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Articles in January, 2007 issue of Wireless Asia

• Mobile apps development tool.(tools)
• Reliance Communications begins lobbying the government for a chance to bid for rival Hutchison Essar.(NEW DELHI)
• The Vietnam Posts and Telecom Group (VNPT) reports that revenues for 2006 increased 15% to 38.33b dong ($2.4b) over the previous year.(HANOI)(Financial report)
• Tougher competition and complications from its $11.6b merger hit Alcatel-Lucent's revenue and wiped out its fourth-quarter profit.(Movements)(Financial report)
• WiMAX to cut energy opex.(IN SIGHT: ONE MONTH'S WIRELESS RESEARCH)
• The iPhone conundrum.(STREET WISE)
  by Chan, Tony
• Sony BMG, Warner Music invest in ACCESS China.(deals)
• Personalized Mobile investment tools.(tools)
• A Singaporean teenager who illegally tapped into a neighbor's wireless Internet network was placed on 18 months' probation by a district court.(SINGAPORE)
• Shin Satellite denies the interim government's allegations of phone bugging via satellite, saying it does not have the technology to facilitate such an act.(BANGKOK)
• Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile and Samsung Electronics, and carriers NTT Docomo and Vodafone officially announce a new foundation to push Linux standardization and adoption on mobile phones.(Movements)
• Chunghwa eyes bid for 3G licenses in China.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
  by Carter, Robert K.
• Adult user-generated content.(out now)
• Pocket newspapers.(out now)
• Data rescues mobile; with global subscriber growth in decline, operators have long looked to data to fill the void. Despite disappointments, industry insiders say operators are finally positioned to benefit from investments in high-speed networks that giv
  by Senia, Al
• The South Korean government fines SK Telecom 582m won ($619,000) for violating telecom regulations.(SEOUL)
• Cingular Wireless, the largest cellphone provider in the US, says its fourth-quarter profit nearly quadrupled, boosted by customer growth during the holidays.(Movements)(Financial report)
• AMR to lead M2M market growth.(IN SIGHT: ONE MONTH'S WIRELESS RESEARCH)
• Don't answer that!(SHORT MESSAGE: Around the wireless industry)
• Marketplace for content creators.(tools)
• The Telecom Regulatory Authority slashes tariffs for national roaming on mobile networks by up tp 56%.(NEW DELHI)
• AIS signs an interconnection-rate agreement with True Move, similar to one it signed with DTAC in November.(BANGKOK)
• Nokia shares rally after the world's No. 1 mobile phone maker posted a 19% rise in fourth-quarter earnings on record sales.(Movements)(Financial report)
• Cellcos need WiMAX strategy.(IN SIGHT: ONE MONTH'S WIRELESS RESEARCH)
• Stream, stream a song ...(this month's model)
• Motorola forges pact with Warner.(deals)
• IMS readies for prime time: despite standards debates and fundamentally different approaches by wireless and fixed-line carriers, proponents believe the technology will break out this year.(WIRELESS TECH)
  by Senia, Al
• Chunghwa Telecom plans to spend nearly $4b over the next five years to upgrade networks and build a new undersea cable system.(TAIPEI)
• Motorola is cutting 3,500 jobs and taking other steps to reduce costs.(Movements)
• New Year's traffic spikes stump operators.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
  by Galbraith, Mike
• Sticker shock.(SHORT MESSAGE: Around the wireless industry)
• Mobile phone-cum-massager.(out now)
• India adds close to 74m new mobile subscribers last year, making it one of the most attractive markets for mobile operators and wireless equipment vendors.(NEW DELHI)
• Telkomsel plans to expand its mobile network by adding 5,000 base transceiver stations this year at a cost of about $1.5b.(JAKARTA)
• Sony Ericsson says its net profit more than tripled in the fourth quarter, as record sales of its music and camera handsets helped it gain market share.(Movements)(Financial report)
• OTA music purchases remain sluggish.(IN SIGHT: ONE MONTH'S WIRELESS RESEARCH)
• The one that got away.(SHORT MESSAGE: Around the wireless industry)
• Instant director, superstar.(out now)
• DRM-protected full-track downloads.(tools)
• SingTel Optus plans to spend up to A$800m ($618m) extending its 3G mobile network to cover 96% of Australia's population.(SYDNEY)
• Entertainment and Warner Music Group partner with a joint-venture operating in China that develops technology for distributing music downloads and other content to mobile phones.(BEIJING)
• Bharti and Ericsson announce investments totaling $2.5b in India's fast-growing telephone market.(Movements)
• Learning curve.(UNWIRED)
  by Clark, Robert
• MTV Mobile goes 'Bananas'.(out now)
• MediaCorp to digitize archives.(deals)
• Mobile IM gains traction; mobile IM is gaining ground in both consumer and enterprise sectors. But to make mobile IM a mainstream service, analysts point out that cellcos must open up their networks to Internet IM service providers.(WIRELESS APPS)
  by Chau, Fiona
• KDDI posts 1.7% dip in profit in the October-December period due increased operating costs tied to an expansion of its subscriber base.(TOKYO)(Financial report)
• A US federal jury rules that Broadcom did not infringe on two of rival semiconductor maker Qualcomm's patents for video compression technology.(Movements)
• Mobile music market seen topping $32.2b.(METRICS : Inside the wireless data numbers)
• Pick up that phone.(SHORT MESSAGE: Around the wireless industry)
• SMS-based temple donations.(out now)
• SoftBank makes waves.(WIRELESS FORUM)
  by Anderson, Neale
• DoCoMo, KDDI and SoftBank confirm that radio frequency energy from mobile phone base stations does not cause damage to human cells.(TOKYO)
• China Mobile makes its first oversea acquisition by buying an 88.86% stake in Paktel, Pakistan's fifth largest mobile carrier from Luxembourg-based Millicom International Cellular.(BEIJING)
• Cellphone makers shipped 1.02 billion handsets for the first time in 2006.(Movements)
• Nexgen, MNC launch online game.(out now)
• COAI chooses fastmobile and Jataayu.(deals)
• Upwardly mobile in Vietnam.(INDUSTRY VIEW)
  by Ruppert, Paul
• Mitsubishi Electric is considering demanding that Sanyo Electric pay compensation for financial damage caused by defective Sanyo battery packs used in Mitsubishi mobile phone handsets.(TOKYO)
• China launches the world's first fourth-generation standard, even before 3G can take off in the country.(BEIJING)
• Personalization drive pushes ringbacks.(METRICS : Inside the wireless data numbers)
• Acme mobile to distribute THQ content.(deals)