happy new year

Dear Partner,
Ntelecom would like to extend to you our warmest wishes for the Holiday season and Happy New Year.

We look forward to supporting you and your company’s needs in 2009, and to our continued joint success.
And remember…you’ll always hear the difference with Ntelecom!

Happy holidays

new taxation LAW in Kosovo

Kosovar Parliament today on 11th of Dec.2008 voted pro changes into the taxation law

so as of 1st of January 2009 Kosovars will benefeit from new regulations on taxes,
VAT has ben increased for 1% from 15% to 16%

Corporate tax have been decreased for 50%, from actual 20% to 10%
Persoanl Income Tax has been increased by 50% as well.

so everyone will be beneffiting from this, i hope this will make people re-conisder investing in Kosovo as this is one of the main reasons why Kosovo Goverment made this changes.

c yaaa
edon

Albania Interconnection

as of 11.Dec.2008,

we succesfully implemented a new direct interconnection for Albania Proper, this helps Ntelecom to become a regional wholesale carrier

we expect that before the end of the year we introduce Montengro Proper and Montenegro Mobile direct interconnection into the list of our directs,




edon

sms roaming

i have just read on a blog that european commision has decided to put a fix rate for mobile operators on sms roaming

so in the future when you are outside your home network and you are using a mobile operator based in european union your cost for sending out sms will be 0.11euro instead of something like 0.50-1euro how much operators are charging now.

so this is a good news isnt it but am still not sure if we will beneffit from this as well or it will be ment only for eu mobile operators.

c yaa

first mvno in kosovo

d3 mobile new and first MVNO is almost starting i think its matter of days now,,, d3 mobile is part of Dukagjini cooperations and this is thier third time trying to get into mobile business but this time they are in i think...but before seeing thier numbers being sold we cant be sure as 2 times earlier they didnt because of external factors, first time dukagjini and mobitel slovenia together were in the race for second mobile operator license in kosovo TRA granted the license but xyz reasons came up from UNMIK and the whole process was stopped,

last year when second tender for 2nd mobile operator was oppened Kujtesa, Dukagjini and 2 other companies created a consorcium Kosmocell (i think) and again won and recieved the license but the foreign companies failed to find the money 77million euros (i think) and they lost again so Ipko, telecom slovenia and mobitel were granted the license and they paid,

and now 1 year later they are trying for the 3rd time to start MVNO called d3 (i think 3 comes from albanian proverb e treta e verteta)

what can be impact what they will do

ipkos entrance had a big impact on prices the prices went down by 50%
new services were added ( credit transfer, missed call sms, gprs/edge internet, 5 favorite numbers)

so end users have beneffited from (even once)

but will d3 now push ipko and vala to re check their pricing?
will ipko let d3 what ever they want?
will d3 be able to act better then ipko knowing that ipko was not able o grab a lot from the market share
will people switch to d3? and will they maintain them (clients)

so on this questions i will be able to answer in about 6 months from now, hope everything goes as per thier plans as at the end we benefit from this (WE = end users) but from my point of view as other would say adding my 2 cents into this the key of success for ipko and new d3 is locked

and they should do something to unlock that, if they plan to get into a race of having equal market shares with vala and in order to that they should ask TRA for price reconfiguration and only for calls from Vala to IPKO (inlcuding d3) having at least same pricing or as from ipko to vala and the opposite from vala to ipko is the main factor which is blocking ipko from further growth, and another important comment make your packages simple and not complicate them with a mix of this and that (when you make prepaid let it be prepaid, when you make postpaid let it be postpaid, everything we do is risky so you should take the risk as well you cant be 100% secured as we are not as well)

so a warm welcome for d3 into mobile market hope they will use the creativity and be able to implement their visions and not reach obsticals which divert them from a profit and clients.

ill continue this analyze in june sometime

regards
edon,


this will have have some impact on kosovo mobile business thats for sure but who will beneffit and who will loose is still an enigma knwing that 1. d3 is offering services using ipko infrastructure but they are not as open as they should be ..they think on their own way,
2. ipko was not able to take a big number of customers from vala many reasons

infratructure update

hey wassuuuup, (meaning we are happy)

yes so we have made major infrastructure update and upgrades, will be fully completed before the end of the year but mos important is finished, so now we have a high reliable
- wholesale infrastructure
- calling card infrastructure
- callshop infrastructure

everything running on h323 and sip at the same time,
protocol conversion both ways sip/h323 and h323/sip

as we already have up and running pc to phone (ntel) infrastructure we are looking for upgrading it specialy for firewall bypass issued (more info will be posted soon)
5
new interconnections are being negociated we are looking to have new partners

new clients joining our family everyday and beneffiting from our services

currently we are working hard that before the end of the year to issue a complete package of Balkan Mobiles (kosovo, albania, macedonia, serbia, montenegro) all of them hgh quality routes with very reasonable price...so this new package will be designed for wholesale carriers who are looking for a solution not for a cheap price with fas routing.

