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Articles in November, 2005 issue of Wireless Asia

• SMS poetry spam.(SHORT MESSAGE: Around the wireless industry)
• Linktone to invest in 9Sky.(deals)
• China primed for HSDPA leapfrog play: China's long wait for 3G could pay off by allowing 3G players to start off with commercial HSDPA offerings. And that includes TD-SCDMA licensees.(3G SUPPLEMENT)
  by Chau, Fiona
• Eonex Technologies, a South Korean technology startup, develops a mobile phone with LG Electronics using its home-grown core semiconductors, a move expected to reduce the market dominance of Qualcomm.(SEOUL)
• NTT DoCoMo sells its 2.16% stake in KPN Mobile to the Dutch cellphone service provider's parent firm for 680m yen ($5.8m).(Movements)
• New iPod creates more than a stir.(STREETWISE)
  by Chan, Tony
• Internet auction partnership.(deals)
• The trouble with WiMAX: it's tough out there in wireless-land. Ericsson's CTO doesn't hold back in his views on mobile WiMAX or Flarion, or, for that matter, his employer's current preoccupation, HSDPA. Hakan Eriksson talks with senior contributing editor
  by Clark, Robert
• Malaysian application service provider MCAT threatens to take Celcom to court if Celcom does not retract a statement denying its association with MCAT.(KUALA LUMPUR)
• Mobile TV ready for take off.(METRICS: Inside the wireless data numbers)
• Nokia and Ericsson revive interest in 450.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
  by Chau, Fiona
• Is that a doctor in your pocket?(SHORT MESSAGE: Around the wireless industry)
• Full album music downloads.(out now)
• Simplifying complexity.(tools)
• Taiwan Cellular mulls joining the handset joint-procurement program of the Bridge Mobile Alliance to trim costs.(TAIPEI)
• ZTE signs a deal with Mundostartel, Angola's second largest fixed-line operator, to deploy its first ever Africa commercial WiMAX network.(Movements)
• DoCoMo smoothes path for 02/i-mode alliance.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
  by Galbraith, Mike
• Wi-Fi: look it up.(SHORT MESSAGE: Around the wireless industry)
• SMS-based insurance deal.(deals)
• Place your bets! Asia's five new 3G license battlegrounds: as 3G rollouts continue across Asia, some markets that skipped the first round of 3G spectrum allocations are gearing up to jump in the game.(3G SUPPLEMENT)
  by Tanner, John C.
• The South Korean government will allow mobile operators to subsidize handset prices for customers who have had a subscription for three years.(SEOUL)
• Global wireless ARPU drops 13%.(METRICS: Inside the wireless data numbers)
• Root DNS services for GSM operators.(deals)
• Karaoke on the go.(out now)
• 3G videotelephony hub.(tools)
• J:Com Hill partner with PHS operator Willcom to offer a mobile service under its own brand by next March.(TOKYO)
• Nokia will make substantial efforts to introduce low-price handsets to tap China's less-developed regions, as mobile subscriber growth in the country's big cities continue to slow.(Movements)
• 850m mobile workers by 2009.(INSIGHT: ONE MONTH'S WIRELESS RESEARCH)
• Watching the generators.(SHORT MESSAGE: Around the wireless industry)
• Macau's CTM launches BlackBerry.(out now)
• The flat-rate pricing dilemma.(WIRELESS FORUM)
  by Anderson, Neale
• SK Telecom is hit with a $1.4m fine for "discriminating" against other Internet portal companies in opening its wireless network.(SEOUL)
• The US Supreme Court refuses an emergency petition by Research in Motion to suspend a potentially devastating injunction stemming from a patent dispute with NTP.(Movements)
• Dissing WiMAX.(UNWIRED)
  by Clark, Robert
• Make your own tone.(this month's model)
• StarHub ready for i-mode.(out now)
• Music goes mobile: mobile music may be the talk of the industry after the launch of Motorola's ROKR, Sony Ericsson's Walkman range and Nokia's N91 music jukebox, but operators want more than a device that can play back music. While cellcos search for a bu
  by Long, Geoff
• PT Telkom plans to buy back $500m worth of its shares.(JAKARTA)
• Correction.(Correction notice)
• Vocal email response.(out now)
• UIQ 3 software platform.(tools)
• Vodafone Australia begins offering 3G services in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and at major airports last week.(SYDNEY)
• China Mobile will pay HK$3.38b ($433m) to buy 744 million shares, or 66.4%, of China Resources Peoples Telephone.(HONG KONG)
• India: top mobile gaming growth market.(INSIGHT: ONE MONTH'S WIRELESS RESEARCH)
• CSL, eBay partner for mobile bidding.(deals)
• Customized 3G video channels.(out now)
• A Philippine lawmaker questions what he called the "mad rush" of the Philippine National Telecommunications Commission to 3G.(MANILA)
• The National Telecommunications Commission approves TOT's bid to operate 3G cellular services.(BANGKOK)
• Europeans heavy users of mobile music.(INSIGHT: ONE MONTH'S WIRELESS RESEARCH)
• Security deal for Nokia smartphones.(deals)
• Attachment viewer.(tools)
• The Singaporean government tightens its control prepaid SIM cards, ordering subscribers to register with service providers starting in November.(SINGAPORE)
• China Unicom begins operation of its cdma2000 1x network in Macau.(MACAU)
• APAC WiMAX subs to reach 3.8m.(INSIGHT: ONE MONTH'S WIRELESS RESEARCH)