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2012 Spring Festival Holiday Notice
Kindly note our office will be closed for Chinese Lunar New Year holiday during Jan. 18-29 2012. If you have any inquiry or question, please send us by email firstly, we will reply as soon as getting back to work on Jan. 30 2012. In case of any urgent matter please send SMS or call us at 86-137 2552 9920 (Fiona) and 86-136 0301 6330 (Silvia). Sorry for the inconvenience that may caused you. Best wishes for your perfect health and lasting prosperity. Happy New Year! Eastel 33 Enterprises Ltd. [View Details]
Advantages of Corded Phones
The biggest advantage of corded phones that makes it stand as a best a choice is low cost. Those who have land line service available at their disposals will agree that that the land line charges are far less than the mobile charges and thus worth availing. For families, having one land line with corded phones in different room still costs less than getting a mobile phone for every member of the family. Corded phones are a popular choice because of the quality of service they provide. You will hardly see people complaining about drop calls or variations in service coverage. These factors are very common for those having cell phones. Similarly, there is issue of battery being discharged. Corded phones receive power directly from the telephone line, they need battery. Thus you will never have to bother about battery replacement or charging cables. Corded phones work effectively even when there is power shortage. This makes them the most reliable means of communication at the time emergency. Only corded phones have this specialty. This quality is not available even in the cordless phones as they need a constant supply of electricity for its smooth functioning. Similarly, cell phones fail to work when the nearest service tower is experiencing power shortfall. If you need the best sound quality over phone, then corded phones are the only option. There is minimal or even no distortion of sound. Most of the corded phones have a large size of speaker as compared to cell phones. This enables the corded phones to produce sound of higher volume with better sonic range. You can avail some ad on accessories for your corded phones in case you have someone poor hearing while making a call. This type of service can never be availed in a cell phone. There is a wide variety of corded phones still available in the market today in different color, shapes and designs. You will see gamut of prices that also act as an indicator of the quality of each phone set. This does not mean that this product has become useless. Corded phones were an important fixture of twentieth century and still have many advantages over its substitutes. [View Details]
Do You Know Where To Keep Your Corded Phone?
Nowadays many people prefer to have cordless phones for using on an everyday basis. There are clear advantages to having these because you aren’t tied to one location when you make a phone call. You can also walk around with the phone when you are in another room. But a corded phone is the one you want to have in the event of a power cut. You don’t have to use it all the time or keep it plugged in if you don’t want to. But this does mean you need to have a specific place to keep it in case you need it. If you have ever had a power cut before you will know that they don’t always happen in the daytime. And if the lights go out at night you will be left in the dark to find a new source of light to use in the meantime. This means you need to know where your phone is so that you can get it out and plug it in straightaway. It helps to have a specific box that you can use to keep all your emergency supplies in. Make sure you keep a torch somewhere even easier to access though, and ensure also that everyone in the house knows where it is. Once you have the torch you can always use it to help you reach the emergency supplies. Ideally these should be kept in a cabinet or a place where you don’t have to move a lot of items to reach it. You can keep your corded phone in here along with some candles, matches and replacement batteries for your torch. Don’t forget the candle holders either. Once you have your corded phone plugged in you should contact your electricity supplier to report the outage. It’s a good idea to tape their number to the lid of your emergency supplies box, so you can instantly access it. The last thing you want to be doing at this point is to hunt around to find the right number. As you can see planning ahead like this is a godsend when you are left with a power cut to cope with. If you are properly prepared you shouldn’t find it much of a problem, so keep that corded phone handy and ensure you know where to find it at all times. [View Details]
Data Signals Better Prospects in Telecom Market
Data growth. Currently, data contributes between 3 and 9 per cent to telecom companies' revenue collections. Demand for data services in the country, including access to high speed internet, has been growing steadily for the past two years following the landing of the fibre optic cables such as TEAMS, EASSy and SEACOM at the East African coast in 2009. As revenues generated by the voice segment continue to flatten, mobile telecom operators are now exploiting the internet and data platform which is expected to become a cash cow for the industry in the near future. Warid Telecom has also announced that it will launch its Third Generation (3G) mobile technology this month to enhance data service delivery as it readies itself to tap into revenues generated by this platform. The voice platform, a segment where MTN has held the leadership position for over a decade is no longer as profitable with recent price wars seeing call rates drop from a market average of Shs380 per minute to Shs180 per minute, effecting revenue collections. Orange Uganda which capitalised on internet and data service provision from the start seems to have gotten its game right, as industry analysts say the future of communication and revenue generation for telecom companies lies in internet and data. Mr Allan Zaramba, an industry analyst predicts that time is coming when revenue generated by the internet and data platform will outpace that generated by voice calls, due to the growing penetration levels and relevant local content. "The two will continue complementing each other for the time being because of low literacy levels but that will change in future when more relevant applications and content are developed," he told Prosper last week. Uganda Communications Commission publicist, Mr