Hi S711! Vésper -70,5% owned by Qualcomm- competes with Telefônica + Telemar in their respective areas.
Qualcomm put in US$ 346 millions (through Vésper Holding), and bought the debts to suppliers Ericsson, Lucent and Nortel, according to some sources at 80% discount.
After the debt restructuring the company is putting all its efforts in 'Vésper Portátil', with a single prepaid charge, called “Flat Fee”. The product is being commercialised via dept. stores.
NOTE: I don't live in Vesper's area can't check a store but could have a look at its web page. I live in TIM and Global Telecom area, south Brazil)
Vesper want to expand the sales channels with other big stores. Until the end of last year they wanted to get 500 thousand subs and reaching one million by 2002 end.
Until then, Vesper executive said they intend to be offering their first CDMA 2000 1x, services at 144 kbps rate.
Vésper to explain to regulator Anatel about its WLL mobile service. Telesp Celular complained to Anatel that that service was an infringement to the rules.
A Vesper executive explained that: Vesper's network is fixed. If an user moves and the call can crop. They say they don't have traffic like a mobile network, neither roaming, hence Vesper's services can't be said to be a mobile service.
If i get anything new that sheds light on Vesper -which is Venus in Latin for the first "star", as the Roman thought it to be, to appear in the sky.
Hey where else you get this cultural trivia but here, hein?
Cheers
Elmat |
