Asia Wireless News
Asia will be the biggest growth driver, regionally, for mobile subscriptions and web services throughout the decade. The huge region demonstrates a wide variety of mobile trends and usage patterns. Japan and South Korea are acknowledged as the most advanced mobile web economies in the world and operators in both countries have been early into the race to build out LTE, as well as using new architectures such as cloud RANs. China and India have the potential to be the largest subscriber bases and just as Chinese 3G build-out protected the infrastructure market from the recession, so Indian 3G and the start of Chinese 4G will provide the biggest growth for several years ahead. Other important Asian mobile economies include Indonesia, which has a rapidly growing wireless base, and many south east Asian countries where the phone will be the primary means of accessing the internet and multimedia content.
Nokia debuts new 'smart featurephone' platform
Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop recently faced shareholder calls to reverse the firm's operating system strategy and abandon Windows Phone. He refused, but Nokia's other mobile software platform is far less ...
- Nokia in services deal with Bharti
- Nokia suffers second Indian sales drop in a row
- Nokia packs new memory chips into Asha
- Nearby brings Nokia's maps power to featurephones
- Nokia's featurephone gets touch and new browser
SKT extends LTE roaming to Philippines
28 March, 2013
Deal with Globe offers its customers LTE service in four Asian countries, and it will soon launch quad-band LTE devices
Asian bighitters push Wi-Fi and NFC roaming
4 March, 2013
NTT Docomo, China Mobile and KT announcing roaming initiatives while taking part in Wireless Broadband Alliance trials too
Asian carrier show off LTE advances
31 January, 2013
SK Telecom demonstrates TM9 feature of LTE-A, while China Mobile is first with TD-LTE TV and carrier aggregation
Telenor targets mobile insurance at Asia
16 January, 2013
Its joint venture with MicroEnsure will expand into simple, handset-managed services across its Asia footprint
Nokia targets midmarket with Lumia 510
24 October, 2012
Belatedly adds entry level Windows device, pushing for Chinese recovery, but faces tough battle with Android
Nearby brings Nokia's maps power to featurephones
16 October, 2012
New app harnesses Navteq and the Xpress browser to create smart location experience for Asha handsets
FEATURED STORIES
- NSN throws new weapons at signal storm - 23 May, 2013
- New Intel chief shakes up mobile activity - 22 May, 2013
- Vodafone suffers first ever annual revenue decline - 21 May, 2013
- Aruba buys Meridian for indoor venue smarts - 20 May, 2013
