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Articles in January, 2002 issue of Wireless Asia

• Beijing: Motorola wins two cellular network expansion contracts from China Mobile worth $95 million. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Infineon/Toshiba Bluetooth solution. (out row).
• What 2002 brings to the mobile. (Street Wise).
  by Chan, Tony
• Crashing the phone. (Short message: around the wireless industry).(Nokia 6210,3310,and 3330)(Brief Article)
• Discovered: a mobile-phone free Asian capital city. (Lynch).
  by Lynch, Grahame
• Asia's telecoms services market will continue to outpace the IT sector in 2002 according to analyst firm IDC, with respective growth rates of 20.6% and 13.5% this year as economic recovery starts to kick in sometime during the second half of the year. (Mo
• Beijing: Nokia and the Beijing Hua Xun Group signed an agreement for the delivery of a TETRA network for shared use by authorities in Beijing. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Motorola Bluetooth platform. (tools).(Motorola Inc. Semiconductor Products Sector )(Brief Article)
• SK Telecom goes Disney. (deals).(SK Telecom Company Ltd. and Walt Disney Internet Group)(Brief Article)
• CommVerge CFO. (Telecom Career).(CommVerge Solutions Ltd. appoints Dilip Chopra)(Brief Article)
• The US Federal Communications Commission grants Boeing a license to provide in-flight high-speed Internet service to airline passengers via its planned Connexion service. (Movements).(Brief Article)
• Sydney: Telstra's mobile networks experiences unprecedented demand during Christmas. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Development platform for embedded Bluetooth stacks. (tools).(Conexant Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
• ImaHima names new board member. (Telecom Career).(Ray Tsuchiyama)(Brief Article)
• Independent GMSC: settling the mobile bills. (Advertorial).(Huawei Technologies Company Ltd.'s gateway mobile switching center)
• Hong Kong: PCCW refocuses its floundering Internet TV service Network of the World (NOW) on sports programming and online games. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Tokyo: NTT DoCoMo's i-mode subscriber base hits 30 million on 25 December 20001. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Morse is dead! Long live Morse Code! (Wheel Of Industry).(international growth of mobile telephone sector)
  by Pickles, Mike
• New head for Datacraft Japan. (Telecom Career).(Philip Chu)(Brief Article)
• The other 3G: five technologies have qualified for IMT-2000 certification, but that doesn't mean they don't have encouraged the growth of alternative high-speed wireless networks. (Tech Focus).(international mobile telecommunications)
  by Tanner, John C.
• Tokyo: a report by Gartner Group finds NTT DoCoMo's FOMA service unconvincing with insufficient cell density and capacity. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Motorola Malaysia head quits. (Telecom Career).
• LEOsat-based high-speed data operator SkyBridge reportedly puts its plans on hold pending a pick-up in demand. (Movements).(Brief Article)
• Taipei: KG Telecommunications withdraws its application to join in Taiwan's 3G mobile service license auction. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• New Bluetooth profiles. (tools).(Wipro Technologies )(Brief Article)
• Internet Number and AirClic harmonize. (deals).(Internet Number Corp. and AirClic Inc. standardize numbering system)(Brief Article)
• NetValue Singapore head. (Telecom Career).(Jack Loo)(Brief Article)
• Twas the season to be merry. (News Analysis).(short message service use over Christmas season)
  by Chan, Tony
• Shanxi: AsiaInfo Holdings signs deal to provide Chinese provincial cellco Shanxi Mobile with its network optimization software. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Founding executive returns to Lucent as CEO. (Telecom Career).(Lucent Technologies Inc. appoints Patricia Russo)(Brief Article)
• Putting the "personal" in PDA. (Short message: around the wireless industry).(Raynet Technologies' Personal Massager)(Brief Article)
• The Internet is shrinking, according to Web survey firm Netcraft, whose site-by-site survey of the global Internet in December found the number had declined 5% to 36.276 million. (Movements).(Brief Article)
• Bluetooth module partner program. (tools).(Cambridge Silicon Radio)(Brief Article)
• Bluetooth/802.11x partnership. (deals).(W-Link Systems and Widcomm Inc.)(Brief Article)
• Brocade regional sales head. (Telecom Career).(Brocade Communications Systems Inc. appoints Dean Mansfield)(Brief Article)
• Kick out the jammers. (Short message: around the wireless industry).(Champion Technology Holdings' MuteTone )(Brief Article)
• Beijing: Minister of Information Industry Wu Jichuan tells the China Daily the telecoms market will be reformed around four integrated telecoms operators. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Portals head for the multi-channel door: do mobile portals matter? Just two years ago, Asia was awash with operator-led portals. Around the corner, experts say, is the era of multi-channel markets. (Wireless).
  by Clark, Robert
• Turnkey Bluetooth alliance. (deals).(Alcatel and IVT Corp.)(Brief Article)
• All for spam and none for all. (Unwired).
  by Clark, Robert
• Chennai: Indian mobile operators, BPL, Spice Telecom and RPG launch a regional roaming service. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• KDDI launches assisted GPS location service. (out now).("eznavigation" global positioning system service)(Brief Article)
• Sunday head steps down. (Telecom Career).(Craig Ehrlich leaves SUNDAY Communications Ltd.)(Brief Article)
• Text unclear for future of SMS: Hong Kong has finally got its inter-operator SMS. Though the initial figures of increasing SMS traffic may have cheered Hong Kong cellcos, it is still too early to say if initial triumph will turn into SMS fever. (News Anal
  by Chau, Fiona
• Mobile banking in Korea. (out now).(Hanvit Bank)(Brief Article)
• All is quiet on New Year's Day. (Short message: around the wireless industry).(cellular telephone usage )(Brief Article)
• Wintel goes wireless.(Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. move into cellular market)(Interview)(Cover Story)
  by Chan, Tony
• Beijing: China Unicom Horizon's long-awaited CDMA goes commercial amid worries by analysts that China's wireless market is beginning to slow down. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Hyderabad: incumbent telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited says it is ready to launch its limited mobility service in 1,021 cities this year. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Pohnpei: Wireless vendor interWAVE Communications wins a $4.4 million contract from FSM Telecommunications. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Micronesia)(Brief Article)
• Singapore building inspectors go mobile. (out now).(StarHub teams with REALVision)(Brief Article)
• Hutchison S&M director moves to Thai operation. (Telecom Career).(Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. appoints Stephen Ngan)(Brief Article)
• Hong Kong: Vodafone, which holds a 2% stake in China Mobile (Hong Kong). (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Hello Kitty! Hello Nokia! (deals).
• A US district court orders Motorola to pay on a $300 million loan guarantee it issued for bankrupted satellite phone company Iridium. (Movements).(Brief Article)
• Kuala Lumpur: Telekom Malaysia, Maxis and DiGi, are tipped as likely winners in Malaysia's beauty contest-style 3G licensing process. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• SKT and Shinsegi merger official--finally: after two years of hoops and hurdles, SKT and Shinsegi Telecomm have finally become one. However, as John C. Tanner reports, the Korean government's approval comes with 13 conditions and vaguely defined criteria.
  by Tanner, John C.
• Beijing: messaging solutions vendor Comverse is preparing to introduce voice-enabled messages for existing SMS infrastructure. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Chinese Pocket PC 2002 arrives. (out now).(Brief Article)
• Siemens appoints new Singapore head. (Telecom Career).(Siemens Information and Communication Networks appoints Guenther Braeuning)(Brief Article)
• Cell phone bank withdrawal. (Short message: around the wireless industry).(cell phone usage banned in banks)(Brief Article)