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Articles in April, 2002 issue of Telecom Asia

• Resend: flashbacks, updates and nostalgia: Telecom Asia questions BT chief on Asia and Global Strategy - Telecom Asia, January 1999 - First Mile - British Telecom's plans have not worked out as expected - Brief Article
  by John C. Tanner
• Visa Asia-Pacific - movements - offering new security services - Brief Article
• Hong Kong: OFTA issues a severe warning to Pacific Century CyberWorks HKT, requiring the incumbent telco to improve its provision of telephone number porting services — also known as number portability — to its competitors - News analysis: Asian
• Sydney: Telstra - News analysis: Asian telecoms this month - Telstra Corporation Ltd. financial figures - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
• Frank Dunn to head Nortel - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Citrix creates new regional position - Telecom Career - appoints Dennis Rose as vice president for Asia - Brief Article
• Mobile Internet and other dreams - Inside Line - Brief Article
  by Robert Clark
• KPN Mobile Group's i-mode service kicks off in Germany via subsidiary E-Plus, who begins selling i-mode-ready handsets supplied by NEC on 16 March - movements - Brief Article
• Beijing: Eastern Communications Co - News analysis: Asian telecoms this month - to adopt Motorola platform - Brief Article
• Tokyo: NTT DoCoMo and Oracle announce plans to collaborate on technology and the development of mobile applications and services targeted at corporations - News analysis: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Multiservice VoP media gateway - Premiere - from Alcatel - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• New appointments at Openwave Asia-Pacific - Telecom Career - Don Oas, Peter Hogewoning and Tony Tong - Brief Article
• CRM - Backpage Briefing - Telstra's license conditioned - Brief Article
• Stat snap - First Mile - cellular phone sales statistics by company for 2001 - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
  by John C. Tanner
• Global satellite operator Intelsat launches a bundled Internet trunking service for ISPs that will initially target the Indian subcontinent starting in the second quarter of this year - movements - Brief Article
• Hong Kong: PCCW's mobile arm, Hong Kong CSL, will not launch 3G services before the first half of 2003 - News analysis: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Seoul: LG Telecom - News analysis: Asian telecoms this month - not implementing cdma2000 1x EV-DO technology - Brief Article
• Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet products - Premiere - launched by Intel Corp - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Redback Networks' new China, HK chief - Telecom Career - Chang Chen-tze - Brief Article
• Spam - Backpage Briefing - China's National People's Congress seeks spam regulations - Brief Article
• NTT DoCoMo makes its debut on New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange - movements - Brief Article
• Beijing: Pacific Century CyberWorks and Chinese oil giant Sinopec Corp form an 80 million yuan worth joint venture to provide information technology services in China - $9.7 million - News analysis: Asian telecoms this month - Petro-CyberWorks Informatio
• Tokyo: NEC and Matsushita unveil a jointly developed architecture for handsets based on Intel's PCA model of using two CPUs inside phones - News analysis: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Intel's network challenge - Dotconomy - new Intel chips will benefit telecoms - Brief Article
  by Tony Chan
• Spike Hong Kong GM - Telecom Career - Khalida Arain - Brief Article
• Multimedia - Backpage Briefing - Solve Communications' "dog-cam" - Brief Article
• Return of the living EDGE - Tanner - Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution may still be useful - Brief Article
  by John C. Tanner
• Asia Global Crossing - movements - CEO John Legere removed from board - Brief Article
• Shanghai: Siemens establishes a new unit, Siemens Mobile Acceleration, to back 2.5G and 3G start-ups in mainland China and Hong Kong - News analysis: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Seoul: Broadband ISP Thrunet's three major shareholders — Softbank, Trigem Computer and Naray & Co — swap $110 million worth of bonds with warrants into shares to help save on interest expenses - News analysis: Asian telecoms this month - Brief
• Nokia expands W-CDMA range - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Concord North Asia sales head - Telecom Career - Jason Tse named sales director, Concord Communications - Brief Article
• Bandwidth - Backpage Briefing - demand remains robust - Brief Article
