AIMS Partners with China Telecom to extend Premium IP Routes to Mainland China

Local carrier-neutral data center AIMS collaborates with world’s largest fixed line and broadband telecom operator

KUALA LUMPUR, 11 November, 2013 – AIMS Group (‘AIMS’), Malaysia and South East Asia’s leading operator of premium carrier-neutral data centre and managed service provider, today announces its partnership with China Telecom (M) Sdn Bhd (‘CT’), the world's largest wireline telecommunications and broadband services provider as well as the world's largest CDMA mobile operator.

According to CEO of AIMS Chiew Kok Hin, the partnership will see AIMS’ collaboration with CT in two areas – AIMS will be a reseller of CT’s premium IP routes as well as Chinese data center capacity to local corporations seeking for extension into the various Chinese cities.

“In hand with this arrangement, AIMS will be working with CT to roll out IPVPN (Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network) services as more Chinese Internet Content is expected to be in demand by the Malaysian market.”

He adds that the move is also aligned with the Malaysian government’s EPP 3 vision to positioning Malaysia as a World-class Data Centre Hub.

“AIMS’ select partnership with CT as Asia’s premier telecommunications and Internet Service Provider (ISP) is part of our on going effort in providing more value added services and competitive variation to our customers who require a niche from their data center provider.”

President of China Telecom (M) Sdn Bhd, Li Jun adds, “CT’s partnership with AIMS is also with the objective of attracting ISPs and Internet Data Center (IDCs) providers in Malaysia to do business with CT.

Indeed, this partnership marks an important milestone in CT’s supporting role to complement Malaysia in establishing itself as ASEAN regional hub for telecommunications.”

Li adds that CT has a vast experience in the operations of data centers - with more than 300 IDCs in mainland China including major cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Chengdu; and currently has also built five (5) IDCs overseas.

Chiew ends, “With the CT-AIMS partnership collaboration, Malaysian companies and AIMS’ customers seeking to venture into the Chinese market can now leverage on the established premier IP China routes for more synergistic business and content sharing opportunities between China and ASEAN ISPs.”

China Telecom and Nokia Launch First CDMA Windows Phone in China

Stunning new Lumia smartphone, Nokia 800C, makes everyday moments extraordinary for China Telecom subscribers

Beijing, China – March 28, 2012 – Today China Telecom and Nokia announced the Nokia 800C, the first CDMA Windows Phone in China and Nokia's first Lumia phone for the world's largest smartphone market. The Nokia 800C combines head-turning design and the fastest way to connect to the people, places and things that matter most, in an experience uniquely tailored for people in China on the country's leading 3G network.

"We're excited to introduce our first Lumia smartphone, the Nokia 800C, to this important market with our exclusive launch partner, China Telecom. Working closely together, we've created a compelling, locally relevant experience on the Nokia 800C especially tailored for people in China," said Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia.

Wang Xiaochu, Chairman of China Telecom, expressed his enthusiasm for Nokia Lumia: "This grand launch for China's first CDMA Windows Phone represents our optimism and excitement for the future of Windows Phone and Nokia Lumia in China."

The partnership between China Telecom and Nokia extends beyond the Nokia 800C with the addition of Nokia's most affordable Lumia smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 610 also arriving in a CDMA variant to China Telecom's portfolio in Q2 2012. The Nokia 610C is targeted at a more youthful audience and provides a perfect introduction to Windows Phone with access to the same core signature experiences as the rest of the Lumia range in a package optimized for quality.Nokia 800C
The Nokia 800C makes it easy to stay in touch with the people that matter most, get instant access to the Web and all the top applications in the Windows Phone Marketplace. Offered by China Telecom in black and cyan, the Nokia 800C features a reduced body design flowing seamlessly into the 3.7" AMOLED ClearBlack curved touchscreen display. With a 1.4 GHz processor, hardware acceleration and a separate graphics processor, it also features an instant-share 8 Mpx camera with exclusive Carl Zeiss optics, HD video playback, 16GB of internal user memory and SkyDrive storage for accessing pictures and files from anywhere.

