Leading network manufacturer, ADC Krone, will team up with India operator Tata Indicom to provide update regarding weather and other information directly to mobile phone. Krone said the initiative has been taken up as a pilot project under the aegis of M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation at Veerampattinam in Tamil Nadu and would be followed soon as a commercial service.

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on December 27th, 2007 No Comments »

Mobile operators around the globe are busy rolling out 3G services and upgrades, dreaming of a day when users casually make video calls and download movies, allowing companies to reap several times more revenue per phone. But that rosy future remains elusive. Despite the billions of dollars spent on new networks and marketing, operators are still struggling to find the new features customers cannot live without that will finally make 3G pay. "I've got a 3G phone but I don't use '3G features'," said Kang Hatan, a research fellow in a lab in Seoul. "Video calls are too expensive and it's hard to find time to watch mobile TV." [Source] Comment: It's better for 3G operators to create many creative contents and ...

Posted by Budi Putra on May 18th, 2007 1 Comment »

Indonesia, which has five 3G operators (with three of them launched their services commercially) already, became the third ASEAN country after Singapore and Malaysia to have WCDMA-based 3G services. We will be joining around fifty million people who already have access to this service around the world. With the advent of the third generation of cellular technology (3G), the term "value added services", which used to refer to all services beyond voice calls, may be in for a new definition. The new technology literally allows the user to have a broadband internet connection in the palm of his or her hand, offering an endless list of services. For cellular content providers, the technological revolution has opened up new frontiers for innovation and growth. Iqbal ...

Posted by Budi Putra on January 29th, 2007 No Comments »