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Articles in Jan, 2004 issue of Telecom Asia

• Tokyo: NTT DoCoMo chief Keiji Tachikawa expects the company's 3G subscribers to grow more than 15-fold to 25 million by 2006, after DoCoMo saw its FOMA subscribers base hit 1.6 million in November - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Vietnam loosens telecoms price controls - News Analysis - The new ruling, known as Decision 217/2003QD-TTg, gives post and telecommunications operators with market shares of less than 30% the right to set their own prices - Brief Article
  by Lachlan Colqhoun
• Hong Kong. Three banks—HSBC and the HK arms of the Bank of China and UK-based Schroders—report the discovery of imposter Web sites - Newsmap: Asia telecoms this month - Brief Article
• New Delhi. BPL Group buys out AT&T Wireless Services' 49% stake in their cellular joint venture - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Sydney: Telstra slashes prices on its broadband services in an attempt to prevent further market share loss - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Motorola says it plans to ramp up production of 3G phones in Asia - movements - Brief Article
• Recipe for disaster recovery: after 9/11, disaster recovery became top priority for enterprises right around the time SANs and SSPs came into vogue. So why do the majority of enterprise DR strategies still rely on back-up tapes and Sneakernet? - TelecomCo
  by John C. Tanner
• Concord Asia-Pacific MD - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Adults - Backpage Briefing - Juniper Research reckons that mobile gambling and adult content will be worth a combined $6.5 billion by 2006 - Brief Article
• Year of the worm
  by John C. Tanner
• Mobile operators are losing the battle for the enterprise - Insight: one month's telecom research - Brief Article
• Bangkok. DTAC is set to launch a "push to talk" service in the first quarter of 2004, targeting the corporate segment - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Tokyo: the Japanese government is reportedly considering scrapping the 72,000 yen phone subscription fee users are required to pay NTT when signing up for its fixed-line service - $671 - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• A US judge refuses to dismiss security fraud and other criminal charges against former WorldCom finance chief Scott Sullivan - movements - Brief Article
• Yahoo is working on technology to combat email spam by creating a new email architecture - movements - Brief Article
• Real-time management for large IP networks - Premiere - Sheer Networks has unveiled a new solution designed to address service assurance and service configuration for large IP networks - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• CASBAA chair returns amid board shuffle - Telecom Career - Marcel Fenez to second term while Michelle Guthrie, Francois Theron and Alexander Brown elected to board of directors - Brief Article
• Doing the right thing: corporates will require a climate of consent based on their contribution to the society and the environment as well as to the economy
  by Robert Clark
• NZ broadband development needs push - Insight: one month's telecom research - New Zealand - Brief Article
• Canberra. Australia officially joins the spam wars with a new law - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Tokyo: Japan Telecom Holdings says it will maintain its status as a listed entity - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Vodafone Group - Brief Article
• SingTel, CAT and Telkom add a new subsea fiber cable to the region with the completion of the 1,100 km-long TIS - movements - Brief Article
• Sharp and Canadian software developer BitFlash jointly develop a type of electronic display system for viewing business documents on mobile phones - movements
• Low cost broadband access to multi-tenant units. market - Premiere - ViaSat, ZyXEL, and Infineon have leveraged their technologies to introduce a new broadband terminal package for the multi-tenant unit MTU
  by Fiona Chau
• Motorola GTSS VP for Asia-Pacific - Telecom Career - John Edwards - Brief Article
• Governance - Backpage Briefing - World Summit on the Information Society - Brief Article
• Global broadband cracks 100 million - Statsnap - Brief Article
• Hong Kong. After several delays, Hutchison Whampoa soft-launches its "3" service on its home turf in conjunction with the unveiling of NEC's new c616 3G handset - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Manila. PLDT resumes call traffic with US carrier Sprint Communications - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Tokyo: Softbank applies to the Telecommunications Ministry for a license to test TD-CDMA - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• 3 UK offers free video calls to customers during the Christmas holidays - movements - Brief Article
• Boeing says the commercial satellite business is on the upswing - movements - Brief Article
• Media service platform for digital content management - Premiere - Hewlett-Packard Co. and SAVVIS Communications have jointly developed media service platform - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chou
• AT&T president - Telecom Career - William Hannigan to president replacing outgoing Betsy Bernard - Brief Article
• Worms - Backpage Briefing - Brief Article
• Why2K? Flashbacks, updates and nostalgia: Telecom Asia, January 2000
• China broadband grows 90% - Insight: one month's telecom research - Brief Article
