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Articles in Oct, 2004 issue of Telecom Asia

• Investing to innovate
• Networking opportunities across Asia
• The ubiquitous network
  by John C. Tanner
• The Ministry of Information Industry says Chinas international data capacity has increased needy fivefold in the last two years: from 10.58 Gbps in June 2002 to 53.94 Gbps in June '04
• NTT DoCoMo plans to offer free video calls worth up to 500 yen per month for two months between this October and March 2005
• A new ITU report predicts that the telecoms sector will undergo a further bout of disruption from new high-speed technologies, with technologies like Wi-Fi, WiMAX, 3G and UWM impacting the mobile sector
• Braced for change
  by John C. Tanner
• TA30 telecom stock index 13 Aug-15 Sept, 2004: TA30 index rises 7%
• VMware taps regional director
• CPCNet offers One Region, One Network solution
• SAS Institute's Greater China director
• China Telecom posts a 28.1% year-on-year increase in its first-half net profit
• The FCC gives VSNL America, the US subsidiary of India's VSNL, a license to own and manage domestic US and international networks
• Robust BTS growth short lived
• The Ministry of Information and Communication chooses three consortia
• StarHub, the city-state's third largest telecom carrier
• Vietnam Telecomp and Vietnam Electronics: a stage for market leaders to compete for market share in Vietnam
• Sheer Networks CEO
• Crime
• City Telecom offers a free trial of VoIP service to consumers
• Video
• Korea seeks room for WiBro in BCN
  by John C. Tanner
• ZTE signs a one-year mutual distribution agreement with UK-based Marconi
• The government announces a spectrum allocation plan for fixed wireless broadband services
• Qwest Communications agrees to pay $250m to end a two-year federal probe
• TETRA terminal with GPS capability
  by Fiona Chau
• Lucent China chairman
• STATS ChipPAC appoints COO
• Service-oriented transport networks: data private line and broadband access
• The Department of Telecom scraps the license needed for using low-power equipment in the frequency band of 2.4 GHz to 2.48 GHz to boost wireless access technologies
• Server market heats up in Asia Pacific
• The MIC plans to give out three licenses for companies to operate the so-called "WiBro" wireless broadband service by February next year with the aim of launching commercial services during the first half of 2006
• Microsoft, eBay, Yahoo! and AOL have come together as part of China's first anti-spam alliance
• Debunking
• UbiNetics adds new HSDPA testing option
  by Fiona Chau
• New CTO for EMC
• Asia telecoms rules OK
  by John C. Tanner
• China Unicom, which already has 400 Internet cafes throughout the country, plans to open up to another 3,000 Internet cafes by the end of the year
• Telstra is conducting VoIP trials for residential customers with Lucent Technologies
• The Internet Engineering Task Force rejects Microsoft's Sender ID proposal
• Prediction failure
  by Stewart Fist
• China Netcom names chairman
• PLDT launches a mobile service called 1538 Smart, which gives Filipinos in Hong Kong cheaper text messaging and voice call rates
• TU Media will launch the world's first satellite-to-mobile TV service by mid-November, targeting the country's 38m mobile users
• ITU members are divided on the issue of whether the international telecoms body should take the responsibility of governing the Internet
• Ericsson abandons Bluetooth chip development, blaming a lack of a business case
• Cirpack sales & business development SVP
• Advertising
• Simplifying the last mile: how Hongkong Land leveraged its grade-A office portfolio by installing its own carrier-neutral cable network
  by Stefan Hammond
• France will privatize France Telecom by cutting its stake below 50%, said Economy and Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, while announcing the sale of 9.6% of its shares
• KDDI moves to take non-mobile business fully IP
• OFTA director-general Au Man-ho says the regulator will begin developing regulations governing Internet-based telephony by the end of the year
• ISP iiNet will roll out its own DSLAMs
• A report by TeleGeography shows that the price of a 155-Mbps STM-1 link fell by roughly half all around the world in the last 12 months
• Ultra-high capacity extension to transmission system
  by Fiona Chau
• Linktone names SVP
• Does broadband matter?
  by Robert Clark
• VoIP row escalates after OFTA's 'green light' speech
  by John C. Tanner
• Cambodia Shinawatra rolls out a CDMA450 WLL service throughout the country
• GPS navigation market doubles in EMEA
• The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India will give its final recommendations on unified licensing this month
• TelstraClear files a complaint to New Zealand's Telecom and Commerce Commission, alleging incumbent TCNZ undertook "unlawful" marketing practices by monitoring the calling patterns of TelstraClear's customers
• Lucent will invest $70 million in its 3G R&D center in Nanjing, eastern China
• Samsung selects Philips' NFC solution
  by Fiona Chau
• ISC2 selects advisory board
• ITU
• The price war in the nation's fixed-line market intensifies, with KDDI and Softbank announcing new service plans to undercut each other
• 10-gigabit UTP cabling
  by Fiona Chau
• A case of broadband overkill
• Hanaro Telecom announces it will interconnect directly
• The Asia-Pacific Carriers Coalition, comprising ten global and regional telephone companies, is urging Asian governments to grant them greater access to national telecommunications markets
• What's driving NGN?
  by Robert Clark
• Asia telecom transactions index
• Esmertec appoints VP sales, Asia Pacific
• Multistream business planning—the platform for success
• Avaya South Pacific sales director
• Hutchison Whampoa orders up to 12 million 3G handsets
• China reportedly is to roll out IPv6 Internet
• Shakeout on the horizon
• The Infocomm Development Authority announces it will increase access to SingTel's submarine cable capacity

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