Austria: Sales of mobiles decrease
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This Christmas 500.000 Austrians are to get a mobile phone as a gift, 30%, down on a the Christmas season of 2000. Mobilkom, the leading company dealing with mobiles, is happy with these results as it had expected sales to drop even more given that over 80% of the Austrian population already have a mobile phone. Only around 30% of mobiles sold are equipped with GPRS. In 2001 most of the Mobilkom's growth came from foreign countries. In Slovenia, Croatia and Liechtenstein in particular the company has found many new customers. Insiders speculate about a possible stock market flotation of Mobilkom. As Boris Nemsic, the company's director has said, this depends on the decision of the company's owners, Telecom Austria and Telecom Italia. In general, Nemsic argued, Mobilkom would be ready for such a move even if Telecom Italia, which owns 25% of shares, left the alliance. The fact that Telecom Italia might drop out has also been speculated by insiders.
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Year: 2001
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AUSTRIA: MAX.MOBIL INVESTMENT IN UMTS
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Max.mobil has spent about Sch 20bn on its GSM network and is to invest as much in UMTS technology. The figure includes the licence fee of Sch 2.345bn, while most of the remaining spending relates to transmission technology. The subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom will use 80% of the existing 3,000 base stations for UMTS and install 1,000 new ones. Siemens is believed to have good chances of gaining further contracts from the mobile phone subsidiaries of Deutsche Telekom. The former German monopoly is to take a decision on the suppliers of the networks by the end of year 2000. Max.mobil's UMTS network is to become operational in conurbations in the second half of 2002, and in 2003 it should have a coverage of 50%. Managing director Friedrich Radinger says that Max.mobil is willing to cooperate with other UMTS licensees in the contents segment. However, the company will not share its network with another UMTS operator.
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