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Articles in April, 2007 issue of Telecom Asia

• Non-traditional players gain share
• Dominant carrier PLDT's consolidated net income grew 3% to 35.1b pesos in 2006 from 34.1b pesos in 2005
• The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission drops a competition notice issued to Telstra over its wholesale line rental prices
• PMC-Sierra taps finance chief
• A group of US venture capital firms, including Disney's investment arm, plans to invest $23.5m in UUSee, a major Chinese site for Web video
• ZTE tops 2006 international CDMA market
• Members of the WiMAX Spectrum Owners Alliance sign the world's first WiMAX roaming agreement and form a partnership with roaming service providers, MACH and Trustive
• Can ADSL handle the job? Many carriers around the world are betting on ADSL to handle their IPTV deployments. But the complexity of the ADSL standard is creating uncertainty and slowing implementation
  by Al Senia
• MACH appoints regional chief
• The WiMAX maze
  by Robert Clark
• CAT Telecom files a request from the national telecom regulator to shut down its loss-making telegraph business
• Research firm Danawa reports that South Koreans are continuing to shun mobile phones with PC-like functionality, unlike the US and Europe where they are becoming increasingly popular
• The European Commission proposes a more flexible use of radio spectrum to encourage the development of new services like 3G and digital TV
• Viacom battles the web: copyright lawsuit ignores the real issue about what's evolved into mainstream entertainment
  by Al Senia
• Mobile veterans join Wattpad
• Lawlessness
• Making sense of the data: improvements in network quality can be delivered without boosting capex by closely measuring network traffic to detect bottlenecks early
  by Joseph Waring
• Technology transcends boundaries at CommunicAsia 2007
• Telecom Watchdog, a non-government organization
• Vanco names Apac CEO
• Asia telecom transactions index
• Real-time multimedia conferencing platform
  by Fiona Chau
• Maxis Communications sees its fourth-quarter net profit rise 51% on stronger domestic operations as well as higher contributions from its Indian unit
• ReelTime forges a partnership with IPSTAR Australia, a subsidiary under Thailand's Shin Satellite
• China's two major fixed-line telephone operators sign an agreement to confine each other to their major geographical markets to limit competition
• China bars more Internet cafe from opening this year, in its latest attempt to restrict the rising influence of the Internet
• Motorola exec resigns
• Mobile operator SmarTone-Vodafone reports revenues of HK$2.1b for the six months to December 31, 2006, up 13% from a year earlier
• Sweden presents a contentious plan to allow a defense intelligence agency to monitor email traffic and phone calls crossing the nation's borders without a court order
• Regional push: Telekom Malaysia ™ chairman Muhammad Radzi Mansor and TM international CEO Yusof Annuar Yaacob share the group's investment strategy for moving beyond its shores with group editor Joseph Waring and outline the lessons learned along the
  by Joseph Waring
• Exec movements at Linktone
• Limits
• Networking opportunities across Asia
• European telecom customers suffer price distortions
• LogicaCMG agrees to sell its telecom products division
• BT hires now chair
• Lightweight portable military terminal
  by Fiona Chau
• More to FMC than dual-mode phones
• Vonage assures its 2.2m customers that their service will not be interrupted after losing a federal patent infringement lawsuit brought by competitor Verizon
• Dual-mode mobile handsets to dominate
• TransTelecom set sights on Far East
  by Fiona Chau
• Telecom New Zealand and Yahoo! launches a new joint-venture media company, Yahoo!Xtra
• A new UN-led alliance plans to work out global scrapping guidelines to protect the environment from mountains of electronic trash
• The Department of Telecommunications grants BT licenses to provide national long distance and international long distance services in India
• Nortel Networks again needs to restate past results after finding problems with how it accounted for pensions and retirement plans
• The search for a new business model: mobile operators struggling with flat profits and investor indifference are edging toward a new, Internet-based business model
  by Robert Clark
• Index drops 2%: TA30 telecom stock index Feb 14-March 13, 2007
• Answer to mobile video challenges
  by Fiona Chau
• Let me hear somebody stream: digital music service Soundbuzz says mobile music downloads already outnumber PC downloads
  by John C. Tanner
• Qatar Telecom agrees to acquire a 51% stake in Kuwai's Wataniya, which has mobile operations in seven countries in the region
• NTT Com and Telecom agree to build a 500-km high-capacity fiber-optic cable between Japan and Russia using DWDM technology
• New ethernet access products
  by Fiona Chau
• New appointments at Operax
• Unoriginal
• LG Telecom accuses bigger rivals SK Telecom and KTF of having colluded to launch a two-pronged attack against the smaller company
• Border gateway test application
  by Fiona Chau
• Censors have feelings too
• MediaFLO and DVB-H smackdown in Taiwan
  by John C. Tanner
• The board of Tandberg Television accepts the $1.38b takeover bid from Ericsson, citing the offer is competitive compared to the earlier bid from Arris Group
• HTIL appoints directors
• NeuStar appoints COO
• IPTV service fulfillment solution
  by Fiona Chau
• BlackBerry maker Research in Motion's co-chief executive will give up the chairman's post
• iBasis taps legal head
• Social networking goes mobile
  by Al Senia
• A report by the Ministry of Post and Telematics forecasts that revenues of the nation's post and telecommunications sector will grow 22.4% year-on-year to 60 trillion dong this year
• KDDI plans to offer fiber-optic broadband service via cable owned by East Japan Railway in an attempt to challenge dominant NTT Corp
• Sprint Nextel's fourth-quarter profits rise 33% on stronger revenue, but the company continued to lose high-quality subscribers
• Enhanced VoIP gateway gear
  by Fiona Chau
• Cambridge Broadband names chair
• Bundle broadband tariffs plummet
• Pakistan Telecommunication Company contracts Huawei and Irdeto to supply equipment for its IPTV service rollout across the country in the first half of this year
• NTT DoCoMo and McDonald's Japan enter into a joint-venture agreement that will allow DoCoMo's customers to pay for purchases at McDonald's outlets using mobile phones
• Radio base station for home coverage
  by Fiona Chau
• AOL CFO steps down