Bulgarian Mobile Market Faces Shaky 2005 Year
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Business: 22 December 2004, Wednesday. About 76% of the subscribers of currently functioning mobile operators in Bulgaria are eager to meet the third GSM operator next year, according to a fresh survey.
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Fragmented industry still needs a consistent framework for mobile advertising.
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With most technical issues resolved and giants like Vodafone Plc signing up customers, 2005 could be the year when third-generation (3G) mobile services finally gain a global audience.
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Investor's Business Daily - They may once have looked like the Keystone Cossacks. But Russia's troika of top wireless operators -- Mobile Telesystems  , Vimpel Communications   and Megafon -- have delivered mobile phones to most of the country's 143 million citizens in a few years.
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Uncertainty about how to secure mobile phones in the face of increasing threats is slowing enterprise adoption of mobile applications, experts exhibiting at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona this week said.
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Telekom Austria, Austriaâs largest telecoms operator, obtained access to the relatively underdeveloped East European mobile services market by winning the right to purchase the Bulgarian mobile operator MobilTel for â¬1.6billion ($2.12billion).
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ALARM has spread through the Russian investment community as authorities slapped a tax bill of almost $US160 million ($210 million) on the number two mobile operator, in what is widely seen as a government-linked campaign against the firm.
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Vodafone's deal to buy cheap Chinese phones increases competition and threatens profitability among low-end phone makers.
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Business & money: Europe's mobile operators vie for Christmas launch.
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Concerns about price, reliability and quality may dampen demand for mobile TV in the U.S., according to a survey of 22,000 European mobile service users.
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BERLIN Telekom Austria said Monday that it had agreed to buy Bulgaria&#39;s No.1 mobile phone operator, entering one of Eastern Europe&#39;s most promising wireless markets.
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Business & money: World's largest mobile operator finds conditions 'very difficult' in Europe but looks to growth in emerging markets like India.
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LONDON, December 2  - Analyst Angela Dean of Morgan Stanley expects mobile handset market growth to moderate in 2005.
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The global mobile phone market is set to  grow to 2 billion subscribers by the end of 2005, fueled by  strong demand from developing economies in Asia and Latin  America, Deloitte & Touche said on Tuesday.
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BusinessWeek Online - Since taking over as chief executive of the British Vodafone Group  in 2003, Arun Sarin has tried to refocus the giant mobile wireless operator toward emerging markets, where industry revenues are expected to grow at annualized rates of about 12% vs. just one-third of that pace in handset-saturated Europe. That's why over the past couple of years, the India-born Sarin has done deals in Turkey, South Africa, and Romania.
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China Mobile and Focus Media: Domestic titans selling at knock-down prices.
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One billion mobiles will be sold by next year but the boom times could be over, a report predicts.