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Articles in April, 2005 issue of Telecom Asia

• Service convergence—bringing it all together
• WLAN market grows 26%
• Former Cisco executive becomes Nortel COO
• Beijing: the Ministry of Culture of China issues China Telecom a license to operate Internet centers in its 26 provincial culture departments
• Tandberg hires APAC president
• Untapped opportunity in Africa
• Sydney: Telstra begins testing its VoIP platform using up to 200 Telstra staff in Melbourne
• Paul Jacobs takes helms at Qualcomm
• Tokyo: NTT develops a technology to increase by ten times the number of WDM channels that can be sent over a single optical fiber, which will allow major telcos to transmit data on 1,046 WDM channels both ways between Seika, Kyoto prefecture, and Dojima,
• WatchGuard Asia sales director
• Divide
• The new bandwidth barons: as the dust settles within the global subsea cable industry, cable network ownership has shifted decidedly eastward with Asian companies having bought out American assets. But doubt remains whether the new bandwidth barons have l
  by Grahame Lynch
• Bangkok: ISP Inet, formerly known as Internet Thailand, plans to roll out wireless broadband Internet access services country-wide and aggressively market its IT solutions to the state sector as part of a plan to drive business growth
• Gigabit Layer 3 switches with IPv6 functionality
  by Fiona Chau
• Beijing: the Ministry of Railways selects Nortel to provide a digital wireless communications network for the 1,142-km Qinghai-Tibet Railway
• Authorities are planning to present civil charges against Joseph Nacchio
• SIM Technology appoints financial chief
• Spim
• Inflight broadband success depends on price, not speed
  by Robert Poe
• Japan's FTTH goes mainstream
  by Michael Galbraith
• Lucent Technologies lays off 150 workers at its facilities in Maryland, US
• Next-gen voice over broadband
  by Fiona Chau
• Shenzhen: ZTE wins a global ADSL supply deal from France Telecom
• Simplifying security event management
  by Fiona Chau
• Mobile 365's operator sales VP
• Expanding the portfolio to compete
• ICT
• Super corridors, cyber ports and fairy glens
• Taipei: Chunghwa Telecom plans to increase its ADSL subscriber base by 650,000 in 2005 by reducing the cost of its entry-level broadband services
• Capacity glut ending, but prices still falling
  by John C. Tanner
• Islamabad: Telenor Pakistan and Warid Telecom sign an interconnection agreement, which will allow Telenor to interconnect with all existing cellular service providers in Pakistan
• Alcatel wins a multi-million euro turnkey contract for a 10 Gbps upgrade of the 38,000 kilometer Sea-Me-We 3 submarine cable network
• Upgraded Wi-Fi positioning solution
  by Fiona Chau
• Beijing: three of the largest petrochemical companies in China selected Lucent to provide telecom services including data, optical network and VoIP
• Face recognition technology
  by Fiona Chau
• HKSTP CEO to retire
• Security
• Tokyo: the two regional units of NTT will invest 780b yen in fiscal 2005-06 to boost their fiber-optic communications networks
• Vodafone tightens its grip in the European market after a $3.5b takeover of MobiFon in Romania and Oskar Mobil in the Czech Republic
• IP integration optimized for carrier networks
  by Fiona Chau
• Hong Kong: CSL plans to move its call center to Guangdong in the middle of the year
• Asia telecom transactions index
• The end of an era
  by Stewart Fist
• Competition
• Satellite broadband's latest trick: from niche app to mass market: satellite broadband has yet to really lift off in the face of cheaper and increasingly ubiquitous terrestrial broadband, but it can still transform itself from niche app to serious mass m
  by Robert Poe
• Bangkok: TOT scraps a 7.5b baht telephone expansion contract won by Siemens, because the bid was too high
• BT will make further investment of $48m in the Asia-Pacific region
• Low-power DVB-H demodulator
  by Fiona Chau
• FCC
• CommunicAsia2005 commands strong exhibitor interest: IT & Communications exhibition for Asia to be held in Singapore from 14-17 June this year
• You are the network
  by John C. Tanner
• PCCW CVG: power to transform your business: PCCW tops list of global players in international and local data services
• LG Electronics and Nortel Network sign an agreement to jointly develop and sell WiMAX high-speed wireless Internet technology
• Vodafone KK executive changes
• TA index falls 0.8%: TA30 telecom stock index 14 Jan-15 Feb, 2005
• New Delhi: TRAI orders Indian telecoms carriers to cut price on international bandwidth 35% to 71% lower starting April 1
• Hong Kong-based ISP Pacific Supernet renames itself Pacific Internet Limited
• Hong Kong: China Mobile records a double-digit net profit increase in 2004, boosted by its mid-year acquisition of provincial networks from its state-run parent
• Singapore: SingTel sells 4.2m common shares in Globe Telecom, reducing SingTel's share in the Philippine carrier to 44.6% from 45.1%
• T-Mobile, the mobile subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, is planning to cut 550 jobs over the next two years
• UTStarcom appoints director
• Sydney: the Australian government plans to use the expected A$30b windfall from Telstra's sale to buy shares in other companies, rather than pay off debts
• Crossbeam Systems hires sales VP
• Moving away from the commodity game: the evolution of the network is accelerating, making speed to market—not end-to-end control—a key ingredient for success. Virtela chairman Vab Goel explains to group editor Joseph Waring why carriers need to
  by Joseph Waring
• Bangkok: AIS taps Huawei Technologies to provide W-CDMA equipment, which AIS will use in a 3G trial in May
• Bernard Ebbers was convicted last month of engineering the largest corporate fraud in US history, an $11b accounting scandal that capsized WorldCom three years ago
• CDMA WLAN converged mobility solution
  by Fiona Chau
• Optus outsourcing win raises anti-competitive concerns
  by Lachlan Colquhoun
• Manila: Competition among telecom companies in the Philippines has extended to the high-speed broadband service with both PLDT and Globe targeting small and medium-size enterprises
• ICANN appoints new staff
• Strong tech demand fuels interest in IT expo
• Telstra's Bill Scales retires
• Hong Kong: one of Hutchison's wholly-owned subsidiaries enters into a conditional agreement to acquire a 60% equity stake in Indonesia's Cyber Access Communications worth $120m
• Jakarta: Telkom is planning to construct a new fiber-optic network this year to strengthen its telecommunications backbone for Java, Sumatra and the Kalimantan islands
• Jakarta: Indosat and Research In Motion introduce BlackBerry in Indonesia for individuals and smaller businesses
• WiMAX Forum adds three new directors
• Annual telecom awards expand program
• Security not just for sidekicks
  by Robert Clark
• AOL plans to launch a VoIP service, called AOL Internet Phone Service, which will leverage the "buddy list"
• Macau: China Unicom wins a license to build a 250m yuan CDMA network in Macau, beating out other bidders including SmarTone and incumbent carrier CTM Macau

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