yammay74, No leh, I am not so connected lah. May be some forumers can help. Still vested,The coming Expo, should throw some lght as to what's the development in the telco going to be, I am interested in the skype and Voip phone on exhibition. The thought of using skype excites me, can do without stel already. Need to visit the Aztech site hall 4
Is lee pineapple up to something? We shall c.... Some major events is happening...
MR did gain in the noon, but loss it footings and drop slightly to 42 cents....Lee is in the play....
Prayer answered. Lee Pineapple is back to accumulate more...
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12-06-2007 |
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Open Market Purchase |
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OPEN MARKET PURCHASES OF 9,034,000 SHARES AT $0.41463 PER SHARE ON 12/06/2007.
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PARAMOUNT ASSETS INVESTMENTS PTE. LTD, did it again, what are we waiting for? Must talk to their analyst to find out more!!!
Great article, which direction is S'pore's Voip going to go is anybodies guess. We're going to wire up the whole of singapore. You can call thru voip from anywhere using a voip capable phone at a fraction of a typical land line. Does it mean that Stel will be out of biz, what strategy would they need to keep their mkt share? Buy over MR? Just a thot.
Coming Soon: Wifi VoIP
Jim Higdon on
April 17th, 2007
Today, traditional telephone companies are scrambling to recover from the staggering loss of subscribers over the past five years, who have migrated to exclusively mobile and VoIP lifestyles. Tomorrow, the cell phone industry will be facing the same challenges: How can a giant corporation expect to make money on calling plans if its customers could just use SkypeOut for two cents a minute to anywhere in the world?
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Luckily for Sprint-Nextel and AT&T-Cingular, the market penetration of the technology necessary to support a robust Wifi VoIP marketplace just isn?t quite there ? yet.
The HardwareThe first offering from this emerging market is a cell-phone-style phone powered by VoIP over Wifi. These phones give users the freedom of cordless landline phones in their homes and offices, plus the ability to use them on-the-go from any Wifi hotspot. Prices range from Netgear?s
$333 phone to devices like ahem, Vonage?s UStar F1000 (
$89.99 after rebate). But good luck getting the cheap one since a federal judge has ordered Vonage to stop signing up new customers if it?s going to use the technology that a jury found Vonage had stolen from Verizon.(See ?
Is Vonage Toast??)
For phone users who want to harness Wifi VoIP with their primary phone, the only option is the Wifi-cell hybrid, like
Nokia?s N80i. A cell-top computer that allows web browsing via its Wifi connection, the N80i is easily set up to make VoIP calls using services like
Truphone,
Gizmo Project, or
SkypeOut.
But VoIP users, attracted to the low calling rates of Internet-based phone calls, won?t like the price tags associated with these new Wifi-cell hybrids. Nokia?s N80i has a retail price that starting at $433.99. The N80i, however, is no longer the only phone that will do the trick. Gizmo Project now works on Nokia?s internet tablets, like the N800 and 770 models, and Truphone works with the new
Nokia E-series. But, of course, none of these phones are cheap either.
Wifi VoIP, while easy to use with the right hardware, is still a long way from saving consumers any money. The only subset of the market poised to take advantage of VoIP via Wifi without buying a new expensive phone is PSP users. Owners of the Play Station Portable can use their handheld game system?s Wifi capabilities to access Jajah and make
outgoing calls.
So, when can the market expect Wifi VoIP?s eventual domination of the mobile telephone industry? The clock is ticking, and the beginning of Wifi VoIP ubiquity will be a reality in America by April 2008. By this date, Sprint will roll out WiMAX access in 19 American markets at a cost of over $3 billion. Phone users in these cities will no longer need the expensive hybrid phones to make their calls. A $90 Vonage-style phone could become their primary communications tool ? a price sure to drop as the customer base increases.
WiMAX, or Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access ? essentially a Wifi hotspot with a range of several miles ? will easily encompass an entire city. Three partners have shared Sprint?s WiMAX mission ? each partner taking a piece of the map to provide service to different regions. Motorola will work in the Midwest, bringing WiMAX to Chicago, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kansas City and Minneapolis. Samsung will work on the East Coast, developing Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, Providence and Washington, D.C. while Nokia will cover the South and West: Austin, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Antonio and Seattle.
Notable absences on this list of first-round WiMAX cities: New York City, Atlanta, Los Angeles and San Francisco. How can Texas have four WiMAX cities and California have zero? Once these 19 markets experience citywide Wifi, the technology is bound to spread rapidly ? increasing the potential subscriber base and lowering the cost of Internet and VoIP access across the country.
While the market waits for the coming of WiMAX, there are other pockets of the country where a simple Wifi phone could save hundreds of dollars in phone costs per year ? Wifi-enabled
college campuses . In 2005, Intel listed the nation?s top 50 ?Most Unwired Campuses.? The number one position went to Ball State in Muncie, Indiana, with 350 wireless access points and a data transmission stream of 54 megabits per second.
As campus Wifi continues to spread to colleges and universities across the country, millions of young consumers with long-distance telephone needs will be able to access VoIP via Wifi for a fraction of the cost of mobile carriers? national calling plans.
Wifi VoIP ? the short answer: not yet, but soon.
i c dividend possible for this year if there is no strategic investment coming as holding too much cash will decrease the roe/roa
MR is cash rich... Up to the next venture...
dun believe mr gives up so easily to ch , probably forming strategic alliance with ch in order to have win-win situation and not fighting all out with ch on the takeover. pi could phase out skype and still adopt mrtalk
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