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Articles in Jan, 2003 issue of Telecom Asia

• Local demand to drive leased line sales - Insight - Brief Article
• Metro cost concerns spur CWDM revival - First Mile
  by John C. Tanner
• Beijing: Franz Jessen, deputy head of the EU mission Beijing, urges China not to adopt TD-SCDMA - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Vientiane: Laos threatens to ditch foreign partner ABCN from its joint satellite project because the company has refused to comply with a Laotian court order last month that it pay the government $9.67 million in principal and interest - Asian telecoms th
• Singapore: M1, SingTel and StarHub agree on MMS interconnection, making in the city-state the first in the world to offer MMS interoperability - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Despite the economic downturn and growth slowdowns reported throughout the telecoms industry, Internet usage is still on the rise, according to an annual report by the UN development agency UNCTAD - movements - Brief Article
• AGC Australia—NZ head - Telecom Career - Deborah Homewood - Brief Article
• SkyNetGlobal sales and marketing GM - Telecom Career - Damian Thompson - Brief Article
• Former Hutch sales manager joins Request - Telecom Career - Scott Carter - Brief Article
• OSS process framework - Premiere - Staffware - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• It's the stupid network, stupid - Telecom Corporate
  by Ian Scales
• Divide - Backpage Briefing - Brief Article
• Hong Kong: mobile carrier Sunday Communications sacks 88 people—10% of its staff - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Taipei: the Ministry of Transportation and Communications plans another attempt - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Hutchison unveils initial 3G price packages for its UK service, starting at just under $95 a month for a bundle of voice calls, video calls, messages and Internet content, though exact amounts are unspecified for now - movements - Brief Article
• Nokia announces a 3G enhancement, GW-CDMA, primarily aimed at the 1700 and 2100 MHz bands in the Americas - movements - Brief Article
• IP/MPLS for carrier class networking - Premiere - Alcatel - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Hong Kong: information Industry Minister Wu Jichuan defends the MII's policy of slow liberalization and warns against excessive network investment - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• New Delhi: Bharti group plans to merge three of its firms—fixed line firm Bharti Telenet, long distance service provider Bharti Telesonic and Bharti Broadband—into a new entity, Bharti Infotel - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Sydney: Hutchison Telecom and Ericsson sign a network outsourcing agreement, under which Ericsson will take care of the build-out and day-to-day network operations of Hutchison's 2G CDMA, 3G W-CDMA and paging networks - Asian telecoms this month - Brief A
• International PSTN traffic rose just 10% in 2001, the slowest growth rate in 20 years, TeleGeography reports, while international call revenue plunged by $10 billion for the year—a record - movements - Brief Article
• Vodafone Asia Pacific CEO - Telecom Career - Brian Clark - Brief Article
• 3Com names HK manager - Telecom Career - Rockies Ma as its Hong Kong country manager - Brief Article
• Asia learns to love VoIP - Stat Snap - Brief Article
• Beijing: Wang Xudong, the former Communist Party chief of Hebei province, is tipped to replace Wu Jichuan - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Hong Kong: online news stories, SMS messages, hyper links and items sold from auction sites could be considered to be seditious under Hong Kong - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Seoul: KT ICOM is currently trialing a W-CDMA network in Seoul - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• SingTel signs an agreement with the Communications Authority of Thailand and Indonesia's Telkom to build a cable network linking Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand - CAT - movements - Brief Article
• US high-speed ISP Genuity files for bankruptcy protection and agrees to sell its assets for about $242 million to long-haul provider Level 3 - movements - Brief Article
• Ericsson director to step down - Telecom Career - Tom Hedelius - Brief Article
• CA chairman Charles Wang retires - Telecom Career - Computer Associates founder - Brief Article
• RSA North Asia MD - Telecom Career - David Fung - Brief Article
• Cisco unveils metro wire-speed performance solutions - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• TA30 telecom stock index: for the period from 1 Nov-2 Dec. 2002 - Telecom Corporate - Illustration
• Loser - Backpage Briefing - trans-Pacific capacity - Brief Article
• So you survived 2002 …
  by John C. Tanner
• Waiting for the law - News Analysis - China's Ministry of Information Industry
  by Steven Schwankert
• Asian enterprises look to the Net - Insight - Brief Article
• New Delhi: Communications Minister Pramod Mahajan proposes to reduce the fees it charges cellular service providers, who now pay 80% to 12% of their sales to the government as a "revenue share" fee - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Sydney: Telstra signs 10,000 customers to a new service bundling pay TV, telephony and Internet services - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Trans-Pacific circuits to Asia are relatively highly utilized—with the exception of Japan - movements - Brief Article
