Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: October 30, 2008
The smartphone landscape is changing rapidly with the arrival of the T-Mobile G1, the first phone based on Google’s Android software, and the huge success of Apple’s iPhone business. And if both of these take big slices of the smartphone market, that leaves less for everybody else – unless they can find a way to [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: October 30, 2008
60% stake in telecoms start-up sees Telenor become the latest foreign company to enter India’s mobile market. Norway’s Telenor ASA said Wednesday it will spend more than INR61.20 billion ($1.2 billion) to buy up to a 60% stake in a startup telecommunications unit of India’s Unitech Ltd., becoming the latest foreign company enter the world’s [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: October 28, 2008
India could be a promising market for e-commerce, with its massive population and history of technology adoption, but so far progress has been slow. The slow growth of e-commerce in India stands in contrast to the booming market for mobile connectivity. Internet and broadband penetration is growing, yet the explosive growth that is possible in [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: October 28, 2008
Mobile operator stresses importance of brand value in monetising social networking. Vodafone on Wednesday proclaimed online social network Facebook to be “bigger than porn.” “At Vodafone we have 269 million customers in 25 countries, plus we have partner markets which gives us presence in a further 40 countries,” said Sacha Tuéni, group marketing manager for [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: October 28, 2008
Mobile is set to play a bigger role in social networking as operators look to build on fixed-line services. Mobile phones are a logical platform for online social networking services: both have become popular with consumers as tools for communications and multimedia sharing. But there is still no common consensus over whether to incorporate features [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: October 28, 2008
WAP services haven’t received the same kind of coverage as Apple’s iPhone and other browsing platforms recently. But WAP proponents say it is gaining momentum. It took almost nine years to resolve WAP’s usability issues and shortcomings. Then along came the iPhone and Web browser-based companies such as Opera and Access to deliver a Web-based [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: October 28, 2008
Arpu expected to continue decline as operators expand into low income rural areas in bid to win more users. Indian telecommunications service providers are likely to post strong revenue growth in the fiscal second quarter, getting a boost from robust subscriber additions. But higher costs and a weak rupee may weigh down net profit growth. [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: October 28, 2008
Malaysian cellco DiGi has reported that its third-quarter net profit fell by 1% year-on-year to MYR269.9 million (USD74.9 million) on higher advertising spending. During the three months ending 30 September 2008, the country’s third largest mobile operator said that revenues rose nearly 10% y-o-y to MYR1.22 billion, while the EBITDA margin fell to 45.6%, against [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: October 27, 2008
This article, in a slightly revised version, was published by Orascom’s TALK Magazine, Fall 2008. There has been much talk of late about mobile financial services as a way to lift millions of people worldwide out of poverty. A recent article in The Guardian called mobile banking in developing countries “potentially revolutionary.” The advent of [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: October 27, 2008
Urban teledensity in the country increased to about 30 per cent in August 2008, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology A. Raja said here on Thursday. The teledensity – the number of telephones per 100 persons in an area – was less than 1 per cent in 1986-87, he said at the inauguration ceremony [...]
