A lost italian operator... planned, never seen :(

A nice webpage: http://trappa.altervista.org/ipse.htm :meh:

Quam started in germany some years ago - wanted to build a UMTS network -- and went bancrupt after a few months.
www.quam.de is still online though with contact info for warranty issues...

Chris

Quam started in November 2001 and was a joint venture between Telefonica and Sonera (now TeliaSonera). They used E-Plus' network at first and were going to establish their own UMTS network. Unfortunately, their service wasn't really well-established so they ceased operations in November 2002. Most of the customers migrated to T-Mobile and E-Plus took over Quam's UMTS infrastructure.

This was their logo:

http://www.quam.de/quam_static.gif

What a waste of money!
But is not possible a return of ipse in Italian Market?

I don't think so... they lost their license if I remember.

hi guys! probably someone already knows who i am..:whistling: as u know, i'm very intrested in ipse/quam story, so i'm trying to collect images and gadgets about this network operator.

maybe they still have it.. government tried several times to have it back, but each time they tried to do so, ipse started legal actions:chair:

Ciao and welcome :)

Well, I know who you are :D Anyway, an interesting story is Quam.de (still online, www.quam.de ). They had a start launch (in Italy we had only some tests) and customers too... but they finished before to have an active network :(

Some interesting news about Telefonica and Quam thanks to Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quam e http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quam

hehe i know, i "squeezed" all the web about it..:p

so you know http://www.ipsedosmil.it/ too :D

Well if you want a smile... http://www.telefonica.es/acercadetel...ria/2001.shtml :rolleyes:

At least don't forget that... "Spanish operator Telefonica has lost its Swiss UMTS license, because it never used it. The company also invested nothing in the infrastructure as called for in the license from the Swiss communications commission.
Telefonica’s subsidiary 3Q Mobile AG gained the license in 2000 for CHF 50 million.
The communications commission also said applicants for the three available wireless broadband licenses will have to make a bid on June 6, and it will announce the winners on June 8." :chair: April 2006...