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Articles in Dec, 2004 issue of Telecom Asia

• Seoul: KT unveils a secure Internet roaming service for corporate travelers, as well as Megapass and Kornet users
• VSNL agrees to acquire Tyco Global Network , one of the world's most advanced and extensive submarine cable systems, for $130m
• UK-based Telabria begins construction of the UK's first commercial WiMAX network, with trials planned for January and a commercial launch scheduled for mid-2005
• Spirent unveils test solutions for converged networks
  by Fiona Chau
• ITU appoints WSIS team
• Networking opportunities across Asia
• TD-SCDMA 'on track' despite trial hiccups
  by John C. Tonner
• Hanoi: a Vietnamese government inquiry into alleged corruption at state-owned Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Corp uncovers management shortcomings but no major graft
• Better 3G through television: assuming regulators don't see any crossover issues with mobile TV, operators still have to work out how they're actually going to make money
  by John C. Tanner
• Hong Kong: PCCW reports that its net profit for the first nine months rose 47.5% due mainly to property income but that its market share of its core fixed-line business fell further to 69%
• Singapore: SingTel will acquire 5% of Globe Telecom from Ayala for around 6.65 billion pesos
• BT is in talks with the BBC, BSkyB and Universal Studios to secure content for a new broadband-based pay-TV service
• Two-way broadband product for trains
  by Fiona Chau
• Indosat leads TA30 rebound
• Agere appoints Greater China VP
• Futuretech
• Confronting challenges in the post-voice era with TEL@COM
• Sun shines on North Korea telecoms
• Kaohsiung: Kaohsiung City selects Nortel Networks to provide wireless mesh networks for the construction of a public wireless local area network
• US regulators rule that cable, phone and other companies offering Internet phone services fall under federal government jurisdiction
• Nextel is in talks to set up a joint venture with China Satcom and China Tietong Group
• MSTP node for metro networks
  by Fiona Chau
• Orient Networks' customer service VP
• Customers
• Incentives to bundle
• Besiegen by VoIP: VoIP has taken a tiny toehold in the voice market, but it's on every carrier's radar. The battle for voice could be the biggest battle of all
  by Robert Clark
• Manila: BayanTel, which covers nearly 33% of the population in the Philippines, posts revenues of 4.02b pesos in the first nine months, up 9.73% from a year ago
• New Delhi: the mega-merger of BSNL with MTNL is slated to be completed by mid-2005
• Orange delays the launch of its 3G service until the New Year
• Integrated mobile app suite
  by Fiona Chau
• J-COM adds three directors
• MD for RSA Security
• Still room for price cuts on international leased lines
• Bangkok: United Communication Industry shifts its primary business focus to broadband in a bid to compete with market leader True
• Taipei: Taipei plans to make wireless Internet access available to about 90% of the Taiwan capital's 2.6m population by the end of 2005
• Seven Asia-Pacific mobile operators form a regional mobile joint venture called Bridge Mobile Alliance, which will operate through the Singapore-based Bridge Mobile company
• UTStarcom plans to expand operations in Vietnam where it supplies equipment for Cityphone, the country's low-end, limited-range mobile phone network
• Test platform with video decode feature
  by Fiona Chau
• Territory sales manager for Avaya's SMBS group
• China's telco management shuffle: observers are making the link between the reshuffle and a probe into graft in China's telecoms market
  by Robert Clark
• Moving up the voice value chain
• Manila: PLDT posts a record net profit of 20b pesos and a revenue increase of 19% to 88 billion pesos for the first nine months of the year
• Multistream business planning—the platform for success
• Hong Kong: Hutchison Telecommunications International is reportedly planning to slash salaries and cut its workforce to trim costs
• New Delhi: mobile phones have outstripped fixed-line connections in India, with nearly 45m cellphones
• Vodafone begins its 3G offering throughout 13 countries in Europe
• 50- 60-GHz antennas
  by Fiona Chau
• Sales director for BT Australasia
• Cisco appoints VP to service provider operations
• Towngas Telecom lights up gas pipes with fiber capacity
  by John C. Tanner
• Beijing: the China Academy of Telecommunications Research proposes three separate 3G networks for China
• Tokyo: NTT will spend more than 5 trillion yen to upgrade fixed lines serving 30 million households and offices to fiber-optic lines by 2010
• CPCNet Hong Kong and Frontiers have partnered to launch high definition video over IP transport service between Tokyo and Hong Kong
• Pay-TV pirates of the Asia-Pacific: piracy in various forms is costing the Asian pay-TV industry—from channel operators to last-mile operators—at least $970 million a year. It's also impacting foreign investment and tax revenues, and funding cri
  by John C. Tanner
• NetTest and Casabyte deliver assurance solution
  by Fiona Chau
• New MD for NEC HK
• VIP
• Backbone oversupply persists despite demand growth
• Beijing: China closes 1,600 Internet cafes and fines operators a total of $12m for violations such as allowing children to play violent games
• Wellington: growth in mobile phone and broadband services help Telecom Corp of New Zealand post a 19% hike in net profit in the first quarter ending September 30
• Asia Netcom plans to upgrade its existing metropolitan area network in Tokyo with DWDM to increase network capability
• Securing the network: Juniper Networks has realigned its security focus after its acquisition of NetScreen, with a push toward integrated security instead of stand-alone point solutions. Juniper CEO Scott Kriens tells group editor Joseph Waring that trust
  by Joseph Waring
• Detecting and plugging leakage: carriers across the region have finally started to get serious about revenue assurance and are now taking a close look at their processes to uncover often gaping holes in their bottom lines
  by Fiona Chau
• VPs for EMC Asia-Pac/Japan
• Branding
• Revival in consulting services
• Seoul: the South Korean government will spend 2 trillion won on five IT projects as part of a plan to improve the economy
• New Delhi: TRAI urges the government to give it financial independence by giving it a share of revenues from phone and TV operators
• France Telecom sets up its first wholly-owned R&D facility in Beijing's Zhongguancun area, the so-called Silicon Valley of China
• Expanding wireless network coverage
  by Fiona Chau
• Alcatel names HK/Macau CEO
• Tundra's Asia-Pacific director
• International leased line prices on select routes
• Islamabad: Pakistan's federal government decides to privatize Pakistan Telecom
• Shanghai: Alcatel and Datang Mobile have formed a partnership to foster the introduction of China's home-grown TD-SCDMA 3G standard
• Perth: Edith Cowan University plans to roll out Australia's first wireless mesh network before the end of the year
• BT buys Infonet Services for $965m, boosting its presence in Asia-Pacific and North America
• Point of purchase downloads: the idea is clever because it merges old technologies in new ways: mobile phones, digital cameras, computers, wireless and wireline links, and Internet protocols
  by Stewart Fist
• Asia telecom transactions index
• In-Stat/MDR appoints MD

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