Fred Otunnu echoes a similar sentiment that time is coming, though in the long term, when the highest revenue for telecoms will be generated by the internet and data platform. Warid telecom's Chief Commercial Officer, Mr Shailendra Naidu, however, holds a different view. Although he predicts that 2012 will be a good year for internet and data to gain pace in the country, he says revenue collections from this platform will never outstrip that generated by voice for telecom companies. "Uganda is still a young market. Even in mature markets like the United Kingdom and the United States data still contributes just 15-20 per cent to their revenue, how about Uganda where literacy levels are still low and still have infrastructure challenges," he asked. Mr Edouard Blondeau Orange Uganda chief officer strategy says though it will take some time for revenue generated from internet to overtake that by voice, data revenue will grow much more rapidly because of the fast growing data usage due to the transformation of phones to include more internet related features. "Ugandans are not going to stop talking overnight! So voice is going to remain a primary usage on phones. But as technology matures, phones with new capabilities are emerging relying more on data services and Orange acknowledged this shift in consumer need and rolled out a high speed internet network in Uganda," he said. Currently, data contributes between 3 and 9 per cent to telecom companies' revenue collections. Demand for data services in the country including access to high speed internet has been growing steadily for the past two years following the landing the fibre optic cables such as TEAMS, EASSy and SEACOM at the East African cost in 2009 that stimulated the adoption of data services. "Internet usage has more than doubled since the landing of the fibre optic cable and connectivity prices have also reduced substantially," Mr Zaramba said. He said that social media especially facebook and twitter has played a major role in increasing internet usage in the country. Statistics from the Uganda Communications Commission indicate that to date, there are an estimated 4.5 million internet users from 1 million at the end of 2007. The highest growth rate is registered in wireless broadband solutions which accounted for more than 90 per cent of internet subscriptions by the end of 2010. Wireless internet subscription grew from zero in 2008 to 600,000 mobile accounts by the end of 2010 compared to fixed internet subscription that increased from 22,000 to 35,000 over the same period. Mr Otunnu says faster data uptake resulting from increasing penetration, falling bandwidth prices and growth in local content will stimulate internet usage in the country in the coming years. Mr Rodney Rudman, Broadband Company chief executive officer says internet speed has increased by almost four times from a sluggish 64 kbps about two years, internet products have doubled and prices have substantially reduced making internet more affordable to a larger segment of the market. The growth rates in internet and data service point to the fact that the days of using mobile phones for calls and SMSs are slowly disappearing as customers increasingly seek practical solutions for their day-to-day needs. Orange currently enjoys market leadership in internet and data service platform. Other service providers that share a portion of the 4.5 million internet subscribers include Broadband Company, Warid Telecom, MTN, Foris Uganda, Uganda Telecom Limited and Airtel, Afsat Communications, InfoCom and Datanet among others. Mr Zaramba says the future holds enormous opportunities for data since about three quarters of the population is still unconnected, an opportunity internet service providers should exploit by offering relevant content and application. Telecoms are also exploiting other avenues to supplement revenues generated by voice calls by offering value added products such as mobile money transfers. MTN is said to be a leading telecom in this platform. Other players that offer mobile money services include Airtel and Uganda Telecom Limited. Warid telecom's Chief Commercial Officer, Mr Shailendra Naidu says that the telecom will launch its mobile money transfer platform in November. Players, however, cite infrastructure as the biggest challenge that hindering internet penetration in the country. "Internet connectivity remains an expensive commodity in Uganda in spite of sea cable systems at the costs and this has left internet connectivity beyond the reach of most Ugandans," Mr Rudman said. He attributed the high operational costs to constant load shedding requiring backup generators at base stations to keep the network stable, increasing the costs of doing business. Mr Otunnu also identified slow growth of relevant local content to drive the sector and limited e-government application. Mr Zaramba, however, says companies can overcome the high infrastructure costs by sharing base stations to offer better and cheaper services. Growth in internet and data services in many developing countries is also hindered by government interference. MTN Group Chief Commercial Officer in charge of Sales, Marketing and Innovations recently told a Mobile and Convergence Workshop during the 15th Highway Africa Conference in Cape Town, South Africa that some governments in its 21 operations in Africa and Middle East asked them to block access to social networks to prevent detractors of from taking advantage of governments using social media platforms such as facebook and twitter. When contacted, MTN Uganda chief executive officer, Mr Themba Khumalo, however, MTN Uganda has never received any requests of the sort from government, adding that Uganda is one of the countries that supports any form of media freedom. "The requests are from other markets but not Uganda. It has never happened here and we don't expect it to happen," Mr Khumalo said. [View Details]
2011 National Day Holiday Notice
In considering of our company’s operation conditions and in accordance with government regulation, we decide to make 2011 National Day schedule as follows: Oct.1-4 2011 off for the National Day，resume work on Oct. 5 2011. All the best! Eastel33 Enterprises Ltd. [View Details]
TELECOM LAYS FOUNDATION FOR DIGITAL FUTURE
