The Asian alliance of mobile operators unveiled its official name and logo: Conexus Mobile Alliance. Furthermore, Philippine mobile operator Smart Communications has joined the alliance. The alliance, created in April 2006, was formed to enhance members’ competitiveness in international roaming services in their own countries/regions and across Asia-Pacific.In addition to offering roaming services, most member operators have begun providing caller ID and short-code services to their customers as they roam into another member operator’s network. Alliance members are also working with multinational corporate clients to provide international data roaming packages and are considering the possibility of joint procurement to reduce costs.

The alliance’s other members are Far EasTone Telecommunications (Taiwan), Hutchison Essar (India), Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong and Macau), Indosat (Indonesia), KT Freetel (South Korea), NTT DoCoMo (Japan) and StarHub (Singapore). Conexus said it continues to encourage other mobile operators to join the alliance.

Source- telecompaper Wireless Mobile Telecom