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Articles in June, 2002 issue of Telecom Asia

• Manila: PLDT doubles its net income year on year to 1.3 billion pesos for first quarter of this year as consolidated revenues grew 6% - $26.2 million - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Global Internet population - First Mile - Brief Article - Illustration - Statistical Data Included
  by John C. Tanner
• China Telecom finally splits; after months of uncertainty, China Telecom has finally been devolved. Now the new carriers must figure out how to compete with each other - News Analysis - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Ericsson becomes a member of OSDL - Open Source Development Lab - movements - Brief Article
• Hong Kong: Mobile internet software company 724 Solutions and Bank of America launch a wireless securities trading services in Hong Kong - Asia - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Taipei: Wireless penetration in Taiwan reaches 99.97% as the island recorded an aggregated subscribers mobile base of over 24.4 million by the end of March - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
• Singapore: StarHub and cable operator SCV sign a binding agreement to proceed with their planned merger - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• New frame relay access platform - Premiere - Quick Eagle Networks - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• PCCW announces new director - Telecom Career - David Ford to join Pacific Century CyberWorks - Brief Article
• NetTest Singapore sales head - Telecom Career - Gary Fan appointed sales manager for Asia Pacific - Brief Article
• Competition - Backpage Briefing - Chinese authorities are getting tough on telco employees - Brief Article
• iPSTAR: coming soon to China, India and Myanmar - First Mile - Brief Article
  by John C. Tanner
• India rising - News Analysis - software market - Brief Article
• Beijing: China is further tightening its control over the Internet with plans to crack down on content it regards as harmful - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• New Delhi: The Cellular Operators Association of India asks Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha to remove cellular phone ownership as criteria for mandatory filing of income tax returns - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Sydney: The Australian government is now offering an A$1,100 subsidy to help rural dwellers buy mobile satellite phones - $585 - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Ciena's next-gen survival strategy; like other vendors, next-gen optical network supplier Ciena has been hit by carriers' spending cuts and has downsized. Ciena CEO Gary Smith explains to global technology editor John C. Tanner how Ciena intends to weathe
  by John C. Tanner
• IP phone for broadband service providers - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Qualcomm taps new China head - Telecom Career - Richard Sulpizio - Brief Article
• TA30 telecom stock index: for the period from 2 Apr-2 May, 2002 - Telecom Corporate - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
• Resend: still waiting for the big ISP shakeout - Telecom Asia, February 1998 - Flashbacks, updates and nostalgia - Internet service providers - Brief Article
  by John C. Tanner
• Singapore Telecom, the Communications Authority of Thailand and PT Telkom signs a MOU to jointly explore the construction of a high capacity fiber optic submarine cable system linking Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand, with a landing in Malaysia under con
• Hong Kong: AsiaSat invests another $4 million in broadband enable Speedcast - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Seoul: Cellco SK Telecom boosts its share in KT to 11.34% - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Singapore: SpeechWorks International is collaborating with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Transcoder to speed voice processing solutions - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• AT&T names head for Australasia - Telecom Career - Steve Lowe - Brief Article
• Packeteer interim CEO - Telecom Career - Brett Galloway appointed - Brief Article
• Swaps - Backpage Briefing - -Enron and Global Crossing - Brief Article
• Bluetooth misses the boat - Tanner - Brief Article - Column
  by John C. Tanner
• Made in Vietnam: vendors are going far afield to find development teams to build cost-effective new solutions. Vietnam is now flavor of the month - News Analysis - Brief Article
  by Marc Lopatin
• KDDI's PHS unit DDI Pocket, forms a business alliance with First International Telecom Corp. of Taiwan to create the world's first international roaming service for PHS users - FITEL - movements - Brief Article
• Canberra: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission withdraws a competition notice - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• LBS seeking its day in the sun; industry pundits shunned the concept of location-based services during the last few years. Now the time has come for LBS to make its mark on the technology map - LBS - Wireless
  by Dan Sweeney
• SpeechWorks launches new TTS software - Premiere - text-to-speech - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• New members join Nokia executive board - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Asia telecom transactions index - Telecom Corporate - Brief Article
• Stat snap - First Mile - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
  by John C. Tanner
• KPNQwest, the European joint venture between Holland's KPN and US Qwest, flies for bankruptcy protection - movements - Brief Article
