Market
China Mobile to offer 4G services in Hong Kong
China Mobile plans to start fourth-generation (4G) wireless services in Hong Kong later this month, becoming the second operator after CSLto do so in the country. [Continue Reading]
SingTel Group’s mobile customer base reaches 445 million
SingTel announced that the group posted another quarter of strong growth in customer acquisitions. As at March 31, 2012, the group had a total mobile customer base of 445 million, an increase of 11 per cent from a year ago. [Continue Reading]
Emerging trends in mobile internet in APAC
We are seeing the amount of connections globally keep going up. Pretty soon, the amount of connections will surpass the amount of people on the planet, helped by everyone who has three devices. APAC, by the way, is no different. In fact, APAC leads a lot of the internet. It’s about two thirds of the [Continue Reading]
Industry
Tata Communications to expand business in South East Asia region
Tata Communications is eyeing the the South East Asia region, especially in Indonesia and the Philippines, to expand its global operations within next two years. [Continue Reading]
Indonesia’s Telkom Bids For Cable Operator Pacnet: Sources
Telekomunikasi Indonesia, the nation’s biggest telecom firm, has submitted a bid to buy Asia’s leading undersea cable operator Pacnet in a deal that could value Pacnet at about $1 billion [Continue Reading]
HP talks about its virtual application network
The infrastructure now needs to become automated. And instead we need to now focus on delivering services. We need to now introduce a layer in the network that concentrates on the service delivery, [Continue Reading]
Too Much Noise in India Telecoms Sector
India’s telecommunications sector is sending out mixed signals. The potential comes through loud and clear. India has the lowest mobile-phone penetration rate in Asia, and less than 10% of the [Continue Reading]
Finance
China Telecom 1Q Net Profit Falls 6.5% On Rising Expenses
KT Q1 net profit falls 27% on mobile rate cuts, spending
Tips for making money on mobile apps in China
Mobile Data Usage Exploding, Monetization Asleep at the Wheel
China Mobile Q1 profit rises 3.5% on growing base
Indian mobile services market to reach $ 30 bn in 2016: Gartner
Services
MEF Launches Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Certification
The MEF’s new Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification program for services and equipment complements the MEF’s recent launch of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 with certification for 8 new services. CE 2.0 brings significant value added benefits, matching the Enterprise users’ [Continue Reading]Handset
China’s ZTE to sell 100 million smartphones a year by 2015
China’s ZTE Corp, which launched its first basic mobile phone in Africa little more than 10 years ago, said it could be shipping 100 million smartphones a year by 2015, as it looks up-market to reverse a decline in its handset margins. [Continue Reading]
Regulatory/Legal
China’s telecommunications infrastructure ‘no risk’ for West
Western concerns over Chinese involvement in telecommunications infrastructure are unwarranted, says the head of the Asian arm of British telecoms giant BT Group. Kevin Taylor, managing director of BT Asia-Pacific, says in Hong Kong that the group’s partnership with [Continue Reading]Technology
HP Delivers Agility without Compromise with HP Converged Cloud
HP has announced HP Converged Cloud, the industry’s first hybrid delivery approach and portfolio based on a common architecture spanning [Continue Reading]
What Effect Will Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Have on the Industry?
Everyone has a mobile phone. How many of you have a tablet? I won’t say iPad because some of you don’t have iPads but how many of you [Continue Reading]
Security mistakes mobile devs make
Developers are making critical security mistakes when it comes to making mobile apps, and this isn’t going to change unless someone is held [Continue Reading]
Infrastructure/Equipments
Lenovo to launch mobile devices facility in central China
Lenovo Group Ltd , the worlds No.2 PC maker by sales, said on Monday that it will invest about 5 billion yuan over the next five years in an [Continue Reading]
Dell Announces 40Gb Blade Server Switch: Dell Force10 MXL 10/40GbE
Dell, leveraging its acquisition last year of networking vendor Force10 Networks, is adding new hardware and software offerings to its open [Continue Reading]
Asian gateway capacity to be increased, PLDT asks NTC to extend operation permit
Telecom Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) and 18 other Asia-Pacific phone firms that belong to the Asia America Gateway (AAG) consortium [Continue Reading]
Corporates/Companies
Qualcomm gets 4G spectrum in India
India has offered to grant 4G broadband spectrum to U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm, nearly two years after the company bid US$1 billion for it in an [Continue Reading]
World’s Most Innovative Companies Run Business On NetSuite Cloud
NetSuite Inc., the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, announced that six of the World’s 50 Most [Continue Reading]
Telco Systems Unveils New Carrier Cloud Gateway and Aggregation Platform in Asia Pacific
T-Metro 8000 provides industry’s first open architecture platform with best in class carrier Ethernet/MPLS density, scalability and price [Continue Reading]
News and Events
Airtel launches 4G services in Bangalore
Bharti Airtel has launched its 4G (fourth generation) telecom services in the City. Following the inaugural launch in Kolkata, customers in Bangalore [Continue Reading]
NetEvents Hong Kong Highlights
The Carrier Cloud future… SDN’s killer app… Datacentre modularisation…The launch of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification… One global data [Continue Reading]
63% of Asian Telcos Working on 4G Networks, Not Many Yet In Action
Right now across Asia, 63 percent of mobile telcos have rolled out 4G LTE services, or are now conducting trials or have firm plans. That’s the [Continue Reading]