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Telecom maker giant Huawei sues rival ZTE for patent infringments

LIM YUNG HUI — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:20:34 +0000

China’s largest telecom equipment maker, Huawei today filed lawsuits in Germany, France, and Hungary against its competitor, ZTE Corporation for patent and copy right infringements. According to a press release, Huawei claims that ZTE is infringing a series of its patents relating to data card and LTE technologies and also, illegally using a Huawei-related trademark.

According to Huawei’s Chief Legal Officer, Dr. Song Liuping, “Huawei was compelled to initiate this action in order to protect our innovations and registered intellectual property in Europe. Our objective is to stop the illegal use of Huawei’s intellectual property and resolve this dispute through negotiation so that our technology is used in a lawful manner.”

Huawei serves 45 of the world’s largest 50 telecom operators. Recently, its rival ZTE announced its shift to the thriving smartphones market; aiming to become one of the world’s top three tablet producers and one of the world’s top-five maker of Android smartphones this year.

Both ZTE and Huawei are close competitors in the fourth generation mobile broadband implementation in Malaysia. Today, Malaysian telecommunications provider DiGi appoints ZTE Corporation, China’s second largest telecom equipment provider, for the deployment of LTE-ready network (Long Term Evolution, LTE). With the deployment, DiGi network can immediately achieve download speed of up to 42Mbps using HSPA+ and reach 4 times faster, once 4G spectrum becomes available.

Both WiMax broadband provider P1 and mobile telecommunication provider U Mobile Sdn Bhd already announced the appointment of ZTE for their LTE deployment. Two leading Malaysian mobile telecommunication Maxis and Celcom partner with Huawei.

Patent infringement lawsuit is relatively common in the technology sector. Recent example: Apple-Samsung lawsuits and Kodak vs Samsung, LG for mobile camera patent violations.

Full Press Release by Huawei on the lawsuits

Huawei Moves to Protect its Patent and Trademarks with Legal Action in Europe

Telecom maker giant Huawei sues rival ZTE for patent infringments originally appeared on GreyReview.com on April 28, 2011.

Celcom to offer iPhone 4 soon. Seriously.

KAL KAMEL — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:15:23 +0000

The whole tech world is abuzz with excitement about the upcoming iPhone 5. But Malaysian communications provider Celcom, which incidentally clinched the Service Provider of the Year Award for the third year running at the recent 2011 Frost & Sullivan Malaysia Excellence Awards, is only now jumping on the iPhone 4 bandwagon, 7 months after Maxis and DiGi rolled out their respective packages. One wonders if Celcom’s ever heard of the saying “early bird catches the worm”, considering the fact that by now, almost everyone and their grandma’s got an iPhone 4 already. Let’s just hope the company is going to be offering super low plans to compete with the ones offered by Maxis and DiGi.

Celcom to offer iPhone 4 soon. Seriously. originally appeared on GreyReview.com on April 21, 2011.

Over 3.5 Million Users and Facebook is Still Not Malaysia’s Buzziest Channel

LIM YUNG HUI — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:14:07 +0000

According to the latest Digital Brand Index (DBI) by Edelman and Brandtology, Twitter overtook Low Yat Forum as the Malaysia’s buzziest channel (in terms of brand mentions). In the Top 10 list of Buzziest Channel in Malaysia, Malaysia’s leading social network, Facebook, is no where in sight. On methodology, the survey states it “monitors key brands.. across a list of popular online channels.” With 350 million population worldwide, Facebook is undeniably one of today’s most “popular online channels.” The absence of Facebook in the Top 10 – it’s either not covered in the DBI survey or it implies Facebook users in Malaysia converse less about brands compared to Twitter’s users. If it’s the latter, is Facebook a viable media for brands in Malaysia?

Also, the press release mentioned about 120,000 Twitter users, as of July 2009. The figure is misinterpreted. In July 2009, there were only over 200 users tagged with ‘Malaysia’; as of today, there are 377 users. The 120,000 figure is the total number of Followers of the then 200+ “Malaysia-tagged” Twitter users. WeFollow has since abandoned the display of the confusing stat, and now opted for a more straight-forward one – total number of users with a specific tag.

Nevertheless, DBI is somewhat an interesting survey to see brands people talk about online. Only 40% in the Top 10 Buzziest Brands in Malaysia are local brands – Maxis, Celcom, DiGi and Packet One (all are telcos companies). The survey monitors brands in these categories – Internet and Software, Consumer Electronics, Mobile and Telecommunications, Business and Consulting, and IT and Technology.

The DBI 2.0 was released yesterday and the full press release here

Over 3.5 Million Users and Facebook is Still Not Malaysia’s Buzziest Channel originally appeared on GreyReview.com on January 21, 2010.