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)

Voice Services Pre-Launch!

Preparations for our Voice Services have been ongoing for some time, and we are happy to announce that we will starting our soft launch for our Voice services by the end of the month. Working with our local partner, C3Call Telecom Group, for the past few months, we are now confident of rolling out cost-effective, quality and simple-to-use alternative voice communications services for our consumers. As an important component of our overall strategy for our Consumer Services Division in Emcom, we look forward in extending our Voice services into Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Taiwan, and The Philippines by the end of the year.

Consumers can either choose to select a monthly subscription plan model, where they would be able to enjoy generous rebates and get free talk time, or they can choose to purchase a pre-paid card. Right now, we have come up with a variety of subscription plans targeted at different market segments, and would be lining up attractive prizes for our initial group of subscribers.

On the consumer end, there would be substantial cost savings of up to 80% of the current rates that they are paying. Additionally, with other features to be added on to our system in the next six months, subscribers would eventually be able to enjoy absolutely free phone calls to anyone that is also a subscriber! As our anchor product in our Consumer Services Division, we are confident that we would be able to generate substantial response to our voice services.

Till Next Time!

Ignious Yong

Managing Director
Empire Communications Technology (Emcom)

The Internet as a Way of Life

Happy New Year to everyone!

Looking back over the past year, 2006 was certainly a memorable year for us. Not only have we begun on our EM-Taichung project, we have managed to successfully set-up a strong management team to bring our company forward. In the next few weeks, we would be having our company strategic planning for the New Year and some of the issues that we will be discussing include a review of our business model, HR recruitment, as well as international expansion. Looking ahead, we are happy with the amount that we have achieved in this short time frame and would be looking to press ahead further this year.

Just as 2006 was coming to an end, something happened that gave a glimpse of what might have happened without the Internet. The earthquakes that happened off the coast of Taiwan resulted in some damage of the undersea cables and severely affected the connectivity of Internet and telecommunications lines across the Asia Pacific region. Many businesses suffered tremendously during this period with banks, E-commerce companies, as well as telecommunications companies having to endure a torrid time and a dip in profits.

Coincidentally, during this time, I was away with my Chairman in Hong Kong and China. During the first few days, I was totally cut off and unable to access any Internet websites. Broadband speeds slowed to a crawl in the next few days and I was unable to receive or send out any emails! And, even my mobile phone communications were terrible. I was totally unable to make any contact with our partners in Taiwan and had to endure an information “black-out” just when we needed to make some urgent conference calls to Taiwan. In a way, I felt totally cut off from the rest of the world. Unable to reach my partners, staff and friends, my productivity dropped tremendously. Additionally, this “black-out” forced our plans to be delayed for at least a week. And I was left wondering, what would happen if the Internet died?

And in some places around the world, the Internet is practically non-existent. Or, Internet access might be extremely expensive. It is our vision to be able to bring high-speed, cost-effective, wireless broadband and telecommunications access to many developing countries across the world, starting with the Asia Pacific region. As such, the infrastructural development would allow citizens in these various countries to enter into an Information Age where the Internet and a Wireless Lifestyle becomes a Way of Life.

Carpe Diem!

Ignious Yong

Managing Director
Empire Communications Technology (Emcom)