Malaysia has chosen the South Korean model for its ICT future development. The road should be long to duplicate the success of the model, as Malaysia only has a mobile penetration of 55%, an internet penetration of 10% and a broadband access penetration...

Non-voice mobileservices: a new survey from Olista reveals that a vast majorityof mobile users (aged 15 65+) that buy sophisticated handsets arenot using mobile data services. In the UK, 77% of mobile users havenever used any new data services, such as...

According to Dittberner, Italtel has gained the third position in the softswitch market with 14% market share, trailing only Nortel and Siemens. Italtel ranks first in EMEA markets with 35% market share. According to Ericsson, there will be 400m subscribers...

Convergys announced that Vodacom (South Africa) has chosen its Infinys(TM) billing software. Ericsson is building Telemig Cellular GSM network expansion (Brazil).

Verizon increased MMS interoperability capabilities with Leap Wireless (after Cingular and US Cellular). DoCoMo would increase its stake in Taiwan's FarEasTone to 15% (from 5%). CTI Movil (Argentina) would invest $251m to expand national coverage and...

Hutchison expects to break-even by next year. It expects its operating profit to increase as its 3G business expands. Vodafone posted FY revenues of $57bn (down 7%), while net loss narrowed to $13.8bn (up 16.5%). It bought MobiFon in Romania and Oskar...

HP could cut 5% to 10% of its workforce to realign its operating expenses. 7,500 to 15,000 jobs are concerned. China Mobile: Sha Yuejia has been appointed to the position of deputy general manager of the headquarters. In many branches, top executives...

Hutchison 3G has 8.1m 3G subscribers, of which 1.7m gained in the first quarter. Vodafone increased its proportionate subscriber base to 154.8m, up 12%. It expects to reach 10m 3G subscribers by March 06 from current 2.4m. It probably will overtake this...

Agilent reported 1Q05 net earnings of $95m, down 9%, on revenues of $1.7bn, down 8%. Gross margin increased 2 points. Brocade posted FY2Q05 (ended in April) revenues down 10% to $145m, and net income of $19m, down 30%.

RIM succeeds in another account. TDC (Denmark) will introduce the BlackBerry to Danish mobile professionals. ZTE and Andrews will manufacture parts for TD-SCDMA. Ericsson and ZTE are teaming to bring TD-SCDMA to the Chinese market. In addition, Ericsson...