Wireless
HTC has always been associated with quality built devices and going with the decision to be an early LTE adopter was meant to launch it to new heights. Winston Yung, HTC's chief financial officer (CFO) however has recently admitted that perhaps that was a mistake.
The LTE devices from HTC proved to be left wanting for better design: battery life being the worst problem. The second would be the thicker form factor to accomodate a bigger battery.
P1 launced a new broadband plan called the One Plan. This plan is a 2-in-1 broadband bundle that comes with a P1 4G modem with WiFi and P1 4G on the go modem with shared quota. That means that consumer will be using one broadband provider instead of multiple ones on one monthly bill.
There are three plans users can subcribe to that is One 89, One 129 and One 169. Each of these plans comes with two free P1 4G modem. The users can get 600Kbps for home and 1Mbps with 5GB usage quota for the One 89; 2Mbps for home and 5Mbps for on-the-go with 15GB usage quota for One 129; and 5Mbps for home and 5Mbps for on-the-go with 30GB usage quita for One 169.
China Mobile and Packet One Networks (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd ("P1"), sealed a technology cooperation agreement to spearhead the TD-LTE technology movement in Malaysia and South-East Asia. In tandem with China Mobile's TD-LTE promotion activities, P1 was recently accepted into the GTI. The GTI was formed in February this year to drive the early adoption of TD-LTE technology and to propagate TD-LTE's eco-system.
Under the agreement, P1 and China Mobile Research Institute will collaborate to promote TD-LTE as global standards in general; and for early adoption in South-East Asia in specific, through regional and local activities. Other than that, they will promote Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI) throughout South-East Asia and lastly to promote the jump-start of TD-LTE deployment in Malaysia.
Chinese company Netcom has showed off at Computex it's new a NFC SD card which has 8GB of flash memory to boot! That's a mean feat if you consider that they also had to figure out how to cram all the NFC elecronics and antenna into a footprint smaller than a postage stamp!
The summit, themed "Broadband Redefined through Smart Transformation", was supported by Telekom Malaysia and research partner Heavy Reading. Attended by over300 delegates from leading broadband players from more than 50 global telecom operators, the summit brought about collaborative discussions on successful broadband transformation case studies and industry best practices in leveraging on changes brought about by the rapid growth in national broadband network, convergence and multimedia services.
Graced by Dato' Joseph Salang, Deputy Minister of Information, Communication and Culture Ministry, Malaysia, the Deputy Minister said, "Broadband cannot just be for higher and higher speeds, but must transform the people's lives."
Richard Yu, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer of Huawei in his opening speech said, "Over the next decade, networks will become an essential part of people's lives and are expected to integrate across all sectors and drive sustainable economic development. As the demand for higher bandwidth accelerates and outpaces revenue growth, and as national broadband strategies developed by an ever-increasing number of countries serve as the main catalysts to spur the development of fixed networks, the key challenge of network operators is to continue to pursue and embrace broadband strategies to take advantage of the great opportunities that this new communication culture brings".
A notable highlight of the summit was the presentation by Giorgio Migliarina, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer of Telekom Malaysia, as he shared the outlooks, approaches, achievements and challenges of the end-to-end NGN/IMS, HSBB and IPTV deployment. On stage was also Jin Dong Bin, Senior Chief Engineer of China Telecom, to deliver a comprehensive keynote speech about China Telecom's transformation strategies and broadband development, which encompasses the forward-thinking FTTX, Optical City, IMS and ICT strategies. Other keynote speakers at the summit included Paul Scanlan, the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Huawei South Pacific Region, Paul Beaumont, the Network Architect from BSkyB, Michael Haeberle, Head of Converged Services from Telefonica Germany, Jim Hodges, the Senior Anlayst from Heavy Reading, and Lim Meng Soon, the General Manager from Telekom Brunei. The summit also provides good venue and unique opportunity for extensive interaction with Huawei high level executives and hands-on innovative service demo.
Huawei introduced its "SingleCORE" strategy which provides customers with industry-leading end-to-end solutions for achieving smooth ICT transformation, convergence and evolution. Examples of these solutions include converged communications, mobile packet core, converged user data center and cloud computing.
The media and entertainment business, with video as the main feature, will be the focal point for future home business. Huawei is focused on converged home solutions and has developed the integrated Connected Home solution for home communications, entertainment and control. This solution encompasses three centers (access, media, and control) and two clouds (Service Cloud and Management Cloud) to enable a seamless user experience across multi-screens.
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