Vodafone, Sweden’s HIG3 join Iran’s intl. roaming network
TEHRAN – Vodafone from the UK and Sweden’s HI3G have been added to Iran’s international roaming list.
Subscribers to these mobile phone operators can use the services offered by the Mobile Company of Iran as of Monday September 18. Since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21), 16 other foreign mobile phone operators, including companies from Bulgaria, Tunisia, China, Australia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Portugal, Luxembourg, Cyprus, and the Netherlands, joined Iran’s intl. roaming network. The list now includes more than 160 operators from 65 countries.
Source- http://www.zawya.com
Technorati : Iran, Mobile, Sweden, UK, Vodafone
Ice Rocket : Iran, Mobile, Sweden, UK, Vodafone
Industry Leaders To Gather at 3GSM World Congress Asia 2006
ASIA : The 3GSM World Congress Asia – the fastest growing mobile communications event in the region – will bring together a host of industry leaders and personalities from across Asia’s booming mobile industry.
The mobile operator CEOs speaking at the 2006 event, which will be held in Singapore between October 16th and October 20th, include Sunil Mittal from Bharti Televentures, Dr Young-Chu Cho from KTF, Naguib Sawiris from Orascom, Lee Hsien Yang from SingTel Group, Dato Abdul Wahid Omar from Telekom Malaysia, Arve Johansen from Telenor, Sol Trujillo from Telstra and Alexander Izosimov from VimpelCom. Produced by the GSM Association (GSMA), the global trade association for the mobile industry, the 3GSM World Congress Asia will also feature top executives from other mobile-related industries, such as Alejandro Zubillaga, Executive Vice President Digital Strategy and Business Development at Warner Music Group, and Dr Sachio Semmoto, Founder and CEO of eAccess.
“For this year’s 3GSM Congress in Asia, we have assembled a top-class, yet diverse, line-up of speakers that will pinpoint the key trends in the region’s dynamic and complex market for mobile communications,” said Bill Gajda, the chief marketing officer of the GSM Association. “The Congress is the only event in Asia to attract the top ranking executives from the region’s operator community.”
The Congress presentations, revolving around the central theme of ‘Risk and Reward’, will cover topics ranging from new business models for mobile operators, to the role of China, universal access in emerging markets, the mobile boom in India, mobile virtual network operators and infotainment and content. The 2006 event will also host the GSMA Members Forum – the only annual meeting open to the entire GSMA membership.
This year’s Congress also sees the introduction of the GSMA’s “Asia Mobile Innovation Awards.” These awards are designed to support innovation in the Asian mobile industry by bringing together start-up companies, industry investors, mobile operators and vendors
Source- http://www.3g.co.uk
Technorati : 3 GSM, Asia, Bharti Televentures, China, KTF, Orascom, Singtel, Telekom Malaysia, Telenor, Telestra, Warner Music Group, eAccess, operator
Ice Rocket : 3 GSM, Asia, Bharti Televentures, China, KTF, Orascom, Singtel, Telekom Malaysia, Telenor, Telestra, eAccess, operator
Dialog Telecom launches 3g service in Colombo
Telekom Malaysia-owned Sri Lankan operator Dialog Telekom has launched 3G services in
Colombo, following the assignment of spectrum from the regulator on 16 August. Three other mobile operators were assigned with 3G spectrum from the TRC. Dialog paid USD 5 million for the 10MHz of FDD Duplex spectrum and 5 MHz of TDD spectrum in the UMTS band. Dialog already operated a trial network consisting of 12 base stations in the city of
Colombo, with equipment being supplied by Alcatel, Ericsson and Huawei.
Source- TP
Technorati : Alcatel, Dialog Telecom, Ericsson, Huawei, Sri Lanka
Ice Rocket : Alcatel, Dialog Telecom, Ericsson, Huawei, Sri Lanka
Maxis group revenues grow on Aircel acquisition
Malaysia’s Maxis Communications group saw its revenues and net income grow in the first half of the year. Group revenues totalled MYR 3.62 billion, up from MYR 3.1 billion in the first half of 2005. Net income rose 16 percent to MYR 960 million, from MYR 831 million in H1 2005. EBITDA rose 6 percent to MYR 1.84 billion but the EBITDA margin dropped 5.1 percent to 50.9 percent due to start-up costs of Natrindo Telepon Seluler in Indonesia, lower mobile termination fees as well as higher sales and marketing costs. Growth was driven by performance in the Malaysian market, as well as the contribution from newly acquired Aircel, a mobile operator in India. Aircel contributed MYR 234 million to revenues and added 3.2 million subscribers to the group’s total of 11.7 million mobile customers. Maxis Communications set a gross dividend of MYR 0.1042 per share.
Source- http://www.telecompaper.com
Technorati : Maxis Communications, Mobile
Ice Rocket : Maxis Communications, Mobile
Ozura Mobile Chosen as Excite Japan’s First International Distribution Partner
Ozura Mobile, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nextnation Communication and a leading international publisher and developer of mobile entertainment, today announced that it has been chosen as Excite Japan’s first international mobile game distribution partner.
Singapore (PRWEB) August 23, 2006 — Ozura Mobile, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nextnation Communication and a leading international publisher and developer of mobile entertainment, today announced that it has been chosen as Excite Japan’s first international mobile game distribution partner.
