July 4th, 2008
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As the penetration of mobile phone usage has reached 85% of population (or 108 millions subscribers), DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan is trying to expand their business by looking for opportunities overseas. Ryuji Yamada, the new President and CEO said, “our No. 1 priority is the Asia-Pacific region, then the Middle East and [...]
June 8th, 2008
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This must be another clever way made by Singaporean. ST Telemedia, telecom company owned by Temasek holding, agreed to sell all their shares in Indosat (NYSE: IIT, IDX: ISAT) to Middle East’s Qatar Telecom. The transaction, involving 40.8% shares of second largest Indonesian telecommunication company, valued US$ 1.8 billion in total.
May 27th, 2008
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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.
March 4th, 2008
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Zain, a Motorola partner, plans to start operations this year after it paid $6.1 billion for Saudi Arabia’s third mobile license.
February 11th, 2008
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Afghanistan operator, Roshan, is going to unveil mobile payment service in cooperation with UK giant, Vodafone. Vodafone already built M-PESA that had been implemented in Kenya. Called as M-Paisa in Afghanistan, the service will act mainly as a vehicle for microfinance institutions’ (MFI) loan disbursements and repayments, with an additional range of [...]
February 8th, 2008
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Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) yesterday proposed to buy shares in Singapore’s Mobile One (M1) and Indonesia’s PT Excelmindo Pratama (XL) from Khazanah Nasional Bhd for RM1.58billion. The acquisition of the shares in M1, through buying outright the holding company called SunShare Investment that holds a 29.7% block in M1, would allow TM to strengthen its [...]
February 5th, 2008
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Orascom Telecom, Egyptian telecommunication company, announced that they win a tender of wireless service in North Korea, one most isolated country in the world. Through its subsidiary, CHEO Technology, 75% owned by Orascom and 25% by North Korea’s Korea Post and Telecommunication Corp , they will build wireless technology using 3G.
January 31st, 2008
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Biggest China telecom operator, China Mobile, plans to expand its business arm abroad. “(China Mobile) would like to acquire high-quality and profit-making telecommunications enterprises overseas,” Lei Yu, a spokeswoman of China Mobile’s Hong Kong-listed unit. Currently, China Mobile only holds share of one telecom company outside China. buying an 88.86-percent stake in Pakistan’s fifth-largest mobile [...]
January 31st, 2008
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UK’s telecom giant, Vodafone, is planning to invest in Bangladesh. Bangladesh, a South Asia country, is one of the most dense populated country. The telecoms company is looking at a number of options including the acquisition of any of the six mobile phone companies now operating in the country. A Vodafone spokesperson in the UK [...]
January 16th, 2008
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The Singapore’s largest operator, Singtel, unveiled the plan on entering mobile and internet advertising business and to lead it within next 5 years. The new strategy will involve delivering an end-to-end advertising solution across four key areas – inventory creation and control of customer information, media planning, advertisement delivery and advertising campaign performance tracking. The [...]
