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Articles in July, 2006 issue of Wireless Asia

• There's always time for laundry.(this month's model)
• Integrated mobile phone platform.(deals)
• Service assurance from the customer POV: increasing service complexity and competition are driving the need for cellcos to adopt a customer--centric service assurance process to differentiate themselves and reduce churn.(SERVICES)
  by Chau, Fiona
• The Energy, Water and Communications Ministry cancels a tender for WiMAX licenses, citing the lack of a provision calling for a nationwide rollout as a pre-requisite.(KUALA LUMPUR)
• Sony Ericsson's Q2 earnings almost doubled largely due to continued strong sales of its popular Walkman music phones, and it raised its global market forecast for 2006.(Movements)
• Local vendors lose out again as eMobile signs Huawei.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
  by Galbraith, Mike
• UMA-enabled handset partnership.(deals)
• Singapore's first mobile gaming competition.(out now)
• TRAI proposes a new plan for SMS interconnect usage charges, under which an operator from whose network the SMS originates is required to pay a charge to the operator hosting the receiving subscriber.(NEW DELHI)
• The National Telecommunications Commission rejects a request by True to provide 3G services via subsidiary .(BANGKOK)
• Nokia posts 43% growth in Q2 earnings boosted by rising sales of high-end phones and a settlement related to the sale of a Turkish operator.(Movements)
• Emerging markets, global players.(UNWIRED)
  by Clark, Robert
• Too much of a good thing.(SHORT MESSAGE: Around the wireless industry)
• Keyword search for i-mode.(out now)
• 3G builds momentum.(WIRELESS)
  by Burley, Nathan
• LG Telecom loses its 3G license after the company opts not to develop the technology.(SEOUL)
• The European Commission grants French telecoms authorities the right to regulate the wholesale price of mobile text messages.(Movements)
• IMS not to take off until 2009.(INSIGHT: ONE MONTH'S WIRELESS RESEARCH)
• China's first NFC trial.(deals)
• ZTE chooses Bitfone device management suite.(deals)
• Watching mobile TV: service providers worldwide are gearing up to offer mobile TV, but they face a plethora technology choices that are ultimately going to be determined more by market forces and spectrum availability than by technological merit.(Cover st
  by Engebretson, Joan; Tanner, John
• DTAC reports a Q2 net profit of 1.2b baht ($31.6m), an increase of 11.3% from the previous year.(BANGKOK)
• Ericsson posts a 2% drop in Q2 profits as it struggled to integrate the recent acquisition of Marconi.(Movements)
• RBT brings digital music revolution to next level.
• Be my hero.(SHORT MESSAGE: Around the wireless industry)
• Web site for best roaming tariffs.(out now)
• New BlackBerry service for SMBs.(tools)
• KDDI profits climb 44% in the April-June quarter on rising sales, but the company forecasts overall earnings to slide this year due to its weak fixed-line business.(TOKYO)
• The number of HSDPA networks planned, in deployment or launched has reached 108 in 51 countries according to new survey data released the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA).(Movements)
• Limited viable mobile broadcasting options.(INSIGHT: ONE MONTH'S WIRELESS RESEARCH)
• HSDPA turns cellcos into dumb-pipe ISPs.(STREETWISE)
  by Chan, Tony
• Boosting content uptake, consumption.(deals)
• Making the internet "to go": Padmasree Warrior, Motorola's executive vice president and CTO, directs the company's $3.5 billion RE&D efforts and Motorola Labs, the global software group and emerging early-stage businesses. She tells Wireless
  by Tan, Raymond
• Maxis plans to spend between $110m and $165m on capex for its 3G network next year.(KUALA LUMPUR)
• Verizon Wireless obtains a permanent injunction blocking a Miami telemarketer from making automated calls to its customers.(Movements)
• HSDPA to hit stride by 2008.(INSIGHT: ONE MONTH'S WIRELESS RESEARCH)
• '3' Group teams up with Yahoo.(deals)
• Skype: now with SMS.(out now)
• Lee Hsien Yang, the younger brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, plans to step down as group CEO of SingTel once a successor is found.(SINGAPORE)
• Research In Motion expands its Hong Kong office as part of a major push into the Asia-Pacific region.(HONG KONG)
• PCs vital to full-track music downloads.(METRICS / Inside the wireless data numbers)
• Broken phones and faulty users.(SHORT MESSAGE: Around the wireless industry)
• Globe G-Cash goes regional.(out now)
• Converged VAS solution.(tools)
• Motorola joins forces with Softbank to hunch 2.5-GHz WiMAX mobility trials in Japan.(TOKYO)
• The Ministry of Information Industry accuses 102 companies of illegal behavior in the country's wireless value-added services industry.(BEIJING)
• Navigation solutions migrate to handsets.(INSIGHT: ONE MONTH'S WIRELESS RESEARCH)
• MobiForms certified for IBM 19.(tools)
• TelstraClear is planning to spend NZ$50 m ($31m) to develop its 3G network.(WELLINGTON)
• Huawei Technologies and Motorola announce a new collaboration to bring UMTS and HSPA infrastructure equipment to customers worldwide.(SHENZHEN)
• Mobile games come of age.(METRICS / Inside the wireless data numbers)
• SMS goes to war.(SHORT MESSAGE: Around the wireless industry)
• Indonesian mobile gaming community.(out now)
• OMA approves PoC standard.(tools)
• Mobile Broadcasting and Sapporo-based taxi company Daikoku Kotsu unveil MobaHO!(TOKYO)
• China Mobile and China Unicom announce new billing rules for value-added services such as text messaging on a monthly basis rather than a per-message basis.(BEIJING)
• 3G sub base expands, but Aussie cellcos face margin squeeze.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
  by Colquhoun, Lachlan