• Bangkok. Advanced Info Service will spend about 20 billion baht next year - $500 million - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Meanwhile J.P. Morgan Chase & Co sues a number of former GC executives, including founder Gary Winnick - movements - Brief Article
• The RIAA files 41 more lawsuits against Internet users who trade songs online, with another 90 on deck - movements - Brief Article
• SAN-OS with advanced storage networking capabilities - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Nokia enterprise solution SVP - Telecom Career - Mary McDowell - Brief Article
• Asia's communications and IT showcase returns to action in June - information technology - CommunicAsia2004 - Brief Article
• Philippines telcos turn to DSL to stem fixed-line losses - News Analysis - Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co and Digital Telecommunications Philippines Inc planning to expand Digital Subscriber Line - Brief Article
  by Mary Ann Li Reyes
• Hong Kong. The mobile penetration rate in the city surpasses 100% for the first time - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Jakarta. Mobile-8 Telecom commercially launches its cdma2000 1x service - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Sydney: Foxtel will launch digital services in the first half of 2004 - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Australian Competition and Consumer Commission - Brief Article
• Vodafone foregoes handsets altogether in its announced plans to launch 3G services in Germany and Italy - movements - Brief Article
• Regulators take the VoIP challenge: VoIP is becoming a serious contender in the last mile—now regulators have to decide what, if anything, to do about it - Service
  by Robert Clark
• WorldCom's Sidgmore dies - Telecom Career - WorldCom CEO John Sidgmore died - Obituary
• Viasat COO - Telecom Career - Richard Baldridge - Brief Article
• R&D - Backpage Briefing - investments - Brief Article
• WiMAX hype tempered by resistance and confusion
  by John C. Tanner
• China broadband subs to pass Japan - Insight: one month's telecom research - Brief Article
• Astana. The Kazakhstan government is considering whether to levy a special tax on future providers of trunk or international telephone calls - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Taipei: Taiwan Cellular Corp plans to sell its 375 million shares in incumbent telco Chunghwa Telecom in a bid to improve its financial performance - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Global Crossing emerges from bankruptcy - movements - Brief Article
• Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics are set to take on Qualcomm - movements - Brief Article
• Enhanced handheld tester for metro Ethernet deployment - Premiere - Agilent Technologies Inc has added various enhancements to its FrameScope 350 - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Inmarsat business development manager - Telecom Career - Ken Cheong and Dan Hodges - Brief Article
• Veritas HK country manager - Telecom Career - Michael Chue - Brief Article
• Beijing. Little Smart subscriber numbers in China surpass 32 million - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this mont - Brief Article
• Jakarta. Telkom says it has no plan to delist from the New York Stock Exchange - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Tokyo: KDDI suspends sales of new EV-DO handsets from Hitachi four days after launching the service - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• The US Congress approves the final version of its anti-spam bill - movements - Brief Article
• Lucent Technologies says its backlog at the end of its recently completed fiscal fourth quarter rose year-on-year to $2.2 billion - movements - Brief Article
• Ethernet interface cards extend LANs over Sonet/SDH - Premiere - ECI Telecom has upgraded its XDM optical networking - launch of two new Ethernet interface cards - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chou
• Lucent global government affairs VP - Telecom Career - Patricia Rimo - Brief Article
• Legacy - Backpage Briefing - Sangoma Technologies Inc - Brief Article
• Forward, backwards: ITU summit
  by Robert Clark
• Acterna greater China MD
• Hong Kong. OFTA recommends a modification to its local loop interconnect regime that would lift mandated interconnect fees for incumbent PCCW in competitive districts - Newsmap: Asia telecoms this month - Brief Article
• New Delhi. Bharti Tele-Ventures agrees to buy Canada's Telesystem International Wireless' - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Wellington: Telecom Corp of New Zealand will merges its Australian outsourcing business - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Telecom New Zealand Australia - Brief Article
• The European Commission receives five bids to run its planned Galileo satellite navigation system to rival the US GPS system - movements - Brief Article
• Covering all the bases - One-To-One; Infonet Services Corp - Interview
  by John C. Tanner
• Motorola's new chairmain/CEO - Telecom Career - Edward Zander - Brief Article
• Telco video in the house:Advances in compression and IP are bringing the holy grail of broadband video within reach of Asian and US telcos. But first they must find a viable business model
  by Kirk Laughlin
• Rooftop mesh almost ready to fly
  by Stewart Fist
• Beijing. The MII reportedly plans to set the timetable for the interconnection of SMS services - Newsmap: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article

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