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Asia-Pacific

Survey: How to win and keep customers

Regional Trends - Asia-Pacific

Sunday, 05 February 2006 16:13

Two of the world's developing telecoms markets, Thailand and Brazil feature in Nokia's new survey of almost 4,000 customers in five markets (Germany, the UK, and the US are the other three). The research was aimed at one of the biggest problems facing operators worldwide - customer turnover, or churn as it is more commonly known...

Eight-billion barrier broken by Huawei

Regional Trends - Asia-Pacific

Monday, 30 January 2006 20:45

ImageHuawei Technologies' global contract sales for 2005 reached US$8.2 billion, a year-on-year growth rate of 40%. The increase is a result of continued market growth in the product areas of wireless mobile network, next generation network, optical networks, data communications, application and software and terminals...

North Korea to allow mobiles?

Regional Trends - Asia-Pacific

Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:21

Although GSM-based mobile phones have been accepted in North Korea for ten years in the Rajin-Sonbong economic area, North Korea has had a totally hostile attitude towards mobile technology...

Two Koreas get phone link

Regional Trends - Asia-Pacific

Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:06

North and South Korea' s first-ever telephone link, connecting the South with the North's Kaesong Industrial Complex, has led to South Korea lobbying for a massive expansion of the service...

China to invest 25% of IPTV

Regional Trends - Asia-Pacific

Monday, 09 January 2006 01:00

Siemens has predicted that in four years time global investment in Internet Protocol television (IPTV) could touch US$1 billion. Prime mover will be China which will account for 25% of world spend...

China cell phone market increases to 377M users

Regional Trends - Asia-Pacific

Monday, 31 October 2005 17:50

Cell phone ownership figures for China grow and grow. As of 30 September China boasted 377 million mobile phone subscribers, or a teledensity of 29%...

AT&T looks to 20% Growth in China, but India a Bigger Market

Regional Trends - Asia-Pacific

Monday, 17 October 2005 16:30

China's phenomenal growth in telecoms has long been praised but some of the early promise expected by investors in the 1990s does not seem to have materialised...

Burmese mobile users allowed to SMS

Regional Trends - Asia-Pacific

Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:47

Burma's (Myanmar's) few mobile phone users are to be permitted use of SMS services for the very first time.

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