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MNP launches across Malaysia

  • October 15th, 2008
  • 12:51 pm

Mobile Number Portability launches in Malaysia officially, following the trials last month. The service during the trials were initially available only to the prepaid subscribers in the Klang Valley area, then the span grew to post paid as well. The operators who participated in the trials were Celcom, DiGi, Maxis and U-Mobile and were able to accept 100 requests per day with excess requests not fulfilled.
Operators will now be allowed to charge a maximum of MYR25 (USD7.16) for the service.

   

Malaysia’s mobile penetration to reach 96.8% in 2010 (Malaysia)

  • September 2nd, 2008
  • 1:31 pm

The remarkable growth in Malaysia’s mobile market over the last few years cannot hide the fact that the industry had been overcrowded. Behind the strong growth, there has been considerable activity going on with the restructuring of the companies involved. The outcome was that the number of operators in Malaysia was reduced from five to three. With 3G licences having been awarded in a two stage process, next generation services are starting to be rolled out. Coming into 2008, growth in total subscribers had levelled off somewhat, as the market appeared to pause. But 3G was providing a new spark and a new operator, U Mobile was set to enter the market. This report looks at the developments in the Malaysian mobile market and reviews the changes taking place.

Telekom Malaysia is the country’s telecommunications incumbent. In April 2003, it acquired number two GSM mobile operator Celcom.
TM International, has telecom investments, mainly mobile, in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Cambodia, with evolving plans to expand into other parts of Asia.

OPERATOR     SUBSCRIBERS
Maxis               10.5 million
Celcom             7.894 million
DiGi                 6.637 million

Notable highlights of the Malaysia mobile market profile include:

  • The wireless penetration level in Malaysia will continue to increase and will reach 96.8% in 2010. The number of subscribers in Malaysia will increase from our projected 25 million in 2008 to our forecasted 28.5 million in 2010.
  • The level of market concentration in Malaysia, as measured by the HHI index, will stay the same over the next several years. However, we expect that Celcom will be losing its market share to Maxis and DiGi.Com. It is forecasted that Celcom’s market share will drop from 30.4% to 28.2% while that of DiGi.Com will increase from 28.4% to 30% over the forecast period from 2008 to 2010.
  • The ARPU levels have stabilized in Malaysia. In 2010, Maxis will receive the highest ARPU of US$ 21.73 per month while DiGi.Com will receive the lowest ARPU in the country at US$18.83 per month.

   

Telenor Pakistan gets Abdullah as it’s new CEO (Pakistan)

  • July 16th, 2008
  • 11:37 am

Pakistan based mobile operator Telenor Pakistan appointed Jon Eddy Abdullah as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), who will be succeeding Tore Johnsen from 15 august ‘08. Abdullah with more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunication industry, has been working with both infrastructure vendors and several mobile operators. He has recently been associated with Maxis Telecommunication in Malaysia as a Chief Operating Officer (COO) and with DiGi as Chief Technology officer.

Since Telenor Pakistan’s inception in 2004, Tore Johnsen has been serving as the firm’s chief executive officer (CEO) and currently has been appointed as the chief executive officer of Telenor’s Thai operation DTAC.

DiGi net profit jumps 51% (Malaysia)

  • October 22nd, 2007
  • 1:11 pm

Malaysian cellco DiGi.Com has announced that its net profit jumped 51% in Q3 2007, thanks to a rise in its customer base and revenue. Net profit surged to MYR273 million (USD78 million) for the three months ended 30 September, on the back of a 21% hike in revenue to MYR1.11 billion. DiGi, which is 61% owned by Norway’s Telenor, is the smallest of Malaysia’s three cellcos. It attributed its strong performance to 9% growth of its subscriber base to 6.1 million customers. In a statement it added that average usage per subscriber had increased and non-voice revenue continued to account for a larger portion of revenues.

   

 

Yahoo expands mobile search service

  • January 9th, 2007
  • 7:59 am

Netimperative writes…Yahoo is updating its mobile Internet search service flowing a number of deals with handet makers and mobile operators worldwide.
The new Yahoo Go 2.0 mobile service is available for users to download on more than 70 mobile device models. The announcements were made from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The company has expanded partnerships with mobile phone makers Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Research In Motion to include the new software on some of their phones.
Yahoo said its new mobile service included a feature called “oneSearch” that makes it easier for users to get the information they need from a cell phone search, an enhanced directory of local businesses and maps and an easy system for sharing photos.
Additionally, Yahoo! expects to distribute Yahoo! Go 2.0 through mobile operators worldwide including Bharti Airtel, DiGi Telecommunications (Malaysia), Globe Telecom, Hutchison India, Idea Cellular, Rogers Wireless, Smart Communications, Taiwan Mobile and 3 Group in the UK, Italy, Denmark, Ireland and Sweden.