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Articles in Oct, 2002 issue of Telecom Asia

• Beijing: China has yet to receive any interest from foreign companies looking to invest in the country's domestic telecommunications sector since the country joined the WTO, says Dai Shuang, director of the Ministry of Information Industry's planning depa
• Manila: Globe Telecom establishes an E1 link to the A-Bone, the pan-Asian IP backbone network run by AIH - 2 Mbps - News Analysis
• Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka's main opposition party says it will oppose government privatization plans, including privatization for incumbent telco Sri Lanka Telecom - News Analysis
• Dutch telecoms group KPN buys the German assets of its bankrupt joint venture KPNQwest - movements
• Fujitsu and NMS in 3G video gateway linkup - Premiere: latest products and services
  by Fiona Chau
• Indochina vp for Alcatal - Telecom Career
• PeopleSoft's China manager - Telecom Career
• Peerless - Backpage Briefing
• Asia's interconnect regimes still struggling to get it right - First Mile
  by Jonh C. Tanner
• Hong Kong: PCCW reports a first-half net loss of HK$713 million , deeper than expected, hit by a one-off loss on the sale of its mobile phone business - $91.4 million - News Analysis
• Beijing: China blocks and then unblocks leading search engine Google, sparking speculation of a crackdown on Internet content viewed as subversive ahead of the Communist Party National Congress in November - News Analysis
• Tokyo: NTT DoCoMo backs away from its initial bullish stance on subscriber growth for its FOMA service - News Analysis
• Lucent Technologies admits it intends to cut more jobs to reduce expenses, but denies a report from TheStreet.com that the headcount could reach as high as 15,000 jobs - movements
• Signal analysis 802.11a WLAN speeds design and development - Premiere: latest products and services
  by Fiona Chau
• 3Com taps top sales head - Telecom Career
• Lessons in CRM: when it comes to caring for customers, telecom firms need to wise up. Here's a primer of best practices, complied from a roster of CRM experts - Telecom Corporate
  by Shira Levine
• New deal to sweeten watchdog - News Analysis
  by Lachlan Colquhoun
• Kuala Lumpur: TRI asks its founder and former chairman Tajudin Ramli, and former directors Lim Kheng Yew and Bistamam Ramli, to give back a total of $6.4 million paid to them in compensation for losing their positions on TRI's board - News Analysis
• Singapore: M1 plans to list on the Singapore Exchange's main board in the final quarter of this year - News Analysis
• The European Commission approves a cost-sharing deal between mobile phone operators T-Mobile of Germany and mmo2 of the UK to build 3G infrastructure in Germany - movements
• 40Gbps advanced network tester speeds SONET/SDH rollout - Premiere: latest products and services
  by Fiona Chau
• New StarHub CFO - Telecom Career
• Juniper announces global sales management - Telecom Career
• Spying - Backpage Briefing
• Strange but true tales from the 3G crypt - Tanner
  by Jonh C. Tanner
• Hong Kong: Tom.com drops its bid to buy into the territory's number two TV company, Asia Television - News Analysis
• New Delhi: India's Communications Minister Pramod Mahajan proposes to merge state-run carriers BSNL and MTNL, which would create the country's largest telecoms company by sales - News Analysis
• Tokyo: the Telecommunications Ministry plans to allow software companies and ISPs to launch mobile phone Net services - News Analysis
• Hutchison unit Hi3G Access puts in a bid for Finnish telco Sonera's 3G license—which, if successful, would be Hutchison's tenth third-generation license - movements
• Best practice in managed services - Premiere: latest products and services
  by Fiona Chau
• Global crossing PR chief joins ITXC - Telecom Career
• Sales & marketing VP for AMD - Telecom Career
• Tugs - Backpage Briefing
• Juniper finds joy in Asian broadband uptake - News Analysis
  by Grahame Lynch
• Beijing: China Telecom intends to list in Hong Kong and New York - News Analysis
• Wellington: Telecom Corp of New Zealand may be forced to halve the price it charges other telcos to carry their long-distance calls after a precedent-setting draft ruling from the Commerce Commission - News Analysis
• Marconi finalizes its massive debt-for-equity financial restructuring, which it says is likely to leave shareholders with just 0.5% of the company - movements
• IRUs: back to reality - American Line
  by Elizabeth Starr Miller
• Telstra fills Moriarty gap - Telecom Career
• Hitachi Data Systems appoints GM - Telecom Career
• Growth - Backpage Briefing
• Making it in China - Inside Line
  by Robert Clark
• Hong Kong: Sunday Communications and oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell scrap their five-month-old 50-50 MVNO joint venture - News Analysis
• New Delhi: Indian telecoms firm Bharti Telesonic seals an interconnect deal with state-run BSNL that enables Bharti to offer its national long-distance services to BSNL's customers - News Analysis
