Belgrade, 10 November 2021 (MIA) – Telekom Serbia CEO Vladimir Lučić has announced on Wednesday that Telekom will open its first branch in North Macedonia next week, on November 16. He also announced the opening of a Bloomberg Adria newsroom for business news in Skopje, MIA’s Belgrade correspondent reported. “We start with satellite TV, and in March or April we will begin with mobile telephony in North Macedonia,” said Lučić in a guest appearance for TV Prva. He added that the first branch in North Macedonia will be opened in downtown Skopje. In the interview on Wednesday for Alo, the Telekom Serbia director spoke about the recently published Bloomberg contract to open a regional media house which will focus on business news and opening a Bloomberg Adria office in North Macedonia. “We made huge steps forward with two media partnerships: Euronews and Bloomberg. Bloomberg is even more ambitious than Euronews. Bloomberg Adria will have newsrooms in five countries: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia and North Macedonia, and the seat will be in Belgrade. Bloomberg is a brand for real economic information. They will additionally contribute to the improvement of the local economy, and Bloomberg will help it get promoted worldwide, and this will mean a lot for the cooperation of the economies in the region. By attaching ourselves to such brands with undisputed international legitimacy, Telekom shows it wants quality media channels, and like in the case with Vodafone and the Premier League, it shows that the biggest companies of the world truly want to work with us,” Lučić said. He said that Telekom is part of the Forbes Council and announced that branches of Telekom will open in Germany and Switzerland during the first quarter of 2022. In July 2021, Lućić said that he founded Telekom in Skopje, which will be called MTel, by offering satellite TV services, and by the end of the year, mobile phone services and optic internet will be released as well. “The decisions brought at the economic forum in Skopje are important because we are a company that wants to be a regional leader. We have had plans to expand our market to North Macedonia and Albania for three years. We tried to enter the Albanian market by purchasing Albanian Telekom, but we were prevented from doing so,” Lučić said. Telekom Serbia is a Serbian state telecommunications operator, founded as a joint-stock company in June 1997. dk/ba/