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Four groups chasing TOT deal

Bangkok Post | January 10, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana 3G contender field narrowed from 10 Only four groups are expected to pursue bids for TOT's 3G wireless broadband nationwide expansion worth 19.98 billion baht when bid documents are submitted today. The field has been thinned from 10...

Clarity Completes Phase 2 Rollout for Globe Telecom

Clarity | January 11, 2011 | Press Release Unified OSS Helps Philippines Operator Future-Proof Wireless and Fixed Line Operations, Reduce Operational Costs and Increase Service Assurance Capability Sydney, Australia; 11 January 2011 – Clarity, the award winning provider of unified Telecommunications solutions designed to simplify operations, today...

SK Telecom and PT. Telekomunikasi team up to launch digital music content in Indonesia

SK Telecom | January 7, 2011 | Press Release The launch of MelOn Indonesia marks the beginning of SK Telecom’s export of content distribution platform as part of its global expansion plans under the Industry Productivity Enhancement (IPE) strategy MelOn offers unlimited downloads and streaming of...

Quanta, 3M to broaden collaboration

Taipei Times | January 11, 2011 | Jason Tan NEW OPPORTUNITIES: Compal said that its revenues jumped 34 percent to NT$851.9 billion last year from NT$636.81 billion in 2009, after it shipped 48 million portable PCs Quanta Computer Inc (廣達電腦), the world’s largest notebook PC contract...

Chunghwa Telecom profit gains on internet, tax cut

Business Week | January 10, 2011 | Tim Culpan Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Chunghwa Telecom Co., Taiwan’s largest phone operator, posted a 1.6 percent increase in quarterly profit after a reduction in corporate taxes and higher Internet revenue offset a decline in telephony fees. Fourth-quarter net...

WSJ: RIM to Filter BlackBerry Data in Indonesia

Wall Street Journal | January 10, 2011 Research In Motion said it will apply Internet filtering on BlackBerrys in Indonesia to comply with a government demand to block websites containing pornography. WSJ's Spencer Ante reports on Digits. Video via Wall Street Journal

RIM to filter Indonesia Web traffic

CNET | January 10, 2011 | Don Reisinger Research In Motion will block pornography accessed through its smartphones in Indonesia. The company announced today that it will develop a "prompt, compliant filtering solution" for Indonesia BlackBerry users by the country's January 21 deadline. If RIM doesn't...

SinoHub snares China Unicom deal

China-based electronics maker SinoHub Inc. (SIHI) said it has received an initial order to manufacture 20,000 3G mobile phones for China Unicom (CHU). SinoHub said it expects to ship the order during the first quarter. SinoHub said it will initially produce a single 3G device...

HTC Fourth-Quarter Profit Beats Estimates on Android Mobile Phone Sales

Bloomberg | January 6, 2011 | Tim Culpan HTC Corp., the world’s largest maker of handsets using Google Inc. Android and Microsoft Corp. Windows operating systems, more than doubled profit after new models spurred sales to a record. Fourth-quarter net income climbed to NT$14.6 billion ($500...

Broadband Subscription Reached 509 Million Lines Worldwide as IPTV Passes 40 Million Subscriber Milestone

The Broadband Forum | January 6, 2011 | Press Release China and India report second best quarters ever and developing broadband markets show over 20% growth 3Q2010 ATLANTA, Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Year on year growth rates of 6.7% have taken broadband subscription to 508,761,837...

Skype Co-Founder Visits China

Wall Street Journal | January 6, 2011 | Lorreta Chao Not long after Mark Zuckerberg paid visits to some of China’s biggest tech companies, another tech tycoon, Skype and Kazaa co-founder Niklas Zennström, is making the rounds as well. But unlike the young Facebook chief,...

Telstra still in negotiations with NBN

Sydney Morning Herald | January 7, 2011 | AAP The head of the government funded company charged with responsibility for building the national broadband network says discussions with Telstra are continuing. NBN co chief executive Mike Quigley said the company is still in talks with Telstra...

Inquiry into Vodafone data breach

Sydney Morning Herald | January 10, 2010 | Lucy Battersby THE privacy commissioner will investigate the way Vodafone handles customer data after reports that private information was easily accessible to outsiders. Vodafone is looking for the people who breached its customer database. More stories have emerged of...

TM’s probe to be completed in a month

Malaysia Star | January 7, 2011 PETALING JAYA: Telekom Malaysia Bhd informed Bursa Malaysia yesterday, barring unforeseen circumstances, and based on the terms of reference of the Board Sub-Committee (BSC) of the Board Audit Committee, the internal investigation on the alleged improper payments to TM...

Merrill Lynch said to advise Lippo Group on First Media sale

Trading Markets | Jan 05, 2011 | Press Release Merrill Lynch, the investment banking arm of Bank of America (NYSE: BAC | PowerRating), has been...

Cross-strait undersea communication cable under debate

The China Post | January 6, 2011 TAIPEI, Taiwan — The topic of Taiwan and China jointly building an undersea communication cable was the center of a heated debate during a briefing session before the Communications Committee of the Legislative Yuan yesterday, according to local...

Booming Vietnam telecom industry expected to cool in 2011

VietNamNet | January 3, 2011 Deputy Minister of Information and Telecommunication, Tran Duc Lai, cautioned that the telecom market will cool down in 2011 as the number of subscribers has been saturated. The telecom market will cool down in 2011 as the number of subscribers has...

Chunghwa Telecom plans to phase out long-distance calls

The China Post | January 7, 2011 The China Post news staff -- Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's leading operator, is planning to phase out long-distance calls and create a system in which calls made to anywhere in Taiwan are charged at the local rate, reported the...

ZTE flexes LTE innovation introducing four new devices at CES 2011

Trading Markets | January 7, 2011 | Press Release Shenzhen, Jan 07, 2011 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- ZTE Corporation ("ZTE") (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today demonstrated the company's...

Don't believe the hype – ‘banning Skype’ is tripe

TeleGeography | January 7, 2011 China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has attempted to clear up confusion over VoIP services in the country by issuing a statement that the ministry is not looking to ban IP telephony operators, ‘but only those operating illegally...

Don’t believe the hype – ‘banning Skype’ is tripe

TeleGeography | January 7, 2011 China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has attempted to clear up confusion over VoIP services in the country by issuing a statement that the ministry is not looking to ban IP telephony operators, ‘but only those operating illegally...

Austin's bullish tech economy to be featured on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric

Report to highlight $3.6 billion expansion of Samsung Austin Semiconductor AUSTIN, Texas--The old adage of everything being bigger in Texas is often true, and the boastful economic figures reported by the Austin Chamber of Commerce are making a solid impression that the capital of the Lone...

ZTE’s 1,000th base station for Ncell

The Himalayan Times | January 6, 2011 AGENCIES KATHMANDU: ZTE, a provider of telecommunications equipment and network offerings, has launched 1,000th base station for Ncell. The stations are based on ZTE’s green energy Base Transceiver Station (BTS) offering and form part of the technology used to implement...

ZTE's 2010 terminal shipment hits 90 mln units

China Knowledge | January 6, 2011 Jan. 6, 2011 (China Knowledge) - ZTE Corp<000063><0763>, the second-largest telecom equipment provider in China, has announced that its sales volume of terminal products surged 50% year on year to a record 90 million units in 2010, boosted by...