Antarctica, 9 February 2012, 16:31 UTC – After having completed successfully the Antarctic ICE Expedition and 80 days on the ice, Belgians Dixie Dansercoer and Sam Deltour were expertly picked up from their final campsite and safely flown to the Russian Progress Station. During the Antarctic ICE Expedition both polar explorers achieved the world record for the longest autonomous and non-motorized expedition in Antarctica.
Brussels, 1st January 2012 – During the New Year’s eve, Mobistar handled a total of 47.1 million text messages between 8pm and 8am. As they do every year, Mobistar took measures to cope with the increase in SMS traffic on their network. This year, many customers also used mobile Internet to send their New Year’s greetings.
Mobistar is actively participating in the second 'National Homeworking Day' on December 8th. In fact, Mobistar has been a pioneer where teleworking is concerned: ever since the project began in 2008, there was an ever-accelerating growth in the number of its employees who regularly work from a distance. Today, one out of every two ‘Team Members’ works at home on a regular basis.
Brussels, November 28, 2011 – Today, at the end of an auction process, Mobistar has bought a 4G licence in the 2.6 GHz band for 20.02 million euros. This licence acquisition is part of Mobistar’s global strategy to deploy the new LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology in Belgium, initiated in April 2010. With this strategy, Mobistar will be ready for the spectacular mobile Internet growth expected over the years to come, while keeping investment levels under control: with this new licence, Mobistar will have a cutting-edge network ready to meet a 50% annual increase in mobile data traffic until 2025.
Mobistar is today announcing a new MVNO agreement with Colruyt, the Belgian market leader in retail. Via the Mobistar network, Colruyt is putting a prepaid card on the market, with which customers only pay for what they use. This partnership will enable Mobistar to expand its market share in the prepaid cards segment.
The many advantages of internet banking are well-known. People can carry out their transactions when or from where they like and, and in complete security. An online invoice is neither printed nor sent, but appears directly in clients’ banking applications via Zoomit. Mobistar is mounting an email campaign to advise its customers to change to online invoices.
Visual Voice Mail will be available as from October 31 for all new iPhone customers. Mobistar is the first Belgian mobile operator to launch this highly innovative and free new service. Thanks to Visual Voice Mail, Mobistar customers will now have a brand-new way of listening to and managing their voice messages. Between now and mid-November, Visual Voice Mail will be activated automatically and free of charge for all Mobistar customers with an iPhone.
Brussels, 21 October 2011 – Mobistar today announced it will offer the full range of iPhone 4S models in Belgium on October 28. The iPhone 4S will be available in all Mobistar Centers. Customers can start pre-ordering the iPhone 4S with iOS 5 on October 21.
Mobistar today announced it will offer iPad 2 with Wi-Fi + 3G in Belgium on September 30. Mobistar will offer all models of iPad 2 with Wi-Fi + 3G and developed dedicated data plans for iPad 2 with a one-year contract, as well as an attractive data plan for iPad 2 without a contract.
Take the mobile broadband network everywhere with you! The Mobistar 3G/Wifi modem enables all devices equipped with a WiFi connection to access the Mobistar 3G network. It has the added benefit of optimal 3G reception anywhere you go. Both robust and very easy to use, the 3G/Wifi modem costs only 29 euros with every new Internet Everywhere Daily, Multi Relax or Multi Max subscription.