September 17th, 2008
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Two investment firms, Saratoga Capital and Recapital are reported to be interested in buying the tower assets currently owned by Indonesian mobile operator Excelcomindo Pratama (XL). The country’s third largest mobile operator currently owns over 7,000 base stations, which it values at some US$550 million.
The company’s Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders convened on Wednesday, 3rd [...]
August 30th, 2008
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Finally, Research In Motion (RIM) recognized the massive market of BlackBerry users in Indonesia. Reported by Disitu, they are willing to come far from Canada in order to introduce the latest of the series, BlackBerry Bold (or coded 9000). Held in Ritz Carlton Ballroom on August 28 (yesterday), RIM officially announced the availability of this [...]
August 28th, 2008
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We should consider ourselves lucky by living in Indonesia. Not because of iPhone 3G (since it hasn’t arrived yet), but because more Japanese phones can be owned by us. After Sharp is about to launch its products next year, T3 Gadget Island (created by T3 Indonesia)–in cooperation with Cutting Edge gadget shop network–are displaying several [...]
August 18th, 2008
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Hello everyone! We meet again in our weekly roundup which for now covers from 11 to 17 August 2008. Oh yeah, I would like to commemorate our independence day which occured yesterday. May our country be a more mature country to accept latest technology (especially in gadget technology) for the sake of the good of [...]
August 16th, 2008
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When I was walking around in one of the largest mall in Jakarta, Grand Indonesia, I got stucked at new Sharp Gallery. The store was sleek and classy. Apparently it was opened since May 30 according to their official information. At first, I was looking for household prices–we all know Sharp is well known as [...]
August 14th, 2008
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Indonesia’s youngest GSM operator has been aggresively increasing their subscribers by offering cheap tariff plan. After successfully launched IDR 1 per call (everyday!) to intra-call, now AXIS is launching the newest package, called “paket paling ASIX” or literally translated as “the coolest package”, which promotes IDR 1 per SMS (for intra network) and free 1 [...]
August 11th, 2008
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In one of the Jakarta’s shopping mall, Kristian from Nokia Weblog is stucked to a “cheap” E90 Communicator look-a-like. The brand new phone is offered for only IDR 1.8 million (US$ 200), with IDR 1.3 million (almost US$ 150) for used product. It is very cheap for an uber communicator. Apparently, it wasn’t truly a [...]
August 10th, 2008
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Look at this! What a cool marketing strategy by Nokia.
Wow, I am so amaze to see this photo and I encourage you to do so. Not only because it is funny. But also because the main object inside. Do you know what Nokia series is that? Yes you got that. It is the N3315; monochrome, [...]
July 31st, 2008
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In cellphone industry, a great way to send a signal of battle to your rivals is by putting your ad on TV. Yes, it is expensive, exclusive, and memorable. Yet, people will see you differently ever after.
Special for Indonesian cellphone market, all the biggest player here are all the one who show their products in [...]
July 25th, 2008
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Actually, I used to put the word “Rumor” in front of a post like this. But now, I use “Almost official“. Wonder? Well, the answer is easy; the source of this news is my own managing editor in this blog - 3GWeek, Mr. Budi Putra. You know what? He is hardly to be categorized as [...]
