China Mobile Planning Final $6.7 Billion Push to Launch 4G in 344 Cities This...
Despite a lack of regulatory approval yet, the world’s biggest mobile telco by user-base, China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941) is said to be ready to make a massive final push to get the infrastructure in...
View ArticleChina Now Has Over 300 Million 3G Subscribers
All three of China’s mobile telcos have just released their May figures, which includes those of 3G subscribers. I notice that the huge market has hit another significant milestone – it has now...
View ArticleTelenor Will Invest Over $1 Billion in Pakistan 3G
Norwegian telecom group Telenor will invest $1.7 billion in Pakistan after acquiring a 3G spectrum, reports Propakistani. The massive investment, announced by Telenor CEO Jon Fredrik Baksaas at a...
View ArticleConfirmed: Norway’s Telenor and Qatar’s Ooredoo Win Bid to Build Myanmar’s...
Newly opened-up Myanmar has this afternoon confirmed the winners of the multi-billion dollar bid to build the country’s next-generation mobile network. According to the Myanmar government’s evaluation...
View Article3G Service Coming to Myanmar Next Year
Following in the news that it was chosen as one of two companies to build Mynamar’s new mobile network, Norwegian telecom Telenor has announced that it will be rolling out 3G service in the country,...
View ArticleIndia Gives Nod to 100% Foreign Ownership of Mobile Telcos
This sounds like good news for SingTel (SGX:Z74), Maxis (6012.KL) and other mobile telco companies that currently have partial stakes in the industry in India. This week, the country’s Telecom...
View Article2G Nearing Death As Taiwan Continues Rapid 3G Growth
As 3G grows and 4G prepares to take Asia by storm, 2G subscriptions are dropping almost everywhere. In Taiwan, the nation’s National Communications Commission (NCC) has announced that 2G subscribers...
View ArticleVisitMM Is Myanmar’s Only Travel Site With Online Booking
VisitMM is blazing trails for travel booking in Myanmar, where traveling is still in the midst of taking off, big time.
View ArticleDespite China’s Smartphone Boom, People Still Use Very Little Mobile Data...
China has over 300 million people on 3G, and China’s smartphone boom is still young and frisky. So how much mobile data are all those touchscreen tappers burning through? It turns out, very little. In...
View ArticleChina Mobile sets record for 4G expansion in China
China Mobile (NYSE:CHL) could have the world’s largest single 4G network by the end of this year. According to the latest earnings report, annual investment in 4G infrastructure is expected to reach...
View ArticleChina Mobile losing its edge, hopes to regain it with 4G
Over a year ago, we predicted China Unicom could overtake China Mobile in 3G users, and now that prediction is closer than ever to coming true. China’s leading telco China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941)...
View ArticleDoes North Korea really have a budding tech scene? [INTERVIEW]
Although North Korea has recently had an explosive growth of 3G subscribers and a homemade Android tablet, most people are probably not thinking about North Korea’s tech scene. Our friend John Yohan...
View ArticleReliance Jio becomes first pan-India telco with unified license
Reliance Jio, a subsidiary of India’s biggest industrial group Reliance Industries today becomes the first telco in the country that can operate and provide services in all 22 telecom circles, or...
View ArticleEric Schmidt talks Google and politics
This morning, we reported about Google chairman Erich Schmidt’s interview with the local Thai TV station Voice TV, during which he answered questions submitted by local students. This afternoon, at the...
View ArticleAll the facts and figures on China’s smartphone users in 2013 (INFOGRAPHIC)
China looks set to snap up over 350 million new smartphones this year. So what brands are Chinese people buying? How much do they spend on 3G? Who are these people exactly? What OSes do they prefer?...
View ArticleIndia’s s-s-s-stalling 3G networks are f-f-f-fr-frustrating
In the past two years or so most telcos in India have rolled out 3G networks in varying proportions across the country. Mostly, 3G is available only in metro or urban areas like Mumbai, Delhi,...
View ArticleDid Twitter just get blocked in Vietnam?
Twitter is showing hints of being blocked in Vietnam, and most people are just going to ignore it. There are barely any users there anyway.
