Telecompaper Africa/Asia articles from January 2007

Telecompaper Africa/Asia archives from January 2007

Algeria - ZTE opens training academy at Algerian university.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Chinese telecommunication equipment maker ZTE has opened its first training academy in a Francophone country at Algeria's national school for post and telecommunications (ENPT). The facility will focus on...

Asia - PacNet launches enterprise-grade IP phone service.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) ISP Pacific Internet (PacNet) has launched the PacNet Vocal IP telephony service, targeted at SMEs in the Asia-Pacific. This marks its entry into the voice carrier markets. The enterprise-grade VoIP service...

Australia - Microsoft, Sanity in online music alliance in Australia.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Microsoft has chosen music retailer Sanity as its partner to compete in online music with Apple's iTunes in Australia, reports The Australian. Under the partnership, access to Sanity's online music will be...

Australia - Amdocs wins deal to upgrade IT at Sensis in Australia.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Telstra has reached a five-year agreement with US-based Amdocs to invest AUD 100 million in a major technology upgrade for its Sensis directories unit, reports The Australian. Sensis has a project under way...

Australia (continent) - Telecom NZ to acquire PowerTel for USD 357 mln.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Telecom New Zealand has agreed to acquire the Australian network operator PowerTel for AUD 357 million, including debt. Telecom NZ will pay AUD 2.30 per share for PowerTel, a premium of 31.2 percent on its...

Bangladesh - SingTel, ADNSL in IP VPN service alliance.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) has joined forces with Bangladeshi satellite and wireless solutions provider Advance Data Networks System (ADNSL) to launch the first international IP VPN network in...

China - Chinese operators end fees on incoming calls in Guangdong.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Chinese mobile operators have stopped charging mobile users for incoming calls in the province of Guangdong, reports China Daily. The caller-pays system is already in place in many other parts of China....

China - Along Mobile to supply mobile game for Motorola Motorizr Z6.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Along Mobile Technologies, China-based provider of mobile interactive entertainment products and services, will provide one of its mobile phone games to be embedded into Motorola's Motorizr Z6 mobile...

Cote d'Ivoire - Cote d'Ivoire plans 3G licencing.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) The telecoms regulator of Cote d'Ivoire, the ATCI, aims to introduce 3G licences this year. Director general of the ATCI, Sylvanus Kla, made the announcement in an annual address, reports local paper...

India - Sony Ericsson to make GSM phones in India.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications will start making mobile phones in Chennai, India, through manufacturing agreements with global outsourcing partners Flextronics and Foxconn. The initial focus will be...

India - Reliance shareholders approve mobile towers spin-off.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Shareholders of Indian operator Reliance Communications have approved the spin-off of the company's mobile towers infrastructure. The new entity will be known as Reliance Telecom Infrastructure Limited...

India - Reliance, Lenovo, Intel set up internet outlets in India.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Reliance, Lenovo and Intel have teamed up to launch 200 Reliance Netconnect 'Experience Zones' in a hundred cities across India. As part of the 'internet on the move' initiative, Intel-powered Lenovo 3000...

India - LifeStyle selects Strix for Indian wireless mesh network.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) India's LifeStyle Networks has selected the carrier-class Access/One Network Outdoor Wireless System (OWS) from Strix Networks to deploy India's first city-wide wireless mesh network. LifeStyle has...

India - VSNL posts Q3 revenue of INR 11.15 billion.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Indian international telecommunications company Videsh Sanchar Nigam (VSNL) has reported unaudited total revenue of INR 11.15 billion for its third quarter ending to 31 December 2006, up 4 percent from INR...

Israel - Metalink sees Q4 revenue fall to USD 3.62 mln.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Metalink, Israel-based provider and developer of mobile and wireline broadband communication silicon solutions, had USD 3.62 million revenue in Q4 2006, down from USD 4.45 million in the year-earlier...

Japan - NTT DoCoMo announces flat-rate mobile datacomm plans.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) NTT DoCoMo and its eight regional subsidiaries will offer two new flat-rate data communications billing plans. From 1 March, the "Pake-hodai full" plan will allow FOMA i-mode customers with full-browser...

