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GLOBUL is the second-largest Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

n GSM/UMTS operator

Mobile network operator

A mobile network operator , also known as mobile phone operator , carrier service provider , wireless service provider, wireless carrier, or cellular company, or mobile network carrier is a telephone company that provides services for mobile phone subscribers.One essential...

. The company was founded in 2001 and is 100% owned by Greek

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

telecommunications corporation Cosmote

Cosmote

COSMOTE is the largest mobile network operator in Greece, with 7.9 million subscribers. The company is headquartered in Athens and it is a fully owned subsidiary of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization , the incumbent telecommunications provider in Greece...

, which is active in four Balkan countries: Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

, Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

, and Albania

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

. Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom AG is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Europe....

holds 30% of the Greek company http://www.ote.gr/portal/page/portal/InvestorRelation/TheShare/ShareholderStructure

As of end of March 2011, GLOBUL has over 3.9 million subscribers, some 58% of them contract subscribers and 42% 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 99,98%% of Bulgaria’s population and 98,92% of the country’s territory. The company has roaming agreements with over 400 operators in more than 170 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 Mbit/s download speed http://globul.bg/eng/news.html?id=7385) and HSUPA (2 Mbit/s upload speed) technologies. As of end of March 2011, GLOBUL UMTS network covers 88% of the country's population.

GLOBUL changed the company logo in June 2006 to unify it with the Cosmote

Cosmote

logo.

In 2006, GLOBUL launched i-mode

I-mode

NTT DoCoMo's i-mode is a mobile internet service popular in Japan. Unlike Wireless Application Protocol, i-mode encompasses a wider variety of internet standards, including web access, e-mail and the packet-switched network that delivers the data...

in Bulgaria. GLOBUL is the first European operator to develop the platform infrastructure and launch i-mode

I-mode

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 BlackBerry

BlackBerry

BlackBerry is a line of mobile email and smartphone devices developed and designed by Canadian company Research In Motion since 1999.BlackBerry devices are smartphones, designed to function as personal digital assistants, portable media players, internet browsers, gaming devices, and much more...

(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

IPhone 3G

The iPhone 3G is the second generation of iPhone designed and marketed by Apple Inc.. It was the successor to the original iPhone, and is succeeded by the iPhone 3GS. Introduced on June 9, 2008 at the WWDC 2008 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco...

in Bulgaria and four months later offered the new iPhone 3GS

IPhone 3GS

-Camera:The iPhone 3GS features an improved 3 megapixel camera manufactured by OmniVision. In addition to the higher megapixel count, it also features auto-focus, auto white balance and auto macro and is capable of capturing VGA video...

. In August 2010, GLOBUL offered iPhone 4.

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. As of March 2011, GLOBUL has over 150,000 users of its fixed-line services.

In 2007 GLOBUL received a license for 802.16 point-to-multipoint network in the 26 GHz band. The company uses WiBAS

Local Multipoint Distribution Service

LMDS is a broadband wireless access technology originally designed for digital television transmission . It was conceived as a fixed wireless, point-to-multipoint technology for utilization in the last mile....

technology for broadband wireless transmission in the major cities http://www.sitronicsts.com/en/press_centre/press_releases/year_2008-intracom_wibas_080611.html

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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