Together, the group will invest up to US$40 million over the next three years to build and establish a regional mobile infrastructure that delivers seamless cross-border mobile services to its combined 80 million customer base across key markets in Asia Pacific. This also includes service incubation activities conducted by the group, to develop innovative mobile solutions in collaboration with leading global technology companies. Bridge Mobile Alliance is committed to partner with global technology players, through its Associate Membership scheme, which aims to foster closer collaboration between member operators and technology players across the mobile service development value chain. Through this scheme, the alliance seeks to attract global technology leaders into Asia Pacific, to collaborate on the development of Asian-centric mobile technologies and services. Since its launch in August 2005, the scheme has attracted many leading industry players who have joined as technology associate members of the alliance. Dr. Patrick Sim said, “We look forward to growing our regional mobile service development and innovation activities in Singapore, and in the process, attract many other global technology leaders across the mobile solutions value chain, from handset makers and network equipment solution providers to content players, to collaborate with us and to establish their development activities in Singapore.” For more information, please contact: Bridge Mobile About Bridge Mobile Alliance Established in November 2004, Bridge Mobile Alliance is Asia Pacific’s largest mobile alliance group. The alliance is a current partnership of eight leading mobile operators in Asia Pacific, namely, Airtel (India), CSL (Hong Kong), Globe Telecom (Philippines), Maxis (Malaysia), SingTel Mobile (Singapore), SingTel Optus (Australia), Taiwan Mobile (Taiwan) and Telkomsel (Indonesia). Bridge Mobile Alliance operates through a Singapore-incorporated joint venture company, Bridge Mobile Pte Ltd. Bridge Mobile Alliance offers significant commercial benefits and economies of scale to alliance members. Through close collaboration, alliance members can leverage on collective capabilities and best practices to develop relevant, cutting-edge mobile technologies for the Asia Pacific market. Bridge Mobile Alliance will invest up to US$40 million over the next three years to build and establish a shared regional mobile infrastructure, and to deliver a wider suite of regional mobile services. More importantly, Bridge Mobile Alliance is focused on creating a consistent delivery of mobile services across the region, thereby offering customers a seamless experience beyond borders. In August 2005, Bridge Mobile Alliance extended its alliance membership to include global technology partners under the Associate Membership scheme. There are currently ten technology associate members on the board the alliance, namely, Axalto, Ericsson, Gemplus, Hewlett Packard, LogicaCMG, Motorola, Nokia, QUALCOMM, Siemens and ZTE. This brings the total alliance membership to eighteen, which includes the alliance’s eight member operators. About the International Headquarters (IHQ) Award EDB aims to establish Singapore as a premier international Headquarters (HQ) hub with a vibrant business eco-system that would be home to all types of HQs - big and small, from across industries and geographies. The drive to systematically promote the presence of corporate HQs in Singapore began in the 1980s as part of the initiative to develop manufacturing and services as the twin engines of growth. EDB has set a target of attracting 500 world-class companies to set up substantial HQ operations in Singapore by 2010. |