protonium finaly started to walk

well yes its almost a year since we have planned to lounch our new baby company Protonium.net but....nothing till yesterday when we decided to move on

so first step was setting up a new server and this time we have decided to add a Cpanel as a end user control panel,

second step Napair Networks to be donateits Plesk Servers and clients to Protonium.net

third step was choosing the right Billing Application we had Client Exec lately updated/upgraded but still we decided to get and start using WHMCS

and now everything is being migrated and transfered to Protonium (you know what kind of mass this is)

So protonium.net will have 3 basic packages

Ultra 1 (111mb of space, 1111mb transfer, 22 emails and a lot of other unlimited features)

Ultra 2 (555mb of space, 5555mb transfer, unlimited emails and a lot of other unlimited features)

Ultra 3 (1111mb of space, 11111mb transfer, unlimited emails and a lot of other unlimited features)

fantastico script is preinstalled which has almost 50 applications which can be installed with only one click

free sitebuilder for all the clients

online payments (paypal, 2checkout, moneybookers)

and yes a new image and logo :)

Napair Networks LLC - USA

so as of September 2008 Napair Networks LLC is registered entity an compliance with rules and regulations of State of Florida, USA

so what is going on,

Napair Networks LLC is being set-up in Florida we are builing a new infrastructure from scrach will have the servers up and running soooooon

our first product will be Calling Cards known in US as Cheap Phone Card we expect to end the testing phase before the Decembr 31.08 so in January we go live.

we will be targeting European Customers as a first and largest target group

before the end of june we hope to lounch the ressidental lines for Florida.

UK on the way to USA

the most interesting thing in UK advertisements as i got used to see...in the other countries almost 50% of advertisements are comming from mobile and other telecomunication companies but not in UK (forgot they are different :) )

so for about 20 hours of my stay in london in and around it i saw only one Vodafone billboard and that was at the entrance of the Heathrow Airport again from my point of view it was wrong as i/and others seing it was/were already leaving UK and it was being used for promoting

Roam with Vodafone - with a "kind of" Bob Marley Picture :(

during the drive and walk on the city i saw only one and single O2 shop (was closed it was after 22:00 ) and another vodafone shop at the airport when i was just flying away but for curiosity i checked for a Usb gprs/edge modem they had it but you should be quite crazy before buying it

you have to make a 99 pound (thats 140 euro approx) in order to have it, then you have to sign a 12 month contract as minimum and make monthly payments of 15 pound (22euro approx) and yes the most important you cant use it with other providers so i had to great them and walk away.

so the country where 2 of the largest world telecoms were born/created do not spend on marketing...(bt and vodafone)

the other interesting thing ... i didnt find a free hot spot internet ... nothing is free in london

h323

h323 hmmm i dont know where to start :)

its done its working and then we saw its not enaugh, so we decided to get another server and make a new install (it is being installed this moment) but the good think is that we have it up and running.

interconnections

we have a new one were doing good with this one and we are still moving on! as always.

now its end of the month so i should get concentrated on the end and begining of the month things.

moving on and on and on!

yes moving and moving and moving

i have been again very busy and had not much time to come here and tell what was going on these days so

- our h323 platform is almost ready hoping to have it in production ealry next week

- we are providing very stable direct routes in our region now!

- we managed to create some new interconnections! bombastic ones will be on during the august!

- we are still checking the company strategy :) how we want to move on (this way or that way or the other one)

- as usualy new clients from different parts of the world are joining us!

now i have to go back to work ...and wait for F1 (not help) but speedy cars. and yes the red cars.

all the best till next post i promise want take long...

