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To: slacker711 who wrote (56674)	11/6/2006 8:46:22 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196827

Pantech To Supply Orange France with 3G Handsets See below for the rest of today's 3G news from 3G.co.uk 6th November , 2006 Europe / ASIA : Pantech announced that it has signed a landmark agreement with Orange - the second biggest mobile service carrier in Europe, - to supply branded UMTS phones in France. The agreement with Orange, which is also the largest mobile service carrier in France, with around 23 million subscribers, marks Pantech’s first partnership with a Europe-based global mobile operator. The new product which will be made available through Orange, - the U4000 - is a modern and stylish UMTS phone. It features a video telephony function incorporating a 1.3 mega pixel camera and VGA camera, a 1.9 inch 260,000 color TFT and 72 polyphonic ringtones. Other features include Bluetooth, a Micro SD card slot and an MP3 player. Dennis Cheong, President, Pantech Europe, said: “This major partnership with Orange is an outstanding testament to the quality of Pantech’s advanced mobile handset technologies. More significantly, the agreement demonstrates our ongoing commitment to meet and exceed the expectations of our customers in Europe.” “By supplying handsets through this deal with one of Europe’s most prestigious operators, we can build our position in the market and support the development of our brand in France and beyond. In turn, this will help us move closer to achieving our goal of positioning ourselves as a leading mobile handset manufacturer in the European handset market,” said Mr. Cheong. Céline Thomas, Head of Product Marketing, Orange France, said: “We are happy to extend our supplier portfolio with Pantech’s U4000, a product compatible with key services of Orange such as TV Live, Music download and video telephony.” With the signing of this deal, Pantech now provides its phones to all the three biggest carriers in France, having secured agreements with SFR and Bouygues Telecom earlier this year. Pantech Group plans to accelerate its business in France, with the aim of becoming one of the top five mobile phone brands in France by the end of 2008. U4000 features include: ? Network: Tri-band / UMTS ? Size & weight: 95 x 43 x 16.5 mm, 90g ? Display: 1.9” 260K TFT (size: 176 x 220 pixels) ? Camera: 1.3 Mega pixel + VGA dual camera72 polyphonic & MP3 ringtonesMemory: 30MB of user memory (+ Micro SD card slot provided) ? Video telephony / Bluetooth ? MPEG4, H.263, H.264 ? WAP 2.0, JAVA MIDP 2.0, DRM 1.0

To: slacker711 who wrote (56674)	11/6/2006 9:45:49 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196827

I have been very critical of CDMA's performance in developing markets, but over the last six months or so I have noticed that some of the small CDMA networks in SE Asia are finally getting traction. The numbers arent big, but it is a nice trend. thejakartapost.com Mobile-8 stock offering priced at 2 U.S. cents The Jakarta Post, Jakarta PT Mobile-8 Telecom, a subsidiary of PT Bimantara Citra, will be offering its shares to the public at an initial price of between Rp 200 and Rp 240 (some 2 U.S. cents), expecting to raise up to Rp 936 billion in equity funds. Some 57 percent of the raised capital will be used to upgrade and expand its cellular network in Sumatra, Java, Lombok, Kalimantan and Sulawesi, to serving up to 6.9 million subscribers, the company said in a statement released Sunday. The rest will be set aside as working capital. Mobile-8 had previously announced plans to sell 3.9 billion shares -- or 19.91 percent of its ownership -- through an initial public offering (IPO) later in November. The bookbuilding for the company's maiden shares is expected to be held on Nov. 22-24, with the IPO itself on Nov. 30 at both the Jakarta and Surabaya stock exchanges. The underwriters for the IPO will be Bimantara-affiliated PT Bhakti Securities, PT CIMB-GK Securities, and PT Danareksa Securities. Mobile-8's IPO will be the Jakarta bourse's eleventh for this year, following rival Bakrie Telecom's in February. Bhakti president Wishnu Handoyono expects a high market demand for the IPO, with Mobile-8 managing to improve its performance lately amid Indonesia's still potentially large cellular market. "With a cellular penetration still at a relatively low of only 20 percent of its 220-million population, Indonesia's telecommunications sector remains interesting for the market," he said. Mobile-8 reported Rp 20 billion in net profits for the year's first eight months ending Aug. 31 on a solid subscriber base growth, a turnaround from Rp 26.5 billion in losses the company suffered until 2006's second quarter. Touting the CDMA-based cellular technology, Mobile-8's "Fren" product has along with rival services Bakrie Telecom's "Esia" and Telkom's "TelkomFlexi" managed to create their own niche market in Indonesia's cellular market currently dominated by GSM-based operators Telkomsel, Indosat and Excelcomindo. There are at present more than 45 million GSM-based cellular users, and some 7 million CDMA-based subscribers, with Mobile-8 netting 1.6 million of the latter so far since launching its service in December 2003. This is an increase from the company's 975,000 subscribers last year. Mobile-8 expects its subscriber base to grow to 2.2 million by the end of this year, 4 million by next year, and 7 million by 2008.

To: slacker711 who wrote (56674)	11/8/2006 7:36:17 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196827

UPDATE 2-KDDI wins five times more users than DoCoMo in Oct Wed Nov 8, 2006 5:40am ET yahoo.reuters.com By Aiko Wakao TOKYO, Nov 8 (Reuters) - KDDI Corp. (9433.T: Quote, NEWS, Research), Japan's No. 2 mobile phone carrier, added five times more subscribers in October than market leader NTT DoCoMo Inc. (9437.T: Quote, NEWS, Research) and eight times more than Softbank Corp. (9984.T: Quote, NEWS, Research), helped by a rule change allowing customers to keep their numbers when changing operators, data from the companies showed on Wednesday. KDDI added a net 200,500 users last month, bringing its subscriber base to 26.6 million, thanks to its popular music downloads and search services it offers with Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research). That compares with a net addition of 40,800 users at DoCoMo to 52.14 million, and newcomer Softbank's gain of 23,800 subscribers, which brought its customer base to 15.3 million. The rule change, known as mobile number portability (MNP), took effect on Oct. 24, triggering competition among operators to roll out attractive handsets to lure shoppers. "As expected, this is a win for KDDI, but I get an impression that very few people are using mobile number portability," said Hitoshi Hayakawa, an analyst at Credit Suisse in Tokyo. Indeed, the new rule did not appear to have had a significant impact on market share, with DoCoMo maintaining 55.4 percent of Japan's 94.1 million subscriber market, while KDDI expanded its share 0.2 percentage point to 28.3 percent. Softbank had 16.2 percent. Analysts including Hayakawa have also said Softbank may have posted a net loss in subscribers in October if it didn't change its cancellation rule for prepaid phone customers, which extended their contracts by several months. Operators also say more customers may have switched providers had there not been a system failure at Softbank that weekend, snarling up the processing of requests from consumers. In September, KDDI added a net 160,800 subscribers, beating gains of 126,300 at DoCoMo and 23,400 at Softbank. The companies also provided data on the net number of subscribers who switched service providers using the new rule. KDDI, the expected gainer, said it won a net 98,300 users with MNP, meaning that there were more people who switched to KDDI than its own customers fleeing to rival operators. Results from KDDI are the combined data of its two different mobile phone services, "au" and "Tu-ka." In contrast, DoCoMo said it posted a net loss of 73,000 subscribers with MNP. Softbank, which launched new price campaigns on the eve of MNP, also lost a net 23,900 under the new scheme. (Additional reporting by Aiko Hayashi)