Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Highlights
Batelco latest to talk of exiting the market
Asset sales, BC Card make up for falling voice revenue
Hutchison, China Mobile HK, 21 ViaNet each grab 30 MHz
Can an artificial intelligence commit libel?
Spectrum as collateral latest unpredictable policy plan
Adoption held back by handset prices, spectrum fragmentation
A VAS strategy should span fixed and mobile services
Unicom must apply for map license; Vodafone, Wind call off merger talks
For the spectrum licenses revoked by the courts
Or face unaffordable RAN rollout bills: Analysys Mason
Over half use telecom to contact gov, just 7% use mail
Regulators again struggle to keep up with the internet
Completes network trial with PCCW-HKT in time for MWC
Global market share doubled y-o-y to 8.4% in Q4
Turkcell accuses MTN of corruption; Pirimal buys 5.5% of Vod India
Uninor, Swan, Loop, Idea, Videocon, Tata, Etisalat licenses pulled
The first Hong Kong cellco to withdraw such plans
Also slumps 61% in Q4 on network spending, rate cuts
Qualcomm, Ericsson to demo VoLTE development at MWC
Must cost $66, use Android, have a 1GHz dual-core chip