Telecom has launched a re-vamped website at www.telecom.co.nz, designed from the ground up to meet the changing needs of customers online. Jonathan Morris, Lead Manager Digital Communications, said like many other sectors, customers are increasingly going online to research, buy and manage their telecommunications services. “Telecom’s websites receive more than three quarters of a million unique visitors each month and this number is continuing to grow. We’ve responded by re-building our website with the customer’s needs at the heart of the design, to make it easy to do business with us online,” he said. “People want to find what they’re looking for quickly and easily, so now 80% of the site’s content and capabilities are within one or two clicks of the home page. “The site has also been rebuilt with a powerful new content management system to significantly improve search capability, as well as the site’s performance, speed and availability. “It’s the first stage of a larger project focused on transforming Telecom’s online service capability, and continuing to develop a highly effective multichannel experience,” Mr Morris said. [View Details]
Internode tests NBN fixed phone service in Willunga, SA
Internode will begin a large-scale NBN fixed-line phone service trial in Willunga, South Australia. Willunga is one of the first five mainland NBN trial sites announced in March. All sites are expected to be commercially launched by October. Internode claims it is the first NBN UNI-V accredited ISP. The NBN Network Termination Device (NTD), which is comparable to a standard cable or ADSL model, has UNI-D ports to carry data and UNI-V ports that deal with IP telephony services. After the phone trial, Internode will offer phone services as part of a voice and data NBN bundle package. The ISP announced its NBN broadband prices back in July. The advantage of an NBN fixed-line phone service is a battery backup function for power outages. During the trial period, Internode welcomes customer feedback. “Delivering an analogue-style phone service is the latest step along the NBN path for Internode, and means that customers will have even more choice,” Internode product manager, Jim Kellett, said in a statement. “As the first company accredited to deliver NBN’s UNI-V service, Internode is now taking it into the real world to see how well this service works with the range of equipment used by our customers. “These will include older phone handsets and fax machines as well as monitored security systems.” [View Details]
Fixed Telephone Services - Hungary - A Snapshot (2011)
Fixed Telephone Services in Hungary by Mintel Global Market Navigator provides you with annual year-end market size data, most recently updated in 2011. This market covers residential and business fixed telephone lines. Fixed means that devices have a limited range to a fixed point/hub in a residence or business, even if that business or residence is supplied with a signal wirelessly. Market size is based on numbers of subscribers. Market size for Fixed Telephone Services in Hungary is given in subscribers with a minimum of five years' historical data. Market Forecast is provided for five years. Included with this snapshot is socio-economic data for Hungary. Population, Consumer Price Index (CPI), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Exchange Rates. [View Details]
Pakistan telecom to be worth $7b by 2020
Pakistani regulators are forecasting that telecom sector revenues will surpass 620 billion rupees ($7.13 billion) by 2020. The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority also expects investments in the sector to hit $2.4 billion by the same year, The Express Tribune reported. The body's Vision 2020 report pegs the mobile subscriber base to be 161 million by this time – roughly 89% of the population. This will compare to an estimated 5 million fixed-line and 19.5 million broadband customers. Currently just 0.47% of the population is subscribed to a broadband service. Pakistan is exploring a number of options - such as the development of a new regulatory framework – to promote the development of the ICT sector. The report states that the PTA expects the nation to be using 100% converged NGN infrastructure by 2020. [View Details]
France Telecom SA (ADR), NYSE:FTE a Must Own Telco
HCM have rated France Telecom SA (ADR), NYSE:FTE a Must Own Telco today with a 2012 price target of $24 issued today by Shayne Heffernan. In a note to traders Shayne Heffernan said that with a P/E under 10 and a dividend yield of 12.5% France Telecom SA (ADR), NYSE:FTE a Must Own Telco stood out as strong value. France Telecom, the country’s largest phone company, is scouring Africa and the Middle East for potential acquisitions, including in some of the region’s poorest and most unstable countries, as it aims to offset slowing growth in its domestic market. In March, the Paris-based company agreed to pay $245 million for a 20 percent stake in Iraqi operator Korek Telecom, and last year bought 40 percent of Morocco’s Meditel for 640 million euros. France Telecom S.A. provides consumers, businesses and other telecommunications operators with a range of services, including fixed telephony and mobile telecommunications, data transmission, Internet and multimedia, and other value-added services. The Group reports seven operating segments: SITA and France Telecom’s Orange Business Services, announced that have agreed to jointly build a global, high performance, managed cloud computing infrastructure. Each partner will use this infrastructure to deliver its cloud services portfolio to its markets with added global reach, reliability and minimum latency. Roll out of the infrastructure has already started with the data centers of Atlanta, Frankfurt and Singapore being fully operational in Q1 2012 and all six data centers in Q3 2012. France, United Kingdom, Poland, Spain, Rest of the World, Enterprise and International Carrier and Shared Services (IC & SS). On April 29, 2009, the Company acquired additional 18.36 % interest in FT Espana. Orange is the key brand of France Telecom. It covers Internet, television and mobile services in the countries, where the Company operates. During the year ended December 31, 2009, the Company had a customer base of 193 million in 32 countries. These include 132.6 million mobile customers and 13.5 million broadband Internet (ADSL) customers worldwide. It provides mobile services and Internet services in Europe under the brand name Orange Business Services. The services provided by the Company include personal communication services and home communication services. In the personal communication, the Company offered data services, mobile broadband services and Internet/Business Everywhere. Home Communication services include Internet services, digital television customers and telephone services. [View Details]

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