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Tele2 seeks buyers for German-language operations

Pages: 3 Published: 24 Jul 2008

At its largest, Tele2 was present in 25 countries but from 2005 the company began to refocus its geographic presence and is now present in 12 countries. Recently, Tele2 has divested three more subsidiaries in Europe: Luxembourg and Liechtenstein to Belgacom, while Polish fixed network operator Netia bought Tele2 Poland. At the same time, rumours have been floating around about Tele2 wanting to sell its Austrian and Swiss operations as well, while Tele2's CEO Lars-Johan Jarnheimer does not expect to have German operations next year. This brief investigates the divestments and possible sales by Tele2 in Western Europe.

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HTC Benelux taps budding smartphone market

Pages: 3 Published: 17 Jul 2008

Since HTC launched mobile handsets under its own brand on the Benelux market, the company's performance has been quite good. HTC's 74% increase in the number of mobile devices sold in the first six months of this year is impressive. According to Mark Moons, the country manager for HTC Benelux, the Apple 3G iPhone will have only a limited impact on HTC sales, and the iPhone introduction will help to develop the smartphone segment in the Netherlands. This research brief is based in part on a Telecompaper interview with Mark Moons.

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Western European Broadband Pricing Q2 2008

Pages: 4 Published: 16 Jul 2008

This EXCEL sheet summarises a Telecompaper survey of around 1,000 broadband subscription offers across 15 Western European countries, looking at both the business and consumer markets and different types of network access technology. The broadband speeds are rounded to the nearest 0.5 or whole number.

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Turbulence in Dutch telecom retail market

Pages: 4 Published: 15 Jul 2008

The Dutch telecom retail landscape has undergone a hectic period over the last year, with the introduction of new formats, test shops and more shop-in-shops, as well as some shops closing down and expansion in online sales. The Phone House acquired three online shops on the expectation of strong growth in web sales. Telfort agrees that online sales are the future, but the mobile operator is still investing in new retail outlets as well. BelCompany bought 29 former Orange shops and launched a new format called Telefoonkopen.nl, while t for telecom opened more than 110 shop-in-shops in Dixons stores. KPN is reshaping the Primafoon chain and has opened six outlets in a new range of shops called KPN Store. Debitel closed all its shops recently, and the brothers Atom and Steve Zhou went to court over the rights to the names GSM-Shop and GSMShop. The total number of shops in The Netherlands is little changed, at over 1,500 outlets. The number of independent shops increased, mainly due to the introduction of shop-in-shops in Dixons by t for telecom. The Research Brief contains a full overview of the number of Dutch retail shops, for the periods December 2006, September 2007 and July 2008.

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Dutch mobile broadband prices show sharp drop

Pages: 4 Published: 03 Apr 2008

All the major Dutch mobile operators have upgraded their networks to HSDPA technology in the past year, increasing the download speed by five times compared to UMTS. Additionally KPN has been the first to offer higher upload speeds in several cities, by upgrading to HSUPA. Three months ago, Vodafone decided to stimulate data services demand by lowering its monthly fees for mobile internet access, prompting other operators to follow. According to Telecompaper, price cuts are inevitable in order to increase demand for mobile data services, in particular in the price-sensitive, untapped consumer market. This brief focuses in particular on the mobile broadband packages offered to connect a laptop to the internet using a modem.

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