Swisscom has reported that “substitution by IP-based applications and the growing use of social media platforms” led to a 28% fall in revenue from directly billed SMS messages during the first quarter of 2012.
Telio continues to deliver strong results, thereby confirming their position as a leading European provider of access independent broadband telephone services.
Lycamobile, the largest global provider of low cost international mobile calls, brings even greater value to its customers for the month of April with no connection charges for all International calls from Lycamobile in Switzerland.
Swiss transport company PostBus announced that it will launch free Wi-Fi service on its buses on 10 April
Switzerland’s telecoms regulator the Federal Communication Commission (ComCom) has announced the results of the auction re-allocating frequencies on licences due to expire, as well as currently unused spectrum. Orange Switzerland, Swisscom and Sunrise took part in the tender; In&Phone applied but did not meet the admission criteria.
Orange Switzerland added 42,800 new customers in 2011 to reach a total of more than 1.61 million, up 2.7 percent year-on-year.
Sunrise’s prepaid MVNO Yallo is cutting the cost of international calls from Switzerland. From 16 February, calls to fixed-line networks in 33 countries will cost CHF 0.03 per minute for Yallo pre-paid customers.
Swiss ISP group Deep will partner with Orange to provide a mobile service that will launch in March.
Switzerland’s largest operator Swisscom and Ericsson have launched a partnership to develop the M2M market. Swisscom will offer enterprises, from different industries both in Switzerland as well as Swisscom customers abroad, services to leverage efficiencies along their customers’ value chain from production to distribution.
Starting today, M-Budget Mobile (the MVNO for Swiss supermarket chain, Migros group) has a new offer for access data: called Advanced and Surf.
Swiss operator Shaston has introduced a Sim card that offers low-cost roaming for its customers.
Cognatel CEO Mark Ashdown sees differentiation and evolution being the key for MVNOs this year, with new business models emerging that tap into niche demographics
Swiss operator Sunrise has announced that the ‘MTV Mobile’ service has attracted over 100,000 customers since its launch in September 2010.
Swisscom announced that it will equip over 180 restaurants of the Swiss discount supermarket Migros with WLAN by the middle of the year.
ISP group Deep will launch a mobile offer on 01 March in Switzerland according to itreseller.ch, citing an interview with Deep CEO Ivo Frei.
International calling specialists Lycamobile has launched its service in Poland, its third global launch this year.
Pre-paid MVNO Ortel Mobile, a subsidiary of KPN, has announced the launch of services in Switzerland.
Sunrise’s prepaid MVNO Yallo is cutting the cost of overseas calls to various destinations in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Swiss super market chain Coop’s mobile service CoopMobile will expand free on-net calls to all Orange Switzerland for CoopMobile Prix Garantie prepaid per 26 September of this year
The MTV Mobile pre-paid tariff of MTV Mobile and Sunrise, which targets Swiss consumers aged under 26, has announced an exclusive series of events around Swiss rapper Stress.