If you have yet to tap into this market, it's still not too late for you to do so. With the tremendous increase in mobile phones, can you imagine how potential the market is? Let's stand at the front of this technological world and move towards together.
The growth of the mobile market in Indonesia rose to 12 million units in the third quarter of 2011. This amount is quite significant because the increase of 27 percent over the second quarter (10 million units). When compared to the same period last year, the increase reached 68 per cent.
Thus the results of research International Data Corporation (IDC) in Asia Pacific Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report. According to Market Analyst for Telecommunications Research, IDC Indonesia, Fajar Hidayat, the increase occurred because there was improvement in the distribution outside the Jakarta and outside Java. “This opens an opportunity for vendors to be able to sell the phone with a cheaper price,” Dawn said in a statement received by Reuters Tekno, Thursday (12/08/2011).
A major factor triggering this increase is the increased sales of low-end phones, especially the type of dual SIM card which is still favored most of the people of Indonesia. Vendors say low-end phones more incentive to offer mobile phone with a QWERTY keyboard, touch screen and analog TV successfully attract consumers to buy secondary phone.
Eid al-Fitr holiday period so the momentum where people spend extra money to buy gadgets. Mobile operators also play a role supporting this growth by making war bundling rates and bonus offers.
In the feature phone market Indonesia, there are three competing vendors of Nokia, Cross, and Nexian. Nokia leads with dual SIM. While in the smartphone market, the BlackBerry still dominates over the Samsung and HTC are serious menggadang Android operating system on each device.
Looking at the mobile phone market competition is increasingly fierce, IDC estimates that the Indonesian mobile market in 2012 will increase about 68 percent.The growth of the mobile market in Indonesia rose to 12 million units in the third quarter of 2011. This amount is quite significant because the increase of 27 percent over the second quarter (10 million units). When compared to the same period last year, the increase reached 68 per cent.
Thus the results of research International Data Corporation (IDC) in Asia Pacific Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report. According to Market Analyst for Telecommunications Research, IDC Indonesia, Fajar Hidayat, the increase occurred because there was improvement in the distribution outside the Jakarta and outside Java. “This opens an opportunity for vendors to be able to sell the phone with a cheaper price,” Dawn said in a statement received by Reuters Tekno, Thursday (12/08/2011).
A major factor triggering this increase is the increased sales of low-end phones, especially the type of dual SIM card which is still favored most of the people of Indonesia. Vendors say low-end phones more incentive to offer mobile phone with a QWERTY keyboard, touch screen and analog TV successfully attract consumers to buy secondary phone.
Eid al-Fitr holiday period so the momentum where people spend extra money to buy gadgets. Mobile operators also play a role supporting this growth by making war bundling rates and bonus offers.
In the feature phone market Indonesia, there are three competing vendors of Nokia, Cross, and Nexian. Nokia leads with dual SIM. While in the smartphone market, the BlackBerry still dominates over the Samsung and HTC are serious menggadang Android operating system on each device.
Looking at the mobile phone market competition is increasingly fierce, IDC estimates that the Indonesian mobile market in 2012 will increase about 68 percent.
Source: Posted in Gadget on 8th December 2011.
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Africa - Open information solutions for the Urban Poor
Below article has shown that mobile phones perhaps via SMS are the essential communication tool in developed countries to access information.
“Tools such as mobile phones can be used to empower citizens through mapping their communities, providing feedback on service delivery, and gaining access to information on jobs, markets, and hazard conditions.” Judy Baker, Lead Economist of the World Bank Institute Urban Practice
A couple of days ago I had the opportunity to attend a Brown Bag Lunch of the World Bank Institute WBI entitled ‘Open Information Solutions for the Urban Poor’. During an hour and a half four speakers advocated the use of Information and Communications Technologies ICT for development or what they call ICT4D. While, being a user of many ‘Aps’, I was aware of the endless applications that open information solutions had in developed countries – where there is a high access to information technologies – , however, their use in urban contexts in developing countries seemed to me distant and complex. It took me only an hour to change my mind.
Reality check…
I guess my ignorance of the opportunities that ICTs had for development issues came from my ignorance of the recent exponential growth of some ICTs in developing countries. While Internet is still a rare commodity in developing countries – only 11% of Africans and 24% of Asians have access to it – mobile phones have been democratized much faster than any other ICT. Since 2002, mobile penetration has grown by 321% in emerging economies compared to 46% in developed countries. Africa, the least developed continent, had only 17 million mobile connections in 2000 and has today around 620 million, corresponding to 60% of the population. But the democratization of some ICT in developing countries is only a part of the equation, how can basic information technologies help to tackle developing issues?
