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Articles tagged with: Pccw
Hong Kong tycoon drops $2 billion bid for PCCW
A Hong Kong tycoon abandoned his controversial $2 billion plan to take over the city's biggest telecom company Thursday after a court blocked the deal, handing regulators and minority shareholders a high-profile victory. more
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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
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Telecoms Charity Sends Aid to Congo
In an effort to support the agencies of the United Nations and non governmental organizations, a team of emergency telecommunications specialists was deployed from Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) headquarters in France to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The team reached the city of Dungu situated near the Sudanese border in the eastern province of this central African country Sunday. more
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Huawei Demos HSPA+ in Hong Kong
Huawei has announced the successful completion of its first live demonstration of a commercially ready HSPA+ (also known as HSPA Evolution) network and device. The trial was conducted in Hong Kong with telecoms operator pccw. HuaweiÃ's E182E HSPA+ mobile broadband solution will be ready for full commercial use in the early part of 2009. more
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Asia-Pacific Continues to be the Strongest Region for CDMA
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) today announced that the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region once again leads the global CDMA ecosystem in terms of subscribers, revenue and service creation. As APAC operators continue to develop and enhance their core 3G CDMA networks, CDMA2000 subscribership in the region remains the largest in the world and operators in the region are seeing some of the highest wireless data revenues in the industry. more
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CDMA2000 Network Launched in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's pccw has launched a CDMA2000 mobile service, notes a statement from the telecoms regulator, OFTA - which is aimed primarily at providing roaming services for visitors to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. more
Related Tags: roaming, w-cdma, cdma, ofta, radio-spectrum, cdma2000, railway, Hong Kong
Telecoms Charity Sends Aid to Pakistani Earthquake Victims
Reacting to the 6.5 earthquake in Pakistan Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) deployed a team of emergency telecommunications specialist on Friday. TSFÃ's team which includes a volunteer of the Asian Institute of Technology took off from its Asian base in Bangkok and landed in the capital Islamabad to be deployed to the affected Province of Balotchistan as soon as possible. more
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Telecoms Charity Sends Aid to Honduras
Following heavy floods provoked by several days of torrential rain in Honduras, UNDAC (the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination) requested Télécoms Sans FrontièresÃ' (TSF) support. A TSF team will take off today from its Americas base in Managua, Nicaragua, a neighboring country situated South of Honduras. more
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Vodafone Wins Landline Operator License in Qatar
The telecoms regulator in the Middle-East country of Qatar has awarded a landline operators license to a group made up of Vodafone and the Qatar Foundation Consortium. This decision breaks the monopoly on landline services currently held by Qatar Telecom (Qtel). more
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Chunghwa Telecom President: No Plan to Buy Stake in PCCW's HKT
TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's largest phone company by revenue, has no immediate plan to buy a stake in pccw's HKT Group Holdings, Chunghwa President Shaio-Tung Chang said Monday. more
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