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Articles in Feb, 2003 issue of Telecom Asia

• Going broadband - Stat Snap - Brief Article
• Xinhua goes Down Under: flashbacks, updates and nostalgia: Telecom Asia, February 1998 - Resend - Brief Article
• Jakarta: Indosat's shareholders approve changes to its top management following a major stake sale to Singapore-based ST Telemedia - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Tokyo: after a number of postponements, J-Phone finally launches its W-CDMA service, but with only 150 handsets being available nationwide on launch day, while another 800 are shipped out the following week - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Ar
• Motorola debuts seven new GSM handset models - movements - Brief Article
• Nokia-IBM enterprise apps on handsets - Premiere: latest products and services
  by Fiona Chau
• WorldCom's last scam - Inside Line
  by Robert Clark
• IDC'S `03: WLAN, VoIP and broadband - Insight - Brief Article
• Hong Kong: BT finally agrees to sell its stake in SmarTone after property developer Sun Hung Kai Properties raised its price of a general offer for SmarTone shares 3% to HK$8.50 each from HK$8.25 - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• New Delhi: Competition between Indian telcos and cellcos escalates as telcos slash their national mobile-to-mobile long-distance call rates, while cellular operators cut their national mobile-to-mobile rates 67% to protect their turf from cheaper WLL serv
• AOL Time Warner chairman Steve Case resigns amid stiff criticism of his role at the company - movements - Brief Article
• Gigabit Ethernet media converter - Premiere: latest products and services
  by Fiona Chau
• Pitstopped - Backpage Briefing
• Bringing fresh satellite capacity to China - First Mile
  by John C. Tanner
• India: take-off imminent? India could add another 175 million connections by 2000—if it can attract enough investment - News Analysis
  by Tamanna
• Ho Chi Minh City: Vietnamese police detains Nguyen Gia Thieu, the head of Nokia's sole distributor in the country, and two other executives after launching a tax investigation - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Taipei: Taiwan government sells 13.5% stake in state-owned Chunghwa Telecom to a consortium led by Cathay Financial, the island's largest listed financial group for T$65.4 billion - $1.88 billion - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• The HomeRF Working Group officially disbands, unable to build up industry momentum to compete against the likes of more scalable Wi-Fi or more mobile Bluetooth - movements - Brief Article
• 3Com ships XRN Interconnect kit for worldwide enterprises - Premiere: latest products and services
  by Fiona Chau
• Termination rates in decline - Insight - Brief Article
• Hong Kong: HSBC, Hang Seng Bank and Bank of East Asia become the first foreign lenders to launch online banking in China - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• New Delhi: Indian carriers are expected to spend over $20 billion over the next five years in building fiber-networks, according to a member of the Planning Commission - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Bermuda's Supreme Court approves Global Crossing's restructure plan - movements - Brief Article
• Solutions guy: the reinvention of NTT Communications - One-To-One - Interview
  by Robert Clark
• Overpeer - Backpage Briefing
• No longer a luxury: broadband usage by small business - Stat Snap - Brief Article
• Beijing: China Mobile is subsidizing the sale of 300,000 handsets in a bid to encourage subscribers to use its new MMS service - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Jakarta: Ericsson wins a contract - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Tokyo: TTNet, a unit of Tokyo Electric Power, launches a tender offer bid for local ISP Dream Train Internet - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Nokia will cut its contract with Korean handset maker Telson Electronic and begin making its own phones for the Korean mobile market, signaling the Finnish company's attempts to break into the cutting-edge market have failed - movements - Brief Article
• Forecasting telecom '03: after two years of gloom and pain, what's there to look forward to in '03? There is room for optimism, a survey of the forecasts for the year finds, but of the cautious kind - Telecom Corporate
  by Ian Scales
• Limited mobility set to roam - Insight - Brief Article
• Hong Kong: OFTA will provide consumers information on RF radiation levels of mobile phones - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Manila: PLDT orders striking employees back to work after Labour Secretary Patricia Santo Tomas asks a national labor committee to arbitrate - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Federal prosecutors decide not to file criminal charges against bankrupt telecoms carrier Global Crossing or its former executives, including former chairman and CEO Gary Winnick, for accounting fraud or destruction of documents due to lack of evidence, a
• Web services: the five-year plan: it's taken years of painful effort to get Web services to where they are today. Which is not somewhere that will delight your board or shareholders, but with standards group working on the case, and an increasing amount o
  by John C. Tanner
• Box-office - Backpage Briefing
• Wi-Topia still a way off: to move from proprietary networks to a system of cooperative smart devices would be a major-league change for everyone - Tanner - Wi-Fi
  by John C. Tanner
• Paradise found regulated - News Analysis - Brief Article
  by Robert Clark
• Bangkok: Shin Sat expects 2003 revenues to grow by 25% to 7 billion baht - $164 million - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Seoul: the Information and Communications Ministry expects South Korea's mobile handset output in 2003 - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• US investors sue British telecoms firm Cable & Wireless for failing to disclose a huge potential tax liability, accusing it of issuing "false and misleading statements" that cost shareholders dearly - movements - Brief Article
• CSG and Legend join in China - Premiere: latest products and services
  by Fiona Chau
• Telecom's typhoon crisis - Brief Article
• MOTC rewrites the rules after TCC's Chunghwa swoop - News Analysis
  by Robert K. Carter
• Bangkok: TOT shelves its planned IPO of 30% of its shares, pending new telecoms regulations - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Seoul: Hanaro Telecom abandons a plan to purchase a 71.95% stake in rival Thrunet, saying "the short-term financial burden is too significant in relation to the synergy" - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• NTT DoCoMo will begin offering 3G mobile data services in San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas and San Diego - movements - Brief Article
• 2.5G VT/TU pointer processor - Premiere: latest products and services
  by Fiona Chau
• Spam - Backpage Briefing
• Little Smart's big opportunity - News Analysis
  by Fiona Chau
• Guangdong: Guangdong Telecom stops promoting its controversial call-forwarding devices, which are designed to help mobile users forward calls to their fixed phones without having to pay the usual forwarding fee - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brie
• Beijing: Chinese state media say China Unicom met its target of 7 million CDMA users by the end of 2002 - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Wellington: Telecom Corporation of New Zealand will raise domestic line rentals between NZ$1.05 and NZ$1.25 a month from February to between NZ$32.4 and NZ$39.3 - $0.58 - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Sendo files suit in U.S. federal court against its former partner Microsoft - movements - Brief Article
• FCC retreat on Bells could have retro effect in Asia: most of Asia's largest telecom markets maintain regulatory practices in flagrant breach of their WTO obligations - Telecom Planet
  by Grahame Lynch
• Broadband makes content pay - Insight - Brief Article
• Hong Kong: Hutchison Whampoa chairman Li Ka-shing says the company will wait until after the first quarter of this year to launch 3G in Hong Kong - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Kuala Lumpur: Time dotCom expects revenue from Internet services will double to 80 million ringgit in 2003, most of it from broadband services - $21 million - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Singapore: StarHub launches its residential fixed-line service, using the island-wide fiber-optic network it acquired after its merger with cable television operator Singapore Cable Vision in July - SCV - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Artic
• The future of voice: more a slow-burning fuse than a barnstorming revolution, the VoIP transformation has begun. But do telcos have that much time? - Cover Story
  by Robert Clark
• Espionage - Backpage Briefing