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Articles in March 2004 issue of Wireless Asia

• Mobile fitness co-op.(deals)
• The joy of text, part 2.(Short message: around the wireless industry)
• Smartphones demand smarter support: looking beyond the whiz-bang technology packed into smartphones, the reality is that users are requiring up to four times as much tech support--which is forcing carriers to streamline their customer care operations and
  by Chamberlain, David
• Huawei Technologies and Siemens finalize their TD-SCDMA joint venture announced last August.(Beijing)
• Downward pressure on Wi-Fi tariffs.(Insight: one month's wireless research)
• In-flight GSM close to reality.(News Analysis)
  by Tanner, John C.
• W-CDMA: doomed in Korea?(Short message: around the wireless industry)
• Making mobile pay.(1_ 2_ 1)
  by Tanner, John C.
• Local media report that the new draft telecom law.(Beijing)
• Voice and SMS to drive revenue growth.(Insight: one month's wireless research)
• Little Smart handset market heats up.(News Analysis)
  by Liu, Michael
• M2M reference design.(tools)
• More stupid Bluetooth tricks.(Short message: around the wireless industry)
• DRM: a matter of trust: content providers edgy about piracy are moving into wireless data with caution, pending the development of wireless digital rights management. Emerging standards are making it happen, but DRM's arrival into the wireless mainstream
  by Tanner, John C.
• SK Telecom and Alcatel reach a preliminary agreement to jointly develop and sell multimedia messaging services worldwide.(Movements)
• BWA market to expand four-fold by '08.(Insight: one month's wireless research)
• GSA broadens mission beyond EDGE.(News Analysis)
  by Tanner, John C.
• MRF-compliant media server.(tools)
• Content filter.(out now)
• Recovery where you least expect it.(Short message: around the wireless industry)
• The Ministry of Information and Communication imposes 33.3b won ($29m) in penalties on SK Telecom.(Seoul)
• Nokia and Samsung sign a cooperation agreement to promote push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC) technology to the mass market.(Movements)
• Catering to the 'mobile' employee.(Insight: one month's wireless research)
• Industry body gets head and teeth.(Unwired)
  by Clark, Robert
• TA Orange plans to raise 6b baht ($154m) by issuing new shares in the second quarter.(Bangkok)
• Satellite/3G convergence.(tools)
• The Telecommunication Authority will auction two new mobile licenses in April to attract $1.5b in investment and expand the country's mobile subscriber base from three million to 15 million in three to four years.(Colombo)
• Nokia chief executive Jorma Ollila predicts that the number of worldwide mobile subscribers will reach 4 billion, or half of the world's population by 2015.(Movements)
• Untapped demand for location services.(Insight: one month's wireless research)
• Ready for an evolving market.(Advertorial)(Advertisement)
• The Telecom Department approves rules allowing telecom operators to buy local rivals within the same operating circle on conditions that their combined market share does not exceed 67%.(New Delhi)
• Ooops ... those pesky typos.(Short message: around the wireless industry)
• GSM operator Peoples Telephone moves a step closer to its planned IPO after receiving approval from regulators.(Hong Kong)
• Intel COO Paul Otellini predicts 3G and three other high-speed wireless standards--Wi-Fi, WiMax and "WiMedia".(Movements)
• Motorola wins a string of orders worth more than $307m from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.(New Delhi)
• SIM cards for tourists.(out now)
• 3 Hong Kong slashes its 3G pricing by nearly 32%, with the launch of new packages for as low as HK$183 ($24) per month, and a new 3G phone provided by NEC for HK$998 ($128) each--compared to initial pricing of HK$263 a month and a HK$3,980 3G handset.(Hon
• A war of words over 3G phones takes place at the 3GSM conference last month in Cannes, with Vodafone chief Arun Sarin criticising the state of 3G handsets today as "unacceptable" while Nokia chief Jorma Ollila went on the defensive, arguing that
• Taiwan cellular plans to source handsets from distributors instead of directly from vendors, in an attempt to gain benefits from scale.(Taipei)
• Italian football distribution.(deals)
• Personal mobile psychic.(out now)
• The Export-Import Bank of China agrees to supply Huawei Technologies and ZTE with a combined $1.1b in financing to help overseas buyers purchase their equipment.(Shenzhen)
• Hutchison Whampoa's group MD Canning Fok testifies at the trial of six former Mannesmann directors, who face charges of breach of trust for allegedly approving 60m euros ($74.6m) of payments made to Mannesmann executive after Vodafone's record takeover.(M
• Japan may introduce mobile number portability after a study panel organized by the telecoms ministry compiled a draft report recommending portability to be implemented as soon as possible.(Tokyo)
• Opera browser deal with Moto.(deals)
• Migration path for China's 3G.(Wireless Forum)
  by Liu, Michael
• Ringtones go Hollywood.(deals)
• Commit a joint venture formed between Texas Instruments, Nokia and LG Electronics, will launch its, and possibly the world's, first TD-SCDMA chip for testing by June.(Shanghai)
• US business groups urge the Bush administration to step up pressure on China.(Movements)
• The Japanese government is considering issuing up to three mobile licenses to newcomers to provide 3G services based on TDD technology.(Tokyo)
• Clean bill of health for the mobile.(Wireless Biz)
  by Clark, Robert
• Move over 2G, 3G is (finally) here.(Street Wise)
  by Chan, Tony
• Multi-network management.(deals)
• Ningbo Bird sees its 4Q net profit drop by 25.7% year-on-year to 77.69m yuan ($9.39m), as worsening domestic competition whittled away at margins.(Ningbo)
• 3 UK begins offering prepaid 3G service in Britain in a bid to tap the heavy-user end of the existing pre-paid market.(Movements)