"Asia-Pacific Mobile Alliance" to allow seamless roaming over seven countries

by Evan Blass, posted Apr 25th 2006 at 3:30PM

About one hundred million Asian mobile subscribers are about to experience a better roaming experience around the continent thanks to a new multi-carrier initiative to create a so-called "Virtual Home Environment." Seven wireless providers covering eight countries and regions -- NTT DoCoMo (Japan), FET (Taiwan), Hutchison Essar (India), Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong and Macau), KTF (South Korea), Indostat (Indonesia), and StarHub (Singapore) -- have formed the "Asia-Pacific Mobile Alliance," as it's tentatively known, to eventually enable seamless voice, video, and data roaming across their networks. According to the joint press release, when the initiative goes live in the latter half of the year, GSM/GPRS and W-CDMA customers will also enjoy access to the basic services they've become accustomed to, such as caller ID and quick access to voicemail and home carrier tech support via short-code service.

Filed under: NTT DoCoMo, GSM, GPRS

Tags: asia, Asia-Pacific Mobile Alliance, Asia-pacificMobileAlliance, caller id, CallerId, data, FET, Hutchison Essar, Hutchison Telecommunications, HutchisonEssar, HutchisonTelecommunications, Indostat, KTF, NTT DoCoMo, NttDocomo, roaming, short-code, StarHub, video, voice

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Neil Frantz @ May 1st 2006 3:25AM

I am the IT director for ATKearney AsiaPacific and very interested in this service.

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