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Area served
  
Serbia

Headquarters
  
Belgrade, Serbia

Founded
  
2007

Number of employees
  
958

Parent organization
  
A1 Telekom Austria

Net income
  
-€9.17 million (2013)

CEO
  
Dejan Turk (1 Mar 2014–)

Revenue
  
197.3 million EUR (2013)

Total assets
  
764.1 million EUR (2013)

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Type
  
Limited liability company

Industry
  
Wireless Services; Telecommunication

Key people
  
Dejan Turk (CEO); Dejan Kastelic (CTO); Andreas Graf (CFO)

Products
  
LTE, UMTS, W-CDMA, GPRS, GSM

Profiles

Vip mobile is a Serbian mobile network operator and a member of the Telekom Austria Group based in Belgrade. It is the exclusive strategic partner of Vodafone in Serbia.

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History

On December 1, 2006, the mobilkom Austria group became the owner of the third mobile telephone license in Serbia for GSM 900/1800 and UMTS networks, through a payment of €320 million. The license was legally transferred to Vip mobile.

Considering the great potential of the Serbian telecommunications market, the mobilkom Austria group has planned to invest up to €570 million in its first four years of operations, including the €320 million it spent on acquiring its operating license in Serbia in 2006. This makes Vip mobile the biggest Greenfield investment in Serbia so far. six months. Vip brand was launched on June 6, 2007. Company started Vip is one of the fastest start-ups of a late entrant worldwide, managing to start its operations in just with commercial work in July 2007. The company is very active in marketing campaigns. In 2008, Vip became general sponsor of Serbian national volleyball team.

According to the 2015 annual financial report, company had revenue of €206.8 million euros, with 2.1 million customers it held a market share of 22,5%.

Network information

The IMSI - Network Code of Vip is 220-05 and MSISDN Network Codes are 060 (international: +381 60), 061 (international: +381 61) and 068 (international: +381 68).

Network technology

  • 2G (GSM, GPRS, EDGE up to 250 kbit/s) on 900 MHz and 1800 MHz
  • 3G (HSPA+ up to 42 Mbit/s) on 900 MHz and 2100 MHz
  • 4G (LTE up to 150 Mbit/s) on 800 and 1800 MHz
  • Vip is actively building its own network, while using national roaming assigned with Telenor Srbija since 2010.

    Vip previously used national roaming with Telekom Srbija (2007–2010).

    License obligations for the end of 2010 require Vip to cover 80% of territory and 90% of population with its own quality signal. So far, all requirements in terms of coverage given by the license are achieved and Vip signal is available all over Serbia.

    References

    Vip mobile Wikipedia


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