Telecommunications

“China could see over 580 million mobile subscribers by 2010” announces visiongain’s latest report.

San Francisco, CA and London, UK/ 21 July 2005/ visiongain. The latest study, “The China Mobile Market” published by business information providers, visiongain, investigates the high growth of mobile and Internet users in China, which began in the second half of 1990s. Since then, the mobile market in China has become fiercer, with competition amongst mobile operators to control the entire value chain from contents and application through to terminals.

Updated: Thu Jul 21 2005

TelePlus Closes over $40 Million in Financing

TelePlus Enterprises, Inc. (OTCBB: TLPE) (http://www.teleplus.ca), a vertically-integrated provider of wireless and landline communications products and services across North America, is pleased to announce that it has closed a financing arrangement with Cornell Capital Partners, LP (``Cornell'') providing the Company access to over $40M in capital.

Updated: Wed Jul 20 2005

TelePlus Reports Preliminary Q2 Revenues of $3.38M, 37.4% Gain Over Last Year; YTD Revenues of $6.34

TelePlus Enterprises, Inc. (OTCBB: TLPE) (http://www.teleplus.ca), a vertically integrated provider of wireless and landline communications products and services across North America, today announced that second quarter consolidated results indicate revenues of $3.38 million, representing a 37.4% increase over the same period last year in which the Company reported revenues of $2.46 million. Wireless revenues represented 83.6% (or $2.83M) of total revenues while Telecom revenues represented the balance of 16.4% or ($554k).

Updated: Tue Jul 19 2005

WiBro – Analysing Korea’s home grown BWA standard

San Francisco, CA and London, UK; 18 July 2005– visiongain. South Korea's wireless broadband technology, WiBro (formerly known as HPi), has been making headlines recently after US operator Sprint and Japan's KDDI announced they would launch pilot WiBro services in their respective countries by the end of 2005. In the light of these developments, visiongain has reviewed the business case for WiBro in Korea and abroad, and investigates whether WiBro is set for global expansion.

Updated: Mon Jul 18 2005

European Union fails to deliver on promises of lower roaming charges

The European Union today delivered what was expected to be a damning verdict on the prohibitive cost of international roaming charges. Instead, they have chosen to pursue a ‘hands off’ approach concentrating on price ‘transparency’ rather than price reduction.

Updated: Tue Jul 12 2005

TelePlus Continues to Grow: Reports 22 Percent Increase in Handset Sales for Q2

TelePlus Enterprises, Inc. (OTCBB: TLPE) (http://www.teleplus.ca), a vertically integrated provider of wireless and landline communications products and services across North America, today announced that its subsidiary TelePlus Retail Services, Inc. (``TelePlus Retail'') reported an increase of 22% in wireless handset sales for Q2 (which includes the months of April to June) this year compared to the same period a year ago. Total number of wireless handset sales reached 8,347 compared to 6,831 handsets for the same period last year.

Updated: Mon Jul 11 2005

NETSOL TECHNOLOGIES NEW BEIJING, CHINA OFFICE OPERATIONAL

NetSol Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTWK), a developer of proprietary software applications and provider of information technology (IT) services, today announced that its new Beijing, China office location is fully operational as of July 1, 2005

Updated: Wed Jul 06 2005

EZ2 Companies.com, Inc. Announces Partnership With Abidia Inc.

EZ2 Companies, Inc. (OTCBB:EZTO), today announced a partnership with Abidia Inc., http://www.abidia.com . Abidia is the worldwide market leader of online auction tools and service for mobile phones and wireless handheld devices for auction sites such as eBay and Overstock.com.

Updated: Wed Jun 29 2005

Cost of Entry for Wireless Broadband Providers Can be Reduced up to Fifty Fold Using New Technology

xGTM Technology, LLC recently completed successful trials of its patented xMax™ technology which offers service providers a cost-effective choice for provisioning fixed wireless broadband. xMax is a novel modulation and encoding technology that allows the deployment of broadband services using lower frequency bands. The lower the frequency, the farther a wireless signal can travel thus offering far greater geographic coverage than data transmitted within the higher frequency bands. Another advantage of the lower frequencies is reduced ‘line of sight’ problems because the signals are able to penetrate buildings and other obstacles

Updated: Thu Jun 23 2005

Preserphone Contact shields payphones from germs

International Preserphone of France has launched a patented device, Preserphone Contact, which is for fitting on handsets’ microphones. It enables users to avoid any direct contact with handsets in public or private telephones — more particularly those installed in railway and bus stations, hotels, airports, other public buildings and holiday camps. A menthol-scented tablet soaked in a broad-spectrum bactericidal and virucidal solution is inserted in the round holder box of Preserphone Contact. It eliminates all bad smells, bacteria and germs at the same time.

Updated: Wed Jun 22 2005

BT Fusion is only the beginning of a $74bn trend, says visiongain report

BT's recently launched Bluephone project, which has been re-christened BT Fusion, is only the start of Fixed/Mobile Convergence (FMC) in the Telecoms industry, says a report by industry analysts visiongain. Convergence is set to drive fundamental change in both fixed and mobile industries and is gaining significant market traction among operators and vendors worldwide. The market is set to grow massively to a value of $74 billion (€61 billion, £40 billion) by 2009, visiongain believes.

Updated: Mon Jun 20 2005

EasyTel Simplifies Local Service

EasyTel announced today a change to their web site designed to make it easier than ever for customers to select additional local services.

Updated: Sat Jun 18 2005

Report Shows Undiscovered Errors on 80 Percent of Phone Bills

A report shows that the vast majority of companies have errors on their phone bills that are costing them thousands each year because they do not report the mistakes and ask for a refund. The mistakes are happening on local, long-distance, conferencing, data, Internet, wireless, cellular and other communications services.

Updated: Sat Jun 18 2005