Telecom Asia

View more issues:

Articles in Nov, 2003 issue of Telecom Asia

• Reliance bags FLAG - News Analysis - Fiber Link Around the Globe
  by Robert Clark
• >Hanoi: French, US, Russian and Japanese companies are in the final stages of bidding to build and launch Vietnam's first satellite - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Taipei: AT&T Wireless Services will sell its 20.7% stake in FarEasTone for about $330m in cash to member companies of FET's majority shareholder, Far Eastern Group - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Global Crossing clears the last major hurdle to selling a majority stake to Singapore Technologies Telemedia - movements - Brief Article
• Nokia is to restructure its three main businesses into four to chase new growth in software and internet applications for handsets and mobile devices - movements - Brief Article
• DWDM platform with enhanced Tx distance - Premiere - Alcatel - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Citrix Pacific VP - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Censored - Backpage Briefing - Brief Article
• Uniting base stations from the inside out - First Mile
  by John C. Tanner
• Beijing: China Unicom buys 1 million cdma2000 1x color handsets for about 1.5 billion yuan from Motorola, ZTE and several Chinese-backed suppliers - $180 million - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Manila: PLDT subsidiary Smart reaches an agreement with AT&T over the cost of delivering international calls - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company's subsidiary Smart inks agreement - Brief Article
• Seoul: SK Telecom signs an MoU with US mobile technology firm Magnolia to commercialize "DiversityPlus", a chipset which allows an operator to double its data capacity - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Vodafone and Microsoft announce the launch of a joint mobile Web services trial - movements - Brief Article
• Putting the service into global services: services integration, not network management, is the mantra of BT Global Services. CEO Andy Green speaks with group editor Robert Clark about the failure of network-centric Concert, and business potential from ser
  by Robert Clark
• Alcatel CMO - Telecom Career - chief marketing officer - Brief Article
• Can mergers save telecom? Why M&As are inevitable, where the biggest economies of scale are, and what pitfalls to avoid - Telecom Corporate
  by Raul Katz
• Know your core router vendors - Stat Snap - Brief Article
• Hong Kong: in a submission to Hong Kong regulators on the future of 2G mobile licenses set to expire in 2005-2006, China Unicorn says Hong Kong should retain CDMA services even though most mobile users in the city are on GSM networks - Newsmap: Asian tele
• New Delhi: a new telecom panel recommends that the cap on total foreign investment be raised from 49% to 74% - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Seoul: KTF signs a contract to buy 2.9% stake in Indonesian mobile carrier Mobile-8 Telecom - 14m new shares - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Iraq awards two-year regional GSM licenses to three Arab-led Consortia - movements - Brief Article
• Ethernet CWDM solution - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• LG Electronics CEO - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Tellabs first to provide data solutions integrating layers 1, 2 & 3 - Telecom Corporate
• 17 years old—and NMT is still going strong: flashbacks, updates and nostalgia: Telecom Asia, November 1998 - Resend
• Jakarta: Indonesia awards its first 3G license to Cyber Access Communications, an affiliate of Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Group - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - has three years for making the sytem available - Brief Article
• Seoul: the AIG-LG-Hanaro feud continues on, with LG once again under fire from minority shareholders and Hanaro management who are sick of LG's constant efforts to thwart a $500m deal with the AIG consortium - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Ar
• Tokyo: KDDI plans to launch a new service bundling pay-TV, Internet and IP-telephone over FTTH access in December - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• UAE-based Thuraya will expand its coverage to east and southeast Asia after the recent lauch of its second satellite - movements - Brief Article
• Turnkey solutions for large-scale VPN deployments - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Polycom Asian executives - Telecom Career - appointments and promotions - Brief Article
• The EV-DO/Wi-Fi challenge: it's the difference between being able to sit down anywhere you want and getting online with an EV-DO PC card, and trying to find the nearest Wi-Fi ZONE - Tanner: global technology - Evolution Data Only
  by John C. Tanner
• Pitching telecom - Inside Line
  by Robert Clark
• Military satellite shift - Insight: one month's telecom research - Brief Article
• New Delhi: IDD carrier BSNL and incumbent Sri Lanka Telecom will revive a microwave link which will cut the cost of calls between the neighboring countries and enables India to route regional calls via Sri Lanka - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brie
• Singapore: IDA plans to review its telecom competition rules - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Infocomm Development Authority - Brief Article
• Vodafone Group and rival Orange announce separate deals with BT Group for access to BT's Openzone Wi-Fi network - movements - Brief Article
