Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Albania gets 3G from Vodafone

The Albanians will at present get the welfare of high speed net on their mobile phones with the aid of Vodafone Albania as Vodafone establishes its new 3G service in Albania starting with the capital city Tirana and the suburbs of Tirana. Vodafone has been able to supply the service after succeeding the permit by maintaining a bid of US $ 43.79 million which is more than doubled of the challengers bid AKEP. AKEP set a bid of US $ 16.52 million to get the permit. The others in line were the Eagle Mobile who set a bid of $ 16.65 million for the permit. Along with Tirana Vodafone will shortly distribute the benefit of this service to other urban areas of Albania. The other urban areas which Vodafone plans to cover will be Fieri, Vlora, Shkodra and Durresi.
The new net will be set up with the aid of the Nokia Siemens Networks which will as well treat civil work backs up, training and maintenance of the net and will as well aid in net planning and optimisation. Vodafone has chosen for a four year deal with Nokia Siemens Network for the same. Vodafone's CEO, Mr. Haris Broumidis says that Vodafone resolved to selected Nokia Siemens as they possess high technological expertise which best suits the needs of Vodafone. This good deal will aid Vodafone supply a speed of up to 14.4 Mbps.

Mr, Broumidis as well appended that the launching of their new service will be a revolution in the way Albanian families communicate and will aid Albanian families and business enterprise to access to mobile net more easily with the most advantageous duty programmes Vodafone provides. He as well assured that the service which is precisely available to the working capital city will shortly be extended to the total state within a span of 18months.

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