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Articles in March, 2005 issue of Telecom Asia

• TA index inches up 0.8%
• Bangkok: TA Orange signs a $133m contract with Alcatel to expand the its GSM/GPRS network
• SBC Communications acquires AT&T for $16b
• Sydney: unwired books a net loss of $A21.27m for the six months ending December 31, up from a loss of A$1.14m in the same period a year ago
• China's Net growth slows despite broadband leap
  by John C. Tanner
• Hong Kong: OFTA is considering creating a new carrier license for fixed and mobile services
• Seoul: LG Telecom abandons its court injunction to block SK Telecom from offering handset subsidies
• WLAN product specialized for cable operators
  by Fiona Chau
• Thrunet takeover to stabilize Korean broadband market
  by Michael Galbraith
• Nokia, Sierra Wireless cooperate on HSDPA
  by Fiona Chau
• The great municipal Wi-Fi freakout: the argument that government Wi-Fi will kill private services seems overblown
  by John C. Tanner
• Kuala Lumpur: DiGi.Com books group pretax profit of RM446.8m for 2004
• CRM: moving back to customer centricity: after years of hype and initial failures, telcos are staring to understand that CRM is about strategy and process, not just technology. CRM initiatives are evolving toward customer-centricity, but analysts say telc
  by Fiona Chau
• Verizon Communications agrees to buy MCI
• Focus turns to broadband in NZ
• Jakarta: Indonesia's wireless sector needs an additional investment of $5b to fully exploit the nation's market, according to the association of cellular telecommunications companies
• Wary MNCs make leap of faith to IP-VPN: IP-VPN is not yet the biggest item in the Asia's data services market, but it's certainly the hottest
  by Robert Clark
• Singapore expo aims high with enhanced program
• The WiMAX Forum selects Cetecom Spain as its official certification laboratory and announces a certification roadmap that marks July 2005 for the launch of the WiMAX Forum Certified program
• Fixed-line penetration to hold steady
• Bangkok: the National Telecommunications Commission finishes the task of drawing up new guidelines to promote competition
• Seoul: the ministry of Information and Communication roles out the prospect of fixed-line carriers such as KT Corp and Hanaro Telecom offering Web-based TV services
• Former WorldCom finance chief Scott Sullivan admits he falsified the company's books to inflate earnings
• Jakarta: Indosat will issue two issue two bends—$200m in dollars and Rp1.5 trillion in local currency
• Converged, rested and ready
  by John C. Tanner
• Networking opportunities across Asia
• Seoul: Hanaro Telecom finally decides to pay 471.3b won to acquire Thrunet, after cutting 5% off the original bidding price of 496.2b won
• Ericsson reports full year net profits of $3.4b on strong sales growth
• Sydney: Telstra announces a three-month trial to extend the coverage of its copper wire broadband footprint into regional Australia by using a device in its exchanges to boost its ADSL transmission range from four to 20 kilometers
• Marconi forms a strategic partnership with Huawei Technologies under which Marconi will provide Huawei's carrier-grade data products to key customers in Europe
• UWB: it's here, and headed for home networks
  by Robert Poe
• Beijing: the number of Internet users in China is forecast to expand 30% to 134 million by the end of 2005
• Kuala Lumpur: Celecom plans to launch its 3G service
• The merger
  by Stewart Fist
• Telecom's tough future
  by Robert Clark
• Vientiane: Sky Telecom signs a contract with ZTE for a cdma2000 1x EV-DO network
• Motorola joins Royal Philips, Samsung and Datang as an investor in China's T3G
• Cellphones to boost VoIP IC market
• Islamabad: new Pakistani mobile operator Warid Telecom will launch commercial services in April
• CPCNet offers SSL VPN service
  by Fiona Chau
• Threat
• Discount flurry assures ISDN's future
• Trial
• Tokyo: Vodafone KK begins field tests for HSDPA using experimental radio stations
• Singapore: SingTel's Q3 net profit fell 11% to S$760m
• Infonet Services opens a wholly-owned subsidiary in Hong Kong
• Seoul: LG Electronics signs a MoU with Nortel Networks to form a joint venture in Seoul to develop and produce W-CDMA equipment
• Singapore: StarHub forms a strategic partnership with NTT DoCoMo to offer the Japanese mobile carrier's i-mode services exclusively in Singapore by the fourth quarter of this year
• Siemens plans to cut 1,350 jobs in its new Siemens Com division, which covers the group's activities in fixed-line and mobile communications
• Hong Kong: PCCW agrees to sell a 20% stake in the company to China Netcom Group
• All-in-one cellular antenna
  by Fiona Chau
• Manila: the Philippines government plans to put five 3G licenses
• France Telecom buys the 46% of business telecomservices unit Equant it does not already own
• Power shift
  by Geoff Long
• Jitter-free reference transmitter
  by Fiona Chau
• Prediction
• Service convergence—bringing it all together
• Shenzhen: Huawei Technologies' net profit rose 22% last year to $470m
• Taipei: the Ministry of Economic Affairs unveils dual-network application services based on integrated cellular and wireless technologies
• Agilent Technologies plans to invest more than $100m in China
• Games
• Us Fcc
• Asian subsea fiber market recovers, but Indian Ocean could face glut
  by John C. Tanner
• Tokyo: the Ministry of Communications rejects Softbank's application
• 3G baseband design collaboration
  by Fiona Chau
• VoIP
• Hong Kong: HK Broadband Network begins offering a 100-Mbps broadband service to residential customers
• Hong Kong: Hutchison Global Communications and Skype partner to offer a VoIP service in Hong Kong through a co-branded HGC-Skype portal
• Taipei: Chunghwa Telecom will raise its capital spending 4.4% to NT$23.6b this year
• Phishing takes its toll
• Hong Kong: new World Telecom plans to invest $38m this year to support the growth of its data business to enterprise customers