Excite Japan, one of Japan’s largest web portals and mobile game providers, is granting Ozura Mobile the distribution rights for its premium mobile game titles. Ozura Mobile plans to make these games available through its extensive network of distribution channels consisting of major mobile operators and distribution partners in Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, China, India and the United Kingdom.
“Ozura Mobile has been chosen as the preferred international mobile game distributor due to its well established presence in the global mobile gaming industry,” said Ozura Mobile’s Chief Executive Officer, Lion Peh.
Peh added that Ozura Mobile will be effectively offering more than 150 million mobile subscribers in its network the chance to play some of the most sought after mobile games today.
“This partnership with Excite Japan clearly reflects growing international recognition of Ozura Mobile’s cutting edge technology in the development of mobile gaming platforms. Our mobile gaming platform, FunlogiXâ„¢, is one of the most sought after platforms in the mobile gaming industry as it is highly compatible with games from all over the world ranging from Japanese to Russian origin developed using different development tools,” commented Peh.
He further revealed that over the next 3 years, Ozura Mobile expects a boost in revenue of up to USD20 million from global sales via this partnership.
Informa forecasts mobile gaming sales will generate USD$7.2bn a year worldwide by 2011, growing from the USD$2.4bn sold in 2006. The international provider of specialist information also predicts that Asia Pacific, which dominates mobile games sales, will account for nearly half the industry by 2011.
“The rapid revolution in the mobile gaming market, especially in the Asia Pacific, represents a huge potential for us. We have recently launched Indonesia’s first mobile gaming community with Indosat and we are soon to roll out more of our deployment programs in Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, China and Hong Kong. This will be another win for us in tapping into the substantial global gaming market,” said Peh.
To date, Ozura Mobile has published and aggregated an extensive compendium of games through its distribution network worldwide, representing over 2,000 game titles in over 130 countries. With its propriety gaming platform, FunlogiXâ„¢, Ozura Mobile also provides its state- of- the- art community based mobile gaming technology to mobile operators worldwide.
About Excite Japan Co. Ltd
Excite Japan Co., Ltd is one of the leading Japan-based Internet service provider. The Company has five business segments. The Advertising segment is engaged in the sale of advertising space on its Website to enterprises. The Content Service segment offers community services, music download services, online games and others. The Broadband Service segment provides Internet access services, mainly broadband services to general consumers. The Electronic Commerce (EC) segment is engaged in the sale, auction and shopping of commodities through Internet systems. The Others segment is involved in the development of Internet systems, as well as the management of fan clubs and the provision of services for beauty salon services through Internet. Excite Japan is a subsidiary of Itochu Corporation. Headquartered in Tokyo, the Company has three consolidated subsidiaries and three associated companies.
About Ozura Mobile
Ozura Mobile is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nextnation Communication Berhad and is a leading international developer and publisher for mobile games and game developer engine to carriers, aggregators, mobile phone manufacturers and service providers. The company creates games for the mobile phones based on the J2ME, BREW and Symbian platforms. Ozura Mobile’s games are available all over the world through its distribution network of partners spanning across 130 countries. It is expected that the growth of mobile phones supporting these platforms will exceed one billion units worldwide in 2008.
About Nextnation
Nextnation’ a mobile application service provider’ enables businesses and individuals to access’ connect’ and transact across today’s complex global mobile networks. Its core product MINDCEPâ„¢ Platform is a mobile multimedia communication platform’ facilitating and enabling mobile data transmission worldwide using WAP’ MMS’ SMS and Java technologies. MINDCEPâ„¢ is connected to some of the largest premium messaging networks in the world in order to offer a broad range of services from content distribution to mobile m-commerce and place the company at the forefront of this rapidly growing messaging market. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.nextnationnet.com.
Source- http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/8/prweb427786.htm
Technorati : Japan, Mobile, Ozura
Ice Rocket : Japan, Mobile, Ozura
MiTV Corp to roll out 3G service for mobile subscribers
KUALA LUMPUR: MiTV Corp Sdn Bhd is expected to roll out its third generation (3G) services for mobile subscribers by the first half of next year, said executive director Kenneth Chang. “The 3G platform will be ready by end of this year but we won’t be going to the market immediately. It is a complicated process – we need the service platform and the handsets to be ready,” he told reporters after the signing ceremony between MiTV and Ericsson (M) Sdn Bhd on Monday. He said the company, which was one of the two companies that were awarded the second round of 3G spectrums earlier this year, planned to invest RM1.2bil in the next five years as capital expenditure (capex) for 3G. The capex could be funded via shareholders, bank borrowings and equity, he said.
Source- http://thestar.com.my
Technorati : Ericsson, Malaysia, MiTV, Mobile
Ice Rocket : Ericsson, Malaysia, MiTV, Mobile
Iranian mobile phonemakers to merge
Iran Telecommunications Manufacturing (ITMC) has told the Iranian Labour News Agency that two companies that signed an agreement with the government to produce mobile phones will be merged, Iran Daily reports. The companies, Soroush Resaneh and Nimeh Hadi Emad, will be part of a consortium of domestic firms that will set up a production line by March 2007, said ITMC managing director Mohammad Ebrahim Mottale. The group expects to produce 6 million phones per year. Mottale added that ITMC was in talks with Nokia on the project. He said earlier that talks were in their final stages with Hong Kong Bell, Austria’s Telme and
Malaysia’s Mmobile, only one of which will join the consortium.
Source- http://www.telecom.paper.nl
