Infrastructure
Communications
SIM sales stagnate as internet use soars
Mobile SIM card sales slowed to a crawl in 2015 while the number of new subscribers using mobile internet services leaped by 30 per cent, according to a Ministry of Telecommunications factsheet. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sim-sales-stagnate-internet-use-soars
Alchemy adds more Cambodia business
Singapore head quartered creative agency Alchemy has been appointed as the digital marketing agency for Total Cambodge in Cambodia. The win will see Alchemy driving the overall digital communication planning, creative and production for the brand. ...
Maeketing Interactive Team
http://www.marketing-interactive.com/alchemy-grows-cambodia-office-client-roster/
Despite threats, unregistered sims still in service
Four months ago, Deputy National Police Commissioner Chhay Sinarith declared unregistered SIM cards a major threat to national security. They were a favored tool of terrorists, kidnappers and drug runners, he insisted, before accusing mobile operators that distribute them of toying with the safety of ...
Khy Sovuthy and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/despite-threats-unregistered-sims-still-in-service-106516/
Slew of websites hacked
A group of online hackers calling themselves Cyber TeamRox have breached several local websites over the past two days, including those of the Cambodian Navy, AEON Microfinance and Build Bright University. Defence Ministry spokesman Chhum Socheath confirmed yesterday that the hackers had been able to ...
Mech Dara and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/slew-websites-hacked
Surging TV advertising set to continue
With the economy expanding at an annualized rate of about 7 percent over the past two decades, Cambodia has managed to attract more than $42 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) between 2005 and the end of the first half of last year, even though ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19668/surging-tv-advertising-set-to-continue/
Cambodia has 6.27 mln internet users by last year
Cambodia reported 6.27 million internet users in 2015, a 25 percent rise from 5 million users in the year before, according to the figures of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications on Thursday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6716027/2016/01/07/cambodia-has-627-mln-internet-users-last-year
New player joins busy telecom market
Starting today, Kingtel, a new internet and telecom service provider, will offer internet services to customers, with the company expected to launch call services within the next few months. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-player-joins-busy-telecom-market
AirAsia emergency landing blamed on ‘bird strike’
Aviation officials say a “bird strike” forced an AirAsia jet that took off from Phnom Penh International Airport yesterday morning at 8:35 am to return for an emergency landing. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19226/airasia-emergency-landing-blamed-on----bird-strike---/
Regulator revokes 29 licences for web firms
Cambodia’s telecom regulator has de-recognised 29 internet and voice-over internet protocol (VOIP) providers in the Kingdom, for failing to provide documentation to prove their active status, according to an official from the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC). ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/regulator-revokes-29-licences-web-firms
Government to take over Veng Sreng, stop collecting tolls
Less than a month after Phnom Penh Tollway began collecting money from commuters using the factory-lined Veng Sreng Boulevard in outer Phnom Penh, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Monday that the government would buy out the private firm and, as a New Year’s gift ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-to-take-over-veng-sreng-stop-collecting-tolls-104074/
Deadline ambitious for Sun TV
A new TV station funded by the opposition will be beamed into homes in and around Phnom Penh by early next year, a CNRP spokesman said yesterday, though questions linger as to whether funding can make that a reality. ...
Jamie Elliott
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deadline-ambitious-sun-tv
CCTV network goes live in capital: police
Some 200 surveillance cameras installed at Phnom Penh’s traffic lights were switched on for the first time yesterday, the National Police and Ministry of Interior announced. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cctv-network-goes-live-capital-police
Prime-time ban on foreign productions from new year
The directive banning the screening of foreign films during the prime-time slot at Cambodia-based television stations will move ahead and be more strictly enforced from January 1, according to the Information Ministry. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18953/prime-time-ban-on-foreign-productions-from-new-year/
Youth forum discusses ‘responsible’ social media use
More than 100 young people gathered yesterday in Phnom Penh to discuss the benefits and pitfalls of social media in Cambodia.At the youth forum, which focused on “Politics in the Digital Age”, youths, monks, politicians and NGO leaders spoke about the increasing importance of social ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youth-forum-discusses-responsible-social-media-use
New players shake up mobile money market
Since launching in 2009, Wing has been largely on its own in the mobile money transfer market, opening thousands of payment kiosks across the country and benefitting from rapidly expanding base of mobile phone users. ...
Tej Parikh
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-players-shake-up-mobile-money-market-103353/
Gov't touts internet record despite telecom bill concerns
Government officials defended the Kingdom’s record on internet freedom yesterday, despite concerns that recent and proposed legislation could curtail the rights of those speaking out online. ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-touts-internet-record-despite-telecom-bill-concerns
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Cambodians generally accept media reports as fact and, despite a surging reliance on the Internet for news, many are still getting information from traditional media outlets aligned with the ruling CPP, according to new research conducted by two freedom-of-information organizations. ...
Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/website-names-hidden-hands-behind-the-news-101826/
Draft telecoms law gives Gov’t broad spying powers
A new draft of the proposed Telecommunications Law would give authorities the right to eavesdrop on any conversation, along with a host of other powers that a rights group has warned would effectively nationalize private service providers. ...
Mech Dara and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/draft-telecoms-law-gives-govt-broad-spying-powers-101351/
Internet firms to lose licences
Cambodia’s telecom regulator will strip the operating permits of more than 30 private companies licensed to provide internet and Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) services unless they can demonstrate that they are commercially active and operating in accordance with their licensing agreements, a telecom official said yesterday.Im ...
Cam McGrath and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/internet-firms-lose-licences
Smartphone ownership exploded since ’13: study
The number of Cambodians who own at least one smartphone has almost doubled since 2013, helping put the Kingdom on track to having more than half of its population accessing the web in about a year, according to a new study.Almost 95 per cent of ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/smartphone-ownership-exploded-13-study
Watchdog eyes telecom, ISP licenses
The Telecom Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) has called on 34 telecom operators and Internet service providers (ISPs) to submit their business performance reports by the end of this month to ensure they are in compliance with their licensing agreements, officials said yesterday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17944/watchdog-eyes-telecom--isp-licenses/
Delayed shipment puts iPhone on hold
The opening weekend for the official launch of two new iPhone models in Cambodia hit a few bumps when the Kingdom’s two authorised iPhone resellers faced supply-side issues.Telecom company Smart, one of the two licensed resellers, was forced to turn away customers who had pre-booked ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/delayed-shipment-puts-iphone-hold
Radio waves signal hope for indigenous minorities
She had to leave Cambodia to learn how radio can be used to keep indigenous communities both up to date and in touch with their roots – and now she wants to do the same for the ethnic Jarai community in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17642/radio-waves-signal-hope-for-indigenous-minorities/
Officials firm on deadline for sim card registration
The deadline for the country’s five mobile operators to ensure all their subscribers are registered by National ID cards or other legal documents is December 22, officials said yesterday. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17633/officials-firm-on-deadline-for-sim-card-registration/