Vietnam's fast-growing mobile telephony market has moved a stage closer to deploying 3G (third-generation) technology after awarding a large contract to China's ZTE Corp. for a CDMA 2000 1X network.
The number of mobile phones in India is expected to outstrip fixed-line phones by the end of this year, according to India's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in Delhi. But government-owned operators still dominate the country's telephone services market.
Indians voting to elect federal and state legislators next month will press buttons on electronic voting machines (EVMs), rather than use the traditional procedure of stamping ballot papers to indicate their preference.