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Articles in Jan, 2005 issue of Telecom Asia

• Beijing: China Netcom selects Alcatel to deploy a 3G field trial network in Beijing using its Evolium UMTS solution
• Mumbai: the Tata Group serves a legal notice on the Union Government
• Ericsson joins the WiMAX Forum as a principal member
• Shanghai: Shanghai publishes China's first telecoms regulation rules
• PWLAN market moving beyond enterprise
• Hong Kong: Hong Kong Internet eXchange launches a mirror site
• Testing times ahead for VoIP providers: the move to VoIP is proving quite a challenge for service providers, but it's also creating a major opportunity for test and measurement vendors
  by Geoff Long
• IPv6 hardware solution
  by Fiona Chau
• UK regulator OFCOM considers extending 3G licenses
• Jakarta: Telekom Malaysia
• Seoul: SK Telecom-owned TU Media Corp has been granted a license from the nation's broadcasting regulator
• Wellington: Telecom Corp of New Zealand plans to offer New Zealanders their own individual number for calls, regardless of whether they have exclusive use of a home or business line
• Japan Airlines and Boeing's Connexion announce the start of the first real-time, high-speed Internet access service
• VoIP Inc and Hong Kong-based Parrot Communications sign a virtual service provider agreement to offer Internet telephony services across Asia Pacific
• NEC and NEC Electronic develop 3G baseband LSI
  by Fiona Chau
• The struggle for the Net
  by Robert Clark
• Hutchison CAT co-CEO
• VoIP traffic expands 40%
• Lucent appoints AP president
• Dutch mobile operator Telfort awards Huawei Technologies a contract to build a W-CDMA network in the Netherlands for an undisclosed amount
• DSL goes 'mass market' in Asia
• Globalizing the digital revolution
• Hong Kong: PCCW abandons a legal dispute with competitor City Telecom over VoIP
• Acterna offers VoIP training
  by Fiona Chau
• Wi-Fi
• AAPT faces lawsuit over 'unfair' mobile contracts
  by Lachlan Colquhoun
• Enterprise embraces remote working
• Hong Kong: City Telecom-owned Hong Kong Broadband Network offers the world's first 1-Gbps residential broadband service
• Kuala Lumpur: the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission designates the Malaysian Technical Standards Forum
• VoIP technology provider i2Telecom signs a distributor agreement with Triamis Technology Group , an Asia-Pacific IT-solutions provider operating one of Hong Kong's largest wireless broadband networks
• Switkowski to leave Telstra
• Kuala Lumpur: ISP Jaring will invest about RM200m next year
• Mumbai: Telekom Malaysia's investment arm, TM International, and Singapore Technologies Telemedia acquire a 47.7% stake in Idea Cellular from Cingular Wireless for about $390m
• Singapore: StarHub launches a two-month 3G trial involving 200 users
• New Delhi: Bharti's Airtel will bring broadband and fixed-line telephone services to new markets in India, including the metro areas of Mumbai and Kolkata and states in the south and west
• Shanghai: the Shanghai branches of China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Netcom, plus Shanghai Cable Network, will join forces to establish a telecoms hub in Shanghai
• Symbian independent chairman
• Networking opportunities across Asia
• Singapore: Pacific Internet begins the second stage of its wireless broadband trial in Singapore
• Seoul: the Supreme Court rejects a lawsuit to nullify a merger between SK Telecom and Shinsegi Telecom in January 2002
• Sydney: Telstra will pilot a FTTH triple-play service by offering a Queensland house pay-TV, broadband and fixed-line phone service through one fiber cable
• France Telecom sells its 26% stake in BPL Mobile's Mumbai circle to a consortium of investors including the Essar group—which now holds a 9.9% stake—and Mauritius-based offshore fund Asia Pacific Systems
• Nortel Networks reports a loss of six cents per share in the third quarter and predicts lower sales for 2004 compared with 2003
• FM radio solutions for mobile phones
  by Fiona Chau
• Telekom adds board member
• New head of BT Retail
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• Focus turns to network security: while many consider the telecoms infrastructure a vulnerable target for terrorists, the more immediate threats are attacks by individual hackers and authors of malicious code, which are presenting new security challenges f
  by Dan Sweeney
• Siemens Information Communication Mobile Group signs an agreement with Huawei Technologies to form a $100m joint venture called TDTech
• TA Index inches up 1.3%
• FT and Fujitsu announce joint grid computing project
  by Fiona Chau
• President of Beijing In-Touch
• Futuretech
• EDS Hong Kong appoints MD
• Them's the Fax: falling prices and Internet hurt fax carrier sector
• New Delhi: Reliance Infocomm is fined INR1.5b by the Indian telecoms ministry
• Restructuring the incumbent: Telstra still makes 86% of the industry's profits, and the government is loath to interfere because it needs the dividends or the share price higher
  by Stewart Fist
• Juniper Network's new channels VP
• Seoul: Samsung Business Communications unveils a new phone system that it claims will make IP telephony affordable for small businesses
• Cisco Systems forms an alliance with Fujitsu to boost sales to Japan's telecoms carriers
• DoCoMo establishes new US advisory board
• Sydney: Optus is to begin a wireless broadband trial in Sydney in February with UTStarcom
• Bridge Mobile appoints CEO
• Hong Kong: ZTE made a strong debut in Hong Kong, seeing its shares close 11% above their IPO price on the first day of trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
• Tokyo: KDDI will launch FTTH broadband in greater Tokyo early this year
• Wellington: TelstraClear will partner with Network Tasman to provide voice and Internet services to the Nelson business marke
• BT creates a new division called BT Entertainment to drive broadband in entertainment and education
• ADSL2+ modem router
  by Fiona Chau
• Wireless security appliances for small businesses
  by Fiona Chau
• Time for mobile broadband
  by John C. Tanner
• VoIP
• Sydney: Telstra and Hutchison Telecommunications Australia finalize a deal to share a 3G network
• 3G: naughty or nice? PhoneErotica.com generates over 300 million hits per month, and rings up more minutes of use per month than MSN
  by John C. Tanner
• Seoul: Samsung Networks sign a distribution agreement with SingTel under which the Korean
• Alcatel and gaming service supplier Shanghai Holdfast unveil a partnership to accelerate broadband entertainment development in China
• 3G video analyzer
  by Fiona Chau
• New CEO for SingNet
• Marconi's Asia-Pac EVP
• Veraz Network's new chief
• Reshuffle

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