SIM card administration is carried out through Over-The-Air (“OTA”) platforms, which enable mobile phone operators to control a SIM card without a physical connection.

‘home provider’ means an undertaking that provides a roaming customer with terrestrial public mobile telephony services either via its own network or as a mobile virtual network operator or reseller.

‘home network’ means a terrestrial public mobile telephone network located within a Member State and used by a home provider for the provision of terrestrial public mobile telephony services to a roaming customer.

We're talking about interested foreign investors that are non-traditional, as well as traditional telecom operators, and a few examples are cited in the report that I'll mention here: Bechtel, which is a very large engineering firm; the Carlyle Group, which is a large venture capital firm in Washington; T-Mobile, which is the German mobile operator; and others.

BLU has been established to develop and operate a mobile telecommunications network and to provide mobile and personal communications services to business and residential customers located in Italy.

Service providers should be allowed to combine different services provided under different licences (such as GSM telephony and paging), as well as allowing the provision of services in different Member States; 3 full freedom for mobile network operators to operate and develop their own networks, including a right to self-provide or use third party infrastructure to operate their mobile network, and the removal of restrictions on sharing infrastructure; 4 unrestricted combined offering of services via the fixed and mobile networks, within the overall time schedule set by Council Resolution 93/C219/02 of 22 July 1993 for the full liberal ...[+++]isation of public voice services via the fixed network; 5 facilitating pan-European operation and service provision.