Online launch voice
Internet Service provider Online is aiming to compete in the voice call market with its latest product, TalkMobile, a Skype-like application for handsets. Customers are not required to connect via Online to use the application and may connect through rival ISPs and Mobile companies. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011070450152/Business/online-launch-voice.html
Local microfinance institute invests in new ATM network
Hattha Kaksekar Ltd, a local microfinance institution, has invested almost US$2 million in a new ATM network, the company announced yesterday. Hattha Kaksekar now has around $32 million in deposits and will become the first financial institution to use SmartVista, an automated ATM process which also ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012072057524/Business/mfi-to-invest-in-new-atm-network.html
‘Thinnest’ smartphone is set for debut in Cambodia
Two days after Huawei introduced the world’s thinnest smartphone in London and Singapore, the Cambodian representative office of the China-based company announced that the sleek device would be sold in the Kingdom in July. While the Chinese telecom giant hopes to increase its market share of ...
Long-overdue Consolidation of the Kingdom’s Mobile Telecoms Market May Have Operators Feeling Hopeful, but Challenges Remain
After years of immersion in a vicious price war, battle weary and capital-haemorrhaging [sic] mobile operators in Cambodia’s oversaturated telecommunications sector may finally have reason to breathe a sigh of relief; 2013 might be cited as the year the tide turned. Tarred by legal threats, ...
Mobile Operator Beeline Reports Large Drop in Subscribers
The number of subscribers to the mobile operator Beeline plummeted by more than 400,000 in the fourth quarter of last year—the single-largest drop for the carrier since it entered the Cambodian market in mid-2009—while the average revenue per user (ARPU) increased slightly, the company’s quarterly ...
(English) Former Mfone employees demand severance pay
Sorry, this entry is only available in អង់គ្លេស (ស.រ.អ). ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/former-mfone-employees-demand-severance-pay-60454/
Scammers pose as bank staffers
Acleda Bank is trying to protect its customers from getting bamboozled by a phone scam in which callers allegedly posing as bank employees ask for money transfers in exchange for a prize, according to a statement and ads placed in a local newspaper. An Acleda ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013070966730/Business/scammers-pose-as-bank-staffers.html
Gov's to Lay More than 400 Km of Fiber-Optic Cable
With a loan from Japan, the government will begin laying more than 400 km of fiber-optic cable early next year to connect Phnom Penh with five provinces, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC) said yesterday. Telecommunication Minister So Khun said the cable-which will connect Phnom Penh with ...
Focusing on a good user experience
Companies and individuals need to do more than just create technology. They need to optimise the services and goods they provide, especially when introducing new concepts to developing markets such as Cambodia. That was the message from one presenter at last weekend’s T3CON12-ASIA conference in Phnom ...
IT Firm Sues Thaicom Over Mfone Ownership
Thai information technology firm Infobahn Co. Ltd. has filed a lawsuit against telecommunications conglomerate Thaicom Public Company Ltd. for breaching an agreement made last year to sell 41.14 percent of its shares, a deal that also includes a 51 percent stake in the Cambodian mobile ...
Fired Phone Company Workers File Complaint
One of Cambodia’s most active unions has filed a complaint against a Thai mobile phone provider, claiming it laid off more than 50 staff members without warning and without compensation. The complaint was filed with the Ministry of Labor against Mfone, a company that belongs to ...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/fired-phone-company-workers-file-complaint/1579895.html
Shuttered but still collecting
T & P, the notorious labour recruitment firm that was closed down last year because of its appalling record of abuse scandals, is continuing to receive and pocket remittances from maids stranded in Malaysia, a coalition of rights groups told a press conference yesterday. At the ...
Creditors, Court in Dispute over Mfone Case
A court administrator and creditors who have filed complaints against bankrupt mobile operator Mfone are at loggerheads over whether or not to overturn two injunctions filed against the firm to stop it selling off its assets. “The judges are now considering to drop the injunctions because ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/creditors-court-in-dispute-over-mfone-case-18654/
Mfone Parent Firm to Consider Workers Demands
The company behind the defunct mobile operator Mfone has told its former employees that it will consider covering millions of dollars allegedly owned to them in severance pay. The former employees have vowed to keep protesting until they are paid the $44.44 million to which ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/mfone-parent-firm-to-consider-workers-demands-27821/
មន្ត្រីកំណត់ជាក់លាក់ពីថ្ងៃផុតកំណត់សម្រាប់ការចុះបញ្ជីស៊ីមកាតទូរស័ព្ទ
ថ្ងៃផុតកំណត់សម្រាប់ក្រុមហ៊ុនទូរស័ព្ទចល័តទាំងប្រាំរបស់ប្រទេសកម្ពុជាដើម្បីធានាថាអតិថិជនរបស់ពួកគេទាំងអស់នឹងចុះបញ្ជីជាមួយអត្តសញ្ញាណប័ណ្ណឬលិខិតគតិយុត្តិផ្សេងទៀតគឺថ្ងៃទី ២២ ខែធ្នូ នេះបើយោងតាមពាក្យសម្តីរបស់មន្ត្រីបានឱ្យដឹងកាលពីម្សិលមិញ។ ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17633/officials-firm-on-deadline-for-sim-card-registration/
Resurgent mobile deals could hurt margins, analysts say
‘Top up $2 and get 30 free minutes daily for 20 days. Top up $5 and expand the same offer for a month. And, for a $10 recharge, that half-an-hour freebie lasts 50 days.” Mobile operator Beeline, which announced the promotion in August, called it “another ...
Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/resurgent-mobile-deals-could-hurt-margins-analysts-say
TRC ព្រមានដកហូតលេខកូដ VoIP ពីក្រុមហ៊ុន ១៥
បញ្ញត្តិករទូរគមនាគមន៍កម្ពុជា (TRC) បានប្រកាសព្រមានដកហូតលេខកូដប្រើប្រាស់ប្រព័ន្ធទូរស័ព្ទតាមអ៊ីនធឺណិត VoIP ពីក្រុមហ៊ុនឯកជន ១៥ ដោយសារខកខានមិនបង់កម្រៃប្រើប្រាស់កាលពី ឆ្នាំ២០១៣ ដោយទុកកាលកំណត់ត្រូវបង់ចុងក្រោយត្រឹមថ្ងៃ ទី៣០ សីហា នេះ។ សេចក្តីជូនដំណឹងរបស់ TRC កាលពីថ្ងៃ ទី២២ សីហា ដោយមាន ...
ហ៊ គឹមសាយ
http://bit.ly/1wFIe7V
Thaicom to sell Mfone for $100
Troubled Cambodian telecoms operator Mfone will be disposed of by its parent company, Thaicom, in the coming weeks for $100 to INT Management Service Company Limited (INT), according to a filing with the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). Shenington Investment, a subsidiary of Thaicom and the ...
Tourism Industry's Growth Offers Job Creation For Local Labor Force
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia is trying to boost the tourism industry after its contribution to economic growth and offering job creation as ASEAN economic integration 2015 is moving and the free flow of workforce mobilization has been needed to help ensure steady growth. Cambodia’s tourism sector, in 2011, offered 350,000 direct jobs and millions of ...
Minister Says Set Phone Call Prices ‘Temporary’
The minister of posts and telecommunications on Monday insisted an edict ordering the country’s seven mobile phone operators to abide by a law that sets minimum prices for calls is only temporary. Prak Sokhon, the newly-appointed posts and telecommunications minister, said the order was necessary because ...
Joshua Wilwohl and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/minister-says-set-phone-call-prices-temporary-48975/