By Editor on January 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Information, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Abdulkareem Jama has stated that the Somalia government is planning to start regulating its ultra-free market mobile phone networks and applying taxes to the phone companies to boost growth and investment.
According to Jama, the government has drafted rules for managing mobile-phone frequencies, phone numbers and interconnection agreements. The Finance Ministry is formulating details of the taxes, although a timeline for the passing of the necessary laws is still unclear.
The country’s mobile phone networks have been cited in various reports of an example of laissez faire business where mobile networks were set up by entrepreneurs without any government intervention or regulation. Their regulatory-light approach is about to be shaken up.
By Editor on November 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
As per Director General of the UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) Mohamed Nasser Al Ghanim, protecting data and information is no longer an easy task because of the highly diversified and developed hacking methods. But according to him the telecom operators are capable of protecting the security of money transfer transactions.
He added that they have to keep pace with the fast-paced cyber developments….protecting cyber security for governmental departments and private businesses is a top priority for TRA and that is why the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) was set up.
Black Hat, being held for the first time in the Middle East, has brought together IT security experts from around the world, for a series of training sessions and briefings on new developments in the sector.
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By Editor on March 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The Much awaited Xobni Mobile for BlackBerry has been launched and made available for blackberry users by Xobni.
According to the company, the app reinvents the address bookâ€, which automatically creates rich profiles for every contact, a person can ever communicate with, regardless of whether they’ve been manually added to the native address book.
Xobni Mobile for Blackberry can be downloaded via the Xobni website and very soon it will also be available on Blackberry App World. Xobni is also launching Xobni One, a service that links information between Microsoft Outlook and mobile versions of Xobni for a more comprehensive and up-to-date address book.
According to Xobni CEO Jeff Bonforte, Xobni Mobile automatically builds and maintains the fastest, most complete and smartest address book a person would have ever used.
The launch is expected to be an important milestone for the company, and the company has made it even more compelling by powering it with Xobni One. This new service will prove out to be the foundation for all their future products.
Xobni Mobile is compatible with the Blackberry Tour, Curve 8900, Bold and Storm handsets. The cost of standalone app is $9.99, however Xobni Mobile with Xobni One costs $6.99 plus $3.99 per month or $39.90 per year.
By Editor on August 14, 2006 · Leave a Comment
The number of mobile subscribers in India is expected to grow from just over 100 million today to more than 350 million by 2010, an addition of 250 million subscribers in just four years, according to The Diffusion Group. The analysts predict that the evolving mobile markets in China and India will reshape the global telecommunications and technology landscape and realign market share among today’s mobile market leaders.
| According to The Diffusion Group, China market is widely heralded as the most immediate and largest market opportunity for mobile vendors. India’s growth rate will be equally explosive. When combined, China and India — what TDG calls “New Asia” — have a population of approximately 2.5 billion people and comprise the single largest opportunity for mobile vendors in the history of mobile telecom.”While India’s mobile market growth will in many ways follow China, the reasons for its growth are very different,” noted Michael Greeson, founder of The Diffusion Group. “India continues to experience a level of poverty far deeper than China and has little in the way of fixed-line infrastructure to support telecommunications. More than half of India’s 700 million rural inhabitants have no access to residential electricity and must rely on community pay phones. It is because of this unique confluence of factors that mobile technologies make so much sense to both India’s government and to operators.”
As Greeson notes, modern mobile telecommunications technology offers developing nations a way to cover expansive ‘greenfield’ territories — in this case, areas bereft of home or personal telecommunications — in a faster and less expensive way than traditional fixed telecom infrastructure. Combined with the world’s lowest per-minute charges, inexpensive handsets, and the social status of mobile phone ownership, India’s mobile operators are preparing to exploit this opportunity.
Other key findings from TDG’s study of India’s mobile markets include the following:
- Despite 12 years of deregulation, the number of fixed-line telecom subscribers has increased less than 15% in the last three years: from 41.5 million to 47.5 million, most of which has been confined to urban areas.
- In India, the cost of installing new fixed lines is roughly three times the price of installing a mobile line.
- As of early 2006, about half of all the towns and villages in India could receive a mobile signal. The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology has set a goal to reach 90% coverage by the end of 2006 – a very ambitious goal, but one that could be within reach given the steps that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and the Indian government have taken to enable competition and increase foreign investment.
- Despite the fact that government taxes on mobile phone revenues are amongst the highest in the world, TDG expects that taxes, levies, and spectrum fees will be reduced to cover only the Universal Service Obligation (USO) fund and administrative costs.
- Given the rapid pace of growth, upgrading current infrastructure has taken a backseat to network expansion and quality of service in most areas is extremely poor.
- Total mobile service revenue will increase over 170% from 2006 through 2010, which translates to a compound annual growth rate of 22.1%.
While India offers tremendous opportunity for mobile telecom vendors, exploiting these opportunities requires understanding India’s regulatory and business environment, as well as comprehending India’s unique social and demographic landscape.
About the market research report
TDG’s 65-page report, “India’s Mobile Markets – Analysis & Forecasts” (July 2006) by Thomas Wolf and Kambam Deepak with Michael Greeson, presents an in-depth analysis of the social, political, technological, and market forces that are shaping India’s telecom evolution and pushing mobile subscriptions to record levels. The report provides forecasts for total subscriber demand, an analysis of 3G subscriber growth, market share analysis among India’s mobile operators, and forecasts for mobile ARPU through 2010.
Source- http://www.tekrati.com
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