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Articles in Nov, 2002 issue of Telecom Asia

• Getting it right - Stat Snap
  by John C. Tanner
• Pricing MMS - Stat Snap
  by John C. Tanner
• European 3G: optimism, confusion, subsidies - Insight
• Canberra: the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission issues its final report on the pricing principles to be used in arbitrations of disputes over the terms and conditions of access to GSM and CDMA mobile termination services - News map: Asian tel
• Sydney: Telstra is reportedly to cut network spending by as much as 18% at the cost of hundreds of jobs - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• Former WorldCom controller David Myers pleaded guilty to false filing of documents with securities regulators, conspiracy to commit fraud and securities fraud - movements
• Cisco Systems retains the No. 1 spot as the world's largest maker of communications equipment in the second quarter, according to a study by market research firm Synergy Research Group - movements
• Pre-integrated billing solution - Premiere
  by Fiona Chau
• Nortel's new ASEAN head - Telecom Career
• Asia gears up for telecoms event - ITU Preview
• Internet access speeds up - Resend
• Beijing: China's Ministry of Information Industry is prepared to guarantee no telephone tariff changes for the next few years in a move to sweeten the appeal of China Telecom's IPO - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• Jakarta: Indonesia extends the timetable to complete the planned sale of a 41.94% stake in telecoms firm Indosat by a week to December due to investor requests - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• Singapore: StarHub becomes the first Asian GSM operator to publicly commit to adopt EDGE technology as part of its evolution to W-CDMA - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• US trade officials are displeased by the Japanese government's recommended 8.2% cut in NTT's access fees - movements
• Satellite on the rebound: satellite leaders are bullish on the industry's short-term prospects. Low investor confidence and over-regulation remain hurdles to recovery, but operators are eyeing new ways to capitalize on satellite's ability to go where fibe
  by John C. Tanner
• Finisar and Telchemy in VoIP diagnostic partnership - Premiere
  by Fiona Chau
• Packeteer president and CEO - Telecom Career
• Mobs - Backpage Briefing
• SprintLink's IP-VPN toolbox challenges MPLS hype - First Mile
  by John C. Tanner
• Asian IT spending up 5.8% in '02 - Insight
• Canberra: the Australian Communications Authority will oversee Telstra's introduction of new arrangements for services to priority customers - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• Tokyo: NTT says it had opposed a recent government panel proposal to abolish a uniform access rate for its two regional units - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• New Delhi: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd commissions a 9,000-km fiber optic network connecting 14 major commercial cities including New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore - BSNL - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• Alcatel holds the top position in both the terrestrial and submarine optical transport markets for the second consecutive quarter, according to the latest survey by research group RHK - movements
• Test solutions for mobile and IP - Premiere
  by Fiona Chau
• Alcatel president to retire - Telecom Career
• IP telephony finds its voice: new business models seem to be the order of the day for Internet telephony players. But will the new brooms sweep the industry back into the black? - Telecom Corporate
  by Ian Scales
• Regulators under pressure as 3G players push back on licenses - News Analysis
  by Lachlan Colquhoun
• OMA—brave new world or quagmire - Insight
• Islamabad: the Privatisation Commission says the sale of a 26% managing stake in state-run Pakistan Telecommunication Co Ltd had been delayed due to depressed conditions in the world telecoms industry - PTCL - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• Singapore: the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore rejects incumbent carrier Singapore Telecom's request to jack up local telephone charges - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• US regulators have granted China Netcom a license to provide voice, data and other services between America and China - movements
• Juniper Networks posts a much wider net loss for the third quarter as revenue slid 25% due to the deep slump in telecoms spending - movements
• One-stop shop security solution - Premiere
  by Fiona Chau
• PMC-Sierra names Asian VP - Telecom Career
• Strategy - Backpage Briefing
• Meanwhile, over at the optical R&D lab … - Tanner
  by John C. Tanner
• Glut still hurts in Asia - Insight
• Bangkok: the board of Shin Satellite approves the carrier's plans to sign a $390.2 million syndicated loan - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• Tokyo: electronics maker NEC is reportedly to launch a low-cost IP telephony service to members of its Biglobe Net - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• New Delhi: India's cabinet is split over whether to allow higher foreign stakes in telecoms firms and the issue of management control remains a stumbling block - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• Ericsson will shut Ericsson AsiaPacificLab, its Australian-based regional research and development unit, as part of a global R&D cutback - movements
• VoIP clearinghouse - Premiere
  by Fiona Chau
• Sprint AP consulting engineer - Telecom Career
• Crystal Decision appoints new president and CEO - Telecom Career
• Asian broadband: price is the key - Insight
• Hubei: Alcatel will set up a JV with Chinese optical player Fiberhome Technologies to supply fiber optics to the China market - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• Wellington: Telecom Corporation of New Zealand says Verizon has sold 20% of its stake in TCNZ to Merrill Lynch and the investment bank's customers - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• Global Crossing files its reorganization plan with the bankruptcy court, hoping to emerge from bankruptcy as soon as January - movements
• Asia Global Crossing has been forced to restate its first quarter revenues to exclude sales from capacity swaps - movements
• ATM tester for viewing embedded data - Premiere
  by Fiona Chau
• The board remains the same - Telecom Career
• US brings bundle of trouble - Telecom Planet
  by Grahame Lynch
• Moving to 3G in a cost-effective way that secures technology leadership
• Hong Kong: OFTA says it will conduct a review to determine measures to improve the operation of the city's telecommunications networks - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• Kabul: Afghanistan issues a mobile license to an international consortium led by Geneva-based Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development - AKFED - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• Ho Chi Minh City: the Vietnamese government grants a license to Hanoi Telecom Service Joint Stock Co to provide telecom services in a move to further privatize the fast-growing sector - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• Top technology executives including Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and Intel Corp - movements
• PCCW: in search of a growth path - One-To-One
  by Robert Clark
• AT&T Greater China GM - Telecom Career
• DoubleClick regional director - Telecom Career
• 4G - Backpage Briefing
• When in doubt, use the v-word - Inside Line
  by Robert Clark
• Unloading Indosat - News Analysis
  by Mersagita Prabudi
• Tokyo: NTT DoCoMo says it has succeeded with the 100Mbps-downlink and 20Mbps-uplink transmission experiment under an indoor environment using an experimental system for so-called 4G mobile - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• Manila: Smart Communications says it does not need 3G mobile technology for another four to five years - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• Nortel Networks will shutter its CoreTek unit, an optical parts maker it bought for about $1.16 billion in stock in the tech boom of 2000 - movements
• ADI to launch EDGE platform - Premiere
  by Fiona Chau
• Winnick removed as AGC chairman - Telecom Career
• Blue Martini taps former GE executive - Telecom Career
• Taiwan's next big thing - News Analysis
  by Robert Clark
• Hong Kong: PCCW will consider paying a dividend in 2004 yielding between 3.5% and 4.5%, amid investors' continuing worries on its earning prospects - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• Kuala Lumpur: Technology Resources Industries says its shareholders' fund would take a hit of nearly 200 million ringgit due to adjustments following a report of what it says are fictitious invoices amounting to 259.3 million ringgit issued during 1998 a
• Manila: the Gokongwei group officially drops out of its proposed deal to purchase a 24.4% stake in PLDT from First Pacific - News map: Asian telecoms this month
• Qwest says it is expected to restate $950 million in revenues and costs for swaps of capacity - movements
• Voice, video, data on Ethernet-over-VDSL - Premiere
  by Fiona Chau
• C&W names Hong Kong chief - Telecom Career
• Concord names director - Telecom Career
• Ears - Backpage Briefing

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