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Articles in Feb, 2005 issue of Telecom Asia

• MMS: good revenues, shame about the user experience
• Shenzhen: China Telecom and Lenovo will provide joint broadband network solutions starting in Shenzen, one of the first areas in China to adopt ADSL broadband services
• Nokia completes the consolidation of its four production joint ventures
• BSNL will spend $184m to expand its network capacity to 1.2m fixed and wireless lines over the next three years
• Mike Zafirovski has resigned as president and COO of Motorola
• Wi-TV threatens to pre-empt WiMAX's UHF aspirations
  by John C. Tanner
• The China Tietong records 50% growth in its core business in 2004
• The FCC will auction new wireless spectrum for 3G services beginning in June 2006
• Rumor
• Cisco Systems acquires Airespace for around $450m in stock
• Reach turns focus toward partners' needs
  by Lachlan Colquhoun
• China Development Bank
• Taipei: the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, which owns 65% of the Chunghwa Telecom
• Mobile phone maker Kyocera Wireless plans to cut about 600 jobs in San Diego
• Not so confidential
  by Stewart Fist
• Return
• Reach, the undersea-cable joint venture Telstra and PCCW, will stop selling new data capacity to third-party customers
• Internet crackdown: Asian governments combat Net content through its users: flashbacks, updates and nostalgia: Telecom Asia, February 1999
• India unveils a broadband policy that aims to have nine million subscribers online by 2007 and 20 million subscribers by 2010
• Preview: where the growth is
  by Robert Clark
• 3G looks for right connection: until now the 3G buzz has been about low-cost voice. That's fine, but it's hardly going to set off the mobile multimedia revolution
  by Robert Clark
• CommunicAsia 2005
• Nortel Networks slashes its audited profit for 2003 by 40% while reporting that a dozen senior executives would repay $8.6m in bonuses and five board members would resign
• The true value of communication
  by John C. Tanner
• Beijing: the China Education and Research Network Information Center launches an IPv6-based network that will link 25 universities spread across 20 cities and towns
• Seoul: South and North Korea agree to set up cross-border telephone lines to the Kaesong Industrial Complex, just north of the Demilitarized Zone
• Making storage simpler
  by Joseph Waring
• VoIP
• KT plans to invest 2.5 trillion won in capex this year
• Asia telecom transactions index
• TU Media, a unit of SK Telecom, launches a trial of its much-awaited mobile television service via satellite
• Orange is considering outsourcing some 1,500 call-center jobs to India
• Strong 2004 results lift AIS
• Security
• New Delhi: reliance-owned global carrier FLAG Telecom plans to initiate arbitration proceedings against VSNL, alleging that the Tata group company is blocking access to FLAG Europe Asia's cable at its Mumbai landing station
• Chinese telcos test the waters in broadband TV
  by Fiona Chau
• Jakarta: Telkom estimates the December 26 tsunami caused over $17m is losses for the company
• Meshing with the metro: wireless mesh is emerging from under the radar as a viable wireless broadband alternative for metropolitan areas and campus environments—especially for people who can't wait for WiMAX
  by John C. Tanner
• ContentGuard adds five DRM patents
  by Fiona Chau
• Where the business of technology comes to life
• Hutchison Whampoa plans to list in Milan toward the end of 2005
• War
• Sydney: the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission begins to arbitrate a dispute between Hutchison Telecom and Vodafone over the prices that Vodafone is charging to terminate calls on its network
• China Telecom signs an agreement with local TV set maker Changhong Electric to develop computer
• Indosat sells its 97% stake in Sisindosat to Aneka Spring Telekomindo for Rp40b
• Transitioning toward value
  by Joseph Waring
• Hong Kong: Hutchison Telecommunications International cuts its Hong Kong workforce by 20%, or 750 jobs, as part of a cost-cutting move that could save the company up to HK$300m a year
• Tokyo: Japan launches a teleworking pilot program, in hopes of having 20% of the country's workforce teleworking by 2010
• Former Sonera CEO Kaj-Erik Relander along with five other employees have been charged with gross violation
• Networking opportunities across Asia
• Taiwan's three major cellcos are set to launch 3G services in mid-2005. FarEasTone and Chunghwa Telecom are both expected to launch 3G services at the end of June
• Australia plays catch-up
• Hanoi: VNPT expects to install 3.5m new telephone lines this year, a 12% year-on-year increase
• Manila: Smart Communications increases its stake in Meridian Telekoms, the country's broadband wireless data services provider, to 49%
• Connected through tragedy: communications are critical in an emergency. The tsunami disaster was no different, but this time it was the bloggers who stepped forward to break news and link needy communities with donors. Meanwhile, the debate continues abou
  by Robert Clark
• Ethernet switches with resilient framework technology
  by Fiona Chau
• Partnerships key in battle for digital home
• Global broadband base expands by 50m
• OFTA shortens the advance notice required from PCCW to adjust prices—from seven days to one—granting the fixed-line operator the freedom to change prices without prior approval
• Matsushita Electric Industrial, Sony Corp and Mitsubishi Electric
• Security service enables better controls of VPN access
  by Fiona Chau
• Intel and South African carrier Telkom are testing WiMAX technology
• Compliance drives enterprise security growth
• Bangkok: the National Telecom Commission begins the interview process for the post of secretary general, considering 16 candidates for the position
• Paraxip unveils new IP products
  by Fiona Chau