News report of 06.09.2008

* Albania *

Albania to cut mobile phone rates and to launch tender for fourth mobile licence Sep 05, 2008, 22:20 CET | Story | SEE ICT Weekly Update Albania’s Minister of Telecommunications announced on Monday that from October the country’s cell phone rates would be reduced by 20 per cent. link

* Bosnia *

Bosnian Nova Banka Put Up for Sale Sep 05, 2008, 22:58 CET | Story | AII Data Processing Ltd Majority shareholders in Bosnian commercial bank Nova Banka have agreed to sell the bank and have hired London-based Nomura International to advise on the procedure, media reports showed. link

Slovenia’s Telekom acquired Bosnian Netkom Sep 05, 2008, 22:27 CET | Story | SEE ICT Weekly Update Slovenia’s leading national telecom operator bought Bosnian cable television operator Netkom for EUR 1.3 million. Telekom plans to merge Netkom with its Bosnian telecom operator and Internet provider Aneks. Telekom is Slovenia’s second-largest listed company, with a market capitalisation of about EUR 1.5 billion. link

* Bulgaria *

RENEWABLES - EDP Renovaveis To Use Poland to Expand to Romania, Bulgaria Sep 05, 2008, 22:51 CET | Story | AII Data Processing Ltd Portuguese EDP Renovaveis, the renewable energy arm of EDP - Energias de Portugal, will use Poland as a platform for further expansion to Romania and Bulgaria, the chairman of EDP, Antonio Mexia, said on September 4, 2008. link

Bulgarian Co Express Service Sells Train Engine to Kosovo Sep 05, 2008, 22:49 CET | Story | AII Data Processing Ltd Bulgarian locomotive manufacturer Express Service said it has shipped a diesel engine to Kosovo. link

BlackBerry Bold comes to Bulgaria with M-Tel Sep 05, 2008, 22:36 CET | Story | SEE ICT Weekly Update It is a matter of days for the long-awaited smart phone BlackBerry Bold to reach M-Tel shops. This device incorporates e-mail, phone, Internet and chat capabilities, entertainment, GPS module, advanced organizer, camera with quality video recording and lots of other functionalities, without affecting its elegant design. link

* Croatia *

Vip mobile’s revenue reached EUR 24.8 million in H1 2008 Sep 05, 2008, 22:35 CET | Story | SEE ICT Weekly Update VIP mobile, which is part of Austrian Mobilkom, announced that it had revenues of EUR 24.8 million in the first half of 2008, which is an 81 percent increase compared to revenues in H1 2007. link

Changes in the T-HT Management Board Sep 05, 2008, 22:29 CET | Story | SEE ICT Weekly Update Ivana Soljan, Member of the T-HT Management Board and Chief Executive of T-Com, is leaving T-Hrvatski Telekom at her own request effective from 1 October 2008. link

* Macedonia *

MakTel to pay dividend Sep 05, 2008, 22:33 CET | Story | SEE ICT Weekly Update MakTel, Magyar Telekom’s subsidiary in FYROM, held its General Meeting on September 3 in Skopje and made a decision on a total dividend payment of MKD 9.8 billion for the financial year 2007 by distributing the total net profit with a contribution from the accumulated profit. link

FYROM to award three 3G licenses Sep 05, 2008, 22:21 CET | Story | SEE ICT Weekly Update According to the Transport Ministry FYROM will launch three third-generation (3G) wireless licenses tenders, with starting price set at EUR 10 million per licence. Cosmofon, part of Greece’s Cosmote, is currently the only wireless operator awarded a 3G licence. link

* Romania *

RENEWABLES - EDP Renovaveis To Use Poland to Expand to Romania, Bulgaria Sep 05, 2008, 22:51 CET | Story | AII Data Processing Ltd Portuguese EDP Renovaveis, the renewable energy arm of EDP - Energias de Portugal, will use Poland as a platform for further expansion to Romania and Bulgaria, the chairman of EDP, Antonio Mexia, said on September 4, 2008. link

Romanian Libertatea Sees 2008 Turnover Flat Y/Y At 4.66 Mln Euro Sep 05, 2008, 22:44 CET | Story | AII Data Processing Ltd Romanian furniture maker Libertatea sees its turnover staying flat on the year at 16.5 mln Romanian lei ($6.74 mln/4.66 mln euro) in 2008, the company said on September 5. link

Cosmote Romania to cut roaming prices Sep 05, 2008, 22:34 CET | Story | SEE ICT Weekly Update Cosmote Romania, one of the wireless operators in Romania, has decreased its roaming price to be aligned to the European Commission (EC) guidelines. link

Romania launches WiMAX licence tender Sep 05, 2008, 22:18 CET | Story | SEE ICT Weekly Update Romanian regulator ANRCTI has rolled out the procedure of granting the licenses for the frequency bands enabling the implementation of the WiMAX broadband wireless access (BWA) systems. ANRCTI’s president has already appointed the commission that will analyze the submitted offers of licences for the 3600-3657 MHz and 3700-3757 MHz frequency bands. The draft terms of reference will be published for consultation on 29 September, with the final version to be available for purchase around mid-October. The license winner is expected to be announced by year-end. link

* Serbia *

Serbia To Discuss Valuation of Oil Co NIS by Sept 12, 2008 Sep 05, 2008, 22:57 CET | Story | AII Data Processing Ltd Serbia’s Government may discuss the valuation of Serbian state oil company NIS ahead of an expected sale of the company to Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom, by gobal consultancy Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in its next session by September 12, 2008, media reports showed. link

Third-ranked Bidder for Serbian IMT Ready for Deal Sep 05, 2008, 22:55 CET | Story | AII Data Processing Ltd Belgrade-based MPC Properties expects that Serbia’s Privatisation Agency will invite the company for negotiations for the acquisition of tractor and engines manufacturer Industrija Masina i Traktora (IMT), as the company, along with Italy’s Adriano Corsi, was ranked third in a tender for IMT, media reports showed. link

Bulgarian Co Express Service Sells Train Engine to Kosovo Sep 05, 2008, 22:49 CET | Story | AII Data Processing Ltd Bulgarian locomotive manufacturer Express Service said it has shipped a diesel engine to Kosovo. link

Austrian A-Tec Out Of Running for Serbian RTB - Report Sep 05, 2008, 22:47 CET | Story | AII Data Processing Ltd Austrian industry holding A-Tec Industries AG is out of the running for the acquisition of Serbian state-run mining group Rudarsko-Topionicarski Bazen Bor (RTB), Serbian news agency Beta reported on September 5, 2008, referring to information from the local economic ministry. link

* Slovenia *

Encouraging H1 business results for Telekom Slovenia Group Sep 05, 2008, 22:38 CET | Story | SEE ICT Weekly Update The business results of Telekom Slovenije and its subsidiaries for the first six months of this year are encouraging. In that period Telekom Slovenia Group’s revenues amounted to 416.4 million euro, which is nine percent more than in the same period last year. link

Slovenia’s Telekom acquired Bosnian Netkom Sep 05, 2008, 22:27 CET | Story | SEE ICT Weekly Update Slovenia’s leading national telecom operator bought Bosnian cable television operator Netkom for EUR 1.3 million. Telekom plans to merge Netkom with its Bosnian telecom operator and Internet provider Aneks. Telekom is Slovenia’s second-largest listed company, with a market capitalisation of about EUR 1.5 billion. link

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