Panasonic Mobile Communications Co. Ltd. unveiled in Beijing on Tuesday its first WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) cell phone for the international market, the company said in Tokyo.
Though China continues to be the main Asian focus for the world's telecommunication vendors, other Asian countries, India in particular, are beginning to emerge as important market drivers in their own right and are worth closer attention, according to Dilip Modi, chief executive officer of Spice Communications Ltd.'s Spice Telecom unit.
The emerging market in the Asia-Pacific region for Wireless LAN (WLAN) equipment grew by 75 per cent in terms of units shipped from 2001 to 2002, but prices fell by about one-fifth on average, holding down revenue growth, according to figures released Monday by analyst company Gartner Inc.
The increased use of the Internet and e-commerce initiatives has increased security spending among Asian enterprises, according to International Data Corp. (IDC).
American businesses have proven to be the most successful at exploiting IT to become more productive and competitive, and companies in Asia should be trying to emulate that model, Singapore's senior minister Lee Kuan Yew said Wednesday in Singapore.