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DiGi To Continue To Grow In East Coast

Bernama | By Sharifah Hunaini Syed Ismail |December 28, 2010 KUALA TERENGGANU, Dec 28 (Bernama) -- DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (DiGi) says it will continue to build its presence in the east coast as the region had much potential to be explored. DiGi's Head of Eastern...

Globe partners with leading global mobile payments

Trading Markets | December 28, 2010 MANILA, Dec 28, 2010 (Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) -- Globe Telecom on Tuesday said it has signed a partnership agreement with leading global mobile payments platform to provide its direct carrier-billing service to its subscribers. Under the agreement, the...

Samsung Bada 2 to get multitasking, NFC, more

Electronista | December 20, 2010 At the developer day held recently in South Korea, Samsung highlighted some of the features of its upcoming Bada 2.0 OS for smartphones. The operating system is currently in version 1.2 and was first introduced in the Wave. The update...

Nokia Siemens’s Purchase of Motorola Assets Is Delayed

Bloomberg | Diana ben-Aaron and Katie Hoffmann | December 29, 2010 Nokia Siemens Networks, the world’s second-largest maker of wireless phone systems, said the wait for antitrust approval from China will delay the completion of its $1.2 billion purchase of network assets from Motorola Inc. The...

Payment standard for Internet TV to be implemented next year

Global Times | December 29, 2010 China UnionPay and various Chinese authorities plan to draft an online payment standard for Internet TV which is expected to be launched in the first half of 2011, according to a report of the National Business Daily Tuesday, citing...

Philippine, Japan governments to ink digital TV accord

By Lenie Lectura| ABS CBN News | December 27, 2010 MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines and Japanese governments are working on signing a memorandum of cooperation following the decision to tap the latter’s Integrated Services Digital Broadcast technology as the country’s standard for Digital Terrestrial...

UPDATE 1-Telstra takes write down in China, guidance unchanged

Reuters | By Narayanan Somasundaram and Adrian Bathgate | December 22, 2010 * Telstra to take $138 million writedown on China business * Telstra says other Asian investments performing well (Adds details, background) SYDNEY/WELLINGTON Dec 23 (Reuters) - Telstra Corp , Australia's dominant...

Hon Hai to buy Japanese LCD venture: newspaper

Taipei Times | December 28, 2010 Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) shares gained in early Taipei trading after a Nikkei Shimbun report that the world’s largest contract manufacturing service firm for electronics and communication products plans to acquire control of a LCD venture between...

Japan to ask operators to reveal access fee costs

TelecomPaper | Tuesday 28 December 2010 | 01:20 CET The Japanese communications ministry will require mobile service providers to disclose how they calculate fees charged for network access. With the move, the ministry aims to lower mobile rates for consumers, the Nikkei writes. Three firms...

NTT DoCoMo’s LTE 4G network is now live in Japan

Eelectronista | December 27, 2010 Japanese wireless provider NTT DoCoMo has now launched its LTE service at home. Announced over a year ago, it went online December 24, and is the country's first 4G network. Called Xi, it will initially cover Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka,...

J.P. Morgan Re-appointed Depositary Bank by Chunghwa Telecom, Co. LTD.

HONG KONG, December 23, 2010 – J.P. Morgan today announced it has been re-appointed as depositary bank for leading Taiwanese telecommunications company, Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd ("CHT"). The renewed mandate further strengthens the global relationship between the two companies, and reflects the firm's continued focus...

ZTE named Broadband Network Vendor of the Year in Telecom Asia Readers' Choice Awards 2010

17 December 2010, Shenzhen – 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, was named Broadband Network Vendor of the Year in Telecom Asia Readers' Choice Awards 2010. ZTE...

JPMorgan raises stake in ZTE

Dec. 27, 2010 | China Knowledge U.S.-based financial holding company JPMorgan Chase & Co recently increased its shareholding in ZTE Corp<000063><0763>, the second-largest telecom equipment provider in China, to 12.14% from the previous 11.87%. According to statistics released by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Dec....

