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China Tel Group, Inc (OTC:CHTL) Moves Up on Promotions

Last week, China Tel Group, Inc (OTC:CHTL, CHTL message board) started to climb up. All of a sudden the stock soared about 31% on Thursday and on Friday it added the next 6.32% to its market price. Along with the price, the...

Telekomunikasi To Underperform

We downgrade our recommendation for P.T.Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (TLK: 34.935 -0.655 -1.84%) to Underperform following our assessment that the company will face severe competitive pressure in 2011.  We expect future sales to remain lumpy as both wireless and...

Apple pips Nokia to become No.1 smartphone maker in Australia

Apple has overtaken Nokia for the first time to become the number one smartphone vendor in Australia. The iPhone-maker now accounts for 36.5 per cent of the smartphone market, eclipsing Nokia's 30.5 per cent share, according to analyst firm IDC's Q3 Mobile Device Tracker, released...

Google Won't Face Criminal Charges in Australia Over Street View

Google may have breached Australia's Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act, but the Australian Federal Police won't prosecute, saying the chances of a successful prosecution are "low." Google collected private data, including full e-mails and passwords, off unsecured wireless networks with its Street View cars...

Australia: The Labor government’s broadband scheme and the profit system

By Patrick O’Connor 6 December 2010 The final parliamentary session in Canberra concluded late last month with the Senate approving government legislation that breaks up Australia’s dominant telecommunications provider, Telstra, between its retail and wholesale divisions. The decision paves the way for the rollout of the...

Huawei launches consumer brand

Chinese communications equipment maker Huawei has launched a line of consumer devices, an attempt to expand from behind-the-scenes manufacturer to a consumer brand. In a move reminiscent of the transition of Taiwan-based smartphone maker HTC in 2007, Huawei said Monday it would continue to work...

TIA Applauds the U.S. and Korean Governments for Resolving Final Issues in the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement

Washington, D.C. – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leader in advocacy, standards development, business development and intelligence for the information and communications technology (ICT) industry, commends President Obama and President Lee for reaching a final agreement of the U.S.-Korea...

3G bids to be held this year or I quit, says TOT chief

The chairman of TOT Plc says he will resign if the bid for the state telecom enterprise's 19-billion-baht 3G network expansion project fails to materialise by the end of this month. Areepong: Contract to be signed in February Areepong Bhoocha-oom, who is also the...

ZTE completes Indonesian GPON network

ZTE has successfully completed the world's first large-scale commercial GPON-based mobile backhaul network for TELKOM Indonesia, a full-service telecom operator in Indonesia. The project is the first large-scale, commercial deployment of GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Networking) backhaul technology, and...

ABI Research: Over Two Billion of World's Population Covered by 3G and 4G Data Services

ABI Research in its latest report announced that there are currently over 500 3G network commitments, and over 300 WiMAX and LTE (News - Alert) announcements worldwide. This equates to more than two billion of the world’s population being covered by high-speed data...

Smartphone users to top 7m this year

SEOUL (THE KOREA HERALD/ANN) -- The number of smartphone users in Korea is expected to surpass 7 million by the year end, according to industry sources. The total number of people using a smartphone here was about 6.8 million as of last...

Mobile users 'are second-class citizens'

Prepaid mobile-phone customers in Thailand have been clearly treated like second-class citizens as they are tied to substandard service contracts, says an independent telecom researcher. Anuparb Thiralarb slammed the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) for wilful neglect of its statutory duty to implement...

Telekom Malaysia to sell Axiata shares

If sources are to be believed, Telekom Malaysia Bhd., the state- controlled fixed telephone operator has lifted US$131 million to sell 90 million shares of Axiata Group Bhd. According to sources, the shares were sold at US$1.46 each. CIMB Investment Bank Bhd....

Maxis launches unlimited data roaming plans

Malaysian communications firm Maxis in partnership with Bridge Alliance has launched its one-flat rate unlimited data roaming plans across ten countries starting from MYR 33 per day. As a Bridge Alliance member operator, Maxis enables its customers to roam with Bridge...

As mobile growth slows in Philippines, a big surge in broadband Internet is taking place.

After years of solid growth, the mobile segment of the telecom market in the Philippines slowed dramatically in 2009, reflecting a general downturn in the economy. Whilst growth in mobile subscribers slowed, so also had mobile revenues with just a 1%...

China Telecom, Samsung Kick Off W899 Promotion

BEIJING, Dec 06, 2010 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- Ma Daojie, general manager of eSurfing Telecom Terminal Co., Ltd. under the aegis of China Telecom Corporation Ltd. (NYSE: CHA and SEHK: 0728), reveals that the company will spend more...

China Telcos Added 9.523 Million Customers in October

China, Dec 6, 2010 (IRG) - China's three major communications firms added a combined 9.523 million mobile customers in October, ending the month with a total of 824.327 million mobile users. China Mobile added 5.259 million new customers in the ...

China: U.S. cable: China leaders ordered hacking on Google

Contacts told American diplomats that hacking attacks against Google were ordered by China's top ruling body and a senior leader demanded action after finding search results that were critical of him, leaked U.S. government memos show. One memo sent by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing...

Smartphone car service starts up

SK Telecom, the largest wireless network carrier in South Korea, last week introduced what it claims is the world's first commercial "mobile telematics" service in China. The so-called E-MIV service, which was first reported by the South China Morning Post last year, enables...

China Unicom Warned About Locking Apple IPhones to its Network

China Unicom has been warned about protecting customer rights after it started locking the Apple iPhone to its network, reports the Shanghai based EastDay newspaper. The warning came from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which regulates the industry after the phone...

Dual Touchscreen Clamshell Android Smartphone Launched in China

Samsung "Zhen Zun" W899 is among the first few Android smartphones that features a clamshell form factor and dual touchscreens. The device comes with two 3.3-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen displays, both supporting multitouch and 480 × 800 pixels resolution. The phone is...

CommScope's Andrew Solutions Makes China Unicom's Vendor List

Dec 06, 2010 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- China Unicom has added Andrew Solutions, a CommScope, Inc. division that is a provider of wireless communication systems and products, to its list of approved vendors for remote electrical tilt (RET) base ...

Telestone Technologies Corporation Retains CCG Investor Relations

BEIJING, Dec. 6, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Telestone Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: TSTC) ("Telestone" or the "Company"), a leading developer and provider of telecommunications local access networks in China, today announced that it has retained CCG Investor Relations ("CCG") to...

Qualcomm to build new display plant in Hsinchu, Taiwan

Qualcomm Inc. plans to build a new display-manufacturing facility in Hsinchu, Taiwan, a company executive said Tuesday, in the wireless chipmaker's latest push to diversify into a new business area to take advantage of growing demand for components used in electronic...