Daily News 2004/02/16

Asiainfo signed the memorandum to develop the value-added service of the cell-phone with Tianjin Mobile

　　Asiainfo announced on February 11 Beijing time, it signed the memorandum of understanding to develop the mail service of the cell-phone together with Tianjin Mobile. According to the memorandum, both sides will also develop a series of value-added service of cell-phone cooperatively. When the time comes, the user of Tianjin Mobile can not only use the traditional short message, color message, the coloring ring back tone services, etc. can also use new services, such as mail, calendar and address book, etc.

　　Corresponding to this, Asiainfo also claimed to set up a new strategic department -- New business department. The duty of this department is for the smooth implementation that ensured the project of Tianjin Mobile, and offer abundant support for value-added telecom services in the future.

Numerous authoritative reports show: VoIP will cause the global telecommunications equipment market to recover

　　Numerous authoritative reports of investigations and advisory organization show: In 2004, the telecommunications equipment market that was once given a heavy blow will recover in all sides.

　　Standard & Poor's pointed out that world telecommunications market is turning to a wide range of business including data transmission from the traditional single voice service. The most noticeable one is the rise of VoIP business among them. It is really a rare opportunity of business for every big telecommunications equipment manufacturer. Standard & Poor's thought, though VoIP business is still in foundation developing stage at present, but it will be becoming and break the decisive strength of the original market pattern of the telecommunications industry completely in the future probably.

　　More and more enterprises in all parts of the world begin to consider implementing IP voice communication and put it to strategic height of rising enterprise's development, in order to excavate greater value from the communication network. The report of Infotech shows, 44% of the enterprises in whole world have already begun to introduce IP telephone. Synergy Study Group predicts, the total value of IP voice communication market of the enterprise will be expected from 849 million dollars in 2002 to 4,400 million dollars in 2006, average annual increase rate is up to 50. 5%. The flexibility of IP voice makes enterprises of any scale can all enjoy the advantage that poly-network brings. These facts indicate, represented by IP voice and new generation network will become the operation foundation of the successful enterprise.

　　The report of market survey company Gartner claimed, the enterprise of the Asian-Pacific area will accelerate adopting IP telephone in 2004. The enterprise replaces PBX wearing out gradually, thus drive the development of IP telephone. Gartner expected, the new phones that will be installed in half enterprises of the Asian-Pacific area shall be pure IP telephone in 2004, not merely the telephone with IP function.

　　The reports of IDC indicated that the sales amount of IP phone in Europe market increase by 111% from 2000 to 2001. According to the estimating of IDC, the global market scale of IP telephone equipments should be able to be expanded with complex annual average increase rate of 45%, its turnover is hopeful to rise to 15,100 million dollars by 2007. So this market is saving up strength to start out, hopeful to realize increasing powerfully.