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Articles in Feb, 2007 issue of Telecom Asia

• Cisco Systems agrees to pay $830m in cash and stock to acquire privately held IronPort Systems, a maker of antispam and antivirus security products
• GEPON solution for high-bandwidth services
  by Fiona Chau
• Telenor of Norway, the major shareholder of mobile operator DTAC, expresses optimism on amendments by the Thai government to the Foreign Business Act
• Chunghwa Telecom plans to spend nearly $4b over the next five years to upgrade its telecommunications networks and build a new undersea cable system
• Optimizing the network: Blue Coat president and CEO Brian NeSmith explains to Telecom Asia contributing editor Lalou Ramos why bandwidth is secondary to processing speed and why application acceleration will be a huge market
  by Lalou Ramos
• CTI taps legal expert
• Non-voice ARPU increases elude operators
• Google's click-to-call plan in China
  by Al Senia
• IPTV will become a "substantial" business in Thailand as soon as this year
• Reliance Communications is planning to separately list its wholly owned subsidiary Flag Telecom on the London Stock Exchange, divesting up to 24% to raise over $500m
• Apple's new phone illustrates mobile gap
  by Al Senia
• Senior appointments at PCL
• Enhanced physical interface card
  by Fiona Chau
• The Virgin Group is in talks with Tata Teleservices to form an alliance and introduce the Virgin brand in India
• Aiello to head STAR
• eBay is turning over control of its Chinese auction Web site to a Beijing-based partner in a new joint venture, marking a strategic shift as the US company tries to penetrate China
• Sony Ericsson's net profit more than tripled in the fourth quarter
• Nortel completes its $320m sale of assets and liabilities
• Consumer, SMB networked storage gear
  by Fiona Chau
• AOL offers $900m in cash bid to buy Swedish online marketing specialist TradeDoubler in an effort to improve its Internet advertising in Europe
• India bandwidth market set to boom: government moves to open up resale market, setting the stage for international competition and price reductions
  by Sufia Tippu
• Mobile spam
• Officials report that they were checking whether the son of one of Asia's wealthiest men breached media ownership rules when he bought a stake in a small newspaper
• No more Gs
  by John C. Tanner
• The bankrupt German handset business of BenQ has attracted several possible buyers, including an unidentified German-US investor
• Matsushita Electric Industrial, Samsung and Nokia face accusations of illegally incorporating unlicensed Bluetooth chipsets in a variety of products
• The next big things: while the mobile bandwagon will keep on rolling, with the usual hype and continued gap with reality, 2007 looks to see major growth in a few services that have long been on the horizon—FMC, managed services mid-band Ethernet
• New Wharf T&T head
• New SkyPort International board member
• The leap from stovepipe to converged services: using common service delivery environment capabilities enables operators to deliver combined user-centric services
  by Nicolas Mercouroff
• EV-DO subs forecast to double in 18 months
• NTT DoCoMo plans to spend up to 200b yen to launch its Super 3G mobile network by 2010
• TA30 gains 1.6%: TA30 telecom stock index Dec 15, 2006-Jan 15, 2007
• Chinese Web users lose around 10,000 Internet domain names due to the disruption caused by the Boxing Day quake off Taiwan in December
• Qualcomm faces an investigation for alleged anticompetitive practices
• The UN will not try to take the lead in determining the future of the Internet, the head of the UN telecommunications agency says
• Enhanced VoIP headset solutions
  by Fiona Chau
• SonicWALL hires sales head
• Branding
• Telkomsel plans to expand its cellular network by adding 5,000 new base transceiver stations this year at a cost of about $1.5b
• Asia's bandwidth meltdown: does Asia have to rethink its Internet architecture after the Boxing Day earthquake
  by Robert Clark
• Sales and marketing head for Orange
• Sony Ericsson is in talks with Korean mobile carriers about installing Wi-Fi wireless Internet capability on its phones
• Networking opportunities across Asia
• New director at Elcoteq
• A Samsung executive agrees to plead guilty and serve ten months in prison
• Cisco sues Apple in federal court, saying the computer maker's new iPhone violates its trademark
• Perlos, which makes mobile phone casings for Nokia
• SingTel names EVP
• iBwave names VP for sales
• TV makers jump on IPTV bandwagon
• HT Mobile, a 50-50 joint venture between Hutchison Telecommunication International Ltd and Hanoi Telecom, makes its debut in Vietnam's mobile market, with the launch of a 2.4-Mbps wireless data card
• BSNL opens its optical fiber gateways to Nepal, allowing the land-locked neighbor to connect its telecom, IT and Internet networks to other countries
• Handheld analyzer for W-CDMA base stations
  by Fiona Chau
• Intelsat gets SVP
• Warning!
• TOT reiterates its ultimatum to DTAC and True Move to confirm payment of access charges
• China Mobile, China Telecom and China Netcom are expected to tap mainland stock markets for a fresh injection of capital to build infrastructure to implement 3G mobile services
• The Department of Telecommunications issues BT with letters of intent for the award of licenses for national long distance and international long distance services
• The government will review its local service accord with Telecom New Zealand, the nation's incumbent carrier, to ensure it covers new services
• HP, Tandberg form interoperability alliance
  by Fiona Chau
• MapInfo names sales director
• IPTV gradually progresses in China
• KDDI adds 2.53m new mobile subs in 2006
• Asia telecom transactions index
• Funding hiccups slow Unwired WiMAX rollout
  by Lachlan Colquhoun
• PT IndoSat launches the country's first carrier Ethernet service
• Mitsubishi Electric may ask Sanyo Electric to pay compensation for financial damage caused by defective Sanyo battery packs used in Mitsubishi mobile phones
• WiMAX-ready adaptive antenna systems
  by Fiona Chau
• UTStarcom CTO resigns
• Tracking 2007
  by Robert Clark
• 3 scraps roaming charges
  by Fiona Chau
• The Post and Telecom Administration in Iceland is launching a tender for UMTS frequencies, with plans to issue up to four, 14-year licenses
• More operators outsource managed services
• The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers files a complaint with YouTube
• The Office of Fair Trading, Britain's competition watchdog, is inquiring into British Sky Broadcasting's purchase of a significant stake in commercial broadcast ITV
• Plug-ins for Flash-based IP video traffic
  by Fiona Chau
• No free ride