The lack of consensus between telecoms and financial institutions, in terms of an equitable split of mobile payments revenues, decelerated the expansion of the mobile payments market in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)...

A new infrastructure service provider in Russia will soon begin offering cloud computing services to public and private customers...

Latvia’s largest service provider will soon offer its business customers cloud-based unified communications and collaboration services...

The sole offer for a 51% stake in the Serbian operator Telekom Srbija has been rejected by the country’s government...

The Hungarian operator Magyar Telekom is overhauling its radio access network to reduce operational costs while further expanding mobile broadband service performance and coverage...

The Russian operator MegaFon has deployed High Definition voice services on its Moscow and Sochi GSM and UMTS networks...

Equipment giant Nokia Siemens Networks is set to establish an LTE manufacturing facility in Russia...

The Russian mobile broadband service provider Yota is readying its first LTE modem for launch next month. The firm aims to follow this launch with mobile routers, embedded laptops and smartphones...

An online survey conducted by social & market research firm Macroscope has revealed that, while a third of internet users in the Baltic States would be willing to pay for digital products that they are interested in, almost 70% would first try all possible ways of getting the product they are interested in for free...

One of Poland’s largest telecoms operators has launched a new video-on-demand service for its subscribers. INEA’s new Wypo?yczalnia Filmów service is running on the open converged Service Delivery Platform (cSDP) from SeaChange|eventIS, which also served as systems integrator on the project...

A new payment service has been introduced in Serbia by the network operator Telenor. Named PlatiMo, the service allows customers to pay their bills and perform other financial services via their mobile phones directly from their bank accounts...

The biggest mobile operator in Russia may be pursuing a merger as a means of furthering its ambition to become a major global telecoms group...

Customers in rural Albania will soon have access to free satellite broadband Internet, to be provided by the Albanian Post in conjunction with SES ASTRA...

Vodafone Albania will soon provide high-quality and high-speed broadband 3G services across the country. Albania’s leading mobile operator has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks to build its 3G network, and enhance the experience for its users and visitors roaming onto its network...

The newest version of QIP, one of Russia’s most widespread IM services, is now powered by Spirit DSP’s TeamSpirit 3.1 Voice and Video engine...

Subscribers of Telenor Hungary will soon benefit from the automatic management of their device settings, making new mobile services instantly available...

The Hungarian operator Magyar Telekom (MT) is targeting the country’s SME market with packaged business services that it will deliver via OneAccess ONE100 multi-service access routers...

The mobile virtual network operator Effortel has successfully launched FreeM on behalf of Polish MVNO InMobile. FreeM is believed to be the first subscription free, advertising funded mobile service to provide consumers with free data access...

The Slovenian operator Tusmobil d.o.o. is expanding its 3G network to provide peak rates of up to 21 megabits per second (Mbps) to customers, improving its coverage by migrating to an all-IP, HSPA+ network on the 900 MHz frequency band...

Russia’s increasing need for business communications capabilities has prompted VimpelCom to sign a capacity deal with SES World Skies in order to increase the volume of its services in Eastern Siberia and the Far East of Russia...

The leading telecom operator in Bulgaria, VIVACOM, has launched a unified OSS platform in Plovdiv, in southern Bulgaria...

Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries lead the European ranks in terms of fibre to the home/building (FTTH/B) subscriber growth. The fastest adoption of these technologies can be observed in countries where local loop unbundling (LLU) has either not been implemented or not gained much popularity. In the long term, investment in FTTH/B technology will become one of the major competitive weapons for all fixed broadband operators in the ongoing battle against mobile broadband providers...

The operator Cablenet is expanding its offering in Cyprus outside of its existing cable footprint and endeavouring to attract consumers and businesses by delivering triple play services...

 Companies that use Telefónica O2 in the Czech Republic for broadband Internet access now have more control and greater security over the service. The operator has chosen to deploy Nokia Siemens Networks’ security-as-a-service at a fixed monthly fee. The service helps organizations to protect their infrastructure, data and staff cost efficiently...

Eastern European revenue growth is set to outstrip Western Europe’s over the next few years, according to ABI Research’s Enterprise Mobility Market Data...

GTS Poland has commissioned Comarch to provide its Convergent Billing tool in order to improve its billing process and facilitate the swift launch of new services...

Due to a rigorous market regulatory policy and the 2009 economic slowdown, the value of the telecommunications market in Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania) decreased by 14 per cent...

The Central Region of the Russian Federation has been named as the site of a new Global Network Operations Centre (GNOC) to be built by Nokia Siemens Networks...

Central Europe has witnessed its first LTE network launch – and it has skipped 3G entirely. Two Polish mobile network operators, Mobyland and Centernet, have formed a partnership that has launched a commercial LTE network on the 1800MHz band...

Russia’s largest operator VimpelCom and Egyptian operator Orascom have confirmed that they are holding talks to discuss the possibility of a US$25 billion merger...

The Russian city of Kazan has become the newest beneficiary of LTE technology, having played host to the launch of what is believed to be Russia’s first LTE network...

Two new entrants to the Russian telecoms market may be awarded LTE spectrum this week – a potentially controversial development since both Osnova Telecom and RusEnergoTelekom (RET) are backed by the Russian government...