Denmark: Mobile phone subsidies to rise again
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The subsidies paid by mobile telephony companies to clients' phones are expected to rise as from 2003 and are expected to be back at their 1999 level by 2004, according to the Danish telecoms consultant Strand Consult. The combined subsidies paid by the mobile telephony business to new hones dropped from Dkr1.1bn in 1999 to DKr0.5bn this year and is expected to remain unchanged in 2002. The anticipated increase in subsidies is ascribed to the new UMTS technology as UMTS phones will be more expensive compared with mobile phones today. Operators will have to subsidies the new phones in order to make clients to switch over to the new technology.
Publication Name: Boersen
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Denmark: Orange to spend DKr3bn on UMTS network
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Orange, the telecoms company, is to spend DKr3bn for the expansion of the UMTS network in Denmark, according to ComputerWorld. The company has currently some half a million clients in Denmark.
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