April 18th, 2006
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Surf’s up and prices are down. Singapore’s M1 slashed the cost of surfing the Internet and accessing e-mail wirelessly in a move to align the benefits of 3G mobility with those of fixed-line broadband.
M1’s premium 3G SunSurf 100 data plan, previously priced at about $125 per month for unlimited use, has been ratcheted down 65 [...]
April 17th, 2006
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Sagem Communication unveils the my900C, it’s a hot new multimedia mobile phone. With both EDGE and UMTS technology, Sagem’s latest innovation lets you make the most of broadband wherever you are, on whatever network, with the best service quality available. A top-of-the-range mobile phone, the Sagem my900C is a powerhouse of functions guaranteed to appeal [...]
April 17th, 2006
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China’s government will release 3G telecom licenses in September 2006, according to a China Mobile insider quoted by eNet. The report said that China Mobile plans to increase the pace of construction of its WCDMA network and has set up 3G trial networks in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Huizhou of Guangdong province. [3G!]
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April 17th, 2006
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Malaysia’s Celcom and Maxis have launched 3G interconnection, enabling interconnect video telephony. By opening access between the two major 3G networks, the 3G user community in Malaysia immediately increased twofold, allowing Celcom’s and Maxis’ users to make and receive video calls, and send and retrieve video messages among themselves.
Both service providers are confident that interconnection [...]
April 17th, 2006
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The number of new mobile phone subscribers of Indonesia’s second largest telecoms firm, PT Indosat Tbk, may fall by 8-12 percent in the first quarter of this year from the same period in 2005, its chief said on Monday.
However, Hasnul Suhaimi, Indosat’s president director, told reporters the company still retained its target of between 3-4 [...]
April 17th, 2006
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Axalto announced that it has launched the first third generation CDMA User Identification Module (UIM) commercial card in Japan with KDDI. The Axalto cards are designed to work together with KDDI’s CDMA 2000 EV-DO third generation mobile handsets. With the Axalto UIM card, KDDI offers increased transaction security, and delivers portability ease for Japanese mobile [...]
April 16th, 2006
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Research In Motion (RIM) reportedly expects to launch its Blackberry wireless e-mail deivce with Hong Kong-based China Mobile by the end of 2006.
The number of Chinese mobile subscriptions reached 404 million at the end of February, according to Chinese government statisticians. Over half of Chinese users rely on China Mobile for their wireless service, a [...]
April 15th, 2006
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The market size of embedded software was 25.5 billion yuan in China in 2004. It is expected to reach 55 billion yuan in 2008. The size of enterprise mobile business application market was 7.82 billion yuan in 2004; it is expected to reach 30.65 billion yuan in 2008.
Strong market growth have boosted the demand for [...]
April 15th, 2006
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The number of 3G (third-generation) mobile subscribers is expected to grow quickly in China, despite getting off to a relatively slow start, according to a telecommunications research firm in Beijing.
China will have 5.5 million 3G subscribers within the first 12 months that these services are available, according to Norson (Hong Kong) Information Technology, in Beijing. [...]
April 15th, 2006
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Nokia yesterday introduced a 3G handset, the 6280, to the mid-range market in Taiwan. The new slide phone, which offers a 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, MiniSD memory card and flash light, will be priced at NT$16,800 (US$519).
:: Photo: Jeremy Huang, DigiTimes
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