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Even though mobile penetration in Hungary is currently running at around 108% according to data from TeleGeography as of June 30, 2008 – 20% of the country’s population still do not own a mobile phone.
At the moment, three operators are ruling Hungary — T-Mobile, Vodafone and Telenor-owned Pannon — and since price competition between the three players stagnated since 2006, the country’s telecoms regulator, National Communications Authority (NHH), decided to launch two 15-year mobile licence tenders and separately, a third proposal designed to provide further mobile infrastructure development.
According to NHH’s Daniel Pataki, this decision was made to boost mobile market competition. “We have called the tender now as market conditions could turn even more unfavorable, since nobody can tell when this global financial market turmoil could end,” he added.
As expected, the three existing carriers will be excluded from bidding for the new licences.
[Via: TeleGeography]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
