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In This Issue... WESTEL Awarded License to Offer Mobile Services in Ghana Vol. 5 No. 12 December 2006 In This Issue... WESTEL awarded license to offer mobile services in Ghana ............................ 2 Belgian operator BASE launches EDGE network in Belgium .......................... 3 China Unicom adds 1.29 million new subscribers in October 2006 ................. 4 Hutchison introduces cheap mobile data modem in Source: iSuppli Corp. Australia ......................... 5 Libercell set to launch its REGULATIONS GPRS/EDGE network in Liberia ............................ 6 ACERP plans to issue the fourth 3G license in France ARCEP is preparing the issuance of the fourth 3G Fastap adds an interesting license and will decide its application procedure in December dimension to mobile-phone 2006. In addition, it plans to permit WCDMA networks to use keyboards....................... 8 2G GSM frequencies. Depending upon the publication date, applications might be needed in spring for the issuance of the Etisalat selects Huawei for license before the end of 2007. UTMS/HSPA network ARCEP needs to quickly draft a plan to reuse 1800MHz provision ......................... 9 and 900MHz frequencies for 3G and establish a method for 2.5G-3G Newsletter is published by Information Gatekeepers Inc. 320 Washington St., Brighton, Massachusetts 02135, USA. Fax: (617) 782-5735. Editorial telephone: (617) 782-5033. Circulation telephone: (617) 782-5033. (800) 323-1088 (Outside MA) Publisher/Editor: Dr. Paul Polishuk Editor: Dr. Hui Pan Managing Editor: Bev Wilson Circulation Mgr: Jaime Perez Subscription rates: $675 per year, U.S. and Canada; $725 per year elsewhere. Discounts available for multiple subscriptions. © Information Gatekeepers Inc. 2006. All rights reserved. (ISSN xxxx-xxxx) No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a data base or transmitted without prior written permission of the publisher. For photocopying authorization, contact Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Dr., Danvers, MA 01923, Tel: (978) 750-8400. 2.5G-3G Newsletter December 2006 using the current 2G frequencies for 3G. This 27 is the last date of the bid, followed by the depends on sharing by four operators that will announcement of the winner on December 15. be executed only if the fourth license is Following the auction, Mobitel, which already allocated. Otherwise, it will depend upon the has a GSM-1800 license, has also applied for sharing by three operators. frequencies. The country has 1.5 million mobile Another 3G license granted in Estonia subscribers, out of which MagtiCom covers 44 The Estonian National Communications percent and Geocell covers 54 percent, as of Board said that it granted a 3G license to June 2006, as reported by TeleGeography’s Grosson Capital, a private limited-liability firm. GlobalComms database. The price offered by Grosson Capital was $8.14 million. Other bidders included private limited CARRIERS liability firms like Renberg Investments ($7.5 million), RealGroup Systems ($6.6 million), and Hanoi Telecom and China Unicom sign MoU ProGroup Holding ($5.8 million). The Estonian Hanoi Telecommunications has signed National Communications Board had awarded an MoU with China Unicom. As per the MoU, three frequency authorizations via direct offer China Unicom would provide Hanoi Telecom to EMT, Elisa Mobiilsideteenused, and Tele 2 with wireless data cards, equipment, exchange Eesti in 2003.These firms could not take part in technologies, and value-added products. The the recent competition. two firms will also launch roaming and other services. WESTEL awarded license to offer mobile This deal is likely to result in increased services in Ghana sales of CDMA mobile services in Vietnam. Western Telesystems (WESTEL) Ghana Previously, Hanoi Telecom and Hutchison had Limited has been awarded a license by the received government approval to deploy CDMA National Communications Authority (NCA) to services. Hanoi’s HT Mobile (092) service will offer a mobile service in Ghana. WESTEL is the be available soon. second state-owned company apart from Ghana Telecom to get the license. WESTEL was Verizon’s automatic update feature to allow granted the second national operator’s license users to update contact lists in 1997 and given a five-year duopoly along with Verizon Wireless customers will now be Ghana Telecom. By June 2006, the number of able to update contacts in their phones without mobile users was 3.34 million, increasing from having to manually update the data. Plaxo Inc., 2.65 million at the beginning of the year and an which created this service, said that Verizon increase of 82.8 percent on the 1.45 million at Wireless is offering it at a fee of $4.49 per month. the end of 2004. By July 1, 2006, GSM operator This service extracts the contact lists from Spacefon Areeba had 2.02 million subscribers, common email systems like Microsoft or Yahoo! ahead of Millicom International Cellular’s (MIC’s) and transfers the contacts wirelessly to the Mobitel unit, which had 737,749 users. users’ mobile phones. Customers would still need to choose the Georgia’s