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Articles in Dec, 2007 issue of Telecom Asia

• BT scales up Asian biz with Frontline buy
  by Robert Clark
• Indosat makes a higher-than-expected third-quarter net profit
• NTT sees its group net profit sliding 33% for the six months through September on increased marketing and depreciation costs
• The ITU approves Wimax as one of the official 3G technologies
• Talk to the handheld: Inmasat's entry into handheld satellite phones is one of several factors that have led to a perceived Renaissance in the handheld MSS market, but 2007 has turned out to be a rougher year than expected
  by John C. Tanner
• Ericsson names finance chief
• Exec appointments at Fujitsu HK
• TV content app development standard
• Operator re-target the home with triple play: increasingly advanced communication technologies are bringing telecom service providers back to the household after initially having them focus on the individual
  by Guillaume Sachet
• The European Union's troubled Galileo satellite navigation system will be financed from leftover EU funds, EU ministers decided, after Germany and three other countries that had opposed the arrangement relented
• Quadruple play: tough move in a tight game: heightened competition is pushing operators into quadruple play, but many are treading carefully given the required investment, complex packaging and regulatory limits
  by Fiona Chau
• CAT Telecom rejects a 2.4b baht offer by TOT to take over its 42% stake in joint venture Thai Mobile
• SK Telecom is named the preferred bidder for a controlling stake in broadband service provider Hanarotelecom
• The European Commission launches plan for reforming the European Union's telecoms rules to encourage healthy competition
• T-Mobile plans to offer Apple's iPhone without a contract to comply with a court injunction
• HSPA products for 2.6-GHz band
  by Fiona
• New president of BT Japan
• Revitalized karaoke-on-demand service
• The importance of IT in telecoms: investments should enable an operator to speed up the sale, delivery and support processes. Being able to demonstrate improved efficiency in these areas is what becoming an IT-based organization should be all about
  by Mike Cansfield
• The Asian ICT boom
• Bypassing blackout
• The shift to a cross-functional approach: as operators look to cut costs, Intec chairman and CEO John Hughes says it's essential to move to more integrated and configurable back-office systems that are substantially cheaper to own and operate than last-ge
• Apac leads global Ethernet services market
• Telkom posts a 6.2% drop in third-quarter net profit, hit by lower revenue at its mobile business and foreign exchange losses
• Softbank's profit more than tripled in the fiscal first half as more Japanese subscribed to its services
• Broadcom plans to prevent Qualcomm from producing, using or selling mobile chips that are based on disputed patents
• Seven companies that are changing telecom
  by Robert Clark
• Indoor Wimax injector
  by Fiona
• Miyowa adds board member
• IPTV: still searching for profits: while IPTV is seen as a way to boost earnings, relying on subscription fees alone is difficult for carriers to generate enough returns to cover the heavy investments
  by Janice Chong
• End-to-end protection: Viaccess CEO Francois Moreau du Saint-Martin, discusses the challenges of keeping up with the technology and diversity of new devices and outlines what operators are looking for next
• What will the consumer pay?
  by Fiona Chau
• Miniweb acquires SkyKeys/Internet Sites
• China Telecom records a decrease of 880,000 subscribers in October, marking the third monthly decline in a row
• PLDT's third-quarter net profit falls 9% from a year ago because of higher income tax provisions
• Hutchison Telecom Australia will sell shares worth A$330m
• Nortel and its principal subsidiary, Nortel Networks Limited, agrees to pay $35m to settle civil fraud charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission
• The slow road to unified comms: fresh technologies promise to take communication to a higher, unified level, but the benefits must wade through confusion among vendors to reach end-users
  by Stefan Hammond
• Exec promotion at SingTel
• TNS hires regional director
• Modular video processor
• Ten mega-trends turning mobile industry upside down
• New IP service quality products
  by Fiona
• Detailed MPEG over IP analysis
• Egypt's Orascom Telecom cuts its stake to 16.3% from 19.3% in Hong Kong's Hutchison Telecommunications International
• Bharti Airtel plans to roll out triple-play services in Delhi in the next two months
• SingTel reports a 3.3% rise in its Q3 profit on contributions from regional mobile associates and operations in Singapore and Australia
• Some 35,000 additional jobs are reportedly threatened at German telecom giant Deutsche Telekom
• VoIP interoperability with legacy networks
  by Fiona
• CASBAA names channel chiefs
• Bharti taps Tandberg for DTH sat TV
• The high stakes of investing in convergence: adapting to costly convergence may be imperative, but firms need to make their own careful choices to ensure payoff
  by Richard Ireland
• Twin sin
• SOA a major imperative for revenue management
• Lock up your adverts
  by John C. Tanner
• AT&T introduces commercial services in Vietnam
• The government signs a memorandum of understanding to work on Wimax technology and product development with multinationals
• Yahoo announces new oneSearch agreements
• IAC , the internet conglomerate run by media mogul Barry Diller, intends to invest $100m to expand in China by creating services designed for local users
• Redsigned VoIP softphone
  by Fiona
• iBasis taps global sales head
• Seachange certifies Ixia solution
• Prioritizing for the anywhere network: operators need to quickly develop the right technologies to make the IP network more intelligent to address the challenges created by an increasingly converged networked environment
  by Emily Nagle Green
• Mobile alliances go toe to toe on data roaming
  by John C. Tanner
• Beyond: subscription fees
  by Joseph Waring
• Internet starts to overtake TV
• TIME dotCom buys a 6.5% stake in mobile operator DiGi from DiGi's Norwegian parent, Telenor
• Telstra raises its long- and short-term earnings guidance
• Shares in Ericsson fall last month to the lowest level since 2004
• Next-gen yellow pages in Taiwan: Chunghwa Telecom's operator assisted yellow page system combines upgraded technology to turn a passive service into a valuable proactive customer-oriented service
  by Jason Wong
• C&W appoints regional heads
• Bharti Telesoft names new CEO
• Combined DVB-H, HSDPA support
• Understand the customer: with end-user awareness of advanced data services limited, Anders Kager, Nokia Siemens Networks" head of marketing for Asia Pacific, stresses that a clear understanding of user behavior and market trends are essential to laun
• Video stack with MONA, WNSRP support
  by Fiona
• Making sense of IPTV: it pays for operators to understand how IPTV works as it offers them new revenue streams to augment earnings from telephony
  by Mike Murphy
• Changing channels on IPTV: Telcos are actually losing buckets of money on IPTV rollout costs and other factors, and will continue to do so until at least 2012
  by John C. Tanner
• TOT plans to invest 64b baht to diversify its core revenue source away from fixed-line service
• The telecoms industry is facing a big shakeup
• BT Group will slash 5,000 jobs this year, as it announced that net profit slid by nearly a third during its second quarter

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