• PCCW appoints Cascade head - Telecom Career - Chan Wing-wa - Brief Article
• Andrew Corp names CEO - Telecom Career - Ralph Faison - Brief Article
• Single-chip solution for VoIP terminals - Premiere - Infineon Technologies - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Opportunity - Backpage Briefing - ITU Telecom Asia show - Brief Article
• Sleepy in Shanghai - News Analysis - AT&T's joint venture with Shanghai Telecom - Brief Article
  by Robert Clark
• Hong Kong: Japanese operators NTT DoCoMo and KDDI exchange words at ITU Telecom Asia on each other's 3G prospects - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Seoul: KT Corp plans to transform its public switched telephone network - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Asia Netcom, a joint venture between China Netcom, the Softbank and Newbridge Capital, is to buy Asia Global Crossing's regional network and customer base for $120 million in equity and a reported $150 million in finance - movements
• Backbone operator 360networks emerges from bankruptcy protection - movements - Brief Article
• Indonesia goes for WLL: the installation period could be as low as one month, compared with an average one year for wireline - News Analysis
  by Mersagita Prabudi
• Wireless addiction - Insight - Brief Article
• Shanghai: Unicom Guomai, the paging unit under China Unicom, launches China's first iDEN public network - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Hong Kong: PCCW spins off a quarter of its workforce into a new company, Cascade Ltd - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Tokyo: the Fair Trade Commission raids the offices of J-Phone, reportedly investigating the possibility that J-Phone forced retailers to stick to designated prices to prevent handset prices from tumbling amid heated competition - FTC - Asian telecoms thi
• The Internet address agency ICANN approves a host of new address suffixes to join the likes of ".com" and ".org" - movements - Internet Corporation for Assigend Names and Numbers - Brief Article
• A US court has approved a pay package for new WorldCom chief Michael Capellas, 23% less than an initial proposal which the judge criticized as excessive - movements - Brief Article
• Qwest president and COO resigns - Telecom Career - Afshin Mohebbi - Brief Article
• Cisco Asia Pacific sales VP - Telecom Career - Chris Khang - Brief Article
• Senior promotions at Concord - Telecom Career - Concord Communications has promoted Douglas Batt - Brief Article
• In the free market, quality is as important as quantity: consumer expectations are a constantly shifting quantity - Telecom Planet
  by Grahame Lynch
• Shocking - Backpage Briefing - SingTel - Brief Article
• Kuala Lumpur: DiGi Telecommunications selects Huawei Technologies' C&Co8 - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Canberra: Australia's High Court rules that online publishers could be sued for defamation in the place where their material is viewed, not the country of origin where it is uploaded - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Siemens transfers 6,500 of its telecom and industrial services staff to a new assembly and services unit - movements - Brief Article
• The broadband sweet spot: Melbourne-based Request believes it has found the meat in the broadband market—SMEs who can't afford frame relay or a leased line. It helps that it's not a market the incumbent is contesting—yet. Beyond connectivity, CE
• How telcos failed the soccer ball test … and other stories from the new economy, through the eyes of two industry analysts who have long warned of the dangers of excessive capital spending and of the threats to the new networks from traditional powe
  by Ian Scales
• The things we did last year - and some tips for '03 - Inside Line
  by Robert Clark
• Ho Chi Minh City: Vietnam is set to further cut telecom charges in 2003, following cuts of 15% to 25% announced last month in an effort to introduce new competition into the market - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Tokyo: NTT and NTT-X are in the final stages of developing a "next generation" search engine, which the two companies say covers the approximately 80 million Web pages in Japan - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• European ISPs say they are being overwhelmed by a barrage of requests to remove Web sites that violate copyright or contain defamatory statements, are ordered by the E-Commerce Directive, a European Union law enacted this year - movements - Brief Article
• Network insecurity: why telecoms operators are behind on the security curve - Cover Story
  by John C. Tanner
• Worldcom takes on Asia - Resend - Brief Article
• Surviving WLAN in Europe - Insight - Brief Article
• Hong Kong: Premier Zhu Rongji publicly scolds both the MII and China Telecom for introducing a massive rate hike on international call terminations - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Jarkata: Singapore's ST Telemedia agrees to pay $634 million to buy a 42% stake in Indosat - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Canberra: the Australian government postpones a plan to sell off Telstra Corp - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• The European Commission - movements - Logica PLC - Brief Article
• OSS buyer's guide: provisioning slump buster: why provisioning solutions are in such demand—and how to sort out suppliers - OSS
  by Dan Sweeney
• ITXC India sales manager - Telecom Career - Vinayak Rajanahally - Brief Article

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