May 2nd, 2008
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First Mobile TV service for Filipinos. Great.
Watching TV via mobile phone actually isn’t a brand new stuff anymore. But perhaps not according to Filipinos. Globe Telecom, Philipphines’ second largest mobile operator (behind Smart Communications, Inc.) now offering Mobile TV service for their users with 3G technology.
With this service, customers will have a chance to watch [...]
April 30th, 2008
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More cell phones possibly means more subscribers.
Yet another magnificent achievement by Indian; 261.09 million in wireless mobile subscribers. This number outstep US which count at 257.89 million by today (the end of April). However, this amount of subscribers still a far away from China with its 550 million subscribers.
In this April, India successfully added 10.16 [...]
April 29th, 2008
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Finally, Asia got their own turn.
Todays at 18.00 PM, Nokia officially announced the opening of 9th (Chinese lucky number) Nokia Music Store in Singapore. Great! 3GWeek had forecasted this I guessed.
As I said a couple days ago, Nokia is extremely playing big in music. This Finnish definitely know what action should they take to anticipate [...]
April 28th, 2008
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Nokia is back, be careful Lee’s ….
The world’s largest handset maker, Nokia, might come back to South Korea again after its withdrew in 2003. Thanks for SK Telecom which asking the giant Finnish to supply their customers with Nokia’s stuff. Samsung, LG, Motorola, and Pantech; you better watch out boys!
Change in the country’s handset regulations [...]
April 22nd, 2008
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Nokia Music Store in Australia. Nokia’s trooper to face the Apple’s predators: iTunes.
Nokia seems to be fanatically in entertainment nowadays. After gave reborn their N-Gage on April 3 and planned to give music from Universal Music for free, yesterday the Old Finnish had announced the opening of the 7th Nokia Music Store (NMS) in Australia [...]
April 22nd, 2008
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I think J-pop (Japanese pop) has frequently enjoyed in mobile phones in Japan since the mobile devices are becoming more popular in the country.
According to the latest statistics:
Total music sales for 2007 in Japan came to JPY 466 billion (US $4.66 billion). While CD/DVD sales declined 4% from the previous year, digital downloads jumped up [...]
April 21st, 2008
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Vietnam has taken a major step into the space age with the launch of its first satellite to provide telecommunications, broadcasting and Internet links across the country throughout the country.
Vinasat-1 was carried into space aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana at 7:17pm local time (10:17pm GMT) Friday evening. Ariane [...]
April 21st, 2008
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Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI) and China’s Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. have been signed a memorandum of understanding on training cooperation.
Based-in Shenzen, China, Huawei is now becoming more and more internationalized. Their products and solutions are deployed in over 100 countries and serve over one billion users worldwide.
According to head of TCI, Saber Feyzi, [...]
April 21st, 2008
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Here some important highlights on Taiwan’s telecommununications industry issued by Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry:
3G subscriptions reached 6.91 million at the end of 2007.
2G subscriptions fell by 4.2 % to 15.9 million.
Subscriptions will top 10 million by the end of this year.
Text messaging volumes rose by 26% to 1,256 billion in the fourth quarter of [...]
April 17th, 2008
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Logo of Grameen Phone; Bangladesh largest mobile operator.
Currently, 3GWeek had two posts about Bangladesh. First is about “Vodafone to invest in Bangladesh” and second is about “Sony Ericsson opened exclusive store in Bangladesh “. Now, Reuters bring us one yet other good news, at least for Bangladeshi.
It said that there are about 1.38 million new [...]