The Nokia 800C brings signature Nokia experiences optimized for Windows Phone and available only on Lumia:

- Nokia Maps, providing quick-access, superior, three-dimensional maps in China and over 190 countries worldwide, as well as the ability to discover the top places nearby with local content support from Fantong, Jiepang, Ctrip, Qunar and Soufun. People can easily click on the places to see photos, recommendations and information and quickly dial restaurants to make a reservation.

- Nokia Drive, which delivers a full-fledged personal navigation device with free, voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation for over 100 countries including China, a dedicated in-car user-interface, free offline navigation and speed notifications.

- Nokia Music which offers a single hub experience for discovering the latest music, including unlimited free music for 12 months for consumers in mainland China. It also includes MixRadio, a free, global, mobile music-streaming application that delivers hundreds of channels of locally-relevant music, including the ability to listen to music offline and build personalized mixes for listening to favourite music from any location.

Exclusive applications and services for a uniquely local experience
China Telecom and Nokia have worked closely together to bring integrated China Telecom services that target young people including music, games, videos, and integrated reading apps right onto the Nokia 800C home screen. To reach this target market, the Nokia 800C will be featured prominently in Tianyi FlyYoung shops, a distribution arm and new, youth-centered sub-brand of China Telecom.

People purchasing Nokia Lumia smartphones in China will have access to exclusive applications such as magazines from Trends and special offers for free downloads of popular gaming titles such as Fruit Ninja and PVZ.

- Trends, a provider of highly interactive fashion magazine applications, will launch Cosmopolitan first forNokia Lumia smartphones and provide people using a Nokia Lumia phone with free access to For Him Magazine (FHM), Harper's Bazaar and Esquire magazines in Marketplace, opening today.

- As an added incentive for people using a Nokia Lumia smartphone in China, Nokia will soon offer 100,000 free downloads of the hit gaming titles Fruit Ninja and PVZ through the Nokia Collection in Marketplace.

Nokia and Microsoft also announced the Be Top program, which is designed to encourage and support developers in creating great new applications on Windows Phone specifically for people in China.

These exciting offers and the BeTop development program illustrate Nokia's commitment to the local ecosystem of application developers and service providers. Through joint innovation with leading local providers, Nokia is able to offer Lumia users access to all major Internet services in China including Sina, SOHU, Tencent and Renren. When paired with the choice of nearly 20,000 apps available for download through Marketplace, people using a Nokia Lumia smartphone in China can create a truly personalized and locally relevant experience on their device.

Availability and Pricing
The Nokia 800C will be available for purchase in April through Tianyi FlyYoung shops, a distribution channel of China Telecom; Nokia brand stores; China's top chain electronics stores including Suning, Gome, Funtalk, D.Phone, and CentreYou, as well as regional channels and online shops such as 189.cn and hicdma.com. The Nokia 800C is offered without contract for 3599 RMB.

Yes wins “Best new Service” in prestigious global 2011 Infovision Awards

Barely a year old, Yes earns a prodigious place amongst global leaders in the broadband industry in innovation and value

Kuala lumpur — October 3, 2011 — YTL Communications, a global frontrunner in mobile 4G, earned a prodigious place amongst global leaders in the broadband industry recently by winning the “Best New Service” in the prestigious Global 2011 InfoVision Awards with its innovative Yes 4G service – Malaysia’s fastest mobile internet with voice.

Almost a year into its operations, the win comes as a clear acknowledgement that Malaysia is at the forefront of the world when it comes to the adoption of next-generation wireless technologies, thanks to one of the most advanced and innovative 4G networks in the world – Yes 4G.
World’s best 4G service: YTL Communications received "Best New Service" at the Broadband InfoVision Awards 2011 gala dinner awards ceremony that was held at the Bateau Diamant on the river Seine in Paris recently. Receiving the award on behalf of YTL Communications is Executive Director and Deputy CEO, Jacob Yeoh (right) pictured here with Gavin Whitechurch, Director of Broadband World Forum 2011.

YTL Communications’ novel approach in operating its mobile internet platform, with the use of the Yes ID, unified communications and cloud-based offerings, won over an elite panel of judges comprising senior industry executives and experts including Dr. Zhao Huiling (Vice-President of Beijing Research Institute at China Telecom), Dr. Yoon-Young Park (Senior Vice President, Head of Technology Development Office at Korea Telecom), Daniel Brower (EVP Convergence Technology at Deutsche Telekom Group) and Amaru Chavez (Group Chief Technology Officer at Etisalat).

