Play has started the sales of Nokia C1-01. The handset features a web browsing, FM radio, music player, Bluetooth, GPRS, e-mail as well as chat.
The Nokia C1-01 offers microSD compatibility, enabling users to store up to 32 GB of music, photos or other media. In addition, owners of the Nokia C1-01 will also be able to take video and photographs using the built-in VGA camera.
Mobitel has launched Nokia C5-03 on its network. The smartphone is available in two colors, white aluminum and black aluminum, along with various two-year packages at prices ranging between US$1.40 and US$139.39 or without any contractual obligation at US$308.35.
The handset is based on the latest Symbian OS. It features a 3.2″ screen with a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels. The touchscreen is resistive and supports handwriting recognition. It is powered with a 600MHz ARM processor and also has 128MB of RAM. Email and Instant messaging services are also available and can be used via a 3G, GPRS or Wi-Fi network. The flash is also supported with Flash Lite 3.0.
Uzbekistan-based mobile services provider Ucell has added new roaming partners. Ucell has signed a bilateral agreement with Latelz in Cambodia (Smart Mobile) and Telecom New Zealand.
The company will now allow prepaid users to roam on the Viva network in Kuwait, on Qtel’s network in Qatar and on Telekom Deutschland’s network in Germany.
Moreover, Ucell added Telecel in Bolivia as a GPRS and 3G roaming partner.
BroadHop, Inc., the leader in next generation policy control platforms for telecom operators and Saudi Telecom Company (STC), the leading Middle East telecommunications operator, will present a real world success story on how implementing a Policy 2.0-based value added service improves customer experience, reduces churn and increases loyalty, at this year’s TM Forum Management World Middle East held March 22-23, 2011 at the Hilton Jumeirah, Dubai.
Ahmed Alshaia, Section Head, Data and Broadband VAS, STC and Kishen Mangat, Vice President of Solutions and Co-founder, BroadHop, Inc., will present on Wednesday, March 23 at 9:25 a.m. as part of the Customer Experience track. Session attendees will hear about STC’s unique and highly personalized ‘Prayer Time’ service and how BroadHop’s Quantum Network Suite – enables the delivery of more innovative services and capabilities, including real time parental control, granular content filtering, and flexible pricing.
As a key operator in the region, STC offers a diversified set of network access capabilities to its customers via xDSL, FTTx, WiMAX and GPRS/3G and upcoming LTE services. By using Policy 2.0, STC has been able to monetize subscriber traffic streams, enhance the subscriber user experience, offer personalized services as well as control the explosion of bandwidth growth within its network. Mr. Kishen Mangat and Mr. Ahmed Alshaia will cover the key areas of how Policy 2.0 addresses today’s operator needs including:
Telekom Deutschland is all set to expand its mobile broadband tariffs from 5 April this year with two new data tariffs for heavy users.
The tariffs are called Web’n'Walk Connect XL and XXL. The tariffs will offer 10 GB at 21.6 Mbps and 20 GB at 42.2 Mbps for US$75.94 and US$103.58 per month respectively.
After using the included data volumes, the speeds are downgraded to GPRS level until a new month begins. Both tariffs include a USB modem for mobile broadband access and are available as SIM-only tariffs for US$6.91 per month.
CAT Telecom has given approval to DTAC to commercially launch 3G wireless broadband services in mid-March.
Telenor subsidiary DTAC, which offers services via a build-transfer-operate (BTO) concession with CAT, currently provides trial 3G W-CDMA/HSPA-based services in the 850MHz band.
Following two years of complaining that CAT had favored fellow BTO licensee True Move by permitting the latter to expand 3G trial coverage in December 2010 CAT’s board announced that DTAC could upgrade up to 1,220 base stations for pre-commercial 850MHz HSPA, up from an existing 36 sites.
Both this decision and the latest announcement are viewed from some quarters as an attempt to defuse criticism of CAT for January’s hastily arranged 14-year agreement with True Move to jointly market 3G HSPA-based services as part of True’s takeover of the ‘Hutch’ CDMA business (formed as a joint venture of CAT and Hong Kong’s Hutchison Telecom).
