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Articles in May, 2004 issue of Telecom Asia

• Industry embraces Ethernet
• Mobile carrier Sunday Communications reports its first ever net profit of HK$27m for fiscal 2003
• The Ontario Securities Commission enforcement staff launches an investigation into accounting problems at Nortel Networks
• Motorola India president
• Vivato director
• The price of broadband
• Hutchison Whampoa plans to spin off its Hong Kong telecoms assets and mobile units in seven emerging markets for a separate listing that could be valued up to $4b
• Daum Communications is suing Microsoft and its Korean unit for alleged unfair business practices by bundling its Instant Messenger program to its Windows XP operating system
• Bharti purchases a 67.5% stake in rival Hexacom
• Off-site Wi-Fi planning tool
  by Fiona Chau
• Uncovered
• The United Arab Emirates and South Korea agree to cooperate more closely in the information technology sector
• Vonage files a lawsuit against AT&T over its new VoIP phone service, "CallVantage"
• Lucent's road to recovery
  by John C. Tanner
• McDATA Japan head
• Billing and customer-care market 'past its prime'
• The Indonesian government confirms that telcos will be allowed to increase fixed-line domestic call charges by a maximum of 9% this year
• Telstra launches a cash takeover offer for listed IT/outsourcing provider KAZ Group
• C&C08 ESN: adding new value to your network
• Tellabs® 8800 series of intelligent multi-service routers: a cost-effective migration to IP/MPLS services
• Indosat reports net profit of 1.57 trillion rupiah in 2003
• Ericsson China president Jan Malm dies of a heart attack
• Avaya SMBS marketing manager
• IDA likely to 'loosen up' on 3G contracts
  by Raj Chotrani
• 3 HK launches Motorola A835 handsets at a discounted price of HK$498 for subscribers who sign contracts up to 24 months
• The Cabinet-level Council for Economic Planning and Development will earmark NT$200m this year
  by Economic Planning and Development
• Samsung will invest 255.2b won to develop next-generation memory chips
• Tri-band GPRS modules
  by Fiona Chau
• Assets
• Russia's Vimpelcom wins a lawsuit against the state telecoms regulator
• NEC opts for Ericsson Bluetooth software
  by Fiona Chau
• Asurion Asia-Pacific CEO
• BT brings multimedia call-center solution to Asia
  by Joseph Waring
• State-owned Pakistan Telecommunication Company announces plans to cut both domestic and international long distance tariffs
• Smart Communications offers to purchase the debt of its sister mobile company Piltel
• Proactive fault notification service
  by Fiona Chau
• Confusion
• Korea faces new US trade row over HPi
• TelecomAsia officially changes its name
• Italy's Pirelli exercises an option to buy 0.46% of Telecom Italia
• Arbinet-thexchange HK head
• Mobileway Asia head
• Broadband shoppers guide: broadband prices per 100 kbps as a percentage of monthly income
• China Mobile's earnings grew 9% to $4.6b in 2003, compared to a 17% increase in 2002
• NTT DoCoMo is set to name senior executive vice president Shiro Tsuda to replace Keiji Tachikawa
• Globe Telecom slams a government proposal to impose an excise tax on SMS
• UMTS/GSM acoustic and audio test platform
  by Fiona Chau
• Airborne
• Alcatel wins a contract from technology concern Asre Danesh Azar to build Iran's first DSL network
• Protection from network-based attacks
  by Fiona Chau
• Star appoints CTO
• DSL providers push broadband gateways
• Indosat is considering selling a minority stake in Cambodian Indosat Telecommunications and its 96.87% stake in Sisindosat Lintas Buana
• SingTel teams up with US-based SIPphone to offer a telephone service over the Internet in June
• Radio communications made simple
  by Fiona Chau
• US blind spots on Asia's trade barriers
  by Robert Clark
• Voice trading goes semi-automatic
  by John C. Tanner
• DiGi Telecommunications awards a contract to Ericsson
• Yahoo will launch online auctions in China by mid-year as the company renews its push into the market
• SmartTrust Asia-Pacific director
• Fixed-line revenues rebound in AP
• AsiaSat signs up two new customers
• NTT DoCoMo will launch W-CDMA/GPRS dual-mode handsets
• The US-led Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq establishes an independent regulator
• SingTel appoints second Australian director
• China Unicom posts a net profit of $510m last year, down 8.3% from 4.6b yuan a year earlier
• Former Vodafone chief Chris Gent testifies in the Mannesmann case
• HGCH executives
• MessageLabs SE Asia sales director
• Me and my 3G
  by John C. Tanner
• Tales of the unexpected: a wireless PBX odyssey: flashback, updates and nostalgia: Telecom Asia, May 1998
• The Foreign Ministry will initiate talks with the US and the local telecoms sector
• Bharti Tele-Ventures will invest $40m in the SEA-ME-WE-4 international fiber network linking Southeast Asia
• Metalink, Fujutsu Access in broadband partnership
  by Fiona Chau
• Billed
• Unified communications finds hope in convergence: unified communications has found a new lease on life in the enterprise, thanks to the growing popularity of converged enterprise voice/data IP networks that give UC complementary features like instant mess
  by Fiona Chau
• Lucent Technologies ousts its China operations president
• Philips Electronics returns to a net profit of 550m euros in the first quarter
• Syndesis global sales head
• Hutch Thailand launches prepaid cdma2000 1x services with two handsets

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