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Smart to bring ‘world’s cheapest smartphone’ to PH

Smart is expected to offer Ideos within the P5,000-P6,000 price range for prepaid, and to bundle it with a monthly plan as low as 500 for postpaid. Company officials said more Smartphone models are in the pipeline.

“Mobile Internet usage in the Philippines has been growing steadily and is now poised to take off. We will now take it to next level with Smartphones that are affordable to a broader market. This is in line with our vision of ‘Internet for all’,” said Orlando B. Vea, Smart’s chief wireless adviser.

Recent studies indicate that there are over 30 million Internet users in the Philippines and that the majority of these access the worldwide web through Internet cafes. PC penetration is only about 20 percent of the population.

via newsbytes.ph

and reliable mobile internet connection?

etroduce - tip of the iceberg

I attended the job fair yesterday at UP, as a cheering squad for Honee doing the pitch of etroduce to the HRs. And, I realized that the general web / internet concept of the local audience is facebook and probably the intranet / email they use at their office. Being in an environment where everything is online, it did not occur to me that ‘web application / service’ is not something automatically to them.

I kind of thought that Etroduce will hopefully be the tip of the iceberg to the local market. Etroduce is no longer about just a referral platform, but more about etroducing the cloud concept to the local market, to which we can learn more about using web service and be more confident of using it. Then, it will open up a new market for local web service providers – Filipino development shops developing apps for local consumption – a whole new culture. =)

via @tweetitow

India is largest mobile ad market in AsiaPac

Key findings include:

• In just 90 days, the Indian market grew by over 1 billion impressions (+22 percent) to become the largest market in the Asia Pacific region.
• Smartphones remain relatively nascent in the market with 88 percent of all mobile ad impressions served on advanced phones.
• Nokia devices remain commonplace in the Indian mobile market with 12 of the top 15 devices manufactured by Nokia.
• Android & iPhone OS have yet to gain significant ground in India and today represent only a .4-percent share of the market.

via newsbytes.ph

IDC: Tech spending in PH to continue in 2011 - Newsbytes Philippines

10. Business process outsourcing (BPO) in the Philippines will see continued traction
In 2011, IDC believes that notwithstanding issues on manpower challenges, the BPO market in the Philippines will continue to see traction in terms of worldwide share of offshore services. The Philippine BPO industry will continue to perform well across the five (contact centers; HR, and finance and accounting outsourcing; medical transcription; software development and animation) key segments. However, maintaining its value proposition in the global BPO scheme of things in light of the intensifying competition and the presence of issues that could affect the industry’s growth prospects in the country will be the key factors that need to be resolved in order for the industry to continue to thrive.
via newsbytes.ph

No mention of KPO yet.

Study says Cebu suffers from BPO-academe gap - Newsbytes Philippines

CEBU CITY — There’s a gulf that separates the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry in Cebu and the academe which needs to be narrowed in order for the province to take attract high-value outsourcing business, specifically knowledge process outsourcing (KPO).

This is according to a study done by global outsourcing and investment advisory firm Tholons, which undertook the survey together with the Cebu Investments and Promotions Center (CIPC) as part of its effort to draft a roadmap for Cebu’s BPO sector.

via newsbytes.ph