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  • Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).

    MALAYSIA, 2013/01/16 Eight firms have been awarded 4G spectrum to offer LTE services in Malaysia by the country’s regulator, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). Celcom Axiata, DiGi Telecommunications, Maxis Broadband, Packet One Networks, Puncak Semangat, REDtone Marketing, U Mobile and YTL Communications won their bids for an allocation in the 2.6GHz frequency. Maxis is the market leader with 12.8 million subscribers, while Celcom holds second place with 12.4 million.

  • Telenor to limit funding for Indian operations

    INDIA, 2013/01/16 Scandinavian operator Telenor has scaled back its Indian unit, stating that it intends to spend no additional than INR155 billion (US$2.85 billion), with the goal of recouping this amount by the end of Q4 2013. The operator’s CEO Jon Fredrik Baksaas said: “The decision by India’s Supreme Court in February to revoke amount our licenses took the entire industry by surprise and we were faced with an intense period of uncertainty for the next 10 months.” Next taking the decision to acquire new licences in the recent spectrum auctions, Telenor has presently established its “strategic direction and financial objectives” for the Indian market.

  • DHL World Connectedness Index (GCI),

    EUROPE, 2013/01/08 DHL has released the second edition of the DHL World Connectedness Index (GCI), a comprehensive analysis of the national of globalisation around the world, which has revealed the UAE to be the majority connected country in the Arab World and the only one in the region to make the top 25.

  • Infrastructure evolution set to test tower space

    EUROPE, 2013/01/06 We have come to expect technology advances that result in consumer electronics equipment getting smaller, additional powerful and in most cases cheaper. This process can be seen in the hands and pockets of most consumers where that smartphone or tablet device houses additional processing power and came at a cheaper price than desktop computers of a decade ago.

  • Competition in East Timor’s telecoms sector

    EAST TIMOR, 2013/01/06 Timor-Leste (East Timor) is preparing to liberalise its telecommunications market in the prime quarter of 2013, which is expected to drive prices down and expand the country’s telecommunications infrastructure. East Timor, which since 2002 has had a single telecoms operator, Timor Telecom, has comparatively high telecommunications and Internet costs and limited coverage for most of the people. These factors, which are considered to be an obstacle to economic increase, are due to be changed in the prime few months of the year. According to estimates from the World Bank, which is supporting the liberalisation process, opening up the market to new C will expand coverage of the people to 90 %.

  • China on Friday penalised Samsung and LG,

    CHINA, 2013/01/06 China on Friday penalised Samsung and LG, along with firms from Taiwan for manipulating the prices of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels in the Chinese mainland. Samsung and LG leading LCD panel makers of the Republic of Korea, inclunding Chi Mei Optoelectronics, AU Optronics, Chunghwa Picture Tubes and HannStar Display from Taiwan have been fined a total of 353 million yuan ($56 million) for price-rigging between 2001 and 2006, the National Development and Reform Commission(NDRC), the price regulator said.

  • Viettel offshore operations yield first profit

    VIETNAM, 2012/12/23 Vietnam’s military-run telecom firm Viettel has reported the first profit made in foreign markets, which proves its overseas investment strategy is on the right track. According to Le Dang Dung, deputy general director of Viettel, the company’s operations in Cambodia have been successful over the past three years. Viettel has so far invested $40 million into Cambodia but it remitted home $35 million in profit generated from Cambodia business operations last year.

  • Battle among China's social networks heats up

    CHINA, 2012/12/22 China’s twitter-like data sharing and social contact platform, Weibo has seen a surge in popularity. But now it is facing a competitor. The battle part China’s social networks is heating up.It turns out that when it comes to instant messaging through social platforms, people are choosing WeChat over Weibo.

  • Digitized e-service becomes blessings for commoners

    BANGLADESH, 2012/12/20 Speakers including ICT experts at a seminar on Sunday said the expanding digitized e-service facilities at the grassroots has already become blessings for the common people that substantially eased the civic life. They were addressing the daylong seminar styled 'E-service activities, management of computer laboratories in educational institutions and launching digitised signature' in the conference room of the deputy commissioner of Panchagarh.

  • 2012 Cybercrime Prevention Act October 31st, 2012 2012-11-05

    PHILIPPINES, 2012/11/05 With the signing of the new Cybercrime Prevention Act (CPA) into law on 20 September 2012, Philippine president Benigno ‘Noynoy’ S. Aquino III found himself sucked into a cyber-storm of discontent.  
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