EmCall Presentation

The last few days have been a very exciting time for Emcom! In introducing and giving updates on the recent progress of Emcom and its business units, we presented Emcom to more than 2000 delegates from 9 different countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Brunei, and Korea.

Situated in a conference room in Toa Payoh Hub, the international conference was held over a period of a few days with overwhelming response from the many different countries. The event was a huge success with people filling up not only the entire room, but had people standing up and overflowing all the way till the back of the room. Imagine a highly enthusiastic crowd filled with people coming from different countries who speak different languages! It was an interesting yet challenging feat, talking to people from a variety of cultures and countries. There was one conference when there were two translators in the room, translating two different languages as I spoke!

Overall, it was a unique experience with an amazing crowd. Not only were the people very excited over the new updates of Emcom, they were amazed at the tremendous growth and progress which Emcom has made. Growing from just a small company in May 2006, Emcom has grown to an international conglomerate with 6 subsidiaries and 2 operational business units in the last 8 months. Also with an international presence, Emcom’s has strong active presence in the Asia Pacific Region including Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Taiwan and by the end of 2007, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and China. With a turnover of USD10 million in the last 8 months Emcom has done tremendous well for a newly start-up company which is slightly less than a year old.



One of the most exciting sections of the conference was on the introduction of Em™Call. In the next few months, Em™Call would be officially launched and we would be able to provide cost effective, reliable phone services to everyone. The crowd was very excited when Em™Call was presented as it would enable them to cut their phone bills by more than 50%. Quoting one of the delegates from China, “We are now able to make overseas calls for just a fraction of the cost! Not only am I able to decrease my business overheads but with this cost savings, I am able to expand globally more into other markets without worrying about communication charges!”



One of the quotes from a man whom I really respect, Walt Disney has really touched my heart. “As long as you have the courage to dream, you can achieve”. And it was following these words that I live upon everyday to really dare to take a step forward to live my dreams. I remember very early on when we first started on this dream to build a wireless world and to connect wirelessly whole countries; people laughed and said that it was impossible. However I did not believe so. I believed that the word impossible stands for “I M POSSIBLE”.

The last few months which has passed has not been an easy one. However the hard work has really paid off, in seeing the growth of Emcom throughout the months and how far it has progressed. With the support and approval of the crowd and in seeing their upmost excitement and enthusiasm for the new products and services which would be coming out, the moment was very gratifying not only for me but more importantly for all the staff in Emcom. Without the hard work and input of all the dedicated staff in Emcom, the company would not have been able to progress so far. It is really through their dedication and hard work that results were created. Here, I would really like to thank them for all the effort they have placed in and all the sleepless nights they had in rushing out the projects and reports. It is the people that make the company work and it is this strong team that will bring the company to greater heights and beyond.

ACHIEVING GREATER HEIGHTS & BEYOND!!!

Ignious Yong

Managing Director
Empire Communications Technology (Emcom)

Continual Expansion

I am very pleased to update you on the tremendous growth and breakthrough of Emcom in the last month. In the recent months, two major acquisitions were made of Surge Global Pte Ltd and InterVoice Media Incorporated. These two acquisitions have helped to greatly increase the quality of our management team and also with our expansion plans into different regions.


In line with our plans for expansion into new markets, Surge Global Pte Ltd - a System Integration company, would help us penetrate into the B2B market. Surge Global Pte Ltd specialises in providing enterprises and operators with the right solutions to increase profitability, efficiency and productivity. Offering total solutions services in the areas of wireless market developments, fast efficient and customer-oriented service is provided to enable clients to achieve their corporate goals and objectives. As part of our plan to increase our economies of scale, Surge Global Pte Ltd will be merged together with Bluengine Asia Pacific Pte Ltd to form Em™Beyond Pte Ltd. The services which Em™Beyond now provides are separated into a few areas of infrastructure consultation, implementation and deployment services which includes messaging, collaboration and workflow portal solutions, storage and backup, network security, gateway solutions, PABX and VoIP solutions; system operation and outsourcing, which includes server , network, user workstation, process management; project management; management systems which include logistics, document management, call centre, business information, inventory, point of sales, client relationship management and much more. Other services may include procurement, facilitating of trading deals, e-Commerce solutions, Wi-Fi technology consultation, implementation and deployment and Metropolitan Area (MAN) rollout.