View ArticleInterested in the Thai mobile market? How well do you know it?
Thailand has 90 million mobile subscriptions among its 66 million people. The smartphone penetration rate is 36 percent, up 17 percent from last year. With the ongoing discussions surrounding the...
View ArticleOne-quarter of Thai mobile subscribers on 3G, while 4G inches closer to reality
Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) revealed that there are over 20.5 million mobile numbers that have been ported from 2G to 3G (2.1GHz) to date. That accounts...
View ArticleApple’s deal with China Mobile now official, iPhones coming to 4G and 3G in...
After years of waiting, China Mobile is finally getting the iPhone. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has just announced that the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c will be available for the network on January 17 next year,...
View ArticleChina Mobile CEO: 1.2 million iPhone pre-orders already taken ahead of launch
Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) long awaited deal with China Mobile finally became a reality just before Christmas, and so the world’s biggest telco is busy taking pre-orders for the iPhone 5s and 5c ahead of...
View ArticleTim Cook appears in Beijing store for today’s iPhone launch on China Mobile
Today is the day that Apple-hungry China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941) subscribers have been waiting for – the official launch of the iPhone on the world’s largest mobile operator. To celebrate the...
View ArticleChina ends 2013 with a total of 417 million 3G subscribers
All three of China’s telcos have now revealed their user numbers for December, so we finally have a clear picture of how many people were subscribed and how many paid for 3G at the end of 2013. China’s...
View ArticleThailand to get 4G from another telco, Dtac, by June
At the end of last year, Thailand only had 4G available from one provider – True Move H. But the country just got great news as another one of the nation’s three leading telcos revealed its plan to...
View ArticleAs Pakistan prepares 3G and 4G roll-out, country expects up to 45 million...
Pakistan will soon be holding its spectrum auction for 3G and 4G networks - and some telcos are ready to offer high-speed mobile internet in the next few weeks.
View ArticleHow deliberately crippling its 4G rollout will help China bust a global...
Hundreds of millions of people in China still have no 4G thanks to blatant protectionism. This is why the rest of the world should care.
View ArticleChina now has 486.5 million 3G subscribers, but only 14 million on new 4G...
China now has close to half a billion 3G subscribers, according to the newest data from the country’s three telcos.
View ArticleStartup aims at Myanmar’s youngest of early adopters with educational iPad app
Phew is designed to help kids learn how to write the mellifluously flowing characters of the Burmese language.
View ArticleNorth Korea’s phone boom seems to slow as 3G subscriber numbers slump
North Korea's phone surge has turned into a slump. KoryoLink’s 3G subs plodded from 2 million to just 2.4 million from 2013 to this year.
View ArticleAs mobile usage grows, China’s traffic jams aren’t just a problem for car...
If you live in a major Chinese city, the image above probably looks pretty familiar. Traffic congestion is just a fact of life in cities like Beijing, where the city’s five-million-plus car owners...
View ArticleEveryone in China loves their smartphones, but people are using surprisingly...
China has about 520 million active smartphone users right now. Unlike in most of Asia’s developing nations, China’s smartphone market is mature and close to its saturation point. Despite all this...
View ArticleChina has nearly 1.3 billion mobile users, and 4G is growing fast
Everybody in China has a mobile phone these days: that’s an exaggeration, but not as much of one as you might think. According to the latest numbers from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information...
View ArticleChina has almost 1.3 billion mobile users, and half of them are on 3G or 4G
The past year has seen massive growth for mobile broadband – 3G and 4G subscriptions – in China, according to new data released by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The country...
View ArticleSingapore, South Korea are global leaders in 4G speeds and coverage
A handful of Asian countries are showing the world where it’s at when it comes to mobile internet. Check to see how your country is doing.
View ArticleChina has made an incredibly quick switch from 3G to 4G
When you're at "peak smartphone," everyone is keen to get faster mobile internet.
View ArticleContent is now king for Alibaba’s UCWeb in India
As internet reach and speeds get better, intent for content is clear among digital players, as is for the largest mobile web browser.
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