• Seoul: South Korea's Powercomm, a cable unit of state-run Korea Electric Power Corp says it will acquire just over half of broadband ISP Thrunet's cable network for 45 billion won - KEPO - $37.5 million - News Analysis
• Level 3 cuts a $1.775 billion secured credit facility by 8%, to increase its ability to pay cash for purchases, remove two revenue-based financial covenants and modify one cash flow-based covenant - movements
• Channel ready access portal server for SMEs - Premiere: latest products and services
  by Fiona Chau
• Motorola taps auto chief to head up PCS - Telecom Career
• C&W taps Japan/Asia head - Telecom Career
• Faking - Backpage Briefing
• Stat snap - Firts Mile
  by John C. Tanner
• Canberra: The Australian government announces a new inquiry into the standard of rural telecom services - News Analysis
• Seoul: W-CDMA licensee KT ICOM will launch service in June 2003 at an eventual buildout cost of $1.7 billion to provide national coverage - News Analysis
• Sydney: the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission decides Telstra must allow other service providers access to its broadband network on commercial terms - News Analysis
• Siemens IC Networks confirms that it is considering sacking 4.000 staff by September 2003 - movements
• Cisco enters high-growth SAN market - Premiere: latest products and services
  by Fiona Chau
• Redback names Asia-Pacific head - Telecom Career
• Asia telecom transactions index
• Cable guys get back to the club - News Analysis
  by Robert Clark
• Jakarta: incumbent carrier Telkom says it has closed a $425 million buyout deal for KSO - News Analysis
• Sydney: Telstra reports full year earnings down 9.8% to A$3.66 billion , despite strong mobile growth and aggressive cost cutting - $1.7 billion - News Analysis
• Former WorldCom CFO Scott Sullivan and former general accounting director Buford Yates plead not guilty to charges of securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, fraud in connection with the purchase or sate of securities, and making false fi
• Thoughts of chairman Mao: Chunghwa Telecom chairman Mao Chi-kuo has seen the worst of the sliding market for telco stocks, after four unsuccessful attempts at a partial-privatization. Mao and the Taiwan government are not giving up yet. Speaking with grou
  by Robert Clark
• Philips and Sony to jointly develop NFC technology - Premiere: latest products and services
  by Fiona Chau
• Veritas names Greater China president - Telecom Career
• The death of five nines - Telecom Planet
  by Grahame Lynch
• Great Mekong fiber-optic loop proposed - Telecom Asia, October 1996 - Resend: flashbacks, updates and nostalgia
• Ho Chi Minh City: Vietel has been licensed for landline phone services in Vietnam - News Analysis
• Tokyo: Softbank's broadband Internet connection unit BB Technologies files a lawsuit against a chief technology officer at rival broadband access provider eAccess on charges of business obstruction - News Analysis
• Thirteen telcos sign a MoU to build SEA-ME-WE-4, a new submarine cable linking Bangladesh, Egypt, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates - movements
• Broadband—in search of a business model: carriers everywhere are getting mixed results in the broadband challenge. Sure, they're racking up DSL subs—but the rivers of premium video, games, sport and other content have yet to flow - Cover Story
  by Robert Clark
• Message router for multi-vendor networks - Premiere: latest products and services
  by Fiona Chau
• Former DoCoMo AOL chief for Riverstone Japan - Telecom Career
• TA30 telecom stock index: for the period from 1 August-2 September, 2002
• China Unicom softens premium CDMA strategy: China's No.2 carrier is shifting its CDMA service away from the premium end of the market to target youth and prepaid - News Analysis
  by Fiona Chau
• Jakarta: The Indonesian government will sell up to 41.94% of state-run international phone operator Indosat via a strategic sale this year that will help raise around $730 million for its 2002 privatization target and help plug this year's budget deficit
• Taipei: Chunghwa Telecom says it has withdrawn its 13.8% stake sale via American Depository Receipts , worth about TS59 billion at current market prices - ADR - $1.74 billion - News Analysis
• Qwest Communications International reaches a deal with creditors to amend its $3.4 billion credit facility by extending the maturity date from May 2003 to May 2005 - movements
• WLL never looked so good: now that wireless local loop technology, once hyped as the ultimate teledensity booster, has gone through its reality check, improved technologies and wiser business models could be the key to a WLL comeback—but not necessar
  by John C. Tanner
• SmartBridges unveils outdoor wireless access point - Premiere: latest products and services
  by Fiona Chau

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