We would also like to officially welcome Cedric Lim Teck Kim, Steven Phua Boon Keng and Evan Sim Siang Hwa, the Directors of Surge Global Pte Ltd to the Emcom family. With more than 30 years of corporate and professional experience in IT and technology, our management team for Surge Global Pte Ltd has managed to develop a growing company with more than $2.6 million revenue and $360 thousand profit in its latest financial report. At the same time, as a local partner with technology partners such as IBM, HP and Fujitsu Asia, Surge Global has been able to provide local enterprises with outstanding business solutions to help companies improve their profit margins. Some of our clients include Fujitsu Asia, MediaCorp, Omni Industries Holdings, Prosafe Production, Glaxo Welcome and much more.


InterVoice Media Incorporated, spearheaded by Mr Gavin Lim Yong Kai is a Voice Communications Company set up in September 2003. Providing voice, data and media solutions, InterVoice Media Incorporated enables companies to harness rapidly evolving internet technologies not only to stay competitive but to forge ahead in an increasingly competitive global market place. With strong presence and marketing partners in Philippines, InterVoice Media Incorporated has aided Emcom greatly in the penetration of new markets and in providing higher quality voice and VoIP services. InterVoice Media Incorporated is now integrated under the leadership of Emcom to form Em™Call and some of the services they provide include callback systems, VoIP telephony, VoIP hardware, integrated voice portals and much more.

We at Emcom are very excited to welcome all shareholders, managers, and staff to our big family. With the addition of Surge Global and InterVoice Media, we are confident that the synergy of our companies would create more outstanding results in the coming years!

MOVE BEYOND!!!


Ignious Yong

Managing Director
Empire Communications Technology (Emcom)

Radwin Appoints Emcom as Regional Distributor

The RADWIN Regional Partners Meeting Asia 2007 was held at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore on March 6-7, 2007. The positive energy that surrounded the event was truly inspiring, and it was gratifying for us to see other channel partners and the RADWIN team come together and share their experiences and know-how.
During this technical seminar, Emcom’s Hassim Selahudin, Kenneth Ang, and Mohammed Darvin have all completed the official WinLink™ 1000 technical training. They are now certified to install, commission and maintain RADWIN's WinLink™ 1000 systems.

It was a special day for us at Emcom. Radwin has officially appointed us as a Distributor for their products in the region. This is an exciting event for Emcom as we continue to build the Company into a leading provider of a wireless lifestyle!


Emcom’s Group General Manager, Wilson Tan, signing the Distributor Agreement, as Mr. Hassim Selahudin looks on.


Emcom officially appointed as Radwin’s Distributor in the Region.
From Left, Wilson Tan, Group General Manager; Hassim Selahudin, Business Development Manager (Professional Services) ; Oded Milstein, Assistant Vice-President (Radwin, Asia Pacific)



Wilson Tan

Group General Manager
Empire Communications Technology (Emcom)

Celebration in Taiwan!

A major strategic shift have resulted in a drastic shift in our operations model. With the upcoming businesses in Cambodia, Taiwan, and our upcoming business division, Em™Call, there was a strong impetus for us to increase our manpower in our company. And at the same time, to allow better allocation of our resources, we have now established separate divisions to handle the different upcoming projects.

With Em™Beyond to handle most of our B2B businesses, with a special focus on wireless technology, and Em™Call to handle our voice communications business, there was also a strong need for us to allocate manpower to handle our Em™Taipei project. With our Em™Taipei project in the process of finalizing our planning stages, we are ready to move forward to begin our foray into Taipei!


For Em™Taipei, we would expect to begin construction in June 2007, and with the surface area being ten times more than our project in Taichung, we expect this to be a huge challenge indeed! When completed, Em™Taipei would be the largest seamless Wifi-enabled Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) in the world! With our project management scheduled to be formed by the end of April, we are confident that they can rise to the challenge.


Visit the EmcomGroup Website!

At the same time, our design team gave me a wonderful birthday present while I was in Taiwan! Our new improved website, www.emcomgroup.net, was finally launched! The design was way beyond my expectations! I must say that once again, they have done a fantastic job! There is still a little bit of fine tuning to be completed for the website, but we expect it to be completed soon.

Thanks for the fantastic birthday present team!



Ignious Yong

Managing Director
Empire Communications Technology (Emcom)

Cambodia Reconnaissance

I am writing this blog at Cambodia right now, and this is my first trip to the country. I must admit that this is a real eye-opener!