• Nortel's photonic retreat a sign of the times - First Mile - Nortel Networks gives up on photonic core switch - Brief Article
  by John C. Tanner
• New York Stock Exchange - movements - delists Williams Communications - Brief Article
• Hong Kong: OFTA - News analysis: Asian telecoms this month - spectrum allocation planning announcement - Brief Article
• Seoul: Korea's broadband user base exceeds the 8 million mark, with KT Corp. leading the market with more than 4 million broadband subscribers, followed by Hanaro Telecom and Thrunet with 2.45 million and 1.38 million respectively - News analysis: Asian t
• Conexant V.92 modem enhances - Premiere - new dial-up modem - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Cisco Asia VP - Telecom Career - Owen Chan - Brief Article
• Future - Backpage Briefing - 24-megabit connections for North American residences - Brief Article
• Reaching for profit: despite the uncertainty in the regional backbone sector, Reach has managed to stay in the black for its first 11 months of operation - News Analysis - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
  by Tony Chan
• Verizon - movements - cutting workforce - Brief Article
• Bangkok: Motorola wins a $253 million contract to provide a GSM 1800 network to Thailand's TA Orange - News analysis: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Sydney: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission - News analysis: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Malaysian regulator appoints regional managers - Telecom Career - Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission - Brief Article
• Portal Software appoints Asian head - Telecom Career - John Tull - Brief Article
• Getting intelligence into the switch: expanding PTSN/IDSN was the next logical step, and proved an important issue that worried Beijing Telecom's vice director of planning Yang Gang. Now he is confident that the Beijing network is robust enough to meet th
• Beijing: GSM operator China Mobile and CDMA operator KTF sign an agreement in Beijing to offer a GSM-CDMA roaming service to their subscribers starting from April - News analysis: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Tokyo: KDDI - News analysis: Asian telecoms this month - to roll out new telephone services throughout Japan - Brief Article
• Convergent in Hong Kong: Hong Kong Cable TV, the six-year-old monopoly cable operator, is in the black and eyeing convergence opportunities at home and on the mainland. But Vincent T. Y. Lam, executive director technology and network services, tells group
  by Robert Clark
• Ericsson names new corp. comm SVP - Telecom Career - Henry Stenson - Brief Article
• Has the competitive carrier model failed? - Telecom Planet - Brief Article
  by Grahame Lynch
• Doubts linger as Foxtel scoops pay TV market - News Analysis - in Australia - Brief Article
  by Lachlan Colquhoun
• In its latest revised forecast for the first quarter results, Nokia says network sales would be down 25% for the quarter, compared with a forecast 16% to 20% decline, thanks to weaker demand for mobile networks - movements - Brief Article - Statistical Da
• Islamabad: Thirteen-month-old GSM operator Ufone, the mobile arm of incumbent Pakistan Telecommunications, awards Nortel Networks a contract worth an estimated $60 million to implement a major expansion of its GSM 900 network - News analysis: Asian teleco
• Chasing the cash: telecom firms have cut back on staffing — but they're still looking for those who can sell, especially if they have regional exposure. And there's still a problem tapping execs for China - Annual Career Survey - Cover Story
  by Robert Clark
• Networking the Nation board reappointments - Telecom Career - Australia's Ministry of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts; Networking the Nation program - Brief Article
• Satellites, wireless and security the hot conference topics - Preview: CommunicAsia 2002
• Cash sweetener for broadband failure - News Analysis - Telstra to spend A$50 million to encourage use of broadband - Brief Article
  by Lachlan Colquhoun
• TeleGeography - movements - reports on transoceanic bandwidth purchases - Brief Article
• New Delhi: BSNL - News analysis: Asian telecoms this month - to provide fixed line, wireless connections across India
• The great SDR wait: software defined radio is getting closer, but real products are still years away — with a range of technical and regulatory issues still to be resolved - Wireless
  by John C. Tanner
• New business director for Vodafone New Zealand - Telecom Career - Russell Stanners - Brief Article
• DSL: the next generation: where next for DSL? Equipment costs are coming down, but carriers will need to improve efficiencies and find extra revenue streams to make the technology a bottom line winner - Telecom Corporate
  by Robert Clark