Posts Tagged ‘Mobile phone’

Beeline introduced new mobile top-up service

Posted by admin on September 1st, 2010

Recently, Mobile phone operator, Beeline-Cambodia, introduced a mobile top-up service “Easy Fill”, which allows all Beeline subscribers to be able to top up any amount they would like to have, not required scratch cards to thousands of points of sale.

The new service “Easy Fill” makes its subscribers easier to choose any amount they would like to top up from 50 cents up to $500. And this service is limited to only 11 provinces at present.

Beeline subscribers are able to receive service “Easy Fill” from Beeline sales offices located in 11 provinces: Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Sihanoukville, Battambang, Kampong Cham, Kandal, Kampot, Prey Veng, Kampong Chhnang, Kompong Thom and Banteay Mean Chey.

After launch in May 2010, the Beeline distribution network in Cambodia was already comprised of 11 sales offices, more than 6,400 scratch card points of sales and more than 100 branded trade countries across 21 provinces.

Therefore, Beeline subscribers have two options to top up their credit either scratch card or a new mobile service “Easy Fill”. By the way, mobile top-up service of “Easy Fill” is more convenient because customers only have to say what amount they want to top up and denominations start as low as 50 cents.

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Lawsuit of two mobile phone operators not solved yet

Posted by admin on May 23rd, 2010

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 the subject of a $2.5 million suit currently before Phnom Penh Municipal Court- $1.5million in damages and $1million compensation to Mobitel.

Beeline’s General Director- Gael Campan, said that the relation between the two phone operators were back to normal after Mobitel filed a lawsuit against Beeline last year.

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Banks launch sell down of $421m Mobitel loan

Posted by admin on March 28th, 2010

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 58.4 percent holding in Mobitel, Royal Telecom International Co Ltd and Cambodia Broadcasting Service Co Ltd.

The debt-leveraged deal is thought to have given the Royal Group 100 percent ownership of Mobitel in an agreement lead-arranged by ANZ bank.

The loan also refinances debt, including a $100 million loan arranged by International Finance Corporation in 2008. (more…)

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Would-Be Critics Quiet on Telecom Rates

Posted by admin on March 21st, 2010

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 said was necessary to prevent a price war.

Costs for Cambodian consumers is now $0.05 to $0.06 per minute, a jump from some of the promotional offers of newer phone companies, some as low as nothing.

Analysts say the ministerial directive is contrary to the investment law and the policies of a free economy, but they are not willing to push further to learn how it might impact consumers and the market.

“If you speak against something, you will be considered as an attacker from an opposition party,” said Chan Sophal, head of the Cambodian Economic Association, an organization of 60 economists. “The bad environment makes these intellectuals not brave enough express themselves.” (more…)

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