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Plastic used to protect phone from scratches

vutha — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:31:54 +0000

You will feel disappointed when your favorite, new phone just bought is scratched or damaged by solid objects accidentally. After buying an expensive handset of mobile phone, you will rush to have your mobile covered by plastic at phone shops or places where provide such services. The service cost for covering plastic on [...]

Beeline launched mobile top-up service

vutha — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:43:27 +0000

Mobile phone operator, Beeline-Cambodia, introduced a mobile top-up service “Easy Fill”, which allows all Beeline subscribers to be able to top up any amount they would like to have, not required scratch cards to thousands of points of sale.

The new service “Easy Fill” makes its subscribers easier to choose any [...]

Samsung S7230E Wave 723 competing in the smartphone market

vutha — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:33:40 +0000

Recently, Samsung company just revealed the launch of its next handset- Samsung S7230E Wave 723 this month. The wave 723 is based on the famous Bada platform just like expensive model of the series, the S8500 Wave.

The Wave 723 comes with a 3.2″ capacitive TFT touchscreen of WQVGA resolution (240 [...]

Addicted to Internet ?

vutha — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:50:49 +0000

I have connected internet at my home nearly 3 moths with Vietnam’s mobile phone provider – Metphone – which its price is not cheaper but it is available to afford it. I need to pay internet fee $30 per month, and I can share it with other two brother-in-laws.

After connecting [...]

Banks launch sell down of $421m Mobitel loan

vutha — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:09:34 +0000

ANZ and Standard Bank launched the sell down of a US$421 million 18-month bridging loan this week, to back the Royal Group’s acquisition of Millicom’s majority stake in Mobitel.

The loan covers the Royal Group’s November purchase of Luxembourg-based Millicom International Cellular SA’s network operations in the Kingdom for $346 million. [...]

Telecom denies exchange scheme

vutha — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:53:38 +0000

TELECOM Cambodia’s director general has rebutted accusations that the plan to give the state-run company a monopoly over Internet bandwidth provision has been concocted in part to bolster its company’s finances before its registration on the new Cambodian stock exchange.

Several sources within Cambodia’s information and communication technology (ICT) sector, speaking [...]

Would-Be Critics Quiet on Telecom Rates

vutha — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:44:04 +0000

Financial experts here say Cambodia’s political environment has prevented them from investigating the impact of a price floor on telecoms, one of the country’s most lucrative sectors.

By Sunday, all nine mobile phone companies had raised their per-minute rates to meet a standard cost mandated by the ministries of Finance and [...]

Hello to launch the latest Blackberry

vutha — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:12:41 +0000

After launching the Blackberry two times last year, Mobile phone operator Hello will import the latest Blackberry Bold handset, manufactured by Research in Motion’s (RIM), to Cambodia at the end of this month, according to the Post.

Gary Foo, Hello’s Brand Manager, was quoted by the Post as saying that “we’ve [...]

Nexus One vs. iPhone Matchup!

vutha — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:03:45 +0000

At the beginning of this year, Google launched its cell phone “Nexus One”.

Chinese-made phones grab market share in Cambodia

vutha — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:16:04 +0000

So far, there are more than 4 million mobile phone users, and 9 phone service providers competing. There are a few popular brands of cell phone circulating in Cambodia’s phone market such as Nokia, Samsong, Sony Ericssion. Last a few years, mobile telephone made Chinese attracts its customers because it is cheaper than [...]

Metphone’s internet service not so good

vutha — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:10:04 +0000

Less a month I have connected home internet with Metphone Company but I met problem with internet connectivity. It meant that I could not access internet and I then called to service center to help solve internet problem but waiting until three days, it just was solved. When I asked phone company staff [...]

Internet access on Taxi

vutha — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:43:22 +0000

So far, the price of internet is reasonable cheap if compared to the last few years. My friend was accessing internet while taking taxi on the way Phnom Penh from Kompong Cham province. He used laptop by connecting with cell phone, which is served by Metphone company.

My dream is iPhone 3G

vutha — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:30:56 +0000

iPhone smartphone

After iPhone 3G smartphone have been on sales on the global market, I dream to buy it one day in the future. So far, iPhone 3G is circulating in Cambodia’s phone market but not have been used lots. In fact, I am not materialism but I like it because it is [...]

Hold two handsets of phone

vutha — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:43:17 +0000

Generally, I have observed that in the last few years, I have seen most of people getting started to hold at least two mobile phones after there are many mobile phone service providers having entered within the market. In addition, the pricing call is lowering if compared in 2000. So far, there are [...]

Mobile number the same to ID Card

vutha — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:16:46 +0000

I just received new promotion campaign from Smart Mobile Phone, which is just entering within the Cambodia market. The phone company launched new promotion for Cambodian users who need new phone number that is the same to your ID card number, by starting from 010 2xx xxx. This promotion is [...]

Internet calls to local mobile phones blocked

vutha — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:13:15 +0000

In an effort to tighten social security and to track criminals, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications called for all local Internet service providers (ISPs) to block the use of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) call to local mobile phone but does not apply to calls made using VoIP to phones outside the [...]