From Yelp to M-PESA
Today, most of the open information solutions used in developed countries are based on spatial applications that require GPS and mobile access to the internet. Smartphone applications like Yelp or Poynt – that can point you to the nearest and best reviewed restaurant – are based on information made by users for users, most of which have either smartphones or an internet connection. With only the most basic mobile technology, open information solutions in developing countries have to very creative and simple. In fact, some of the most widely used Open Information technologies in developing countries rely on simple SMS. M-PESA, an SMS-based money transfer system in Kenya allows individuals to deposit, send, and withdraw funds using their cell-phones. The latter, is currently used by 40% of Kenya’s adult population, most of who live in cities and use it as a cheap and easy way to transfer money to their families in the country-side.
Very similar SMS applications are emerging in many other developing economies – like Brazil and Bangladesh – to improve citizen’s participation in participatory budgets, give service delivery feedback, etc. In Mexico, two entrepreneurs (Oscar Salazar and Jorge Soto) have developed CitiVox, in which citizens reports are transformed into actionable information. One of their first applications used citizens’ report on crimes in Mexico to produce real-time information that could serve to inform other citizens and the authorities.
Source from Paula Restrepo-Cadavid on Nov 25, 2011
“Tools such as mobile phones can be used to empower citizens through mapping their communities, providing feedback on service delivery, and gaining access to information on jobs, markets, and hazard conditions.” Judy Baker, Lead Economist of the World Bank Institute Urban Practice
A couple of days ago I had the opportunity to attend a Brown Bag Lunch of the World Bank Institute WBI entitled ‘Open Information Solutions for the Urban Poor’. During an hour and a half four speakers advocated the use of Information and Communications Technologies ICT for development or what they call ICT4D. While, being a user of many ‘Aps’, I was aware of the endless applications that open information solutions had in developed countries – where there is a high access to information technologies – , however, their use in urban contexts in developing countries seemed to me distant and complex. It took me only an hour to change my mind.
Reality check…
I guess my ignorance of the opportunities that ICTs had for development issues came from my ignorance of the recent exponential growth of some ICTs in developing countries. While Internet is still a rare commodity in developing countries – only 11% of Africans and 24% of Asians have access to it – mobile phones have been democratized much faster than any other ICT. Since 2002, mobile penetration has grown by 321% in emerging economies compared to 46% in developed countries. Africa, the least developed continent, had only 17 million mobile connections in 2000 and has today around 620 million, corresponding to 60% of the population. But the democratization of some ICT in developing countries is only a part of the equation, how can basic information technologies help to tackle developing issues?
From Yelp to M-PESA
Today, most of the open information solutions used in developed countries are based on spatial applications that require GPS and mobile access to the internet. Smartphone applications like Yelp or Poynt – that can point you to the nearest and best reviewed restaurant – are based on information made by users for users, most of which have either smartphones or an internet connection. With only the most basic mobile technology, open information solutions in developing countries have to very creative and simple. In fact, some of the most widely used Open Information technologies in developing countries rely on simple SMS. M-PESA, an SMS-based money transfer system in Kenya allows individuals to deposit, send, and withdraw funds using their cell-phones. The latter, is currently used by 40% of Kenya’s adult population, most of who live in cities and use it as a cheap and easy way to transfer money to their families in the country-side.
Very similar SMS applications are emerging in many other developing economies – like Brazil and Bangladesh – to improve citizen’s participation in participatory budgets, give service delivery feedback, etc. In Mexico, two entrepreneurs (Oscar Salazar and Jorge Soto) have developed CitiVox, in which citizens reports are transformed into actionable information. One of their first applications used citizens’ report on crimes in Mexico to produce real-time information that could serve to inform other citizens and the authorities.
Source from Paula Restrepo-Cadavid on Nov 25, 2011
OMG: Text messaging turns 19 this week.. and this is the Brit we have to thank for our sore thumbs
~ ! ~ Happy Birthday to You - SMS ~ ! ~ Yay ! You are turning into 19 years old this year. But yet, it's still HOT in the sense that SMS still contributes a big portion of revenues to the operators. Don't believe? See yourself. :)
Text messaging turns 19 this week but what few people know is that the first person to send one was in fact a British engineer.
While many might have assumed it would have emanated from some high-tech office in Silicon Valley, California, it came from an office in Newbury, Berkshire.