Japan - NTT DoCoMo sales up 0.4%, profits fall.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo reported revenues for the first nine months of its fiscal year to March up 0.4 percent from a year earlier to JPY 3.587 trillion. Average revenue per cellular user fell 3...

Malaysia - Maxis targets WiMAX roll-out within 6 months of licencing.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Malaysian mobile operator Mxis plans to roll-out a WiMAX within six months if it wins a licence in the tender later this year. Its senior general manager for products and businesses, Nikolai Dobberstein,...

Malaysia - Digi extends Friends and Family offer.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Malaysian mobile operator Digi has extended its offer for reduced rates for calls to a select group of friends and family. Prepaid users will get calls to eight numbers for MYR 0.15 per minute, compared...

Malaysia - Malaysia eyes doubling in internet users within five years.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) The number of the internet subscribers in Malaysia is expected to hit the 10 million mark in the next five years, according to Fadhlullah Suhaimi Abdul Malek, general manager for strategic development at...

Middle East - Sitronics to merge Intracom, Strom Telecom in Middle East.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) ICT systems supplier Sitronics plans to merge its subsidiaries Strom Telecom and Intracom Telecom in the Middle East. That follows its recent acquisition of a controlling stake in Intracom Telecom. Strom...

Morocco - Maroc Telecom to hand over .ma TLD management at end-2007.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) The Moroccan council of ministers has approved a bill giving telecommunication regulator ANRT the task of administrating the .ma top level domain names (TLDs) in 2008, ahead of the bill's final adoption....

Nigeria - Nigeria reaches 34 mln phone lines.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Nigeria has reached a total of 34 million phone lines, made up of 32.266 million mobile users and 1.671 million fixed lines, according to figures from the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) reported in...

Saudi Arabia - Saudi regulator gives details on new licences obligations.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) The Saudi Arabian regulator CITC has released further details on obligations for the new fixed and mobile licensees. The winner of the fixed licence will be expected to sell 25 percent of the company in a...

South Africa - Birdstep wins WirelessG contract in South Africa.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Birdstep Technology has signed a long-term contract with WirelessG covering South Africa. The contract includes platform licences, a complete range of development tools, software training and maintenance....

South Africa - Cell C renews agreement with BSG.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) South African mobile operator Cell C has renewed its multi-year agreement with clearing and settlement provider BSG Clearing Solutions. They will provide international roaming data clearing services to...

Taiwan - Hon Hai wins Chunghwa Telecom STB contract - report.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Hon Hai Precision Industries has submitted the highest bid in a competitive tender to supply 40,000 set-top boxes (STBs) to Taiwanese phone company Chunghwa Telecom, reports the China Economic News service...

Taiwan - Far EasTone makes TWD 67.23 billion revenue in 2006.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Taiwan mobile operator Far EasTone Telecommunications reported a TWD 67.23 billion consolidated revenue in 2006. It's pre-tax profit was TWD 16.13 billion and its operating profit TWD 16.62 billion. For...

Thailand - Huawei plans R&D centre in Thailand.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Chinese equipment maker Huawei is planning to set up a research and development centre in Thailand this year to support customers in southeast Asia. Zou Yongqian, managing director of Huawei Technologies...

Thailand - TOT ordered to connect True customers.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Thai mobile operator True Move has won a court injunction ordering rival TOT to allow True's new 1.5 million customers to connect to its fixed network. TOT had been refusing to connect the customers due to...

Viet Nam - Vietnam prepares to issue wireless broadband licences.
January 31, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) The Vietnamese government will issue wireless broadband licences on a first-come, first-served basis using specific grading criteria, reports VietnamNet Bridge citing Le Nam Thang, Deputy Telecommunications...

Africa - African broadband users to top 7 mln by 2011.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) The number of broadband users in Africa is expected to reach over 7 million by 2011, according to a report by market researcher BMI-TechKnowledge, reported in South Africa's Mail and Guardian. DSL...

Africa - Vodacom grows customer base 9.5% in Q4.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) African mobile operator Vodacom increased its customer base 9.5 percent in the fourth quarter to a total 28.2 million subscribers. The company added 4.5 million new customers in the period. Operations...

