Posted by: Bappy on: November 25, 2008
The global smart phone market is expected to grow 35% in 2009, outpacing the entire handset industry’s growth, as handset makers are sprinting to create high-end devices amid an overall slowdown in demand, a market-research firm Strategy Analytics analyst said Monday.
“Smart phones are driving above-average growth in global handset shipments,” Thomas Kang, a senior [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: November 25, 2008
As part of our emerging technology series, this post reviews Femtocells technology, which is expected to join the mainstream in coming years. Femtocells, which improve cell phone coverage, are low-power wireless access points (small devices) that operate in licensed spectrum to connect standard mobile devices to a mobile operator’s network using residential DSL or cable [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: November 24, 2008
Here are the summarised results from the telecenter operator survey done by LIRNEasia at the weCan workshop in October 2008. Sample was not representative, but large enough to get a general idea about the telecenter operations in Sri Lanka.
Out of a total of 147 operators surveyed, the bulk, 101 were from Nenasalas, the 500 odd [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: November 23, 2008
Naguib Sawiris blames Canadian regulators for lack of foreign mobile competitors.
Egypt’s Orascom Telecom Holding, or OTH, said Thursday it was ready for a price war in Canada after agreeing to launch a new mobile operator in the country.
“We don’t want to invoke a price war, but will if its necessary,” Orascom Telecom’s Chairman Naguib [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: November 23, 2008
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has given the BWA services licence to Banglalion Communications Limited (BCL).
BCL Chairman Major (Retd) Abdul Mannan, Bangladesh Finance and Investment Company Limited (BD Finance) Managing Director GM Salehuddin Ahmed and City General Insurance Company Limited Managing Director Md Sujauddin Ahmed received the licence on behalf of the Banglalion at [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: November 23, 2008
The country’s call centres see better future of the business as more banks and financial institutions are seeking their services for cheaper and faster delivery of their products.
“We are getting queries from leading foreign banks and financial institutions to give outsourcing services. This is a good signal for our sector,” Ahmadul Hoq, president of Bangladesh [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: November 20, 2008
Google said today it is partnering with LIFE magazine to make more than 10 million images available online from the magazine’s photo archive.
One of the most interesting things about the project is 97 percent of the photographs have never been seen by the public. The collection contains iconic images from the 20th century with works [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: November 19, 2008
As performance review for the year 2008 is coming nearer, the article may be found useful.
As 2008 comes to a close amid a flurry of dreadful economic news, you may be less than excited at the prospect of your upcoming performance review. But unless your company is one of the few listening to calls [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: November 19, 2008
The country’s second largest mobile phone operator Banglalink posted a 19 percent revenue increase in third quarter compared to the previous quarter, thanks to its lower subsidy given to new connections.
According to the company’s financial report posted on its owning company Orascom Telecom Holding’s website, Banglalink’s revenue increased to $75,875,000 in the three months to [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: November 19, 2008
Orascom Telecom ORTE.CA(ORTEq.L: Quote, Profile, Research), the largest Arab mobile operator by subscribers, said it made net profit of $90.5 million in the third quarter of 2008, 28 percent down on the same period of 2007 as revenues from its Pakistan operation suffered.
The profit figure was below a $102 million forecast from Cairo investment bank [...]
