Technology

STATE-Owned enterprise Telecom Cambodia’s revenues have exceeded the target for 2010, despite strong market competition.

CAMBODIAN electric car inventor Nhean Phaloek says he is in talks with two companies to establish a car factory by the end of next year in Kandal province. He hopes the factory will provide hundreds of jobs and also train Cambodians in his research and development skills, including techniques he has invented. Last year he [...]

INDONESIA’S largest telephone company plans to acquire a telecommunications company in Cambodia, according to its commissioner Tanri Abeng, Bisnis Indonesia newspaper reported yesterday. The Cambodian company in question was not identified by Abeng, but according to sector insiders a number of domestic telecommunications companies are said to be actively seeking buyers. Officials from PT Telekomunikasi [...]

Thirty-seven employees of Softcat, The Sunday Times’ Best Small Company to Work For in 2010, have returned from the town of Siem Reap, Cambodia, where they have helped to build a new library and paint and repair new classrooms at a junior high school. IT provider Softcat renovates school in Cambodia The award-winning IT provider [...]

LAST year it all looked so promising and straightforward. Give internet service providers bandwidth and a licence to operate, creating stability for the likes of Chuan Wei and Mekong Net to feel confident to invest millions of dollars in WiMAX – a technology that could increase broadband coverage and lower connectivity costs in Cambodia. But [...]

THE final length of a US$17.6 million fibre-optic telecommunications network linking Cambodia with other Greater Mekong Subregion countries began operation yesterday. Officials say the new 651-kilometre transmission line to Laos will increase the Kingdom’s communication speeds by linking the country to a regional backbone already connecting Thailand, China, Vietnam and Laos. “This will improve living [...]

Decades of war have left Cambodia with millions of landmines and unexploded ordnance that kill and injure hundreds each year. A new approach to educatingchildren about mines was tested last week in Phnom Penh, and is likely to be rolled out to other nations in the coming years. There is nothing unusual about children clustered [...]

INTERNET service provider Ezecom opened five “e-cafes” on Monday, linking fibre-optic cables to coffee shops in Mobitel service centres across Phnom Penh, according to a company press release obtained by the Post last week. The cafes serve food and drink and provide faxing, printing and scanning services. Customers can also seek technical assistance, pay bills [...]

FARMERS in 20 remote areas could find themselves surfing the Internet for facts about seeds and insecticide in the next few years, as a rural information and communications technology project gets under way. Over the next three years, 20 pilot “telecentres” will be set up in the provinces of Siem Reap, Banteay Meanchey, Kampong Cham [...]

CAMBODIA’S international ICT and telecoms conference will kick off on Phnom Penh’s Diamond Island Thursday, with tens of thousands expected to attend. The three-day World Expo, organised by International Data Group (IDG) Indochina with the National ICT Development Agency (NiDA), will include representatives from leading firms and government organisations. Expected highlights include a speech by [...]