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Articles in June, 2004 issue of Telecom Asia

• NTT DoCoMo CEO
• Elcoteq Asia president
• ADSL growth puts strain on Telstra's network
  by Lachlan Colquhoun
• China Unicom orders 500,000 GSM/CDMA dual-band handsets
• NTT DoCoMo is partnering with satellite television company SKY Perfect Communications
• Datacraft Asia reports a second-quarter net profit of $158,000 for the three months ended March 31
• PanAmSat posts a quarterly net loss of $31.9m attributed to a hefty charge
• Tellabs® 8800 series of intelligent multi-service routers: a cost-effective migration to IP/MPLS services
• 900-MHz modems and Ethernet bridges
• LG Telecom plans to spend 500b won
• Telkom increases its stake in Pasifik Satelit Nusantara
• ND SatCom CFO
• Broadband market to double in 12 months
• The new-generation switch—C&C08 EV
• Ningbo Bird and Siemens agree to form a venture to develop and market mobile phones
• Optus chief executive Chris Anderson will step down at the end of the August after seven years in the job
• Ericsson's CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg says the company will maintain its profitability
• Siemens wins $243m 3G infrastructure contract
• IP-based video telephony solution
• Optus CEO to step down
• Billing
• Shin Sat posts a 46% decline in first-quarter net profit to $4.8m
• Sony Ericsson president
• Rent
• PCCW and Netcom generate debate in equity talk shocker
  by John C. Tanner
• Hutchison Whampoa signs a deal to buy three million 3G handsets
• NTT posts a record high of $5.6b net profit for fiscal 2003/2004 but forecasts a sharp decline in the current year, anticipating poor performances in all its businesses
• Alcatel and TCL Communications sign a MoU to form a $119m joint venture combing their respective mobile phone business
• MCI posts a $388m loss in its first quarter after emerging from bankruptcy
• Pseudo convergence
  by Stewart Fist
• GSM/CDMA duplex amplifiers
• Web-based enterprise survey software
• PLDT sees its first-quarter net profit nearly double
• EMC Asia-Pac human resources director
• Bluetooth gains momentum in automotive
• Information Industry minister Wang Xudong says that China will not rush to pre-maturely issue 3G licenses, as network testing is still ongoing
• SK Telecom may postpone the launch of satellite-based mobile television until September from the original schedule of July 1
• BPL Mobile will invest 10b rupees over the next year to expand its network and launch new services
• Cisco Systems reports a 23% jump in quarterly profit
• Fixed minutes go mobile—but don't cut the cord: while fixed-mobile substitution may be picking up steam in select markets in Europe, Asian users aren't giving up their wired lines just yet. Wireline carriers, however, have no room for complacency as
  by Joseph Waring
• 802.16 wireless broadband system
• Crime
• Vietnam: running to stand still
• Nwt Vp
• Allied Telesyn India manager
• How the west spies on Asian telecoms
• OFTA cuts by 29%
• Vodafone will test FLASH-OFDM gear
• Vodafone expands its European 3G footprint
• BT and Hewlett Packard sign a $1.5b deal under which BT will manage HP's voice and data networks and call centers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, while HP will manage BT's IT in the UK
• Riding the Indian tiger: the good times are rolling for Bharti Tele-Ventures, crossing a billion in sales for the first time and signing an IT outsourcing deal. Joint managing director Akhil Gupta even thinks the playing field has been leveled, but the un
  by Robert Clark
• AISG-compliant product suite
• Indian GSM operators report a 30% rise in revenue to $1.86b for fiscal year 2003/04 ended March 2004, according to the Cellular Operators Association of India
• Maxis Communications withdraws from the bidding
• Stratus telecoms sales VP
• China emerges as visual communications power
• Wireless local loop: fact & fiction
  by Tooraj Forughian
• South Korea will invest $2b in the IT sector over five years, and plans to almost double IT production by $347b from $181b
• Telecom New Zealand's quarter net profit rises nearly 12% to $139m
• Nortel Networks fires its CEO and president Frank Dunn with "cause", and replaces him with William Owens, a former vice chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, who has been a Nortel director since 2002
• Nortel Networks and Polycom team up
• Compact ADSL splitter board
• BT's India country manager
• Bashundhara Group will invest $200m
• RAD sales manager
• Bailing from the WiMax hype train
  by John C. Tanner
• Asia telecom transactions index
• Sunday Communications and Huawei Technologies finalize the $859m 3G deal
• KDDI plans to integrate digital television technology
• UK Broadband, the British unit under PCCW, rolls out its Wi-Fi broadband service with a soft-launch in West London, with initial trials for about 300,000 homes
• Qwest suffers a first quarter loss of $310m compared to a profit of $152m in the same period last year
• Low-capacity voice trunking gateway
• Multiservice security router
• VSAT remote gateway
• In search of [network] excellence: a 12-country survey finds Asia cellular users are more demanding than ever of their mobile operator, with more than 25% thinking about changing networks for more competitive prices and better coverage
  by Joseph Waring
• Flarion Asia-Pacific GM
• Improved market for VOD over DSL
• China agrees to delay indefinitely the implementation of WAPI, its homegrown wireless networking encryption technology, putting an end to a contentious dispute between US and China, which US officials have suggested might be taken to the WTO
• Softbank posts a record full-year net loss of 107.09b yen compared with a loss of nearly 100 billion yen a year earlier
• SingTel posts a sixfold rise in quarterly net profits

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