T-Mobile Czech Republic has reportedly revealed its networks now comprise 6,711 base transceiver stations (BTS), thanks to the deployment of a BTS in its 5,000th location.
According to reports, T-Mobile’s base stations include a range of network technologies including GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS TDD and UMTS FDD.
As per the company’s director of technology, Frank Meywerk, a significant number of BTS on its network are UMTS FDD-enabled with support for HSPA+, and in future will allow an easy implementation of LTE.
Rapid Chinese TD-SCDMA rollouts and the often-maligned GSM/GPRS/EDGE equipment markets have benefited the base station RF power amplifier and RF power device markets. GSM/GPRS/EDGE RFPAs and devices are still shipping in the millions.
The Asia-Pacific region is presently accounting for more than 50% of the RF power semiconductor devices sold into the mobile wireless infrastructure segment. According to research director Lance Wilson, recent Chinese TD-SCDMA base station deployments have been massive, and have buoyed RF power vendors to a tremendous degree. The demand is expected to strengthen the market until at least sometime in 2011, and the Chinese deployments will probably only start to slow in 2012.
Wilson added that although LTE has not significantly impacted RF power amplifier and device sales in the near term, it is going to bolster RF power sales in the wireless infrastructure space from about 2011 on.
Wilson also notes that since the previous edition of ABI Research’s report on this market, there have been some modest changes in the breakdown of market share held by the leading RF power device vendors.
LG Mobiles has launched its one of the most innovative smart devices from the series LG Optimus One in India.
The company claims that LG Optimus One is the result of extensive consumer research and development that delved into the way users gather information in today’s digital age.
According to LG, the handset is an android-powered phone with 2.2 OS version. It will launch 10 more devices in the next 6 months under Optimus series.
The phone gives user to access smoother internet browsing, web-page loading, application pop-ups and multi-tasking and comes with 40 preloaded applications. The phone is packed with 3 MP camera, 2 GB Memory, GPRS, EDGE and Threaded Messages.The phone is available for US$297.03
According Mr. Moon B Shin, Managing Director, LG Electronics India Pvt ltd, smartphones are poised to drive the growth in the India mobile market in the coming years and LG’s focus on innovation based on thorough consumer research, places them squarely at the forefront of that evolution. 2011 will be acceleration phase for LG Mobiles, and all are plans, investments are aligned towards taking 12-15% of market share in Smartphone segment.
Operators are using 3G as the key technology to drive Vietnam’s telecom market growth, just as regulation continues to liberalize, allowing foreign firms greater access to the market. Due to the proliferation of 3G services, Pyramid expects to see more future growth coming from mobile data services, with a 13.4 percent CAGR through 2015, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com).
Vietnam: 3G Services and Strong Competition Add Up to a High-Growth Market offers a precise profile of the country’s telecommunications, media, and technology sectors based on proprietary data from Pyramid’s research in the market. It provides detailed competitive analysis of both the fixed and mobile sectors, tracks the market shares of technologies and services, and monitors the introduction and spread of new technologies.
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Until recently, the Vietnam telecom market was monopolistic, with strict controls on foreign ownership of telecom operators, notes Emily Smith, analyst at Pyramid Research. “This year the market has seven MNOs and two MVNOs, and regulation continues to liberalize, allowing foreign firms greater access to the market,” Smith says. “Due to the tough competition for market share, rates plunged to the point that it was cheaper this year to subscribe to a 3G service than GPRS.”
However, by 2011, the decline in voice revenue will be counterbalanced by the rise in data revenue made possible by the 3G and LTE networks that are being built, allowing transmission of greater traffic volume. “Pyramid expects to see a shift in data traffic away from SMS as other data services gain ground,” Smith adds.
“Due to low fixed penetration rates in Vietnam and extremely low 3G tariffs, mobile broad band will quickly gain ground in the market as many consumers will rely on mobile phones for Internet access,” explains Smith.
Given the gap between PC and Internet penetration, as well as the low broadband penetration rate, Pyramid sees significant potential for mobile broadband through 3G services.
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