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Other 3G News
Qualcomm and Teleepoch
Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October
6, 2007
MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband
Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6,
2007
Brazilian government to
publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007
KTF 3G service suffers
from technical problems, October 6, 2007
Argentina’s Personal
lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007
Russia has it's first 3G
network, October 6, 2007
AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent
as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007
Enea Extends License Agreement
with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007
LG to unveil premium handsets
in Brazil, October 2, 2007
KTF 3G subscribers doubled
in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007
3G policy in India will
be non-uniform, October 2, 2007
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M-commerce's the way for 3G operators to survive: lawyer
date: 14th March 2001, source by: 
channelnewsasia.com.sg/
Third generation operators must be prepared do m-commerce or risk
failure.
This advice from Brussels lawyer Mr George Metaxas, speaking at a symposium
Wednesday entitled, "The Digital Marketplace".
And Singapore, which will be auctioning the licenses on April 23 this
year, could learn a few lessons from the European experience, said Mr
Metaxas, who is with international legal firm Weil, Gotshal and Manges.
"In Europe, the 3G licenses are driven by regulation rather than clear
market demand. And the cost of entry for operators is exorbitant. In Europe,
total license fees amounted to about 125 billion euros -- this is roughly
the equivalent of total European annual revenues from voice telephony,"
he said.
Licence fees are not the only costs that would-be operators would have
to bear, there are also network rollout costs and service costs, reminded
Mr Metaxas.
He believes that the only way for 3G operators to overcome the high financing
costs, and combat stiff competition from 2G players is to "commoditise"
the infrastructure.
"Some of the possible solutions are a resale of the network capacity to
MVNOs (mobile virtual network operators), offering of a hybrid of 2.5/3G
services or to cooperate in the network rollout, but inevitably 3G operators
would need to perform m-commerce, which are economic transactions through
the use of mobile devices to survive," he asserted.
According to a study by international research firm Analysis, global m-commerce
services could grow to US$230 billion in 2006.
Some of the more promising m-commerce services are electronic ticketing,
prepaid mobile account recharging and parking or vending machine payments,
said Mr Metaxas.
Just last week in Singapore, Minister for Communications and Information
Technology Yeo Cheow Tong announced a huge slash in the 3G licence auction
reserve fee from $150 million to $100 million, a move made in anticipation
of the change in market sentiment.
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