Research and Markets has announced the addition of Telecommunications in Thailand to their offering. This Study has been published for those companies requiring an in-depth report describing the current state of the telecommunications industry in Thailand. While that industry is under-developed at present, it is moving forward. Until recently, it was characterized by a regulatory regime that had developed over the years as a hotchpotch of complex and ill-defined agreements. Efforts are being made to straighten out the situation prior to full de-regulation and liberalisation planned for the end of 2006. The industry has, in many respects, recovered well from the serious financial crisis experienced by the country in 1997. That crisis had severe repercussions for the ...

Posted by Budi Putra on April 15th, 2006 No Comments »

The third generation (3G) technology in Japan continues to grow. More than 50 percent of cellular subscirbers in Japan are 3G CDMA now, a senior manager Qualcomm told Asia Tech recently. According to Takayuki (Ted) Nozaki, Senior Manager Business Development Qualcomm Japan, as of end of February, number of 3G CDMA subscribers of each carrier was as follows: NTT DoCoMo WCDMA: 22,015,000, KDDI 1x/1xEV-DO: 21,159,600 and Vodafone WCDMA : 2,736,200. Therefore, Ted said, 50.5% of total cellular subscribers in Japan (90,767,700) became 3G CDMA. [3G!] Read more: Asia Tech Weblog

Posted by Budi Putra on April 15th, 2006 No Comments »

India is expected to have 21.3 million 3G users (11 per cent of the mobile lines) by 2010. Within two years, India is expected to take over Japan to become the third largest mobile market in the world after China and the US. This was the finding of The Confederation of Indian Industry's (CII) report titled, "Enabling India's Broadband Economy - The 3G Way", a market study conducted by CII in partnership with the research firm The Yankee Group. According to report, keeping in view that as on date we have managed only one million broadband users against a target of three million to have been achieved by December 2005, there is a need to exploit the 3G technologies to enhance ...

Posted by Budi Putra on April 14th, 2006 No Comments »