The Yes 4G service impressed the judges among a distinguished list of finalists including Etisalat from Saudi Arabia and telecommunications giant, Huawei, from China. With the win, YTL Communications joins an elite list of operators from around the world including, British Telecoms, Australia’s Telstra and Hong Kong’s PCCW who have all been bestowed such honour in the history of InfoVision Award.

The Yes 4G service is a mobile internet platform that facilitates rapid and continuous innovation unlike any other in the world, offering a ground breaking architecture that gives users unmatched performance, convenience and cost savings by bringing together mobile broadband, mobile telephony (voice and SMS) and cloud-based services across multiple devices, all in a single account.

“Identity-based architecture is a key Internet precept. We engineered our network to be identity driven, where every account is defined by a single user ID (the Yes ID) that comes with Internet access plus a mobile number and a set of cloud-based services such as push email, synchronised address book and content services that can be used across multiple devices. No other operator in the world offers such an innovation,” said an elated Wing K. Lee, CEO of YTL Communications.

“The award is another validation of the vision and dedication that went hand-in-hand in the creation of Yes 4G and our drive to bring positive change to Malaysia. We are honoured and humbled by this distinction at a global level. I salute my teammates at YTL Communications – amazing things happen when you say Yes!” Wing concluded.

The Broadband InfoVision Awards have long been established as the industry’s most prestigious recognition of excellence in the broadband industry. The Gala Dinner Awards ceremony was held at the Bateau Diamant on the river Seine in Paris recently.

Asia Pacific sees drop in 4Q08 net additions as Christmas period fails to ignite mobile sales

25 March, 2009

The economic slowdown has impacted the Asia Pacific mobile industry hard with the number of new mobile users signed up over the Christmas sales period falling almost 20 million in 4Q08 from 3Q08 - traditionally the slowest quarter in the calendar.

New research from Informa Telecoms & Media showsthat mobile net additions in the Asia Pacific regiondeclined 22.6% from 87.69 million in 3Q08 to just67.91 million in 4Q08. The last Christmas reversalcame in 2002 when net adds fell 5.9% from 26.75million in 3Q02 to 25.17 million in 4Q02.

“Economic woes, subscriber base clean ups in China,Bangladesh and Pakistan, as well as less competitionin Indonesia contributed to the uncharacteristicfall in net additions,” said Nicole McCormick, senioranalyst at Informa.

China alone accounted for more than half of theregion’s total decline in net adds, falling 56.65%from 23.39 million in 3Q08 to just 10.14 millionin 4Q08.

However, the blip in China appears to be a one-offas China Telecom culled 13.3 million inactivesubscriptions in the month of October alone aftertaking control of China's Unicom's CDMA business.

Meanwhile, 4Q08 spelled continued bad news foroperators in Pakistan and Bangladesh with net addsdecreasing by 112.4% and 26.2% respectively comparedwith 3Q08. In both countries mobile growth wasimpacted by the crackdown on unregistered SIM cardsand economic factors.

Pakistan recorded a net loss of almost 300,000subscribers, compared with almost 6 million net addsin 2Q08 and 2.18 million net adds in 3Q08. Indonesiaalso took a hit in terms of growth, with net addsfalling from 14 million in 2Q08 to 13.15 million in3Q08, before more than halving to 6.36 million in 4Q08.

“It came as little surprise that Indonesia’s netadds slowed quite considerably in 4Q08, since thefierce price war ignited by third-ranked playerExcelcomindo in 2Q07 finally eased,” said McCormick.“Moreover, many customers that took on a cheap secondSIM card during the recent promotions, reverted backto a single SIM card in 4Q08.”

Meanwhile, India, Sri Lanka and Vietnam were amongthe few bright spots in 4Q08. India added nearlythree times more new subscriptions than China withalmost 30 million net adds in 4Q08, up 10.7% on3Q08’s net adds of close to 27 million. “Low tariffs,widening network coverage and cheaper handsetsremain the key drivers of mobile growth in India,”said McCormick.

Informa Telecoms & Media warns that Asia’s worseningeconomies spell particularly bad news for countries,such as China, India and Pakistan - and even Thailand,Indonesia and the Philippines, now focusing on ruralcommunities to drive growth.