Telecoms: Italy » Poste Italiane http://www.telecomsitaly.com News and comments about the Italian telecommunications market Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:39:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Poste Mobile to sell ZTE’s low cost phone http://www.telecomsitaly.com/2010/02/poste-mobile-to-sell-ztes-low-cost-phone/ http://www.telecomsitaly.com/2010/02/poste-mobile-to-sell-ztes-low-cost-phone/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:21:34 +0000 Cazzani http://www.telecomsitaly.com/?p=947 Poste Mobile, the telecomunication arm of the Italian post office that quickly became the country’s biggest MVNO, is promoting a very low-cost phone manufactured by Chinese company ZTE.

In country where handset subsidies have been traditionally very low, the retail price of € 22,90 for the new PM1001 GSM handset to be sold by Poste Italiane through its nationwide post offices could still appeal to a lot of people.

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Coop was the first the launch its service last June and it has now signed 100.000 customers.

]]> http://www.telecomsitaly.com/2007/12/mvno-agreements-in-italy/feed/ 0 Italian Post to become MVNO http://www.telecomsitaly.com/2007/03/italian-post-to-become-mvno/ http://www.telecomsitaly.com/2007/03/italian-post-to-become-mvno/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:21:25 +0000 Cazzani http://wordpress.vertigonet.it/?p=601 The Italian Post Office (Poste Italiane) announced today its plan to become a mobile virtual network operator.


Thanks to its network of more than 14.000 shops, the post office can easily reach every Italian citizen at ‘walking distance’ to sell its services. Being the market leader in payment service, it also plans to offer a whole range of mobile-based payment services.
Poste Italiane’s managing director Massimo Sarmi said negotiations with MNOs are still going on and he gave no precise timeframe about the initial availability of the service.
Sarmi also said the company hopes to reach 2 m mobile customers by 2011.

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