Smart to offer I-Mode

Smart Telecoms has announced that it will be offering I-Mode service to its customers.

This isn't really a new news to me thats why I never bothered to blog about it until today. NTT-Docomo has an office at the Smart Bldg and it has been there for a long time. It seemed Smart has prevented NTT-Docomo to roll-out I-mode until it fully saturated its GSM network.

The funny thing about this is; in Japan, telecoms has started to roll-out GSM/CDMA. Technically I-Mode technology is not superior to GSM, it has its own cravats and more. The protocol itself has been a subject of nightmarish integration problems because I-Mode is a proprietary protocol.

Finally, I haven't brushed-up on reading on the new capabilities of I-Mode but historically only I-Mode supported sites can be viewed through it thus saying good-bye to those websites that you can normally view via mobile browsers (eg: m.gmail.com or m.facebook.com).

However there is a work around using OperaMini to view websites in its full glory.

You can read a summary of what really I-Mode is at NTRG; there might be newer capabilities with the new I-Mode (3G-I-Mode) for fix the old problems but since it still uses the PDC-P packet switching, I'm not going to hold my hopes up.

IPVG to acquire 70% of MegaMobile

There's not much news on the PH mobile space lately except for something to do with Globe and Ericsson that we cannot disclose (NDA), this news however hits closer at home, MegaMobile will join the IPVG group of companies. The negotiations took months and its mostly about the shares and how much of the company will be acquired but the fate was already sealed for MegaMobile, its time to beef up its financial and political backbone. There's not much I can tell about the plans but with MegaMobile's reputation of always being on the cutting-edge of mobile technology, surely with its newly acquired allies it will become a force to reckon.

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