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Articles in May 2003 issue of Wireless Asia

• Long climb for fixed SMS. (Insight: one month's wireless research).(short messaging services)(Brief Article)
• Ericsson will cut thousands more jobs as the market looked set to fall more sharply than previously expected. (Movements).(Brief Article)
• Hong Kong: Peoples Telephone plans to start a field trial of EDGE technology by the third quarter. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Text-to-speech engine. (tools).(Brief Article)
• FOMA video. (out now).(Brief Article)
• Not drowning, dialing. (Shortmessage: around the wireless industry).(Brief Article)
• More mobile minutes. (Insight: one month's wireless research).(cellphone vs. landline )(Brief Article)
• Sony Ericsson reports wider first quarter losses due to weaker sales and falling handset prices. (Movements).(Brief Article)
• Hong Kong: Sunday Communications launches a service that lets customers know which nearby buildings have housed carriers of the deadly SARS virus. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Tokyo: NTT DoCoMo will launch three high-resolution megapixel handsets--the world's first of it's kind--in the next two months. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Bluetooth source code. (tools).(Brief Article)
• Tracking senior citizens. (out now).(Siemens ICM releases the "m.traction Senior Care Service")(Brief Article)
• Money and games on the wireless frontier: SK Telecom is one of the world's mobile data pioneers, with a 1x network delivering video and downloads, and with a W-CDMA system in prospect. Sung Kyun Park, vice president of the portal business division and por
  by Clark, Robert
• Tokyo: NTT DoCoMo agrees to a 200 million-pound ($315 million) shareholder's loan to Hutchison 3G UK. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• US firms go for 802.11. (Insight: one month's wireless research).(Brief Article)
• Qualcomm posts a higher quarterly net profit and raises its full-year earnings for the second time. (Movements).(Brief Article)
• Dhaka: Bangladesh's four mobile operators will invest $2.69 million in state-owned fixed-line monopoly Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) in a bid to get access to its network. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Singapore: Analysts expect SARS to boost revenues for mobile carrier M1 in the second quarter on the notion. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Mobile One)(Brief Article)
• Wireless accelerators. (tools).(Brief Article)
• New Movie Mail 1x handset. (out now).(Brief Article)
• Breaking news in 140 characters or less. (Shortmessage: around the wireless industry).(Brief Article)
• Channel trouble: Vodafone faces $56m damages bill. (News Analysis).(Vodafone Pacific Proprietary Ltd.)
  by Colquhoun, Lachlan
• Mobile price wars return to Hong Kong. (News Analysis).
  by Chau, Fiona
• Bangkok: Mobile operator Advanced Info Service (AIS) expects non-voice revenues to jump 72%-88% this year due to soaring demand. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• SSL VPN for PocketPC. (tools).(Brief Article)
• Multiple phone books. (out now).(Brief Article)
• Stupid security tricks. (Shortmessage: around the wireless industry).(Brief Article)
• Telecom Asia Awards to go ahead. (News Analysis).
• Nortel Networks announces net earnings of $54 million on revenues of $2.4 billion--its first profit in three years. (Movements).(Brief Article)
• Islamabad: Pakistan Mobile Communications awards Motorola a $39 million contract to expand the operator's GSM network to 2 million subscribers. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Sydney: Hutchison Telecom launches Australia's first W-CDMA network. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• App traffic management. (deals).(Brief Article)
• Take pop stars on karaoke dates. (out now).(Brief Article)
• Camera-phones just part of the picture: camera-phones may be hot, but they're just the opening at for MMS as it climbs the adoption curve. First, pricing and usability need to be solved. (Wireless Biz).
  by Clark, Robert
• cdma2000 1x: the efficient 3G solution. (Advertorial).
• Lucent posted its 12th straight quarterly loss thanks to continued weak capital spending, but still beat the street. (Movements).(Lucent Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)
• Kuala Lumpur: Telekom Malaysia spends around $41.9million to raise its stake in Celcom to 51.12%. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Sydney: Telstra says its underlying third quarter sales rose 2.6% and and reiterates guidance for flat revenues and pre-tax earnings for the year to June, 2003. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• iiL gets game rights. (deals).(Brief Article)
• Still waiting for the real 3G. (Street Wise).
  by Chan, Tony
• Motorola completes its offer for 13.3 million Next Level shares after extending the deadline five times. (Movements).(Next Level Communications)(Brief Article)
• Kuala Lumpur: Telekom Malaysia and Maxis Communications will launch pilot 3G services by as early as July, with plans to spend a combined 7.5 billion ringgit ($2.0 billion) on 3G over the next decade. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• New Delhi: Bharti Tele-Ventures posts its first-level quarterly net profit since going public. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Nokia acquires Eizel. (deals).(Brief Article)
• This month's new cellular acronym ... TSM. (Lynch).(Industry Overview)
  by Lynch, Grahame
• The cost of mobile termination. (Unwired).
  by Clark, Robert
• Five Asian cellcos--Hong Kong's CSL, Malaysia's Maxis, Singapore's MobileOne, Philippines' Smart and Australia's Telstra. (Movements).(Brief Article)
• A federal judge in New York, acting upon a ruling from the US Court of Appeals, dismisses Motorola's racketeering case against the Uzan family, owners of Turkish cellco Telsim. (Movements).(Brief Article)
• Seoul: The Ministry of Information and Communication conditionally approves SK Telecom's plan to absorb its 3G unit, paving the way for an early launch of W-CDMA. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Wi-Fi vs 3G: Friends or foes? Is WLAN going to deliver the death blow to 3G, or save its neck? Global technology editor John C. Tanner goes on the trail of the biggest debate in wireless and discovers that Wi-Fi is not as easy as it looks. .(Industry Over
  by Tanner, John C.
• WorLd's highest SMS/MMS service. (deals).(Brief Article)
• Hands-free. (Shortmessage: around the wireless industry).
• Sweden's Post and Telecoms Authority rejects a request from French mobile. (Movements).(Brief Article)
• Beijing: China Unicom starts a new round of CDMA discounts and packages. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Seoul: Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics halt deliveries of handsets to SK Global. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Message router deal. (deals).(Brief Article)
• Wi-Fi to dominate. (Insight: one month's wireless research).(Brief Article)
• NEC and Siemens complete the first stage of Hutchison 3G UK's network. (Movements).(Brief Article)
• Beijing: China Netcom president Xi Guohua will swap jobs with MII vice minister Zhang Chunjiang. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
• Hands-free Xelibri driven by ART. (deals).(Advanced Research Technologies Inc. to work with Xelibri)(Brief Article)
• Txt maniacs. (Shortmessage: around the wireless industry).(Brief Article)