read more >>
Nationwide Canadian operator Telus entered an agreement with Mobilicity to acquire the financially-struggling smaller cellco for CAD380 million, subject to regulatory, antimonopoly, shareholder and debt holder approval, TeleGeography CommsUpdate. If the deal is completed, the purchase price will be used to satisfy Mobilicity’s secured and unsecured debt. The smaller cellco has about 250,000 customers on Read more >>