Australia - Optus to invest AUD 800 million in 3G network.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Australian mobile operator Optus plans to invest AUD 800 million in the expansion of its 3G network to rural areas. The network is expected to cover 96 percent of the country's population, in line with its...

Australia - Macquarie Telecom names managing director of hosting unit.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Macquarie Telecom has appointed Aidan Tudehope as managing director, hosting. Tudehope is co-founder and director of Macquarie Telecom, and was previously COO, where he played a part in the strategy and...

Australia - NSW govt accelerates free wireless broadband plans.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) THE NSW government in Australia is accelerating plans to supply free wireless access in business centres throughout the NSW state, reports The Australian. The NSW government has started talks with industry...

Azerbaijan - Asia Telecom lays large part of Azerbaijan fibre-optic cable.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Asia Telecom has announced an update on one of its projects in Azerbaijan. The internet service provider (ISP) division of Asia Telecom started up operations in June 2005. In Q4 2006, the division began the...

China - DoCoMo targets Chinese corporate mobile market.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Japanese mobile network operator NTT DoCoMo has joined forces with Chinese enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider Ufida Software to target the corporate mobile solutions markets in China. They...

China - Analog Devices, Legend Silicon set up design lab in Shanghai.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Semiconductor company Analog Devices and silicon products supplier Legend Silicon have opened a joint design laboratory in Shanghai. The design laboratory will develop reference designs for China's mobile...

China - Ozura Mobile, ChinaByte set up Mostar mobile gaming portal.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Ozura Mobile, international publisher and developer of mobile entertainment, has formed a partnership with ChinaByte to create an exclusive China-based mobile gaming community portal called Mostar. Mostar...

China - China Voice wins further contracts from Chinese govt.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) China Voice Holding has secured additional contracts to provide its integrated internet telephony and patented groupware and office automation products to Chinese government agencies. The contracts also...

Hong Kong - Hong Kong seeks comments on mobile TV, DTT.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) The Hong Kong Communications and Technology Branch Commerce, Industry and Technology Bureau (CITB) published a 35-page consultation on digital broadcasting, mobile TV and related issues on 26 January. The...

Hong Kong - Hong Kong regulator outlines priorities for 2007.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) The Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) in Hong Kong has identified the completion of a series of regulatory reviews as its priority tasks for 2007. These reviews are aimed at facilitating...

India - Subex Azure posts Q3 revenue of INR 1.06 billion.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) India's Subex Azure, provider of revenue maximisation solutions for telecommunications operators, has reported net consolidated revenue of INR 1.06 billion for its FY third quarter to 31 December 2006, up...

Indonesia - Indonesian mobile content market to grow 15% in 2007.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) The mobile content market in Indonesia will see revenue grow by 15 percent in 2007 from around IDR 200 billion in 2006, reports the Jakarta Post citing Iqbal Farabi, IT division head from the Young...

Israel - ECtel repays USD 2.8 mln grants to Israeli govt.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Integrated revenue management (IRM) systems provider ECtel has reached an agreement with the Office of the Chief Scientist in Israel to conclude its outstanding balance to the Ministry of Trade & Industry,...

Japan - J:COM posts FY net profit up 27 percent.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Japanese cable operator J:COM has reported net profit for 2006 up 27 percent to JPY 24.5 billion. Revenues increased 21 percent to JPY 221.9 billion, and operating profit rose 29 percent to JPY 31.6...

Japan - Softbank sales up on Vodafone Japan takeover.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Japanese operator Softbank reported sales for the first nine months of its fiscal year to March 2007 of JPY 1.82 trillion. That compares to JPY 810.3 billion in the nine months to December 2005. The figures...

Jordan - Fastlink to invest JOD 32 million in 2007.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Jordanian mobile operator Fastlink plans to invest JOD 32 million in developing its network and services this year. With the additional spending, total investments since 2003 will reach JOD 181 million. The...

Kenya - Vtel loses Kenya licence award.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Kenya's Communications Commission has cancelled the award of the second national operator licence to Vtel for failure to meet the tender requirements. The Vtel consortium had failed to submit the formal...

Middle East - WeDo opens Cairo office.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Soneacom's consulting unit WeDo has opened an office in Cairo in line with its international strategy of supporting WeDo activities in the Middle Eastern and African region. The WeDo office is located in...

