Common Mobile Platform For Asia

Asiatele.com had interesting news on their website. Seven Asia-Pacific operators have teamed together to create a regional mobile infrastructure and common service platform. Potential is huge, since Asian mobile markets are a mixed bag, having few universal rules would ease cross-border interaction. It would be easy to introduce new service that would immediately be functional on several markets, travelers would be able to continuously use familiar services without bothering roaming limitations.

Alliance has tremendous workload ahead. Even the most simple services like call roaming does not work. Phones keep on choosing the operator according the strongest transmitting signal, therefore setting the present value of alliance into zero. However, alliance has announced that they are going to use about 40 million dollars to development in coming three years.

It is too early to say how this alliance will function, but it sure sets very interesting goals. Different language requirements are tough nut to crack though.