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)

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)