National Communications contacts in email address books they need to Commission to auction GSM-1800 license copy to their cell-phones, but the need to Georgia’s National Communications manually copy numbers from computers or to Commission will auction a national GSM license. create a new contact list is eliminated. It will work The bid was offered at $4.4 million. November on around 30 Verizon handsets. Copyright 2006 Information Gatekeepers Inc. 320 Washington St. Brighton, MA 02135 Tel: (617) 782-5033 Web: www.igigroup.com 2 2.5G-3G Newsletter December 2006 Five years after its launch, W-CDMA — which served above 6.1 million users by the becomes leading technology in Japan end of June. Two more operators are expected NTT DoCoMo launched W-CDMA in to join Econet Wireless and Telkom in 2007 to Japan in October 2001, and it was joined by crowd the cellular market. Softbank Mobile after 14 months. Now, five years after W-CDMA was launched in the Afghan Wireless to expand GSM in country, the standard has gone on to become Afghanistan Japan’s topmost technology, with subscribers Afghan Wireless plans to expand its reaching 34.75 million by the end of October network in many places in Afghanistan. 2006. PDC, the technology that remained at the Additional 50 Siemens BTSs are to be shipped top spot for 11 years (launched in September soon. Several shipments of BTSs, BSCs, and 1995), claimed the second spot, with 34.49 MSCs would be executed in the near future. The million users by the end of October. The CDMA cost of the equipment is likely to be $30 million. standard claimed the third spot, with 24.89 The new BTSs will enhance coverage in all cities million. The mobile number portability (MNP) covered by AWCC, including Kabul, Gazni, system was introduced in Japan by October, and Kunduz, Kandhar, and many more. The firm the monthly additions showed great success for intends to increase the number of cell sites by KDDI, while DoCoMo was the greatest loser, 100 percent by next year. losing 110 points of market share. Belgian operator BASE launches EDGE Tacom launches 3G services in Tajikistan network in Belgium Tajikistan-based mobile operator Tacom Belgium-based mobile operator BASE has unveiled 3G services over the network has unveiled its EDGE network in Belgium to provided by Huawei Technologies. Huawei was allow users with EDGE-enabled mobile phones contracted by Tacom to provide GSM and W- to download data at speeds of around 240Kbps. CDMA mobile equipment for expanding Tacom’s Equipment supplier Ericsson has upgraded the GSM network in May 2006. Huawei will initially BASE network. The EDGE services would be supply almost 80 GSM base stations and also available to around 98 percent of the Belgian many W-CDMA base stations, along with a population accessing the EDGE services. switchboard. Tacom has the license to offer GSM-900/1800, CDMA-450, and AMPS MIC planning to exit the Pakistani mobile services in the country. It also holds Tajikistan’s market third UTMS concession, which was awarded to Millicom International Cellular (MIC) it in September. could exit the Pakistan mobile market because of concerns regarding the profitability of its Telkom Kenya to enter cellular market wireless unit there, Paktel Ltd. Millicom stated Telkom Kenya intends to enter the that the returns on the investments could be country’s cellular market. Telkom could be threatened by harsh business conditions in awarded a full operating concession to cover Pakistan mobile telephony and some frequency wireline, wireless, and data services. Telkom is interference matters. Paktel was granted an the leading operator in the wireline markets. Its additional 1800MHz spectrum to settle the wireless unit is managed by 40 percent frequency interference issues, but this grant was shareholder Vodafone. Vodafone is reportedly temporary. Paktel had requested a deferral of against this idea, though. Kenya’s mobile market the newest installment of its $29.1million license has two main players — Safaricom and Celtel fee. However, this was not granted by the PTA. Copyright 2006 Information Gatekeepers Inc. 320 Washington St. Brighton, MA 02135 Tel: (617) 782-5033 Web: www.igigroup.com 3 2.5G-3G Newsletter December 2006 In August 2004, Paktel had filed a case against next three years. Maxis’s chief executive officer, the PTA, and refused to pay a fee of $38.8 million Dato’ Jamaludin Ibrahim, said that the rollout of it supposedly owed to the regulator for the GSM- the services was ensuing upon the positive 1800 spectrum. The appeal was rejected by the feedback received from the customers about the High Court in Lahore after a few days. reliable and affordable Maxis Broadband service, and expressed confidence in the Polkomtel launches commercial HSDPA company’s product. network in Warsaw Rogers launches HSDPA in Golden Poland’s Polkomtel has upgraded its 3G Horseshoe region network with the launch of a commercial high- Canada-based Rogers has launched speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) HSDPA in Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe region, network in Warsaw.
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