And the man who sent it was Neil Papworth who aged 22 texted Vodafone director Richard Jarvis at a staff Christmas party the full greeting 'Happy Christmas' - not, note, 'Happy Xmas'.
Mr Papworth sent the SMS (or Short Message Service) from his work computer to an Orbitel 901 handset on the Vodafone network and thereby set off a revolution in the way we communicate, date, work and network.
'I was a young engineer working on new communications technologies. We thought SMS was a clever way for a company's staff to send simple messages to one another,' Mr Papworth told the SMS & Mobile Messaging Association at a gathering to mark the 15th anniversary.
'I'd never have predicted that it would spread into the consumer world and become what it is today. At the time it didn't seem like a big deal.'
And ever since that December day in 1992 the number of texts has grown and grown giving rise to an entirely new vernacular.
What would life now be without OMG, LOL, TTYL and 'cya l8er'? And - heaven forbid - emoticons?
For many teens, who have never known life without a mobile phone, the world pre-texting seems inconceivable.
One phone per family? In the hall? With the whole family wanting to use it? How did that work?
But now landlines and snail mail are long gone, pagers and the fax machine were over before they began, and the world has been left texting, tweeting, chatting and IM’ing into oblivion.
Still, the take up of texting was slow.
Considering the first was sent in 1992, messaging didn’t become commonplace until the early 2000s.
In fact, in 1995 mobile phone customers sent only 0.4 messages on average each per month.
Post 2000 however things changed and texting took off. Some 8 trillion text messages will be sent in 2011 - or over 15 million each minute.
The biggest texters are from the subscribers in the Philippines who text an average of 27 messages each day.
In last year alone SMS texts generated $114.6 billion in global revenues.
That’s just the beginning, according to the experts, who estimate that mobile networks will earn $726 billion from SMS text messaging over the next five years.
While some may resent the little messages for causing a demise in verbal communication, for many the humble text is a quick route out of an unwanted chat.
‘If you call, the conversation can go on and on. With texting you can just say “Meet me here in ten” and you’re done,’ Rachel Claire, an avid texter, told Mail Online.
Source: By KATIE SILVER on 7th December 2011.
Text messaging turns 19 this week but what few people know is that the first person to send one was in fact a British engineer.
While many might have assumed it would have emanated from some high-tech office in Silicon Valley, California, it came from an office in Newbury, Berkshire.
And the man who sent it was Neil Papworth who aged 22 texted Vodafone director Richard Jarvis at a staff Christmas party the full greeting 'Happy Christmas' - not, note, 'Happy Xmas'.
Mr Papworth sent the SMS (or Short Message Service) from his work computer to an Orbitel 901 handset on the Vodafone network and thereby set off a revolution in the way we communicate, date, work and network.
'I was a young engineer working on new communications technologies. We thought SMS was a clever way for a company's staff to send simple messages to one another,' Mr Papworth told the SMS & Mobile Messaging Association at a gathering to mark the 15th anniversary.
'I'd never have predicted that it would spread into the consumer world and become what it is today. At the time it didn't seem like a big deal.'
And ever since that December day in 1992 the number of texts has grown and grown giving rise to an entirely new vernacular.
What would life now be without OMG, LOL, TTYL and 'cya l8er'? And - heaven forbid - emoticons?
For many teens, who have never known life without a mobile phone, the world pre-texting seems inconceivable.
One phone per family? In the hall? With the whole family wanting to use it? How did that work?
But now landlines and snail mail are long gone, pagers and the fax machine were over before they began, and the world has been left texting, tweeting, chatting and IM’ing into oblivion.
Still, the take up of texting was slow.
Considering the first was sent in 1992, messaging didn’t become commonplace until the early 2000s.
In fact, in 1995 mobile phone customers sent only 0.4 messages on average each per month.
Post 2000 however things changed and texting took off. Some 8 trillion text messages will be sent in 2011 - or over 15 million each minute.
The biggest texters are from the subscribers in the Philippines who text an average of 27 messages each day.
In last year alone SMS texts generated $114.6 billion in global revenues.
That’s just the beginning, according to the experts, who estimate that mobile networks will earn $726 billion from SMS text messaging over the next five years.
While some may resent the little messages for causing a demise in verbal communication, for many the humble text is a quick route out of an unwanted chat.
‘If you call, the conversation can go on and on. With texting you can just say “Meet me here in ten” and you’re done,’ Rachel Claire, an avid texter, told Mail Online.
Source: By KATIE SILVER on 7th December 2011.
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