Market
Asia-Pacific to have 3 bn mobile connections by Q1-2012
Mobile connections in the Asia Pacific region will reach three-billion mark in the first quarter of 2012, as operators are investing heavily for growth of their businesses. Globally, the mobile connections are expected to reach the six-billion milestone by the end of November. [Continue Reading]
China’s mobile subscribers rise 1.3 pct to 951.6 mln in Oct
China, the world’s largest mobile phone market, saw a 1.3 percent monthly increase in total number of mobile subscribers to 951.6 million in October, data from the country’s three telecom operators showed. [Continue Reading]
APAC: We see an increase in the number of bandwidth hungry applications: Ian Keene, Vice President, Gartner
We are seeing a big increase in the number of users in the Asia Pacific region, and that’s continuing to expand. And what that adds up to is really more petabytes of data. Governments, most governments strongly believe that by providing broadband communications to all of their citizens that that will spur economic growth. [Continue Reading]
Industry
Mobile gaming industry in Asia with 40% global market stake
Mobile gaming market is a promising area that is set to amount $54 Billion global market value by 2015. It enjoys steady healthy growth tempo in terms of revenue and market share. The mobile gaming [Continue Reading]
Telecom market for overseas Koreans to reach W1.5 trillion by 2015
The telecommunication market for overseas Koreans will see a boost in sales as more of them want to stay connected to their roots, an industry report concluded. According to DigiEco, a KT [Continue Reading]
Using mobile communication to bank with Asia’s poor billions
Asian bankers are contemplating to utilize modern technology through mobile communication to reach 50% of the population of Asia who are not entertained by the banks at present and this is a huge [Continue Reading]
Finance
Qatar Telecom Boosts Stake In Singapore’s StarHub By 7.45%
Non-transparent rules impacting investment in telecom: Bharti Airtel
SK Telecom agrees to buy Hynix control for $3 bln
Japanese telco to splurge £2bn a year on LTE
China Mobile Gets To $68 By Maintaining Market Share, Profit Margins
Sony to buy Ericsson out of phone venture
Services
From the bad boy hacker to founder and CTO of Silicon Valley “hot start-up”- Nir Zuk on serious threats in networks
With the consumerization of the web – such as with the proliferation of Twitter, Facebook and mobile apps – there are serious threats emerging. Nir Zuk, founder of Palo Alto Networks Inc., talks about the susceptability of networks and handsets to hacker attacks and his [Continue Reading]Handset
China Mobile Targets 10 Million ‘Wireless City’ Data Users
China Mobile Ltd., the world’s largest mobile-phone company by subscribers, plans to have 10 million users of its new “Wireless City” data plan this year. Six million users have signed up for the plan, which will be available in 100 cities by the end of this year, offering access to 10,000 applications, Chief Executive Officer [Continue Reading]
Regulatory/Legal
China, India embrace LTE tech for 4G networks
China and India, the world’s biggest mobile phone markets, are building fourth-generation (4G) networks based on the long-term evolution (LTE) technology although it will be years before it takes off as both countries are still ramping up 3G services. [Continue Reading]Technology
MEF Addresses Significances of New Carrier Ethernet Specifications
Nan Chen, President of the MEF, talks about the good progress on the technology front and significances of new carrier ethernet specifications. Key [Continue Reading]
Traditional “Port Blocking” Firewalls Useless in Today’s Application and Threat Landscape
The Internet now accounts for the majority of traffic traversing enterprise networks. And it’s not just web surfing. The Internet has spawned a new [Continue Reading]
Enterprises concerned with mobile security: Fortinet survey
A Fortinet-commissioned survey of 350 IT professionsals in medium to large-sized enterprises across Asia has found that businesses are concerned [Continue Reading]
Infrastructure/Equipments
China Mobile eyes cross-Strait cooperation for beefing up 4G market
China Mobile, the largest wireless service provider on the Chinese mainland, is working with Taiwanese partners to step up the development of [Continue Reading]
Asia Pacific IT Decision Makers Look to Ethernet Fabrics to Realize Cloud Ambitions
A new research report from Frost & Sullivan shows that with rapidly increasing usage of server virtualization, enterprises across Asia Pacific [Continue Reading]
Reliance Globalcom upgrades undersea cable networks
Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Globalcom (RGCom) on Wednesday said it has upgraded the broadband capacity of its undersea cable networks, which [Continue Reading]
Corporates/Companies
AT&T Wins MEF Carrier Ethernet Service Provider Award
AT&T has been recognized with the coveted 2010 “Service Provider of the Year” award by the MEF for Carrier Ethernet services in North [Continue Reading]
Lippis Test Results Show Extreme Networks as the Fastest Switch Vendor for Cloud and Mobile Network Markets
Extreme Networks, Inc. has announced the results of independent performance tests by Lippis Reports for its cloud switch. The BlackDiamond X8 switch, [Continue Reading]
Blue Coat unveils Cloud-Connector to enable branch-to-cloud internet access
Blue Coat Systems has announced it has added Cloud-Connector to its Blue Coat MACH5 WAN optimization appliances and virtual appliances. It lets Blue [Continue Reading]
News and Events
Asia Pacific set to rule mobile market
Punters in the Asia Pacific region are set to carve a grin on the faces of handset makers as people flock to mobile phones. According to the GSMA and [Continue Reading]
Extreme Networks Seems To Be Every analyst’s Favorite
Extreme Networks Inc., a network supplier for the mobile solutions has been named as a top data center vendor by 3 separate analyst groups – [Continue Reading]
HP boosts BMW’s network infrastructure
World’s largest computer maker Hewlett-Packard has announced that it has extended its tie-up with the German automobile giant BMW Group. The [Continue Reading]