Vuclip may not be a household name in the U.S., but the company has managed to attract 120 million monthly users in Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Part of Vuclip’s strategy: ignore western mobile strategies.
Many names have popped up in the long-running scandal, so we thought it would be a good idea to bring them together in one handy resource.
SingTel is buying social photo aggregator Pixable for $26.5 million. The New York City startup had more than 4 million downloads of its app, which used smart algorithms to help surface the most relevant pictures for users.
It may not be $41 million, but there are still serious funds flowing into the mobile sector at the moment, and the companies taking advantag…
There will be nearly 120 million LTE connections in the Asia Pacific region, driven by four major markets: China, Japan, South Korea and Indonesia. The race begins with the December 2010 launch of Xi, a new LTE service from Japanese mobile giant, NTT DoCoMo.
The Asia-Pacific region is getting ever-closer to faster mobile broadband, with network operators in Japan, Singapore, Australia and Indonesia readying their Long Term Evolution networks. Today NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile operator, affirmed its plans to deploy LTE in 2010; it also said it would shut off its 2G network in March 2011 since most subscribers now have 3G phones. NTT DoCoMo had previously said it would keep the 2G network running until December 2012. Speaking at the GSM Association’s Mobile Asia Congress 2009, Ryuji Yamada, president and CEO of NTT DoCoMo, said LTE data cards will be ready in 2010 and handsets will be ready in 2011. Read More about LTE Advances Across Asia
First, the good news: SingTel reported in a filing to the Singaporean exchange today that it had sold 170,000 iPhones since launching the ha…
Let’s pretend for a moment that you operate a wireless phone company for a relatively small country that’s packed with mobile phones. Sure, you’ll focus on increasing data revenue, but if you’re smart, you’ll buy into growing operators in other countries, too. That’s how SingTel, the carrier whose home market has about 4.6 million people (and 5.6 million mobile phones), does it. The company added 182,000 new customers in Singapore in the second quarter of this year, lifting its total base there to 2.75 million subscribers. Meanwhile, in countries including India, Pakistan, Australia and Bangladesh, SingTel saw its customers grow by 42 percent, to a total of 70.76 million subscribers.
SingTel group CFO Francis Heng has announced he will leave the post on Sept 1, apparently for personal reasons. The resignation comes 11 day…
