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)
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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.