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Articles in May, 2006 issue of Telecom Asia

• TA Index climbs 2.8%
• Bankruptcy illuminates Japan's market competition issues
  by Mike Galbraith
• The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia and the Philippine Cable Television Association sign an agreement that reinforces their partnership to promote and protect intellectual property rights in the pay-TV industry
• A US judge approves a $2.65b class-action settlement of claims that advertising revenue
• The city-wide Wi-Fi threat: Telcos have been wary of municipal Wi-Fi networks being deployed in urban areas, but they could also pose a threat to mobile roaming revenues
  by Steve Mollman
• Lucent appoints CIO, financial controller
• China Mobile chief engineer retires
• What's driving next-gen wireless
• TOT's long-delayed privatization plan lies on the brink of collapse after the Supreme Administrative Court accepted a petition filed by its employees to revoke the plan and change its status back to a state enterprise
• Alcatel acquires rival telecom equipment maker Lucent Technologies in a $13.4b stock swap
• Tying the knot: outsourcing of the network and services is bringing vendors and operators closer together, but how far should they take the relationship?
  by Geoff Long
• Softbank execs nominated to Vodafone KK board
• Ovum adds director
• Video
• Give the IPTV viewers what they want
  by John C. Tanner
• Powerline goes commercial in Asia
• SingTel cuts 40 middle management positions as the telcos reduces its size by cutting back on job duplication among its nearly 10,000-employees in Singapore
• The European Union reports that some 300,000 Europeans rushed to register their new ".eu" Internet domain names in the first hour of being able to sign up to the new Web site addresses
• Comprehensive software for distributed apps
  by Fiona Chau
• Bytemobile appoints GM for Beijing operations
• Billing
• Strong upside for business VoIP
• Chunghwa Telecom upgrades its IP infrastructure and selects Nortel for the rollout of a next-generation network in the country
• Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile Holdings accepts a 962.4m pound offer from cable operator NTL
• Aligned with the customer: Stuart Dobbin, the new head of Asia for Cable & Wireless, outlines to group editor Joseph Waring the carrier's new focus on higher-margin clients and strategy for growth by building deeper relationships rather than acquiring
  by Joseph Waring
• UTStarcom hires new execs
• Symantec SVP
• Regulatory uncertainty dampens interest in Telstra share sale
  by Lachlan Colquhoun
• Telecom Corporation of New Zealand plans to combine its fixed-line and mobile units as it moves to a business model that will be more tightly organized around customers
• Chipmaker Hynix Semiconductor plans to invest $230m in expanding operations in China this year
• Delineating user and operator networks
  by Fiona Chau
• Oracle names CRM VP for Asia
• The quest for the low end
  by Robert Clark
• Spending a bundle on next-gen wireless
• The city's record industry reaches a legal settlement with 16 locals who allegedly uploaded music for illegal sharing over the Internet
• A UK investors group is interested in buying Asia Netcom
• Verizon Communications agrees to sell its Verizon Dominicana and Telecomunicaciones Puerto Rico units
• Networking opportunities across Asia
• WJ Communications names CFO
• Anniversaries
• Residential users switch to VoIP
• BSNL's profit margin drops about 20% despite the fact that its operating income rose 9%
• Thales plans to acquire Alcatel's satellite and security operations for 1.7b euros in cash and shares
• Broadband by the numbers: Asia is still the world's biggest broadband market, but the rest of the world is catching up fast. Oh, and DSL still rules
• Movements at Nokia finance and control
• New VP at Ranch Networks
• More power to the Ethernet
  by Lalou Ramos
• The Chinese government moves to protect its fixed-line business by banning free VoIP services for at least two years
• The Office of the US Trade Representative seeks better access to Japan's mobile and fixed-line markets
• Matsushita and NEC are in talks with Texas Instruments bout collaborating on next-generation mobile phones
• National groupings give exhibitors added exposure
• Infotel gets new CTO
• Satellite
• Continued growth for Asian pay TV
• KDDI agrees to absorb the fiber-optic telecom services of Tokyo Electric Power by January next year
• Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile Holdings accepts a 962.4m pound offer from cable operator NTL
• Full line of GPON transceivers
  by Fiona Chau
• Linktone names new CEO
• Asia telecom transactions index
• 'Digital home' device market to reach $85b
• The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission reports that take-up of broadband services in Australia is approaching three million connections
• Google defends its cooperation with Chinese censorship, saying that the company's decision to follow the law in China was the right one
• Central-office capabilities for remote locations
  by Fiona Chau
• 6Wind CEO becomes board chair