Mozambique - Vodacom Mozambique gains 166,000 customers in Q4.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Mobile operator Vodacom Mozambique saw its customer base rise to 856,000 at the end of 2006 from 694,000 three months earlier. Average revenue per user improved to ZAR 29 from ZAR 27 in the third quarter,...

Nigeria - Celtel to invest USD 1.4 billion in Nigeria.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Mobile operator Celtel has announced plans to invest USD 1.4 billion in its Nigerian operations this year. Sa'ad Al-Barrak, CEO of Celtel's parent company Kuwait-based MTC, made the announcement at a press...

South Africa - Vodacom grows South African customer base, ARPU.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Mobile operator Vodacom reported 21.8 million customers in its home market of South Africa at the end of 2006, up 7.8 percent from three months earlier. The number of postpaid users grew 6.7 percent in the...

Taiwan - Chunghwa Telecom names Joseph CP Shieh as CFO.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan-based telecommunications service provider, has appointed Dr Joseph CP Shieh as CFO and senior VP. Shieh was the executive VP and spokesperson of Mega Financial Holding. Shieh also...

Tanzania - Vodacom Tanzania nears 3 million subscribers.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Mobile operator Vodacom Tanzania reached 2.973 million customers at the end of 2006, up from 2.593 million at the end of September 2006. Average revenue per user was stable versus the third quarter at ZAR...

Thailand - CAT completes CDMA network roll-out.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Thai operator CAT Telecom has completed the roll-out of a CDMA2000 network with supplier Huawei. The company is launching the network in 51 provinces outside the 25 provinces it already serves via the Hutch...

Viet Nam - Mobile services in Vietnam of average quality - govt.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Vietnamese mobile phone services are meeting only minimum service quality standards, according to a statement from the Ministry of Posts & Telematics. Vietnam has five mobile operators: VinaPhone, HT...

Viet Nam - MobiFone sells recharge cards via vending machines.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Vietnam Mobile Services, operator of the MobiFone mobile network, has launched a vending machine service to sell recharge cards in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. It has installed over 300 machines to date in...

Viet Nam - Vietnamese ICT sector worth VND 60 trillion in 2007 - govt.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) The Vietnamese information and communications technology (ICT) market is forecast to generate record revenue of VND 60 trillion in 2007, up by over VND 10 trillion from VND 49 trillion in 2006, reports...

Viet Nam - VinaPhone adds over 1.7 mln subscribers in 2006.
January 30, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Vietnamese mobile operator VinaPhone added more than 1.7 million subscribers in 2006, beating its target by 20 percent, for a year-end total of 5.3 million. VinaPhone is targeting 2.5 million new...

Africa - Africa Telecoms raises offer for Africa Online.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Africa Telecoms has raised its takeover bid for African Lakes, the holding company for African ISP Africa Online. The new offer of GBP 18.50 cash per share values the company at GBP 5.04 million. Holders of...

Australia - Freshtel appoints John Butkiewicz as CEO.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Australian internet telephone technology company Freshtel Holdings has appointed John Butkiewicz as CEO. Butkiewicz has over 30 years experience in the global telecommunications industry. His appointment...

Bangladesh - Grameenphone cuts tariffs.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Bangladeshi mobile operator Grameenphone is lowering tariffs for both prepaid and postpaid users. The operator has introduced a lower nighttime tariff for its Smile prepaid package. Users will pay BDT 0.30...

Bangladesh - Banglalink signs bridge financing facility with SCB.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Mobile operator Banglalink has signed an agreement with Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) for a bridge financing facility of BDT 1.05 billion. The financing will support Banglalink's investment plans for...

China - Shanghai tests 4G mobile data system.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) A wireless system offering data transfers at up to 100 Mbps has launched in Shanghai, reports China Daily. The so-called 4G system was tested last October and has now launched officially. The roll-out is...

China - CDC Mobile software installed in Nokia cellphones in China.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) CDC Mobile, provider of mobile value-added services in China, has entered into an agreement with Nokia to allow the latter to pre-install CDC Mobile's proprietary software in selected Nokia cellphones in...

