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Articles tagged with: Ofta
Hong Kong Plans Additional Radio Spectrum Auction
Hong Kong's telecoms regulator, the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (ofta) has issued a consultation paper on the proposed auction of the frequency spectrum in the 850 MHz, 900 MHz and 2 GHz bands, and invited expression of interest for the radio spectrum from interested parties. more
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Boost for Mobile Operators as Hong Kong Permits Fixed to Mobile Portability
Hong Kong's Telecommunications Authority has announced that telecommunications operators may provide the Fixed Mobile Number Portability ("FMNP") service on a voluntary basis. more
Related Tags: mobile-number-portability, fixed-mobile-number-portability, Hong Kong
Three Bidders Win Addition Radio Spectrum in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's telecoms regulator has concluded an auction of radio spectrum that started earlier this week - stating that three mobile network operators have successfully bid for a total of 9.6 MHz of radio spectrum in the 1800 MHz frequency band at a total of upfront spectrum utilization fee of HK$46.1 million (US$5.95 million). more
Related Tags: china-mobile, smartone, hong-kong-telecommunications, gsm-license, radio-spectrum, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Names Interested Bidders for 1800Mhz Auction
Following the declaration last month that Hong Kong is to auction off some 1800Mhz spectrum next month, the regulator, ofta has named three companies who have expressed an interest. more
Related Tags: china-mobile, smartone, hong-kong-telecommunications, base-stations, Hong Kong
Hong Kong to Auction Spare 1800Mhz Radio Spectrum
Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority (ofta) has issued invitations to the existing mobile network operators to participate in the auction of radio spectrum in the 1800 MHz band, which is scheduled to be held in June. more
Related Tags: office-of-the-telecommunications-authority, 1800mhz, ict, base-station, compete, radio-spectrum, base-stations, bandwidth, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Mobile Data Users Transfer Average 44Mbytes Per Month
Hong Kong's telecoms regulator, ofta has published for the first time the statistics of local mobile data usage, which sees a surge to 147 Terabytes (i.e. 147,000 Gigabytes) as of January 2009, or an average amount of 44 Mbytes per 2.5G/3G mobile user for that particular month. more
Related Tags: 3g, mobile-data, tim, ovi, mobile-broadband, smart, Hong Kong
Smartone - Customer Growth Improves but Remains Sluggish
Smartone is Hong Kong's smallest mobile network by customer numbers, with 11.0% market share at the end of 2008. Its total customer base reached 1.14m, up from 1.11m at the end of 2007, with proportionate growth of 2.8% in the year. This was double the 1.4% rate recorded in 2007, but it looks set to be well below the growth rate of PCCW Mobile, its closest competitor. In fact, at the end of 2007 Smartone had more customers than PCCW, but the positions were reversed during Q1 08. more
Related Tags: arpu, pccw, smartone, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Awards Three WiMAX Licenses
The auction of BWA (WiMAX) licenses in Hong Kong has been completed - with three winners. Three bidders have successfully bid for a total of 90 MHz of radio spectrum in the 2.5 GHz band at a total of spectrum utilization fee (SUF) of HK$1.5357 billion (US$198 million). more
Related Tags: wimax, china-mobile, radio-spectrum, bwa, Hong Kong
Worldwide Smartphone Sales Reached Its Lowest Growth Rate in Q3 '08
In the third quarter of 2008, the global smartphone market reached its weakest year-on-year growth since Gartner began tracking the industry. Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totalled 36.5 million units in the third quarter of 2008, an 11.5 per cent increase from the same period in 2007. more
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Facebook-Twitter talks break down
Opinion piece by Madan Sheina, principal analyst at Ovum
What would have been the first major consolidation between two social
networking giants has failed to materialise, as FacebookÃ's attempts to woo
Twitter with an all-stock offer fell on deaf ears. FacebookÃ's valuation seems
to have been the sticking point. But with neither company as yet able to
demonstrate that it can make money on a scale that matches its number of users,
the outcome might not be a bad thing.
more
Related Tags: google, microsoft, sms, social-networking, twitter, ovum, yahoo, compete, text-messages, facebook