February 20th, 2007
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Asia is really the next big market in the world’s telecommunications business. At the current growth rate, there will be half a billion mobile subscribers in the country by 2010. With 150 million subscribers but market penetration of still only 15 percent, India is already the world`s fourth-biggest mobile market behind China, the United States [...]
January 29th, 2007
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Indonesia, which has five 3G operators (with three of them launched their services commercially) already, became the third ASEAN country after Singapore and Malaysia to have WCDMA-based 3G services. We will be joining around fifty million people who already have access to this service around the world.
With the advent of the third generation of cellular [...]
December 12th, 2006
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The 8th Mobile Monday Beijing will take place on Dec. 18 at Rain Club, an up-and-coming ‘fusion’ restaurant and lounge in Dongsishitiao. They invited speakers from Europe, Japan and South Korea to tell us their 3G story and see if 3G is the holy grail that Operators and SPs seem to expect.
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November 3rd, 2006
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Libya is set to get its first 3G network, with the country’s second largest cellular operator Libyana rolling out a W-CDMA and HSDPA network covering 14 cities. Libyana has contracted ZTE of China to supply its 3G infrastructure.
The new network will have an initial capacity of one million lines. State-owned Libyana had around 700,000 subscribers [...]
November 3rd, 2006
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A two-month trial of China’s third generation mobile technology will begin on either Sunday or Monday in Beijing, Shanghai and three other cities in China, Sina.com reported today. TD-SCDMA, time division-synchronous code division multiple access, was developed in China and is one of the world’s three next-generation mobile standards.
Initially, the trial TD-SCDMA network will involve [...]
October 9th, 2006
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Infineon Technologies AG announced that its GPRS/UMTS multimedia platform will power Panasonic Mobile Communications Co. Ltd’s newest Softbank 705P mobile handset. The Softbank Mobile Corp. handset will be for the Japan market. Infineon’s scalable Multimedia Platform EDGE/UMTS (MP-EU) allows mobile phone manufacturers to introduce various UMTS models based on the same core architecture, reducing [...]
September 27th, 2006
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Malaysia’s biggest mobile firm, Maxis Communications Bhd, will spend a total of RM2.2 billion over the next three years to expand its third generation (3G) network and wireless broadband Internet services. The company expects a break- even period of about three years.
Maxis aims to make broadband available to three quarters of all households by 2010. [...]
July 23rd, 2006
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Harry K. Nugraha, Country Manager Qualcomm Indonesia (left), Shawn A. Covell, Senior Director, International Government Affairs, Qualcomm (center) and Michael J. Sampoerna, President Director Sampoerna Telekom
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LAMPUNG, INDONESIA — Qualcomm Incorporated, a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and other advanced wireless technologies, worked with Sampoerna Telekom (STI), Axesstel [...]
July 17th, 2006
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If you’ve been in an airport, coffee shop, gym or hotel recently, chances are you’ve been right in the middle of a wireless network such as Wi-Fi or 802.11 networking. But, to some extent, the limited coverage of Wi-Fi can be problem. Moving around usually requires changing hot-spots, and if they’re run by different providers, [...]
July 10th, 2006
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Jakarta — Ozura Sdn Bhd has via PT Nextnation Prisma, both subsidiaries of Malaysian public listed Nextnation Communication Berhad, in partnership with, Indosat Tbk, one of the leading telecommunication providers in Indonesia, recently announces the launch of the first mobile gaming community in Indonesia - GameWar.
Indosat mobile subscribers will be the first to enjoy [...]