More ASTRO, TIME collaborate to bring the best of TV and broadband

AdoiMagazine | December 21, 2010 Astro and TIME dotCom Berhad (TIME) have entered into a partnership to jointly bring the best of TV and broadband services for the benefit of customers. CEO of Astro, Dato’ Rohana Rozhan and CEO of TIME, Afzal Abdul Rahim today...

VIA, Skycloud to Jointly Venture Into Cloud Computing

CENS Taiwan Economic News | by Ken Liu | December 17, 2010 Taipei, Dec. 17, 2010 (CENS)--VIA Technology Inc. and Skycloud Technology (China) Inc. will set up a joint venture in March in 2011 to develop and manufacture cloud-computing equipment for end users, according to...

TCL Communication Selects EMOZE as its Mobile Push Email Solution

Trading Markets | December 21, 2010 | Press Release SHANGHAI, HONG KONG and LONDON, December 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- EMOZE Ltd. today announces a strategic world-wide agreement with TCL Communication Technology Holdings Ltd., to pre-embed the EMOZE push email solution on TCL and Alcatel...

Thailand: Number portability impact minimal

Bangkok Post | December 21, 2010 | Srisamorn Phoosuphanusorn Mobile number portability (MNP) has had a limited impact on local telecom operators as the market is dominated by prepaid users, says the chief of the clearing house the industry has set up to offer the...

KT likely to roll out new WiBro-based Galaxy Tab

Korea JoongAng Daily | By Kim Hyung-eun | December 21, 2010 KT, the second-largest mobile carrier in Korea, will likely start selling a version of the Galaxy Tab that runs on the WiBro network, saying yesterday that it views such a move favorably. Currently, the Galaxy...

OFTA Welcomes the Industry Code of Practice for Telecommunications Service Contracts to Enhance Consumer Protection

OFTA |Press Release | December 21, 2010 The Office of the Telecommunications Authority ("OFTA") today (21 December 2010) welcomes the efforts of the Communications Association of Hong Kong ("CAHK") in promulgating an Industry Code of Practice for Telecommunications Service Contracts (the "Industry Code") for adoption...

Infonetics Research: Telecom outsourcing thriving; Ericsson, NSN, ALU, Huawei: soon running 3/4 of world's networks?

Marketwire | Dec 20, 2010 14:21 ET CAMPBELL, CA--(Marketwire - December 20, 2010) -  Telecommunications industry market research firm Infonetics Research (http://twitter.com/infonetics) released its updated Service Provider Outsourcing to Vendors market size, market share, and forecast report. ANALYST NOTE "Fierce competition among telecom service providers around the...

Facebook Founder Visits China

Trading Markets | Tue. December 21, 2010 BEIJING, Dec 21, 2010 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- On December 20, 2010, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg was said to visit Baidu Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU | PowerRating) and had lunch together with Robin Li, CEO of the...

Committee flags up illegal amendments to mobile concessions

TeleGeography | Thailand | Monday December 20, 2010 A review committee appointed by Thailand’s Information and Communications Technology Minister Juti Krairiksh has highlighted various ‘illegal’ amendments to the Build-Transfer-Operate (BTO) concessions issued to mobile operators AIS, DTAC and True Move by state-owned telcos TOT and...

China mobile subscriber total rises to 833.1 mln in November

HONG KONG | Mon Dec 20, 2010 4:39am EST Dec 20 (Reuters) - China Mobile , China's largest mobile carrier, said its total mobile subscribers in November rose to 579.6 million, including 18.8 million 3G subscribers. China Unicom , the country's No. 2 mobile carrier, said its total...

Rockchip Will Release RK29xx Mobile Internet Platform at CES

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 20, 2010 | PRNewswire-Asia | Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd (Rockchip) World's first SOC to support VP8 HD Video Playback, support Internet TV Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd (Rockchip) a Chinese leading semiconductor company, is releasing a new mobile internet platform -- RK29xx...