• Beijing: China Railcom and Beijing's Northern Jiaotong University set up a laboratory - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Pakistan: Pakistan is set to open a hub for Internet accessfollowing a deal struck between a subsidiary of FLAG Telecom and state operator Pakistan Telecommunications Company Ltd - PTCL - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Sydney: Virgin Group says it will invest an additional A$68 million in its MVNO venture with SingTel Optus - $37.3 million - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• The WLL and the WISP - American Line - wireless Internet service providers - Brief Article
  by Kirk Laughlin
• 10 Gigabit multimode fiber cables - Premiere - Krone - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• EdgeMatrix COO - Telecom Career - Mohan Menon appointed - Brief Article
• Bullish on OSS - Telecom Corporate - Statistical Data Included
  by Shira Levine
• FLAG Telecom completes another segment of its undersea fiber network for North Asia while working out its Chapter 11 restructure in the US - movements - Brief Article
• Hong Kong: The Office of Telecommunications Authority grants a one-year extension to its deadline for second-stage performance commitments - OFTA - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Busan: KT lights up the Korea-Japan Cable Network , a 2.88 Tbps subsea fiber optic cable network linking Korea and Japan, commissioned mainly to relay multimedia traffic covering the FIFA 2002 World Cup - KJCN - Asian telecoms this month
• Singapore: ISP Pacific Internet reports positive income for the first quarter - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
• Does EBITDA matter? . before you take interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortisation into account - European Line - earnings profits - Brief Article
  by Ian Scales
• Nokia IP traffic management solution - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Sybase appoints Fletcher - Telecom Career - Peter Fletcher, director - Brief Article
• Telecom's revolutionary second-hand wave - Telecom Planet - Brief Article
  by Grahame Lynch
• Hutchison, STT abandon Global Crossing deal - News Analysis - Hutchison Whampoa, ST Telemedia - Brief Article
  by Robert Clark
• The Asia-Pacific server market has flattened out, with unit sales growing only 1% in the first quarter of 2002 and revenues falling 10.6% compared with last year, Gartner Dataquest reports - movements - Brief Article
• Beijing: China Mobile begins offering its long-awaited commercial GPRS service in 240 cities across the country from 17 May - Asian telecoms this month - general packet radio service - Brief Article
• Tokyo: Moody's Investors Service downgrades the senior long-term debt ratings of NTT and its supported subsidiary, NTT Finance Japan Co., Ltd., to Aa2 from Aa1 - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• SmartAX®: your perfect choice for broadband - advertorial - Brief Article
• Alcatel unveils new OSS service packs - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Virgin Mobile names new MD - Telecom Career - Jonathan Marchbank appointed managing director - Brief Article
• Borland ASEAN head - Telecom Career - Borland Software Corp. appoints Eugene Bay director - Brief Article
• Interference - Backpage Briefing - ChevronTexaco is seeking to ban radar detectors - Brief Article
• Cleaning up our act - Inside Line - Brief Article - Column
  by Robert Clark
• C&W returns to the fray with new licenses - News Analysis - Cable and Wireless - Brief Article
  by Robert Clark
• Asia Global Crossing says it will pay the entire $148 million in interest due on its senior notes bond - movements - Brief Article
• Kendarai: Indonesian incumbent Telkom plans to install 2,655 new telephone lines in the eastern province of Southeast Sulawesi this year - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Tokyo: NTT DoCoMo will introduce new 3G phones equipped with a dual browser capable of handling both HTML and XHTML Mobile Profile1 + WAP CSS2 mark-up languages by the end of this year - Asian telecoms this month
• When packets lose their order; how layer 2 VPNs could have been the ultimate incumbent attack weapon and why they won't be - Online - virtual private networks - Brief Article
  by Joan Engebretson
• SMS platform for Wi-Fi - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Wordcom head steps down - Telecom Career - Bernie Ebbers - Brief Article
• Making OSS pay for mobile; 3G operators will be banking on differentiation and customization to stay ahead of their competition. It will be up to OSS to integrate massive volumes of 3G content, services and customer information - Telecom Corporate - Brief
  by Ian Scales
• Juniper bulks up with Unisphere buyout; the router market became slightly smaller after Juniper Networks acquired rival Unisphere Networks from Siemens for $740 million in cash and shares. The new Juniper could pose a stronger than ever challenge to the m
  by John C. Tanner
• Cable & Wireless posts a $7.37 billion loss for the fiscal year ending 31 March - movements - Brief Article
• Cyberjaya: Malaysian broadband service provider City Broadband, which is operated by Setia Haruman Technology - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Tokyo: Japan Telecom and East Japan Railway Co. expand tests of their public WLAN service to several locations in Sapporo - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Preparing for infowar: info warfare threatens all infrastructure—and public networks by their nature are highly vulnerable to terrorists or criminal hackers. How prepared is your network to resist a logic torpedo attack? - Cover Story
  by Dan Sweeney
• Complete data analysts solution for Ethernet, ATM and VoIP networks - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Wharf new T&T non-executive director - Telecom Career - Roger K.H. Luk - Brief Article
• Trend Micro Asian VP, GM - Telecom Career - Ralph Liu appointed - Brief Article

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