Mobile telephony

OTE Group announced Thursday that second-quarter consolidated revenue rose 1.1% year-on-year, to €854.1 million.

But adjusted operating profit (after leases) fell 1.8% in the same period, to €326.8 million, with the strong results increase offset by negative ones in Romania. Q1 adjusted operating profit dropped 1.4%, to €648.8 million.

The railway regulatory authority has given the go-ahead to install the Global System for Mobile Communications-Railway (GSM-R) on trains, enabling drivers to communicate with one another.

Ljubljana – Revenue from electronic communication services in Slovenia amounted to slightly more than one billion euro last year, or 2% less then in 2019. Users sent fewer SMS and more MMS messages and there were more calls in the home network, while calls to international networks were down. Investments increased by 23%.

The Special Telecommunications Service (STS) has implemented an advanced mobile location (AML) technology solution that allows geographic tracking of calls made to the 112 emergency line, exclusively during the emergency call. "The solution was implemented by the Special Telecommunications Service (STS) jointly with mobile communications operators and in partnership with Google and Apple.

Turks spend on average some two hours and 48 minutes on social media on a daily basis, while the time they remain glued to the tube is two hours and 44 minutes, according to a study jointly carried out by the Association for Mobile Communication Devices and Information Technologies Businessmen (MOBİSAD) and Istanbul University.

The head of the Turkish Cancer Association has warned young people to use their mobile phones less.

The Greek cell phone market looks set to post a recovery this year, as a study conducted by the Athens University for Economics and Business for the association of mobile telephony companies (EEKT) pointed to a 1.4 percent increase in revenues from cell services in 2017 against last year.

The recovery is projected to continue in 2018, when a further rise of 1.9 percent is expected.

Turkey's leading cellphone operator, Turkcell, has announced the development of an automatic rotating antenna to enable uninterrupted internet connectivity at sea.

Turkey's state-run defense company ASELSAN and mobile operators Turkcell, Türk Telekom and Vodafone have cooperated to develop a base station antenna to be used for the 4.5G network.

Transport Minister Ahmet Arslan attended the signature ceremony on Jan. 26 on the sidelines of the "5G and Beyond Technologies Conference" about the use of the domestic base station antenna. 

The rapid spread of mobile phones across Sub-Saharan Africa is transforming the region, but record levels of growth are due to slow sharply, an industry report said this week.