Cambodian Economy Reviews

THE Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC) is now the only body that can issue frequency licences to businesses, its director general said Thursday when quizzed on a series of sector controversies.
The telecoms industry came under scrutiny last month when leading Internet service providers (ISPs) wrote to Prime Minister Hun Sen to raise concerns about [...]

Putting an end to a month-long dispute between mobile phone service providers MobiTel and Beeline by trading accusations over price dumping and blocking of between-network calls, Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC) issued a directive dated Friday, 04 by setting a minimum charges of US$0.045 per minute for calls within an operator’s network and $0.0595 [...]

A telecom price war that saw rates for callers plummet amid steep competition will cease, thanks to a government-directed floor that analysts say runs counter to the ideas of a free market.
An influx of companies into the country’s nascent phone market produced deep reductions in per-minute charges in recent years, with some rates offered as [...]

Blackberry, produced by Canada’s Research in Motion (RIM), is the kind of smart phone in the biggest global suppliers with 19.9 percent of the global market in the first quarter, according to the Bloomberg. At the end of April 2009, 2G Blackberry has been imported into Cambodia by phone operator Hello owned by Kuala Lumpur-based [...]