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Indonesia’s AXIS launches the cheapest data service

Indonesia’s newest GSM and 3G’s operator, AXIS, launches today the new prepaid tariff for data usage: Rp0.1 per Kb for the first 10 Mb every day. The company claims that this is a revolutionary step for the country’s data services, emphasizing that this price is 90% cheaper than the existing tariff offered by other providers. Prepaid [...]

How low can you go? (Indonesia’s mobile price war)

This might be quite local information, but who else will give this information besides us? 3GWeek is based in Indonesia and try to give complete information for global visitors about national telecommunication update. If you want to know more about Indonesia’s telecommunication businesses, you can contact us directly.

3GToday.com site closed

When I searched about 3G technology this morning, I found that one of my favorite sites, 3GToday.com has been closed. This is the only message on the site: Thank you for visiting 3G Today. As 3G mobile technology is now a well established global reality with more than 550 million subscribers worldwide at the end of [...]

BlackBerry: Productivity on the move

No matter when I was in business traveling in the remote areas of Indonesia’s Southeast Sulawesi like now, I could still follow the latest news from around the world. No matter that you will find harder to read national newspaper or Internet connection here, you don’t need to miss any news or just replying your [...]

2G won’t died soon

Note: In this post I am pretending to be Charles Darwin or something like that. Human and technology are walking together here on earth. Just like human who will died someday, technology will meet that moment too. Human were born by their ancestor and so does technology. In the history of mankind based on the faith [...]

Probably world smallest cellphone?

This phone, manufactured by SMS Australia, claimed as the smallest phone in the world. The M500 watch phone weigh only 60 gram and has 1.5 inch screen with 120 x 160 pixel. Australia is not really known as phone maker. This must be a big leap for Australian manufacturer.

Broadcom introduces 3G on chip

I think it’s a good news to explore 3G capabilities in any devices, especially in mobile technologies.

HP introduces 3G laptop

Definitely I need to add this notebook to my wish list. Hewlett-Packard’s new nc6400 is a 3G-capable laptop that offers download speeds fast enough to pull in podcasts, multimedia-heavy Web sites, and even videos — from just about any major city around the world — thanks to the built-in Cingular 3G module. The nc6400 is also [...]

Cellular Reaches 2,5 Billion Lines

Geekzone reported a very interesting statictic on cellular industry milestones. Mobile phone industry has become a spectacular industry: it took 20 years to reach 1 billion connections, three years to reach 2 billion connections and is on target to reach its third billion in a period of just over two years. According to estimates from Wireless [...]

BlackBerry goes 3G

This is another new handset challenger in 3G market… Research In Motion (RIM) recently announced its first UMTS-capable handhelds, the BlackBerry 8707g and 8707v, in Singapore. Both models, which essentially offer the same features but with slight differentiation in exterior casing, will be carried by all three local mobile operators. The 8707g will be available from [...]
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