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Posted on Thursday, 1st July 2010 by Kash
It’s a cliché often repeated by mobile industry followers; that voice would one day become a commodity and even possibly free.
I’ve been hearing such statements for years now and it hasn’t happened yet. Phone bill has remained relatively stable all this while and I don’t expect to wake up any day soon to learn that [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 1st June 2010 by Kash
This Sunday, I joined what must have been the majority of Malaysians in following the results of the Hulu Selangor by-election. The whole day long, I sought out reports of how the polling was going on. After 5 pm, I eagerly consumed every report that I found which shared updates of unofficial vote counts as [...]
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Posted on Friday, 28th May 2010 by Kash
For the last 10 years or so, wireless technologies have been the darlings of the communications industry – and rightfully so. Wired technologies have struggled to bring services to the whole world. Wireless technologies on the other hand seem unstoppable; there are more than 4 billion mobile phone users in the world today and their [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 20th April 2010 by Kash
The topic of the moment has got to be HSBB. It is certainly telling of the state of our broadband today that the arrival of what we are going to call high speed broadband for the next few years has generatedso much buzz.
I, of course, welcome Unifi, the brand name of Telekom Malaysia’s fibre optic [...]
Tags: Broadband, Mobile Broadband
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Posted on Thursday, 18th February 2010 by Kash
As you probably know from this issue’s cover, Malaysia’s very own mobile brand CSL is celebrating its 10th anniversary. That’s an amazing feat if you ask me.
For a locally-inspired brand to have not only survived but actually thrived over a decade is truly amazing when you consider how many brands have come and gone over [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 29th April 2009 by editor
Nokia announced that it would continue work it started earlier that will bring its mobile software offerings together into Ovi, the store that is modelled after the Apple App Store.
The strategy is right, of course, but they have some catching up to do.
As I wrote in my latest Mobility column in Mobile World magazine, “By [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 12th February 2009 by editor
Number of people in the world as of March 2009 according to Wikipedia is estimated to be 6.8 billion.
The number of mobile connections (a big word for mobile phones basically) estimated by GSMA has crossed 4 billion.
Take away babies, some very old people and add in the fact that in developing countries, phones could be [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 8th January 2009 by editor
Nokia has announced that it will be stopping production of its only WiMAX-only device, the N810 WiMax Edition tablet. According to their spokesman, it has reached the end of its product life.
Ya, right. Who are they kidding? The news report got it right. It’s yet another blow to WiMAX which might just end up as [...]
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Posted on Monday, 20th October 2008 by editor
I was at a Hari Raya do on Saturday and someone asked me what I thought of the HSBB project.
I said that in principle, wired high speed access is not only useful but downright necessary. The guy I was speaking to was from an IPTV startup company and he needed no reminding that high [...]
Tags: HSBB, HSDPA, iBurst, malaysia, Mobile, Telco, WiMAX
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Posted on Tuesday, 30th September 2008 by editor
Sometime next year, when you purchase a notebook, you could be looking out for a mark on it that signifies it is 3.5G ready.
A group of companies comprising mobile operators, chipset manufacturers and notebook companies have created a mark that will show a notebook is ready for mobile broadband, but only of the ‘approved’ [...]
Tags: 3.5G, GSM, LTE, Mobile Broadband, WiMAX
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