Whats Going On

ok we have been very busy during this time, so what we were doing



- our billing and sip platform is now upgraded to latest release

- we have new interconnecion partners

- we are working on upgrading routes and soon we expect to have all our routes only on premium level,

- we are thinking on changing the company strategy regarding products

- we are in final stages with Moneybookers regarding agreement with them

- we have now many direct routes for the region

- we will soon introduce into production the new h323 platform

- yeap we have many new clients ( i want personaly to say HI to everyone from here)

- we are going to have a hot summer as we expect to have about 3 time more traffic so we must have a rocking service



this was for Ntelecom -



while what was going on in Napair Networks



we delivered and installed a new IBM Server for AFK

we developed a new website for Lui Paster - http://www.luipaster-ks.com/

continued with other regular contracts and obligations

e-goverment conference

yesterday and today 12-13/05/08 the ministry of public services organised the conference regarding e-goverment ,

i was able to attend only the second day because of my obligations on monday :) and yes it was good, many good presentations were given and many good examples were shown out there,

in a way now our goverment knows that they should concentrate to create the base in order to move forward and the most important what should be done and what not when everything starts to move.

an interesting fact was that Austria has developed over 10,000 applications that are being used for e-governance.

another one is that Slovenia is among the second countries on the matter of e-governance development.

and the last 2 recomandations

- 1 e-archive - everything should be done in-house or in-country and goverment should be very carefull with hardware....and again hardware.

- 2 application development, infrastructure development, application maintenance and infrastructure maintenance should be outsourced only and only to local companies!

so yeap it was a good one and hope things start to move on this section.

new great month

hello everyone,

Ntelecom had a very good month otherwise i would say that it was the best of untill now in all the aspects.

for this i would thank everyone who was and is part of us and works with us.


all the best
edon

Kosovo is now Republic o Kosova

Yesterday on 17th February 2008

Kosovar Prime Minister Hashim Thaci in front of Kosovo Assembly declared the independence of Kosova and from now on it is the Republic of Kosova.

we have been waiting for this day sine 1912, Kosovars during this period have been dreaming, living and doing everything for this day that came now, nobody who has sacrificed or is not with us anymore was forgoten by Kosovars.

now we have new obligations and duties to become part of EU.

meantime the Assembly of Kosova has approved new flag for our new country.

Flag of Republic of Kosova - Flamuri i Republikes se Kosoves

17.02.08 new date for new history

Kosova announces independence tomorrow 17.02.08

so at the end we have a state as well.

" Kosovo's elected government is possibly the most enthusiastically pro-EU government in the world. " BBC

new prices

1st of February 2008 Ntelecom announces new prices for the services this month except usual better quality we made new improvements on the service but on the prices as well.
below is a list with some of the best priced routes in the market, this is an ongoing improvement and of course realization of our promises and always making sure that you are satisfied with our service.

Monaco Mobile * This includes Vala (37744) Kosovo Mobile
Slovenia Mobile *This Includes Ipko (38649) Kosovo Mobile

GET 5% Extra Calling Time

Date: 29. January .2008
Title: GET 5% Extra Calling Time

Ntelecom – Announces a new bombastic campaign starting as of today 29th of January and lasting until 29th of February 2008, everyone going to the website and signing up during this period will benefit from 5% extra calling time.

The campaign GET 5% Extra Calling time is created in order to tell to everyone that Ntelecom always thinks about new improvements and better service, as the fastest grooving V-Telecom we have decided that the first move is to get new clients who actually like campaigns and bargaining so that’s what we did, as you may notice this campaign is dedicated to new clients and the current Ntelecom Clients will benefit from a special campaign starting 1st of March 08 until then we will this a secret.

Except the GET 5% Extra Calling Time Ntelecom is working on new products/services which will be launched during the February 08.

About Ntelecom

Ntelecom is part of Napair Networks and operates as a Telecom Operator in many countries worldwide and it is becoming of the fastest grooving V-Telecoms.

Tel: +381-38-544-923

e-mail: info@ntelecom.eu

web: www.ntelecom.eu

whats going on

so after almost a month with no updates and news lets see what was going on

first had a good holiday after the new year,

and then came back to the reality of hard working, another news is that i changed my car moved from opel vectra B to peugeot 307 (i think i made a good choice).

Ntelecom is present in many new countries, and yes Ntelecom has its mascote now and we will call him Neutron

Napair networks website will be published in begining of february

Protonium's website will be published in the middle of february

Most of the marketing materials came out from printing, they are being delivered now.

GET your 5

Get your 5% extra calling time - is a new compaing starting end of january and ending 29th of february 2008, this will be the great offer to all new potential clients.

New Packages that are comming

let me work on now and ill update everything during this week.