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Fixed phones droop in China, while mobiles galore

by
Chanuka Wattegama
on November 20, 2007
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China Mobile Ltd., the world’s biggest wireless-phone carrier by number of users, added record subscribers in October as China Telecom Corp., the nation’s largest fixed- line carrier, lost customers for the third straight month.

About 6.6 million people signed up for China Mobile’s services last month, compared with its previous high of 6.1 million in September, the Beijing-based company said. China Telecom’s total phone subscribers fell by 880,000, it said in a statement today.

China will accelerate the process of granting licenses for providing third-generation mobile-phone services to fixed-line operators to help them compete in the nation’s telecommunications market, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Nov. 19, citing Xi Guohua, a vice minister at the Beijing-based Ministry of Information Industry.

Read the full story in ‘Bloomberg’

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Broadband at the Bottom of Pyramid

by
Chanuka Wattegama
on November 7, 2007
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Not everyone is convinced that Indian telecom market is developing fast. “In Beijing I see everybody having a mobile in hand, male or female, old or young and rich or poor..”. says one Chinese participant at WWRF, “…I do not see Indians using mobiles like that” (He is surprised to learn in South Asia not every user owns a mobile phone!)

What else do we know about the Indian telecom users? How far broadband penetrated the Indian markets? What are the future opportunities? R. Balaji of Midas communication perhaps answers some of these questions in his presentation titled Scenario Description and Business Opportunity Analysis – The Indian Broadband Scenario. He also explains some of Midas communications own initiatives to open broadband to the bottom of the pyramid.

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Innovating for Asia’s BOP

by
Ayesha Zainudeen
on October 12, 2007
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Can dinosaurs dance?
Oct 11th 2007 | From The Economist print edition

Responding to the Asian challenge

ARE consumers in India and China too poor to afford high-quality Western goods? That used to be the old idea of doing business in these countries as firms offered watered-down versions of their products at reduced prices. Mr van Houten, of chipmaker NXP, says Indian and Chinese consumers are forcing multinationals to design sophisticated products that more closely meet their needs, and this is making firms operating in Asia better innovators.

By recruiting ingenious local engineers and designers in places like Bangalore and Beijing, and paying close attention to trends and practices in the market, firms are coming up with products and services that can be sold in other parts of the…

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India remains outsourcing favourite, says survey

by
Chanuka Wattegama
on October 1, 2007
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BANGALORE, India (AFP) — India remains the favoured technology outsourcing destination, an industry report said Sunday, amid concerns a rising rupee and soaring wages would blunt the country’s competitive edge.

A study by industry publication Global Services and investment advisory firm Tholons put the Indian cities of Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune at the top of a list of 15 emerging outsourcing destinations for global companies.

Kolkata at number five and Chandigarh at number nine were the other two Indian locations on the list, which contained three Chinese and two Vietnamese cities as well.

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The Dragon is on the move

by
Abu Saeed Khan
on May 23, 2007
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Mobile phone production in China is expected to rise by nearly 17% during 2007 - to reach 560 million units, according to information released by China’s Ministry of Information Industry.

In 2006, handsets produced in China totaled 480 million units, accounting for a 47% share of global production. During Q1 of this year, handset production had totaled 134 million units - a rise of 34.5% on the same quarter the previous year.

The report states that the primary production areas in China are Tianjin, Beijing and Shenzhen - each capable of producing over 100 million handsets per annum each. Production of network infrastructure is also reported to have jumped by over 16% in the quarter.

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