Tag Archives: Mobile phone

Hoping for unity on Web hub

FINANCE Minister Keat Chhon has asked the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC) to resolve disagreements with the private sector over the proposed creation of a state-run centralised Internet hub before a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen next month, said IT company representatives who attended a meeting with government officials on Tuesday. According to … Continue reading

Only MPTC can licence airwave use, official says

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 … Continue reading

MPTC puts an end to free mobile call promotion

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 … Continue reading

PM attracted $6bn Vietnamese investment

Cambodia’s prime minister Hun Sen departed Vietnam on Saturday in order to attend a Vietnamese investor’s conference in Ho Chi Minh City. During this time, Cambodia and Vietnam has agreements with US$6 billion worth of investment into Cambodia to strengthen the cooperation in four sectors of commerce, tourism, energy and transportation. The agreements were signed … Continue reading

Telecom War Prompts Ministry Price Floor

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 … Continue reading

Blackberry Smart phone entered Cambodia

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 … Continue reading