Articles tagged with: Ufone and China Mobile

Genasys Wins Location Based Services Contract in Pakistan

Genasys says that it has signed an agreement with the firm CellTrack for a LBS project in Pakistan. CellTrack will launch, from the first quarter of 2009, location based services (LBS) in Pakistan. CellTrack has signed agreements with two operators, ufone and Zong, to launch LBS in this country and it is currently into negotiations to extend the services to other operators.  more

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Pakistan Sees Lowest Quarterly Growth Rate for 8 Years

PakistanÃ's quarterly customer growth rate stood at 6.7% in Q2, the lowest level recorded since the first quarter of 2000, when there was a fledgling market of just 0.3m customers. On an annual basis growth fell to 39.4%, down 45.1pp compared to the prior twelve months. The total market stood at 88.05m customers at the end of Q2 with penetration at 51.0%, and one possible explanation for the slowdown is that the market is approaching the natural limit for potential customers at the current price points. Certainly the slowdown is a long-term one, as the graph on the left demonstrates.  more

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Top 20 Operators in Asia-Pac: Bharti overtakes DoCoMo, India Gains Ground

The mobile markets of the Asia Pacific region continues to grow in importance. In Issue 99, we reported the fact that at the end of September, there were 20 networks in the world with more than 30m customers, of which eight were in this region. Those eight included the two largest - China Mobile and China Unicom - as well as the seventh, eighth, tenth, twelfth, 13th and 20th. Just three months later, there are now 23 networks that have passed the 30m mark and nine of these are now in the AsiaPac region, including four from India. Of the nine, four now have over 50m customers, the other two outside China being Bharti from India and DoCoMo from Japan. Together, the nine have a total of 831m customers, or just under 25% of the global market.  more

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