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M1's full-year net profit up 4.5% to S$157m – Singapore

Channel News Asia | January 19, 2011 | Rachel Kelly Singapore’s smallest operator M1 has announced a 4.5% increase in profits for the year ending 31 December 2010. The firm’s net profit after tax stood at S$157.1 million ($122.2 million). M1’s operating revenue went up 25.3%...

M1’s full-year net profit up 4.5% to S$157m – Singapore

Channel News Asia | January 19, 2011 | Rachel Kelly Singapore’s smallest operator M1 has announced a 4.5% increase in profits for the year ending 31 December 2010. The firm’s net profit after tax stood at S$157.1 million ($122.2 million). M1’s operating revenue went up 25.3%...

MobileOne's MMS Powered by Acision's MMSC

Thursday December 10, 2009 - 00:01 AM EST PRNewsWire News Releases Released By Acision UK Ltd SINGAPORE, December 10 /PRNewswire/ -- - Acision MMSC Prepares MobileOne for Increased Multimedia Traffic and Marketing Campaigns Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announced that MobileOne (M1), a leading mobile communications provider...

Weekly infrastructure awards wrap-up

The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless...

Singapore’s M1 offers short voice messaging

SINGAPORE-Wireless carrier MobileOne Ltd. plans to launch a new short voice messaging service concept to its customers in Singapore.BubbleTALK, which is a product of a collaboration between M1 and L.M. Ericsson, allows callers to leave a short voice message without disturbing the recipient of...

Carriers sign contracts on content charging

CANNES, France-Two global carriers announced contracts for content charging systems last week. Lucent Technologies Inc. and NetSpira Networks said they have provided Singapore's MobileOne Ltd. with a content-based online charging system for GPRS and UMTS services.M1's system will allow it to identify the type...

Singapore carrier launches 3G service

SINGAPORE-MobileOne Ltd. said it launched "affordable" third-generation service Wednesday. The 3G service will offer video calls at 24 cents per minute, but video streaming, MP3 downloads and Internet surfing are free until March 31.The carrier is offering a pair of Motorola E1000 3G phones...

Carriers sign contracts on content charging

CANNES, France-Two global carriers announced contracts for content charging systems Tuesday.Lucent Technologies Inc. and NetSpira Networks said they have provided Singapore's MobileOne Ltd. with a content-based online charging system for GPRS and UMTS services.M1's system will allow it to identify the type of data...

M1 begins 3G trial with data cards

SINGAPORE-MobileOne, a Singaporean wireless carrier, said it will begin a one-month third-generation trial Thursday using data cards and involving mainly corporate customers.A second-phase trial, involving 200 customer and corporate customers, will use 3G mobile phones in December.M1 said its 3G network rollout is on...

Singapore carrier tests 3 high-speed technologies

Wireless carrier Mobile One announced trials of three different U.S.-developed technologies for wireless high-speed data access for its subscribers. Singapore-based M1, which has more than 1.1 million subscribers, 500,000 of which are GPRS users, has started technical trials of wireless broadband technologies that allow...

Singapore carrier trials 3 U.S.-developed high-speed technologies

Wireless carrier Mobile One announced trials of three different U.S.-developed technologies for wireless high-speed data access for its subscribers. M1, which has more than 1.1 million subscribers, 500,000 of which are GPRS users, has started technical trials of wireless broadband technologies that allow access...

Irish investors buy Mobile Tornado

DUBLIN, Ireland-An Irish-led team of investors bought Israeli push-to-talk provider Mobile Tornado. The investors have moved the company's headquarters to Dublin and plan to open two research and development centers in Ireland.The Irish software company that is acquiring Mobile Tornado has raised $12.3 million...

M1 to begin music recognition service

SINGAPORE-Following a similar launch from U.S. carrier AT&T Wireless Services Inc. last month, Singapore's MobileOne announced plans to begin tomorrow a music recognition service called Point. Customers dial 188*, point their handsets to a source of music, and the service will send a text...

Infrastructure contracts

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....

World Briefs

LondonFollowing its launch of an MVNO service in the United Kingdom promoted through a multimillion-dollar ad campaign, British Telecommunications Inc. launched a new service, BTringtones.com, on its public Internet kiosks. The new service offers ring tones, as well as multimedia messaging service backgrounds, logos,...

Nokia offers figures from MMS trial

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. reported the results of a multimedia messaging trial it conducted with five wireless operators in Europe and the Asia-Pacific, figures the company said offer evidence that the market for mobile data services will grow to $212 billion by 2007.Nokia said it...

Lucent expands 1x network in Russia at 450 MHz

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it completed an expansion of the 450 MHz cdma2000 1x network in Russia for Delta Telecom, the first Russian operator to launch a 1x network.The expansion was completed in late June. The expansion made available voice and data...

Lucent expands 1x network in Russia

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-Lucent Technologies said it completed an expansion of the 450 MHz cdma2000 1x network in Russia for Delta Telecom, the first Russian operator to launch a 1x network.The expansion was completed in late June. The expansion made available voice and data services...

Singapore’s M1 to launch video streaming

SINGAPORE-MobileOne said it will launch a video streaming service Monday for its users with Nokia 3650 phones, making it the first operator in Singapore and one of the first in the world to offer the service. The launch follows M1's video download service launch...

Southeast Asian operators take different approaches to content

SURABAYA, Indonesia-The path toward the next generation of mobile services has pushed carriers to provide various applications and related content to enrich their mobile data offerings and give their customers new mobile experiences. Carriers in Southeast Asia have many content-focused initiatives in place to...

Asian operators mimic European alliance

OXFORD, United Kingdom—In what appears to be almost an unseemly rush to protect their parochial businesses, five Asian operators—CSL of Hong Kong, Maxis of Malaysia, MobileOne (M1) of Singapore, Smart of the Philippines and Telstra of Australia—have formed the Asia Mobility Initiative (AMI), which...

South Africa moves forward with privatization

NEW YORK-In its first privatization of a state-owned company, the government of South Africa sold a 25-percent stake in Telkom South Africa on 4 March, raising US$488 million, well below the US$1.25 billion predicted a year ago. In marketing the deal, Telkom emphasized...

M1 offers GPRS roaming with China Mobile

SINGAPORE-Singapore operator MobileOne (M1) said it has launched General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) roaming with China Mobile, the largest operator in China. The new offering will allow subscribers of the two operators to send multimedia message service (MMS) messages to users of the other...

MobileOne uses Web camera service to boost MMS

JAKARTA, Indonesia-After launching multimedia messaging services in August last year, Singapore's MobileOne (M1) asked its subsidiary Wireless Intellect Labs to boost the use of MMS among MobileOne customers by delivering an application called Permodia.Permodia enables MMS-based access to any standard Web camera connected to...