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Beeline introduced new mobile top-up service

Posted by admin on September 1st, 2010

Recently, Mobile phone operator, Beeline-Cambodia, introduced a mobile top-up service “Easy Fill”, which allows all Beeline subscribers to be able to top up any amount they would like to have, not required scratch cards to thousands of points of sale.

The new service “Easy Fill” makes its subscribers easier to choose any amount they would like to top up from 50 cents up to $500. And this service is limited to only 11 provinces at present.

Beeline subscribers are able to receive service “Easy Fill” from Beeline sales offices located in 11 provinces: Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Sihanoukville, Battambang, Kampong Cham, Kandal, Kampot, Prey Veng, Kampong Chhnang, Kompong Thom and Banteay Mean Chey.

After launch in May 2010, the Beeline distribution network in Cambodia was already comprised of 11 sales offices, more than 6,400 scratch card points of sales and more than 100 branded trade countries across 21 provinces.

Therefore, Beeline subscribers have two options to top up their credit either scratch card or a new mobile service “Easy Fill”. By the way, mobile top-up service of “Easy Fill” is more convenient because customers only have to say what amount they want to top up and denominations start as low as 50 cents.

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Fibre-optic network links Cambodia

Posted by admin on July 20th, 2010

During the last decade, the telecommunications in Cambodia is growing including new coming mobile phone operators, internet service providers and other online services. Recently, the Cambodia’s government has made its efforts to push for the usage of telecommunications, particularly in public sector.

Recently, the fibre-optic telecommunications networking linking Cambodia with other Greater Mekong Sub-region countries in order to increase speed of communication began operation worth USD17.6 million.

It is a part of the GMS Information Superhighway project, the latest links were built by Chinese telecommunications equipment supplier Huawei Technologies for a total of USD17.6 million. And the links have a network capacity of 2.5 gigabytes per second.

The new 651-kilometre transaction line to Laos will speed up Cambodia’s communication by linking the country to a regional backbone already connecting Thailand, China, Vietnam and Laos.

The fibre-optic networking is stretching from Kampong Cham to the Laos border along National Raod 7, and from Skum city in Kampong Cham province to Siem Reap along National Road 6, work laying the new cable wrapped up in Jully 2009. (more…)

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Lawsuit of two mobile phone operators not solved yet

Posted by admin on May 23rd, 2010

Cambodia’s leading mobile phone provider Mobitel filed a lawsuit against new mobile phone operator Beeline by accusing of using Mobitel-mobile phone prefixes without permission. Even though, this conflict does not turn into normal as what Beeline’s general director said on Monday.

Conflict between two phone operators has yet to be solved and Beeline is still the subject of a $2.5 million suit currently before Phnom Penh Municipal Court- $1.5million in damages and $1million compensation to Mobitel.

Beeline’s General Director- Gael Campan, said that the relation between the two phone operators were back to normal after Mobitel filed a lawsuit against Beeline last year.

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Sony band 3-D television to be imported in Cambodia

Posted by admin on April 23rd, 2010

On Thursday, Sony’s distributors of the state-of-the-art television set gave viewers the impression of watching footage in three dimensions at the flick of a switch, and believe that demand for high-end consumer goods is growing in Cambodia’s market in the later this year.

The two companies which are distributing Sony-branded products in Cambodia are K4 group and Sunsimexco.

Canice Koh, senior executive for Sony Singapore’s home audio-visual product marketing department, was quoted by the Post as saying that the technology is the first of its kind to be marketed in the Kingdom.

Spencer Low, senior manager of market department for Sony Singapore, said: “For the next couple of years, [the market] seems pretty rosy, according to the Post.

“We feel consumers in Cambodia will move toward our [high-end] target market segment.”

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