BEELINE - the World Roaming Leader
Pavel as Marketing, Events, Business
Мар|23|2008
The Russian Mobile Operate Company Beeline has become the world leader both by the number of roaming partners and by the number of roaming countries, analysts at J’son & Partners believe.
Vimpelcom specifies that currently they are cooperating with 497 partners in 205 countries. ‘We have been actively developing the given business line recently, concluding agreements with various operators all over the world to enable our subscribers to stay in touch in any part of the world’, - says Yekaterina Osadchaya, Vimpelcom’s press secretary.
The indicates of the companies operating in GSM and UMTS (3G) were counted when making up the rating. The survey reads that when preparing the report Vimpelcom had 487 roaming partners in 202 countries. The Turkish operator Turkcell (479 agreements) and Canadian Rogers Wireless (457 agreements) are in the top-three. The forth is the Ukrainian operator Astelit with 455 partners.
By the number of countries covered by roaming, Vimpelcom is followed by the Chilean operator Telefonica Movil de Chile, Turkcell and the French Orange with 199 countries each. Astelit is the fifth with 198 countries. Megafon has also entered the top-10 with 197 countries. The total number of officially recognized states exceeds 220.
Beeline is always very creative in its marketing.
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Jane
27|Мар|2008In Europe we also have no problems with roaming anyway - it it always possible to switch network or even sometimes to buy local prepaid sim what can be even cheaper.
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