Cambodia’s leading mobile phone provider Mobitel filed a lawsuit against new mobile phone operator Beeline by accusing of using Mobitel-mobile phone prefixes without permission. Even though, this conflict does not turn into normal as what Beeline’s general director said on Monday. Conflict between two phone operators has yet to be solved and Beeline is still [...]
ANZ and Standard Bank launched the sell down of a US$421 million 18-month bridging loan this week, to back the Royal Group’s acquisition of Millicom’s majority stake in Mobitel. The loan covers the Royal Group’s November purchase of Luxembourg-based Millicom International Cellular SA’s network operations in the Kingdom for $346 million. The acquisitions included a [...]
Financial experts here say Cambodia’s political environment has prevented them from investigating the impact of a price floor on telecoms, one of the country’s most lucrative sectors. By Sunday, all nine mobile phone companies had raised their per-minute rates to meet a standard cost mandated by the ministries of Finance and of Telecommunications, which they [...]
Viettel, Vietnam-owned mobile phone service provider, got started its business in Cambodia at the end of 2008, being popular amongst mobile users. The company plans to install 1,500 3G stations in the first quarter, according to the Phnom Penh Post. Nguyen Duy Tho was quoted by the Post as saying that “currently, we are testing [...]
Putting an end to a month-long dispute between mobile phone service providers MobiTel and Beeline by trading accusations over price dumping and blocking of between-network calls, Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC) issued a directive dated Friday, 04 by setting a minimum charges of US$0.045 per minute for calls within an operator’s network and $0.0595 [...]
Blackberry, produced by Canada’s Research in Motion (RIM), is the kind of smart phone in the biggest global suppliers with 19.9 percent of the global market in the first quarter, according to the Bloomberg. At the end of April 2009, 2G Blackberry has been imported into Cambodia by phone operator Hello owned by Kuala Lumpur-based [...]
Cambodia’s ongoing feuding between Mobile Phone firms happened more than one month, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hen Sen released statement dated Oct 21 by warming that mobile phone service providers will face with lose of license if they still block cross-network calls and sell call below costs. Leading mobile phone service provider, MobiTel, last month accused [...]