• Managing VoIP for quality: VoIP's growing ubiquity is raising the bar on the importance—and complexity—of monitoring quality control, especially when operators are relying more on partner networks to deliver their voice traffic - Internet
  by Tony Chan
• New Skies North Asia sales director - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Symphony Services India head - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Yahoo BB: the model IP telco? - News Analysis - Brief Article
  by Robert Clark
• New Delhi: India is set to enforce a ruling that WLL-based limited mobility services be limited to a calling area below the normal radius of 25 km - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Wireless Local Loop - Brief Article
• Tokyo: NTT enables users of conventional phones to call IP phones - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• US Democratic lawmakers call for a security review of the sale of global satellite company Inmarsat to a foreign buyer - movements - Brief Article
• Nokia unveils its N-Gage game phone, with aims to sell between 6 million and 9 million units by the end of 2004 - movements - Brief Article
• UWB radio measurement system - Premiere - ultrawideband - Brief Article
  by Fioni Chau
• Atheros CFO - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Taxing - Backpage Briefing - Brief Article
• Users not getting camphone satisfaction - Insight: one month's telecom research - Brief Article
• Hong Kong: Asia Netcom enters into a partnership with Indian Internet services firm Sify to provide high-speed private network services to global firms planning to set up back office units in India - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Singapore: StarHub awards Nokia a zoom euro contract for W-CDMA equipment - $117m - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Motorola posts a quarterly profit of $116 million, twice Wall Street estimates due to surprisingly strong demand for its mobile phones - movements - Brief Article
• Space jam: fighting satellite interference from the ground up: interference is an occupational hazard in any wireless game, but factors from crowded skies to cheap equipment are making it critical for the satellite industry, especially in Asia. The soluti
  by John C. Tanner
• NetScreen to buy Neoteris - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fioni Chau
• Mobile2win COO - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Convergence - Backpage Briefing - Internet addressing converge - Brief Article
• Finally, FET and KG make a deal - News Analysis - K G Telecom - Far Eas Tone
  by Robert K. Carter
• Bangkok: Nokia wins an order to deliver EDGE base stations to Total Access Communications - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution - Brief Article
• Seoul: SK Telecom will start broadcasting television and radio to mobile phone users via a consortium offering - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Tokyo: NTT DoCoMo says its FOMA 3G service crossed the 1m milestone - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation's satement about its Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access - Brief Article
• Saudi Arabia issues licenses to four local firms to provide satellite-based telecommunication services as part of steps to end the monopoly of incumbent STC - movements - Mohammed bin Jamil al-Mullah - Brief Article
• Routing solution minimizes interconnect costs - Premiere - InterconnecT Optimised Routing solution - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Motorola CEO to retire - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Smaller is better at ITU Telecom World 2003 - ITU Wrap-Up
• WiMax at the crossroads - Insight: one month's telecom research - Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access - Brief Article
• Manila: Deutsche Telekom sells off its 24.8% stake in Globe Telacom - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - sold to SingTel and Ayala - Brief Article
• Tokyo: former Sprint Corp CEO William Esrey will join Japan Telecom - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• A federal grand jury is investigating whether Qwest Communications International improperly made deals with small telecom-gear suppliers - movements - Brief Article
• Nokia launches a TETRA system far the 300 MHz frequency band for Russia and other countries - movements - Brief Article
• GSM/GPRS and GPS module for telematics apps - Premiere - The Automotive Development Lab - Brief Article
  by Fioni Chau
• Veritas Software Asia SVP - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Smashing - Backpage Briefing - grid computing to simulate Big Bang - Brief Article
• Fragmented IT services market - Insight: one month's telecom research - Brief Article
• Ulaanbaatar: ITXC and Mongolian mobile operator Mobicom establish a bilateral agreement to exchange international voice traffic - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Internet Telephony Exchange Carrier and Mobicom sign a agreemnet - Brief Article
• Wellington: a report by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research criticizes local USO roles, known as the Kiwi Share - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Cisco suspends its patent suit against Huawei Technologies - movements - Brief Article
• Shaping the industry through CDMA2000 technology leadership: innovative design and development approaches are key factors in how operators choose their wireless supply partners - Advertorial - innovative vendors are in demand
• Wireless 802.11g firewall router - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fioni Chau
• WatchGuard Japan president - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Surveillance - Backpage Briefing - Brief Article