HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it has won a five-year, $117 million contract to supply Singapore carrier StarHub with equipment for a W-CDMA network.According to the deal, Nokia will provide radio access and core network equipment and deliver management services like network planning.The carrier said...
Investors bemoaned Research In Motion Ltd.'s further legal losses resulting from its patent dispute with NTP Inc., sending the company's stock down about 11 percent to $17.80 per share.The declines follow a Virginia court's ruling that increases the amount of damages RIM must pay...
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...
SINGAPORE-Five Asian operators have announced a Wi-Fi initiative called the Wireless Broadband Alliance. The companies, Korea Telecom, China Netcom, Maxis from Malaysia, Singapore's StarHub and Australian-based Telstra signed a memorandum of understanding that aims to drive wireless broadband services adoption.The group said it will...
SURABAYA, Indonesia—Singapore mobile operator StarHub joined 5G and Bluengine to form Singapore’s first marketing partnership initiative for wireless broadband. This Wi-Fi initiative aims to develop a convenient and uniform roaming service, which allows any of the three companies' customers to use any hot spots...
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...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-Singapore's StarHub said it would target more corporate customers by offering a broad array of wireless data services this year.StarHub, which achieved 640,000 subscribers by the end of last year, said it is targeting corporate customers who currently comprise roughly 5 percent of...
SINGAPORE-Wireless carriers M1, SingTel and StarHub announced they launched interoperable multimedia messaging services, allowing customers to send MMS messages to subscribers of rival carriers.The announcement is the latest in a series of moves toward interoperability in the growing market for MMS services.
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 market grew slightly in terms of the number of mobile subscribers during the first half of this year. According to the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), the country's telecom regulator, there were 3,040,800 total mobile subscribers as of the end of June...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—StarHub, Singapore's third-largest mobile operator, said it has enriched content for its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and short message service (SMS) services with the coming of the 2002 World Cup during June (see related story on World Cup under "Features"). During the...
MANILA, The Philippines—Leading Philippine wireless operator Smart Communications and Yahoo Southeast Asia, a leading online and wireless service provider in the region, announced the availability of Yahoo Mail for SMS to mobile-phone subscribers. Smart mobile-phone subscribers can now access Yahoo e-mail directly from their...
SINGAPORE—The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore has asked StarHub to explain in 14 days why it cut more than 10,000 subscriber services. In a statement, IDA said it would review StarHub's explanation before it determines if regulator intervention is needed.Subscribers who had not...
ATLANTA-Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it sold its unified communications solution to StarHub PTE Ltd, an integrated fixed and mobile telecommunications provider in Singapore.StarHub will use the technology to offer its new Power Mail, which the company said simplifies subscriber communications by providing a single...
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—Singapore's telecom regular Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) has selected four consortia to trial mobile payment solutions through a US$11 million initiative.The trials will run from the first quarter of 2002 until the end of August and involve at least 10,000 pilot mobile users. The...
SINGAPORE—Singapore's telecom regular Infocomm Development Authority has selected four consortia to trial mobile payment solutions through a $11 million initiative.The trials will run from the first quarter of 2002 until the end of August and involve at least 10,000 pilot mobile users. The solutions...
SINGAPORE—SingTel Mobile has halved talk time from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. to US$0.05, making it the first operator in Singapore to offer such a discount. This could start a new price war with rivals MobileOne (M1) and StarHub.Competing carriers said the offer should...
SINGAPORE—Three telecommunications companies in Singapore indicated they would take part in the upcoming auction of new second-generation (2G) spectrum rights. The three cellular operators that have submitted offers, confirmed by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), are SingTel Mobile, M1 and Starhub Mobile....
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-Singapore network operators will not make General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) widely available to consumers here before the end of this year, executives from operators and handset manufacturers said at the CommunicAsia exhibition recently. Handset manufacturers also admitted the shortage of devices is delaying...
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-StarHub Chief Executive Terry Clontz said end users would draw the short end of the stick because of the Singapore government's decision to use the auction method of awarding third-generation licenses. He added any operator would expect to recoup the cost of the 3G...
