SMS continues to be a phenomenal success as the cheapest, quickest and easiest to use form of peer-to-peer mobile communication. A new report from Portio Research forecasts a healthy future for SMS, which continues to be the star of the data services show with traffic volumes and revenues that continue to confound predictions. Although the growth of SMS revenues will not be as aggressive as the growth of SMS volumes due to declining prices, by 2012 global SMS revenues are expected to reach 67bn USD, driven by 3.7 trillion messages. The report, 'Mobile Messaging Futures 2007 - 2012' outlines an exciting future for other mobile messaging technologies especially instant messaging and mobile e-mail amid continued strong worldwide ...

Posted by Budi Putra on February 20th, 2007 No Comments »

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 and Russia. Telecom numbers are not just talking, they’re talking big in India. According to latest figures available with the telecom ministry and TRAI, India will have hit the magical figure of 200 million phones even as you read this story. This includes wireless (GSM, CDMA, WLL-F) and fixed-line phones. In mobile subscribers, India now ranks fourth behind China, USA and Russia which ...

Posted by Budi Putra on February 20th, 2007 No Comments »

Four-day trade event to bring together key technologies, companies and thought leaders to deliver on the 'Digital Convergence in Reality' experience LONDON - The CommunicAsia Exhibition and Conference - now recognised as Asia's premier technology event - will showcase a converged world when it opens for business later this year in Singapore (June 19-22). CommunicAsia is well established on the world stage and will feature a wide spectrum of cutting edge, enabling digital technologies from global companies. The conference will see leading industry figures sharing their vision of future developments in Digital Convergence. Spread over a total of eight halls, CommunicAsia - alongside EnterpriseIT, BroadcastAsia, and InteractiveDME -- will see over 2,400 companies come together to demonstrate the transforming powers of digital technologies ...

Posted by Budi Putra on February 19th, 2007 No Comments »

3G handsets have potential market in the region. Asustek Computer will begin to ship two 3G handsets to O2 Asia Pacific this month, followed by Quanta Computer and Arima Communications, which will each ship a 3G device to the company, according to market sources. The two models from Asustek are the O2 Xda Zinc PDA phone and the O2 Graphite smartphone, with both models featuring Xscale processors from Marvell and a 2-megapixel built-in camera, said the sources. Quanta will deliver the Atom Life PDA phone to O2 Asia. The Atom Life is a successor to O2's Atom and Atom Exec handsets and is able to support high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) technology, the sources noted, adding that the Atom Life features a ...

Posted by Budi Putra on February 2nd, 2007 No Comments »