Coming here on a two-day trip just to get a better feel of things, and I do feel that there are plenty of possibilities in Cambodia. Having just been stabilized politically roughly ten years back, the country is developing pretty well. Definitely there are plenty of vehicles around, and the commercial area is really starting to pick up.



When I first touch down at the airport (there is only one run-way at Siem Reap and Phnom Phenh International Airports), there was a lot of difference from what I am normally accustomed with. Firstly, language is really different from back at Singapore. Thankfully, we have a fantastic secretary that can speak Khmer, English as well as Chinese! Without her, we would probably not have been able to do much during our trip here! Secondly, the landscape here is comprised mostly of two-three storey buildings in Phnom Phenh, and stands in sharp contrast to the towering sky-scrapers in Singapore, Taiwan and China. Thirdly, there is definitely a lot less air-conditioned places than Singapore! Finally, I have found a place that is hotter than Singapore!!



And yet, there are plenty of business opportunities. For one, there is a healthy level of wealthy citizens in Phnom Phenh that has plenty of disposable income. And at the same time, there are very little places for them to spend their money! A place that is able to provide comfortable shopping facilities for high net worth consumers would be worth investing in Phnom Phenh. Also, the low landscape here makes it very easy for us to possibly deploy our wireless infrastructure in the country, and would cost only a fraction of our construction costs in Taichung! Mobile penetration is lower compared to developed cities, and would give alternative solutions like PHS or VOIP an easier entry into the voice market.

Emcom is going to take Cambodia by storm!

Ignious Yong

Managing Director
Empire Communications Technology (Emcom)

Business Expansion Plans

The past few weeks have been a real hectic time for our company! Not only have we successfully organized an exhibition in Taichung, where our vendors created booths to display our various future offerings in terms of our products and services, we have also made significant developments in our business divisions in Singapore.



EmCall, our voice services division, would be launching by the end of February 2007. Right now, we are in the process of setting up the web page for EmCall and watch out for our launch of our web page on the 9th of February! Offering high quality call-back services, our users can save up to 80% of what they would pay if they were to pay roaming charges from mobile operators! Within the year, we would also be launching P2P voice services as well as PC to mobile VOIP services in Singapore, Indonesia and Taiwan. EmCall would be a highly profitable business unit for our growing consumer market business.



Additionally, we have recently acquired the VOIP and ISP license in Cambodia. Being controlled licenses, there are currently only 3 VOIP licenses issued out to companies, and our registered company in Cambodia, Emcom Technologies (Cambodia) Ltd, is one of the companies having this license. In Cambodia, we expect to develop a highly profitable business in the country. As part of our plans to develop a strong foothold in the developing countries in the South-East Asia region, we are happy to be able to work with the Cambodian government in the development of the ISP and voice market in Cambodia. In the near future, we hope to be able to establish a wireless city infrastructural project in Cambodia, much like our current EM-Taichung project.

Till next time!

Ignious Yong

Managing Director
Empire Communications Technology (Emcom)

Corporate Profile

After working our designers to death, we have finally completed the corporate profile for our company. Also included are the DMs for our “EM-Taichung, Connected City”. After taking a look at the final printed copy, I must say that our designers have done a fantastic job! The profile would definitely be a great boost for the corporate image of our company.

Right now, our management team is in Taichung to prepare for the launch of a public relations event, where more than 900 visitors from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan would be in attendance. For the past few months, we have been really low key with regards to our publicity efforts in letting the world know more about our wireless city project, and we would be stepping up our publicity efforts strongly in the coming months. Our Taichung gala event would be the first of many large scale exhibition events that we would be conducting in the coming months. With better publicity, we would create immense excitement in the city of Taichung to let them know that Wireless Lifestyle is here to stay! At this moment, we have already created a stir in the West area of Taichung and many people have started receiving the signals from our base stations. However, we would not be launching our services just yet. We want to make sure that all technical issues are resolved before we start to accumulate a bigger subscriber base.

At the gala event, we are also honored to have been able to invite the presence of our strategic partners to set up exhibition booths on our infrastructural set-up, as well as booths for our products and services that we would be launching by 2008. Their presence in our event is a strong testament to their active involvement in our EM-Taichung project.

Time to get back to my work!! Till next time!!

Ignious Yong

Managing Director
Empire Communications Technology (Emcom)