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Articles in Feb, 2004 issue of Telecom Asia

• Surging mobile infotainment market faces hurdles - Insight: One Month's Telecom Research - report from Alexander Resources - Brief Article
• RAD upgrades terminal multiplexer - Premiere: latest products and services - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Sky-high Wi-Fi
  by John C. Tanner
• Unethical practices remain 'threat to industry'
  by John C. Tanner
• Hutchison Global Communications is reportedly considering to seek a backdoor listing via Vanda Systems & Communications - Hong Kong - Brief Article
• PLDT expects to raise at least $600m in 2004 - Manila - Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company - Brief Article
• The Indian government decides to defer its plans to raise the foreign investment cap in the telecoms sector - New Delhi - Brief Article
• The US Pentagon offers an olive branch to the EU over the Galileo project—the EU's own version of GPS saying that it would commit to using the signal structure at issue in the Galileo project
• The VoIP revolution telecom's biggest ever threat—but not yet: uptake may yet be a trickle, but the cost-effectiveness and simplicity of IP will make it especially disruptive as it lowers the barrier to entry in the voice market
  by Robert Clark
• BT names Asia-Pac VP - Telecom Career - Kevin Taylor - Brief Article
• Chinadotcom names Australian executive - Telecom Career - Roger Allen - Brief Article
• Shakedown - Backpage Briefing - venture capitalists - Brief Article
• Broadband reshaping online adult entertainment - Insight: One Month's Telecom Research - Brief Article
• Huawei Technologies says strong overseas growth boosted its global sales last year by 42% to $3.83b, a record for the 16-year-old company - Shenzhen - Brief Article
• China Netcom selects Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and China International Capital Corp to handle its planned IPO - Beijing - Initial public offerings - Brief Article
• The Commerce Commission of New Zealand reverses course on a previous ruling on loop unbundling - Wellington - Brief Article
• Mobilcom hands back its 3G license to the regulator, as it no longer has the money or the will to build its own network - movements - returns the 3rd Generation Wireless Format license to the regulators - Brief Article
• IBM and Intel back a new fund that will defend Linux users against copyright infringement lawsuits threatened by SCO Group - movements - Brief Article
• Dacom names new chief - Telecom Career - Jung Hong-shik - Brief Article
• RHK broadband wireless head - Telecom Career - Dr Nitin Shah - Brief Article
• Avaya, Polycom in IP collaboration - Premiere: latest products and services - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Who wants dual-mode handsets? A phone that would work on any system today would have to support GSM / GPRS / EDGE, W-CDMA, IS-95-B, cdma2000 1x and 1 x EV-DO, as well as Wi-Fi
  by John C. Tanner
• Carriers to boost investment 9% - Insight: One Month's Telecom Research - Brief Article
• SmarTone Communications plans to launch its 3G services in the second half of this year - Hong Kong - Brief Article
• Indosat expects to book more than 10 trillion rupiah in 2004 revenue, up from an estimated 8 trillion rupiah in 2003 - $1.2b - Jakarta - Brief Article
• SingTel agrees to inject $225m into C2C - Singapore - Brief Article
• UAE monopoly telco Etisalat launches the Middle East's first 3G network - movements - 3rd Generation Wireless Format - Brief Article
• Iran shortlists six bidders including European, African and Middle East firms - movements - Brief Article
• GSA India Chapter chairman - Telecom Career - Global mobile Suppliers - Rakesh Malik - Brief Article
• China's RFID group appoints coordinator - Telecom Career - National Radio Frequency Identification Tag Standards Working Group appoints Edward Zeng - Brief Article
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• Asian operators scramble to manage change - Insight: One Month's Telecom Research - Brief Article
• ZTE posts a 49.96% rise in contracted sales to 25.193b yuan in 2003 - $3.04b - Shenzhen - Brief Article
• China Telecom and Legend Group form a partnership in broadband Internet - Beijing - Brief Article
• Telstra extends a deal with IBM that may lead to 450 Australian-based IT jobs shifting to India over the next 18 months - Sydney - Brief Article
• Sweden's TeliaSonera and its partner Tele2 agree to buy Orange's 3G license - movements - Brief Article
• Nortel Networks chief executive Frank Dunn says the company has little appetite to acquire startup companies - movements - Brief Article
• DoCoMo service quality MD - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• McData Asian VP - Telecom Career - Paul Rath - Brief Article
• Uncooled direct-modulated 10-Gbps optical laser - Premiere: latest products and services - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• TCL says it sold 9.5 million mobile phones last year - Shenzhen - Brief Article
