Singapore-based Internet service provider (ISP) Pacific Internet Ltd. (PI) will form a joint venture company to provide narrowband and broadband services to businesses in Malaysia, the company announced today in a statement.
Global Crossing Ltd. will acquire a 50 percent ownership share in the Atlantic Crossing 2 (AC 2) fiber-optic cable scheduled to begin service in September, Level 3 Communications Ltd. said in a statement today.
Regional Asian ISP (Internet service provider) Pacific Internet Ltd. (PI) yesterday announced that its revenue for the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 1999 was 33 percent up on the previous year at US$57.3 million.
Sweden has overtaken the U.S. to become the dominant information economy in the world, according to the 2000 International Data Corp. (IDC)/ World Times Information Society Index (ISI) released yesterday.
Sales of PCs in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) grew 35 percent in 1999 to reach a record total of 14.1 million units sold, according to a report released today by research firm International Data Corp. (IDC).
The number of Internet hosts worldwide rose 67 percent in 1999 to surpass 72.4 million hosts by the end of the year, according to a survey carried out by the Internet Software Consortium (ISC).
IBM Corp. and Singapore-based Pacific Internet Ltd. (PI) yesterday announced a strategic alliance to jointly develop one-stop business-to-business and business-to-consumer electronic business products for companies in the Asia-Pacific region.
Malaysia's high-tech Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) will next week launch a stock index tracking the share prices of the country's leading IT companies, in an attempt to provide better information to retail and institutional investors.
Vietnam's first dedicated software industry center will open in the second quarter of this year, according to the Ho Chi Minh City Industrial Department.
Asia represents a tremendous opportunity for vendors of low-cost Linux-based Internet access products with literally millions of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the vast majority of which have yet to go online, according to Scott Hickman, vice president of sales for US-based Linux vendor Esoft.
Following its decision to throw open the country's telecommunications market to all comers, Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) has cut the licensing fees required by new operators of all types of telecommunications services.
Asia represents a tremendous opportunity for vendors of low-cost Linux-based Internet access products with literally millions of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the vast majority of which have yet to go online, according to Scott Hickman, vice president of sales for U.S.-based Linux vendor Esoft Inc.
Malaysian mobile phone operator Maxis Communications Bhd. will launch a WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) Internet access service in the second quarter of this year, the company announced yesterday.
Australian telecommunications company Davnet has entered into an exclusive agreement to acquire New World Telephone (NWT) of Hong Kong.
Regulatory body Vietnam Directorate General of Posts & Telecommunications (DGPT) will allow Internet access prices to fall by around 25 percent in an effort to encourage greater use of the Internet and e-commerce in the country, DGPT announced Friday.