Mobile Phone Insurance News

The flat-panel speaker group NXT has signed a 3 year with Nissha Publishing for its technology to be used in small touch screen applications

Success in a gloomy world - Hot Tuna the surf fashion brand has seen it’s sales increase by 82% to £1.1 million. the increase is due in the main to a deal with Debenhams.

…..if you need some respite from bad news why not go skiing. It is the best start to a European skiing season in 20 years. Due to the credit crunch there is an oversupply of accommodation and plenty of bargains to be had.

A new gadget has been launched in Japan to encourage people to walk, it shows how much it would have cost you to travel in a taxi instead of walking. Great idea. Not only does the owner have the benefit of having walked and burnt off some calories but they can also feel the warm glow of satisfaction knowing that they’ve saved cash.

TaxiWalker, as the device is known, has enjoyed some good sales. It is based on a simple pedometer and clips to the users belt.

The UK network ‘3′ have come to the market with a £9 per month contract offer. This is the first contract deal at this price. The contract must be signed for a minimum of 18 months. The offer includes 100 minutes free or 100 texts and comes with a sony Erricsson K660i handset.

The deal also comes with Skype function which means unlimited calls to other Skype users.

Sound ok? If you get one then you can of course protect yours with Insurance2go.

Jupiter Telecommunications, the Japanese company, is likely to beat its full-year profit targets forecasting a net profit of 27 billion yen. The telecoms, internet and cable tv company said this is due to an increase in subscriber base.

Emirates Telecommunications Corporation has won the 3rd mobile phone licence in Iran. At present there are two networks operating there: Iran telecommunication Company and MTN group.

Warner Music have asked for all its content to be removed from YouTube as it attempts to gain larger revenues from its digital revenue.

Motorola is reportedly suspending contributions to its worker retirment plan, stopping some pay increase all in an attempt to cuts costs beyond the $800 million it said it would save in October’s announcement.

Not everyone is feeling down by the economic situation Innovation the Hampshire based software company have rejected offers for the company because ‘they were not at levels acceptable to the majority of shareholders’ - nice position to be in.

Vodafone, the international telecoms giant, has announced that it will end its 12 year long sponsorship of the England Cricket team when the side returns from South Africa in early 2010.

The deal over the 12 years has seen the side’s fortunes fluctuate from the relatively bleak times in the late 1990s to more successful ones, especially in 2005 when the side regained the Ashes.

The sponsorship will have benefitted from the profile of many cricketers being raised by the success in 2005. The likes of Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff, Kevin Peiterson, Michael Vaughan, Andrew Strauss became household names over that period.

The deal is the latest in a line of companies pulling out of sponsorship of sporting events or of teams. Recently Honda pulled out of Formula 1, and Subaru pulled out of Rallying.

Vodafone the telecoms giant has selected Huawei Technologies to supply infrastructure equipment for its 3G network in Turkey. The three providers who have won contracts to provide 3G services in Turkey are Turkcell, Avea and Vodafone.

Turkcell is the leading mobile phone operator of Turkey, based in Istanbul. The company has 34.8 million subscribers by the end of September 2007, making it the second biggest in Europe.

Company background

In February 1994, Turkcell started Turkey’s first GSM network. Its competitors are Vodafone with a market share of 24% and Avea with a market share of 16%.

Turkcell is the first Turkish company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), where its shares have been traded since July 11, 2000 along with trading on the Istanbul Stock Exchange (IMKB).

Turkcell’s shareholder structure is as follows: 51% is held by Turkcell Holding A.Ş., 4.15% by Çukurova Holding A.Ş., 13.07% by Sonera Holding B.V., 2.32% by MV Holding A.Ş., and the free float is 29.38%. Çukurova Group controls the company despite holding only 18% of the share capital, due to a complicated shareholding/voting structure.

Turkcell also provides GSM services internationally. It has 9.6 million subscribers via Fintur and its affiliates in partnership with TeliaSonera in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Moldova, as of September 30, 2007. Turkcell’s Ukranian majority-held business, Astelit, has 7.6 million subscribers.

Turkcell provides coverage of an area that, as of March 31, 2007, includes 100% of the population living in cities of 3,000 or more people, 97.21% of the total population, and 80.44% of Turkey’s land area.

North Cyprus

Turkcell also operates overseas. Its Northern Cyprus brand is known as Kuzey Kibris Turkcell (North Cyprus Turkcell) which operates in the Northern State of Cyprus only. KKTurkcell runs completely seperately from Turkey’s Turkcell, although the ownership of the network is the same. KKTurkcell is also the North’s largest Network Provider at the moment, in terms of registered users and network coverage. KKTurkcell numbers can be distinguished from Mainland Turkey Turkcell numbers easily, as KKTurkcell numbers begin with 0533.

Roaming

Turkcell has international roaming agreements with 503 operators in 192 countries as of June 16, 2006. It claims to have more international GPRS roaming agreements than any other operator (203 operators in 81 countries as of August 5, 2005). It also applies discounted roaming costs when calling From a Turkcell mobile to a KKTurkcell number.

Hazır Kart

In March 1999, Turkcell launched a prepaid service named “Hazır Kart” (literally Instant Card) for subscribers with lower spending levels, or who preferred to have more incoming than outgoing calls. Hazır Kart subscribers have access to all Turkcell’s global GSM services.

Sponsorship

Turkcell has been the “Official Communication Sponsor” of the national football and basketball teams since 2002. It also sponsors 14 of the 18 football teams in the Turkish Turkcell Super League. The “Turkcell Football Awards” project was initiated in 2003 to encourage “fair play” by awarding athletes who show fairness, impartiality, and solidarity.

Turkcell also sponsors the Istanbul International Film Festival and co-sponsors the Istanbul International Jazz Festival. Since 1999, Turkcell has supported the restoration of the ancient city walls in Bodrum. The last phase of the project, the restoration of an ancient theater, was completed in June 2003.

Turkcell has also continued to sponsor the CeBIT Bilişim Eurasia event, one of the major information technology fairs in Europe, for the tenth time in 2007.

Turkcell’s main educational project, “Modern Girls of Modern Turkey”, which started in 2000, grants scholarships to 5,000 young women in less developed parts of the country. The project received international recognition in June 2001, when it won the UK “Institute of Public Relations Excellence Award” and the “Crystal Obelisk Award” from the Foundation of Women Executives in Public Relations in New York in 2002.

Vodafone in Italy has made content from Babelgum available free to it’s users with smart phones that support the function. The internet TV operator and Vodafone have teamed up to offer the sevice that will evenutally carry advertising.

Ideal Shopping Direct issues a 3rd profits warning in three months the news led to a 65% drop in it’s share price. The company is cutting 15% of it’s work force in an attempt to turn things around.

Grameenphone - Bangledesh’s leading mobile operator has filed for it’s final application for an initial public offering of $65 million. The company is controlled by Norway’s Telenor, it will be the country’s larget ever flotation.

HMV the owner of Waterstone’s the high street book retailer has announced that like for like sales are down by 3.1% in the 26 weeks to October of this year.

The BBC is to offer iPlayer to other broadcasters, the move would enable a new generation of set top boxes that would deliver programmes from the internet to TV screens. It has entered into partnership with ITV and BT to develop a new free view service. Clever stuff.