• Samart Corp expects 2004 revenues to grew by 50% to 15.5b baht - $392m - Bangkok - Brief Article
• Temasek Holdings announces details of a $1.25b deal to cut its stake in Singapore Telecom - Sydney - Brief Article
• Telefonica Moviles' German unit Quam is on the verge of having its 3G license taken away by the regulator on the grounds of missing its rollout deadline - movements - Brief Article
• Yahoo reports a quarterly net profit that rose 62% from a year ago to $75m - movements - Brief Article
• TA Orange co-CEO trades telecoms for politics - Telecom Career - Apirak Kosayodhin resigning - Brief Article
• Wharf T&T business VP - Telecom Career - Esther Chan - Brief Article
• Asia's biggest IP backbones - Stat snap - Brief Article
• Asia telecom transactions index - News Analysis - Illustration
• TA Orange says its co-chief executive Apirak Kosayodhin will resign to run as the opposition Democrat Party candidate in the July election for Bangkok governor - Bangkok - Brief Article
• Taiwan Cellular and its subsidiary TransAsia Telecommunications sell 122 million shares - Taipei - Brief Article
• Hutchison Essar will invest 3b rupees this year on expanding its network in Mumbai - $65.8m - New Delhi - Brief Article
• The US SEC notifies current and former executives of Qwest Communications International - movements - United States. Securities and Exchange Commission - Brief Article
• The second coming of metro Ethernet: early metro Ethernet deployments have ranged from disappointing to disastrous, but carrier interest is still strong, driven by the need for new services and cost savings, and the inability of Sonet/SDH to deliver eithe
  by John C. Tanner
• Intelsat director - Telecom Career - Paul G. Pizzani - Brief Article
• Access points with enhanced security - Premiere : latest products and services - ORiNOCO Access Point family - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Towers - Backpage Briefing - taller mobile-phone towers - Brief Article
• Blaming it on the handset
  by Lachlan Colquhoun
• China adds 20.4 million new Internet users in 2003 - Beijing - Brief Article
• Telekom Malaysia denies its board is divided over Celcom's relisting, saying it will go for an IPO as soon as possible - Kuala Lumpur - Brief Article
• The Ministry of Information and Communication plans to raise charges on the 800 MHz bandwidth used by SK Telecom - Seoul - Brief Article
• Creditors of bankrupt Thrunet agree to a debt-for-equity swap to keep it in business - Seoul - Brief Article
• The Dutch supreme court throws out an attempt by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry to put controls on Internet file-swapping software system Kazaa - movements - Brief Article
• Telecoms should feed the hand of consumer electronics: the stimulus and synergy that the consumer electronic sector has so long provided to telecoms can no longer be depended upon
  by Dan Sweeney
• Andrew taps worldwide sales head - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Test instrument for next-gen Sonet/SDH - Premiere: latest products and services - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Vast market for home networking - Insight: One Month's Telecom Research - 50 million Wi-Fi connections by 2007 - Brief Article
• Sunday Communications selects Huawei Technologies to build its W-CDMA network for $115m - Hong Kong - Brief Article
• Advanced Info Service expects to add up to 3-4 million new subscribers this year - Bangkok - Brief Article
• SingTel postpones its consumer 3G trial from December until the first quarter of 2004, blaming "handset issues" for the decision - Singapore - Brief Article
• Hungary decides to delay its 3G licensing - movements - 3rd Generation Wireless Format - Brief Article
• Iraq's Telecom Minister Haidar al-Ebadi denies any corrupt practice in the bidding for national mobile network contracts - movements - Brief Article
• HKBN taps rival's former COO - Telecom Career - Stanley Tang - Brief Article
• AOL advertising head - Telecom Career; Michael Kelly promoted - Brief Article
• Beware the running of the telecoms bulls: after the shock of the last few years, and because of the inherent volatility of this business, we can't assume that incumbents will forever be cashflow-positive entities
  by Robert Clark
• Make or break for carrier market
  by Robert Clark
• TA30 Telecom stock 15 Dec-15 Jan, 2003: TA30 Index jumps 10%
• State-owned VNPT expects its 2004 revenues to increase by just 10% to 27.5 trillion dong - $1.76b - Ho Chi Minh City - Brief Article
• China Airlines and Connexion by Boeing sign a letter of intent to bring broadband Internet connectivity to travelers - Taipei
• Mid-sized Indian teleco Shyam Telecom will pay 1.02b rupees for Telesystem International Wireless's 27.5% stake in Hexacom - $22.5m - New Delhi - Brief Article

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