India - Hutch Essar introduces BlackBerry Pearl.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Indian mobile operator Hutchison Essar India has introduced Research in Motion's BlackBerry Pearl. The BlackBerry Pearl from Hutch India includes a 1.3 megapixel camera with three zoom levels and built-in...

India - Time Broadband, Amino in set-top boxes deal in India.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Time Broadband Services, Indian IPTV service provider, has reached a commercial deal with UK-based IPTV platform supplier Amino Communications to manufacture AmiNET125 H.264 AVC (MPEG-4, Part 10) compliant...

Indonesia - TeleChoice Indonesia increases capital.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) TeleChoice (Indonesia) has issued 500,000 additional shares to parent company TeleChoice International, raising its issued and paid-up capital from SGD 1.90 million to SGD 2.40 million. The total...

Israel - Israeli operators face class action suit over portability.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Israeli mobile operators are facing a class action suit over the delays to instituting number portability, reports Globes. The suit filed in Jerusalem District Court claims damages of ILS 10.61 billion from...

Japan - NTT DoCoMo picks Aicent's Roaming Exchange.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo has chosen Aicent's Roaming Exchange (GRX) service to provide global data roaming to its Japanese subscibers. The Aicent GRX will offer DoCoMo's subscribers access to...

Japan - NTT adjusts interconnection tariffs for IPv6.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) The Japanese ministry of communications has authorised changes in interconnection tariffs at regional operators NTT East and NTT West. The tariff changes as well as adjustments to technical requirements...

Morocco - Morocco ends 2006 with 16 mln mobile users.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Morocco ended 2006 with 16.005 million mobile users, up from 14.900 million at the end of September and 12.393 million at the end of 2005, according to quarterly data from market regulator ANRT. Penetration...

Philippines - Motorola deploys trunk radio networks for PNP in Philippines.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Motorola, specialist in critical radio communications, has deployed two Motorola Smartnet trunk radio networks and a digital security surveillance system in the island city of Cebu for the Philippines...

Saudi Arabia - Mobily moves to FY net profit.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Saudi Arabian operator Mobily moved to a net profit of SAR 700 million for 2006, reversing a loss of SAR in 1.167 billion in 2005. Revenues rose sharply to SAR 6.183 billion from SAR 1.662 billion, and the...

Singapore - Singapore's StarHub launches triple-play gaming service.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Singaporean pay-TV operator StarHub has unveiled the Playin'TV Triple Play triple-play gaming service in co-operation with interactive TV games channel provider Visiware. The service, the first of its kind...

South Africa - Naspers buys 30% of MXit mobile messaging firm.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) International media group Naspers has acquired a 30 percent stake in South African instant messaging (IM) service MXit Lifestyle for an undisclosed sum. The MXit IM service for mobile phone users allows...

Thailand - True Move offers free fixed-line calls.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Thai mobile operator True Move is offering customers free calls to domestic fixed-line numbers to compensate for problems connecting some 1.5 million new numbers. The new customers had experienced problems...

Thailand - Jasmine spends IPO proceeds.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Thai systems integrator Jasmine Telecom Systems has announced it received net proceeds of THB 540 million from its initial public offering of shares. The company has spent THB 89 million on its broadband...

Thailand - TWZ sees mobile sales doubling in 2007.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Thai distributor TWZ expects its sales of mobile phones this year to more than double to THB 8 billion, thanks to an exclusive contract for Samsung handsets. Managing director Puttachat Rungkasiri told The...

Uzbekistan - Uzbekistan's Unitel signs international roaming deals.
January 29, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Uzbekistani mobile operator Unitel has announced multiple international roaming service agreements. It has signed roaming deals with Mobilkom Liechtenstein, Mobilkom Austria, True Move in Thailand and...

Asia - CDC Mobile invests in Japanese 3G content provider.
January 26, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Chinese mobile value-added services provider CDC Mobile has signed a letter of intent to make a strategic investment in Japanese 3G content provider BBMF Group. This will be the first investment made...

Australia - Telstra launches video clips website in Australia.
January 26, 2007... (From Telecompaper Africa/Asia) Telstra has launched wotnext.com.au, a website which allows Australians to upload video clips and share them online. The new site rewards content creators with a 50 percent revenue share for capturing...