GLOBUL (network code 284-05) is the second-largest
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. The company was founded in 2001 and is 100% owned by
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, which is active in five Balkan countries: Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia and Albania.
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holds 30% of the Greek company http://www.ote.gr/portal/page/portal/InvestorRelation/TheShare/ShareholderStructure
As of end of 2008, GLOBUL has 4 million mobile subscribers, some 50% of them contract subscribers and 50% pre-paid users.
The company is among the biggest green field investment in Bulgaria with over BGN 1.6 billion (some €800 million) invested by in the development of GLOBUL’s network and services.
GLOBUL's GSM network covers 99,96%% of Bulgaria’s population and 98,92% of the country’s territory. The company has roaming agreements with over 355 operators in more than 160 countries and territories worldwide.
In 2005, GLOBUL received a license for developing and implementing 3G UMTS mobile telecommunications network as well as a fixed telephony license.
GLOBUL launched 3G services on September 25, 2006. The company uses HSDPA (14,4 Mbps download speed
http://globul.bg/eng/news.html?id=7385) and HSUPA (2 Mbps upload speed) technologies. As of 2009, GLOBUL UMTS network covers over 150 Bulgarian cities, sea and skiing resorts and 80% of the country's population.
GLOBUL changed the company logo in June 2006 to unify it with the
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logo.
In 2006, GLOBUL launched
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in Bulgaria. GLOBUL is the first European operator to develop the platform infrastructure and launch
i-modeNTT DoCoMo's i-mode is a wireless internet service popular in Japan. Unlike Wireless Application Protocol or WAP, i-mode encompasses a wider variety of internet standards, including web access, e-mail and the packet-switched network that delivers the data...
in the record time of less than six months, while being one of the few to offer the service upon launch to all its customers, both contract and prepaid. GLOBUL was the first operator worldwide to introduce Nokia i-mode handsets in September 2007.
In 2007 GLOBUL launched
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(trade mark of RIM) - mobile solution for reliable and permanent on-line access to your office and personal e-mail addresses directly from the mobile phone. The service is accessible from the network of GLOBUL as well as from the roaming partners of GLOBUL.
On March 20, 2009, GLOBUL launched iPhone 3G in Bulgaria and four months later offered the new iPhone 3GS.
The mobile operator was the first in Bulgaria to propose an integrated solution for fixed and mobile telephony with the MVPN service, Office Zone and Student Zone. These services allow users to have mobile and fixed-line number in one mobile handset and use both numbers in a user-defined physical area, as well as short numbers and a private numbering plan for the corporate customers.
In 2007 GLOBUL received a license for 802.16 point-to-multipoint network in the 26 GHz band. The company uses
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technology for broadband wireless transmission in the major cities
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In 2009 GLOBUL started fast-speed broadband Internet services.http://globul.bg/eng/news.html?id=6823 Thus, the operator service portfolio includes full range of consumer telecommunication services – mobile telephony, fixed telephony and broadband Internet services.
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