DUBLIN, Ireland-Payments software company Valista and systems integrator Utiba announced their new product, Valista TopupPlus Streetseller.The product allows small denominations of top-ups to be purchased for prepaid use from street merchants or in small shops, making it ideal for developing markets, said the company....
Following are mobile contracts for December 2003:AlcatelCanada. With Telus Mobility for a cross-Canada communications backbone infrastructure.Value: UndisclosedChina. With China Unicom for multiple expansion contracts.Value: $40 millionHungary. With Westel as the sole supplier of an EDGE system.Value: UndisclosedMalaysia. With Maxis Communications for GSM/GPRS/EDGE/W-CDMA gear.Value: UndisclosedTaiwan....
Following are mobile infrastructure contracts announced in November:Philippines. With Digital Telecommunications Philippines (Digitel) for GSM/GPRS and EDGE equipment, including radio base stations and mobile switching equipment.Value: $100 millionEricssonChina. With Guangxi Mobile Communications Co. to supply GSM network equipment in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.Value: $56...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it has signed a deal to supply EDGE equipment for Global Telecom in the Philippines. Global Telecom will deploy the services in Metro Manila. The actual date of the rollout was not disclosed.The carrier had completed trials earlier this year.Nokia...
BONN, Germany-Deutsche Telekom said it will sell its 24.8-percent stake in Filipino mobile operator Globe Telecom to Ayala Corp. and Singapore Telecom International for $472 million. Ayala currently holds 32.7 percent of Globe, and SingTel has a 29.1-percent stake.The parties are finalizing the technical...
MANILA, The Philippines-Globe Telecom, the second-largest mobile operator in the Philippines, launched multimedia messaging service interconnection with more than 30 MMS operators around the world and a new Java-based subscriber identity module card.Mobileway said it worked with Globe Telecom to help enable Globe's MMS...
HELSINKI, Finland-Globe Telecom awarded a $35 million GSM network expansion deal to Nokia to deliver solutions for Globe's network expansion in the Philippines.Deliveries of Base Station Subsystems and Network Subsystems, including GSM radio access network infrastructure, Mobile Switching Center and Home Location Register, have...
MANILA, The Philippines-Ayala-owned Globe Telecom announced it posted a consolidated net income of 6.84 billion Philippine pesos (US$129 million) in 2002, 59-percent higher than the 4.3 billion pesos (US$81.1 million) earned a year earlier.Globe Chairman Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala said the company's market...
MANILA, The Philippines-Gokongwei-owned Digital Telecommunications (Digitel) has already short-listed two prospective companies, Alcatel and Ericsson, to undertake the next phase of the company's cellular mobile telephone system network in the Philippines.Alcatel earlier obtained the US$180 million first phase of Digitel's network project, which involved...
MANILA, The Philippines-Mobile-phone operator Smart Communications is targeting at least 11 million subscribers by year-end, according to company legal and carriers division head Rogelio Quevedo.He also said the company, currently considered the number-one operator in the Philippines in terms of subscriber volume, aims to...
MANILA, The Philippines-Mobile operator Globe Telecom introduced this week the Philippines' first mobile video messaging, allowing subscribers to record, save and play back video clips, up to a maximum of 10 seconds, or about 95 kilobytes in size, and send them to other mobile-phone...
SINGAPORE-Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., which has embarked on a regional expansion of its mobile subsidiary, said it increased its wireless subscribers by 64 percent in 2002 compared with the year before.SingTel said its aggregate mobile subscriber base in the Asia-Pacific region exceeded 32 million as...
MANILA, The Philippines-The Gokongwei-owned Digital Telecommunications Philippines (Digitel) plans to invest 6 billion Philippine pesos (US$113 million) next year for its nationwide wireless telephone network in its bid to become the preferred full service telecommunications provider in the country. The amount is in addition...
MANILA, The Philippines—Ayala-owned Globe Telecom has entered an agreement with Norwegian supplier Colibria for the development of a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) messaging application that allows subscribers to send and receive messages from short message service (SMS), e-mail and an internal messaging system....
MANILA, The Philippines-While Globe Telecom and Smart Communications are now offering multimedia messaging service (MMS), such issues as interconnection, standards of interoperability and rates have to be tackled, according to Edgardo Bautista, product development head of Smart. As both providers grow their MMS subscribers,...
Several analyst firms have highlighted Asian carriers-and not the highly watched Japanese operators-as being in the best positions to capitalize on the current mobile industry dynamics. While Europe, Japan and to some degree the United States have been market leaders until recently, the current...
MANILA, The Philippines-The Ayala group, one of the Philippines' biggest conglomerates, plans to limit capital spending for mobile-phone subsidiary Globe Telecom to US$500 million for the next two years, as the bulk of infrastructure needed to establish its network has been completed. Ayala Corporation...
MANILA, The Philippines-While Filipino cell-phone subscribers are projected to reach 20 million during the next seven years, use will be the growth driver of the Philippine cellular industry, according to National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) head Eliseo M. Rio Jr. Rio added that the growth...
MANILA, The Philippines-Philippine telecom watchdog National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has granted Globe Telecom and Smart Communications permanent licenses to operate their respective businesses for the next 25 years. NTC stated that the certificates of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) were given for Globe's cellular...
MANILA, The Philippines-International telecommunications giant AT&T is considering telecommunications companies like Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT), Smart Communications and Ayala-owned Globe Telecom as partners for its US$300 million network expansion in the Philippines. The move is part of AT&T's global network expansion this year,...
MANILA, The Philippines-The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has asked the Philippine Supreme Court (SC) to affirm a Court of Appeals decision allowing it to proceed with the implementation of a memorandum circular, mandating, among other things, a minimum six-second charge for cellular phone calls....
MELBOURNE, Australia-With both business and consumers' interest in using mobile data growing, Optus and SingTel have launched a worldwide search for "killer" mobile applications that will revolutionize the mobile industry. Their search, dubbed "the Asia Java Mobile Challenge," is aimed at developers with innovative...
LONDON—CMG Wireless Data Solutions said it won an 8.5 million euro (US$7.82 million) contract with the Philippines' Globe Telecom for the expansion of its short messaging service (SMS) capacity to handle as many as 6,000 text messages per second.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Carriers continue to work to bolster their wireless content offerings, with Hutchison Telecommunications and Globe Telecom announcing new content distribution deals.Hutchison said it will offer financial service updates on BlackBerry devices through a new deal with SmartServ Online Inc.Separately, Philippines carrier Globe...
