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HTC Touch Diamond’s price in Singapore

On May 7th, in one of my post entitled “Complete Review on HTC Touch Diamond“, I had to assumed that this Windows Mobile 6.1-powered device will cost you between US$500 - $700. Before contract. But now, I am going to tell you all that I had made a mistakes. Just a little slipped though. The HTC [...]

Sharp want to expand their cellphone business to Indonesia

Next Sharp’s sharp target are India and Indonesia Yoshisuke Hasegawa, group general manager of Sharp’s communication systems group as reported by Reuters said to reporters in China that they want to expand their cellphone business to India and Indonesia as well. Not only in China! Wow, this is a big news. At least for me an Indonesian. [...]

Sharp don’t want to fight over Nokia and Samsung in China

The Sharp Aquos 920-SH Series is a flagship mobile phone! Obviously, Sharp is pretty clever. As a new player in China, this Japanese seems don’t want to fight with Nokia and Samsung in low-end cheaper cellphone league. Indeed, they will targeting their cellphone for wealthy yet small audience there. Priceless lesson should have been taken by Sharp [...]

ST Telemedia sold all shares in Indosat to Qatar Telecom

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.

Quick report on CDMA subscribers in Q1 2008

CDMA Development Group (CDG) reported in June 2, 2008 that there are 451 million CDMA subscribers worldwide nowadays. This is a 17% increasing from the past year. From that total 451 million, CDMA2000(r) contribute for 438 million users while CDMA2000 1xEV-DO reaching 97 million. Here are another quick facts on this issue, especially for Asia Pacific: In [...]

Yahoo Messenger in cellphone

For those living in mobile world, cellphone is one gadget we must have. For communicate with others we require reliable call and SMS connection. Not only that, technology has enabled to use the power of email and Instant Messenger with our phone keypad. Well, business phone (like Nokia Eseries or Blackberry) has integrated the email [...]

Pakistan mobile phone subscribers reached 85 million

Yes, Pakistan had reached 85 million mobile phone subscribers. 3GWeek team are so often reporting mobile news from India. Currently, there are about twenty reports on them which we collected in one category; India. But what about Pakistan? Only fours. Anyway, that’s not the matter here. What matter now is that Pakistan has increased their mobile phone [...]

Indonesia’s AXIS launches the cheapest data service

Indonesia’s newest GSM and 3G’s operator, AXIS, launches today the new prepaid tariff for data usage: Rp0.1 per Kb for the first 10 Mb every day. The company claims that this is a revolutionary step for the country’s data services, emphasizing that this price is 90% cheaper than the existing tariff offered by other providers. Prepaid [...]

Hutchison to offer iPhone in Indonesia?

The latest news about Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd. to offer Apple’s iPhone in Hong Kong and Macau, has undirectly delivered another important message to the market: will this provider also bring iPhone to Indonesia, one of the emerging markets in Asia? Will Indonesia follow Singapore and the Philippines as the third countries of ASEAN [...]

How low can you go? (Indonesia’s mobile price war)

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.
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