Articles tagged with: Asia Pacific

Indonesia Overtakes Japan to Take Third Place in Asia Subscriber Rankings

The Asia Pacific region contains five of the world's ten largest mobile markets - China and India, which are the number one and two respectively and Indonesia, Japan and Pakistan, the sixth, eighth and tenth largest. These five occupy the top five places in the regional list, which is completed through the addition of the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, South Korea and Bangladesh. more

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Just Under 3 Billion SIM Cards Shipped in 2008

SIMalliance, the global association of SIM card manufacturers has reported that global SIM card shipments exceeded 2.9 billion units during 2008, with strong demand from the emerging markets of India, China, Asia Pacific and Latin America contributing to a 29 per cent increase on shipments over the previous year. more

Handset Shipments Expected to Drop 20% in 2009

Although cellphone shipments and subscription numbers have held up relatively well during the global recession thus far, the outlook is more tumultuous for the mobile industry, reports In-Stat. Both handset sales and subscriptions will take a hit, but In-Stat expects that subscriptions will weather the financial crisis better than handset shipments. more

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Contactless Smart Card Market Expected to Weather the Storm Caused by Economic Uncertainties

With Asia Pacific being a highly diverse geographic region with dissimilar market conditions, participants in the contactless smart card market should be prepared for varied reactions to the economic downturn. While countries that have not yet achieved mass deployment of contactless smart cards could experience further delays, more advanced countries such as Japan and South Korea that possess strong contactless infrastructure and high penetration rates are unlikely to slow down drastically. more

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Evolving Landscape of Mobile Broadband in Asia

Asia's mobile subscriber total is expected to surpass 2 billion subscribers by 2012 when 63 percent of the regions' residents are expected to own a mobile phone. However, the fact remains that in 2008 only 8 percent of the region's subscriber base was using 3G and launches in several Asian markets have left much to be desired in terms of subscriber and revenue uptake. more

80% of Healthcare IT Executives Placing Increased Reliance on Mobility

More than 80 percent of global IT decision makers within the healthcare industry stated that mobile technologies are more important to their organizations today than they were in 2008, according to a recent research study commissioned by Motorola. Respondents cited key benefits such as increased order fulfillment accuracy, reduced manual errors and increased employee productivity due to the utilization of mobile technologies within various clinical settings. more

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EU Moves Closer to Approving 3G at 900Mhz

The decision by the European Parliament to accept the amendment of the GSM Directive to allow UMTS (WCDMA-HSPA) technology to be deployed in the 900 MHz band has been welcomed by the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). more

Redknee Solutions Wins Gabon Billing Contract

Redknee Solutions has announced that Bintel, a Bahrain holding firm which is rolling out services in Gabon, will deploy its Turnkey Converged Billing and Mobile Money solutions. more

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Mobile broadband to be worth $137 billion by 2014

Users of mobile broadband services (3G and 3G+ technologies) will grow from 181 million in 2008 to over 2 billion in 2014, growth of 1024%, according to Ovum's latest research. more

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Sony Ericsson Enters the South Korean Market

Sony Ericsson is to enter the South Korean market for the first time - as it prepares to offer its Windows Mobile based Xperia X1 smartphone on SK Telecom's mobile network. Although the government has dropped the requirement that all handsets sold in the country use the proprietary WIPI platform - Sony Ericsson has chosen to retain that for its first product launch. more