Denmark: Tough competition in telecoms business
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The latest figures by the Danish Telecom Agency indicate that small, newly-established telecoms companies find it hard to keep up with the competition towards the established telecoms companies. Telmore had the highest mobile telephony client numbers at 32,300 at the beginning of the first half 2001, whereas it only accounted for four per mille of all mobile calls in Denmark. Tele2's client base was 23,800 and its share of mobile calls was only one per mille. Tiscali had 17,300 clients and two per mille of calls. Telecoms analyst Mette S. Ahorlu of IDC says that these companies plus the newly-established Club Blah Blah will find it hard to cope with the competition as they merely sell talk time. John Strand of Strand Consult agrees with Ahorlu and says these companies are not likely to survive. According to John Strand, the way to become profitable is not by selling talk time but by selling value-added services telecoms services.
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DENMARK:MARKET FOR EXPENSIVE SMS MESSAGES TO EXPLODE
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Denmark ranks among the leading countries in Europe as regards the market for expensive SMS messages to mobile phones, according to an analysis by consultancy company 2B-mobile. According to 2B-mobile, the potential for the expensive SMS messages in Europe is bigger than anticipated. In Denmark alone the market for expensive SMS messages is expected to reach DKr1bn already this year , says Anders Bork Hansen of 2B-mobile. There are three groups of potential large-scale users of SMS messages i.e. teenagers, people in their twenties and business travellers.
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Denmark: Operators to start charging for SMS messages
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Mobile operators in Denmark have decided to put an end to sending SMS messages from the Internet to Danish mobile phones free of charge. Receiving SMS messages will remain free of charge as from the beginning of next year whereas mobile operators will charge the senders of SMS messages DKr0.20 per message. According to the Danish telecoms watchdog Telestyrelsen, Danes sent almost 620,000 SMS messages in the first six months of the year. However, these figures do not cover SMS messages sent from the Internet or as an e-mail message.
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