MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Novatel Wireless have come together to bring wireless PC card modems on SingTel Mobile's UMTS network in Singapore.The PC cards will allow the carrier to offer high-speed access to streaming video and audio, secure wireless access to e-mails...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced partners for its third-generation video service called World Call. DoCoMo's FOMA video customers will be able to exchange video-phone calls with users of compatible W-CDMA services in Australia offered by Hutchison 3G Australia beginning Dec. 21. In addition, DoCoMo has...
Vodafone Group plc announced it will team with Boeing on a trial of high-speed in-flight Wi-Fi service beginning later this month. The agreement is one of the first between Connexion by Boeing and a wireless carrier.The project will gauge the Vodafone consumer experience with...
SINGAPORE-Following their European counterparts, seven Asia-Pacific mobile operators inked a deal to form a regional alliance, called Bridge Mobile Alliance, which will operate through a Singapore-incorporated company, Bridge Mobile Pte Ltd. The joint-venture company aims to drive economies of scale for equipment purchases and...
SINGAPORE-Following their European counterparts, seven Asia-Pacific mobile operators signed an agreement to form a regional mobile alliance, called Bridge Mobile Alliance, which will operate through a Singapore-incorporated company, Bridge Mobile Pte Ltd. The joint venture company aims to drive economies of scale for equipment...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will conduct a test of international roaming between wireless local area networks with Singapore Telecom Mobile Pte Ltd. aimed at verifying technologies and marketability under a plan to jointly launch a commercial international roaming service.DoCoMo noted the trial will...
SINGAPORE-Five Asian companies joined the collaboration between the Singapore telecom regulator and Intel Corp. to help solve the challenges of hot-spot roaming. The initiative will work to develop standards for global seamless Wi-Fi connectivity.The companies include China Mobile; Singapore's mobile operators MobileOne, SingTel Mobile...
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...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-Singapore's mobile market recorded a slight downturn in the number of prepaid subscribers in August. As reported by Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), the country's telecom regulator, total prepaid subscribers included 810,800 subscribers as of August. It represents a negative 17.86-percent growth compared...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-Singapore's mobile operators are looking to spread their services wings into the highly lucrative Chinese market. Singapore' Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) this week set up the Infocomm Section of the Consulate General of the Republic of Singapore in Shanghai, China.Leong Keng Thai, deputy...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Singapore Telecom (SingTel) embraced its Asian subsidiaries, Australia's Optus and the Philippines' Globe Telecom, to set up new roaming services for data communications. Later this year, it plans to announce similar agreements with its additional Asian subsidiaries, including PT Telkomsel in Indonesia in...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—SingTel Mobile confirmed that it purchased an additional 12.7-percent stake in Indonesia's Telkomsel for US$429 million from PT Telkom, giving it a 35-percent stake in the mobile operator.Telkom's stake will reduce to 65 percent. SingTel bought its original 22.3-percent stake from KPN Mobile...
SINGAPORE—Cambridge Positioning Systems and SingTel Mobile will build a test network around Tampines Town for application and hardware developers to trial new Enhanced Observed Time Difference location-enabled solutions.Trials are set to begin in late March.
SINGAPORE-The number of mobile-phone subscribers in Singapore is finally shrinking following a cleaning by the major mobile-phone operators. SingTel Mobile and MobileOne (M1) have in the past few months closed dormant prepaid accounts. This resulted in the number of mobile-phone subscribers reducing from a...
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands—Heavily indebted KPN Mobile said Singapore Telecommunications Mobile will purchase KPN's 22.28-percent holding in Indonesia's Telkomsel for US$601 million. SingTel Mobile will also settle KPN Mobile's remaining technical service obligation to Telkomsel valued at US$25 million.Telkom, which holds the remaining 77.72...
HELSINKI, Finland—Springtoys said SingTel Mobile and Globe Telecom of the Philippines adopted its games, which will reach a potential customer base of more than 5 million mobile-phone users.
SINGAPORE—Virgin Mobile, which launched its service in Singapore on 12 October, has found itself caught in a disagreement between incumbents SingTel Mobile and StarHub. Virgin Mobile Chief Executive Sir Richard Branson claimed Starhub is asking US$234,000 to let Virgin Mobile customers be connected to...
SINGAPORE—Virgin Mobile launched service in Singapore on Friday, the first Asian market in which it has launched its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service.Virgin Mobile partnered with SingTel Mobile last year to provide MVNO services in Singapore and other Asian markets. Virgin Mobile currently...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-For years, countries in Southeast Asia have achieved tremendous growth in cellular phone services. However, when economic turmoil hit the region in 1997, network buildout was deferred and even stopped in some countries due to plummeting local currencies. Although many operators in the...
SINGAPORE—Singapore's three cellular network operators have agreed to jointly adopt a standard mobile billing platform, according to international press reports. Once chosen, the system will allow users to buy from third-party merchants via their mobile phones.MobileOne, SingTel Mobile and StarHub will evaluate submissions with...
SINGAPORE-The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore said the number of prepaid card subscribers in Singapore has doubled in the 12 months ending January 2001 from 306,600 to 741,200 users. The 141.7-percent increase exceeds the 65-percent rise in the country's overall mobile-phone subscribers during the...
AustraliaAustralia's third-generation (3G) spectrum auction fell well short of the federal government's budget forecasts of A$2.6 billion (US$1.3 billion). Six bidders paid a total of almost A$1.17 billion (US$577 million) for spectrum in the 2 GHz band. The auction felt an early blow when...
SINGAPORE-Singapore operator MobileOne (M1) accused rivals SingTel Mobile and StarHub of efforts to lure away its CDMA customers. An advertising war has been under way, with SingTel Mobile and StarHub taking out full-page advertisements in the Straits Times extolling the virtues of their GSM...
Alcatel.Benin. With Office des Postes et Telecommunications (OPT) for a GSM network, along with fiber-optic and switching equipment.Value: US$32.8 millionKenya. With KenCell for a 50,000-subscriber capacity GSM network.Value: UndisclosedMorocco. With Maroc Telecom for mobile switching centers.Value: UndisclosedPortugal. With Portugal Telecom's TMN for a GPRS network.Value: UndisclosedQatar. With Q-Tel...
