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Asia Pacific, Financial, Operator

Afghanistan’s Roshan is to launch mobile payment with Vodafone

Afghanistan operator, Roshan, is going to unveil mobile payment service in cooperation with UK giant, Vodafone. Vodafone already built M-PESA that had been implemented in Kenya. Called as M-Paisa in Afghanistan, the service will act mainly as a vehicle for microfinance institutions' (MFI) loan disbursements and repayments, with an additional range of business to business applications such as salary disbursement and airtime distribution.
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Posted by Amir Karimuddin on February 11th, 2008 No Comments »

Asia Pacific, Financial, Operator

Telekom Malaysia to increase its share in M1 and XL

Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) yesterday proposed to buy shares in Singapore's Mobile One (M1) and Indonesia's PT Excelmindo Pratama (XL) from Khazanah Nasional Bhd for RM1.58billion. The acquisition of the shares in M1, through buying outright the holding company called SunShare Investment that holds a 29.7% block in M1, would allow TM to strengthen its footprint in Singapore.
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Posted by Amir Karimuddin on February 8th, 2008 No Comments »

Africa, Asia Pacific, Operator

Egypt’s Orascom win North Korea telecom wireless service bid

Orascom Telecom, Egyptian telecommunication company, announced that they win a tender of wireless service in North Korea, one most isolated country in the world. Through its subsidiary, CHEO Technology, 75% owned by Orascom and 25% by North Korea's Korea Post and Telecommunication Corp , they will build wireless technology using 3G.
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Posted by Amir Karimuddin on February 5th, 2008 No Comments »

Asia Pacific, Financial, Operator

China giant to expand its business

Biggest China telecom operator, China Mobile, plans to expand its business arm abroad. "(China Mobile) would like to acquire high-quality and profit-making telecommunications enterprises overseas," Lei Yu, a spokeswoman of China Mobile's Hong Kong-listed unit. Currently, China Mobile only holds share of one telecom company outside China. buying an 88.86-percent stake in Pakistan's fifth-largest mobile operator Paktel for 284 million dollars in January 2007. Source: AFP

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on January 31st, 2008 No Comments »

Asia Pacific, Financial, Operator

Vodafone to invest in Bangladesh

UK's telecom giant, Vodafone, is planning to invest in Bangladesh. Bangladesh, a South Asia country, is one of the most dense populated country. The telecoms company is looking at a number of options including the acquisition of any of the six mobile phone companies now operating in the country. A Vodafone spokesperson in the UK confirmed the company 'is interested in emerging markets with good growth prospects', but would not expand further on the company's plans. Source: CNNMoney

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on January 31st, 2008 No Comments »

Advertising, Asia Pacific, Operator

Singapore’s Singtel for mobile advertising

The Singapore's largest operator, Singtel, unveiled the plan on entering mobile and internet advertising business and to lead it within next 5 years. The new strategy will involve delivering an end-to-end advertising solution across four key areas – inventory creation and control of customer information, media planning, advertisement delivery and advertising campaign performance tracking. The mobile and Internet advertising industry in Singapore is estimated to be worth more than $200 million by 2012. Source: adoi magazine

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on January 16th, 2008 1 Comment »

Asia Pacific, Financial, Operator

AT&T on talk to buy Malaysia’s TM International stake

A local newspaper reported that US telecom giant, AT&T, is interested in acquiring a stake in Telekom Malaysia unit, TM International. Late last year, Malaysia's largest telecommunications group said it may bring in a foreign strategic partner for TM International. Source: CNN Money

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on January 4th, 2008 No Comments »

Nokia, North America, Operator

Sprint Nextel new CEO steps down from Nokia board

Sprint Nextel new CEO, Dan Hesse, steps down from his position in Nokia's board of directors. As there is no mutual cooperation between the CDMA operator and largest GSM phonemaker, this announcement brings no surprise. Hesse's challenge will be managing Sprint Nextel after merger and gaining the customer back in recent tough competition against other operators, both CDMA and GSM network. Source: BloggingStocks

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on January 3rd, 2008 No Comments »

Asia Pacific, Financial, Operator

Etisalat to buy Indonesia’s XL stake

Emirate based telecommunication company, Etisalat, reported to buy 16% stake of XL, third largest Indonesia's telecom company. Total price amounted US$ 438 million. Etisalat will obtain 1.13 billion shares of Rajawali Group, means that there will be no local stakeholder in XL. More than 60% shares are owned by Malaysian, Telecom Malaysia.
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Posted by Amir Karimuddin on December 12th, 2007 No Comments »

Asia Pacific, Operator

Korean’s KT goes global

As the domestic penetration dense up, operators may think to expand its business opportunities abroad. Korean largest telecom operator, KT, opens the road on expanding its business. KT CEO Nam Joong-soo says that the firm aims to build a “Silk Road” of the digital era with its broadband and mobile network technology.
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Posted by Amir Karimuddin on December 12th, 2007 1 Comment »

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