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Articles in June, 2008 issue of Telecom Asia

• Videoconferencing in Apac makes a comeback
• Phone locks are so over
  by John C. Tanner
• Need more value? Just add video
  by John C. Tanner
• Ticketing goes mobile
• RIM, HTC bet on HSPA
  by Fiona Chau
• Operators scramble for 'the next billion'
• Apac leads mobile payment market boom
• Linux takes the spotlight
• Optus' window on the iPhone
  by Lachlan Colquhoun
• The State Administration of Radio, Film & Television begins commercials trials on mobile TV based on the China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting standard in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen
• Hutchison Telecommunications International reports a net profit in the first quarter on good operating performance in Israel and the continuing strength of the Israeli shekel against the Hong Kong dollar
• PCCW is removed from the Hang Seng Index
• Shin Corp swings to net profit for the first quarter, boosted by higher earnings from its mobile phone and satellite subsidiaries
• CAT Telecom says it is willing to buy the 42% holding of TOT in Thai Mobile for 2.4b baht in order to jump-start 3G services
• Telekom Malaysia may increase its stake in India telecommunications firm Spice Communications
• Intel's capital arm invests 50m ringgit in Malaysia's Green Packet Berhad
• PLDT sees its net profit in the first quarter rise 21% from a year ago, lifted by revenue from its mobile phone service
• Globe Telecom's net profit in the first quarter fell 4% to 3.5b pesos
• BSNL has invited bids for a contract valued at over $6.5b to supply 93m GSM lines
• Malaysia's Maxis Communications plans to invest $4b-$5b by 2009-10
• Reliance Communications and Alcatel-Lucent form a joint venture to provide managed network services catered for CDMA and GSM operators across the globe
• SK Telecom confirms it is in preliminary talks with Virgin Mobile USA about strategic opportunities for Helio
• Hanarotelecom posts revenues of 493b won for the first quarter of 2008, a 9.3% increase year-on-year and a 0.9% increase quarter-on-quarter
• Chunghwa Telecom will set up a $30m internet data joint venture with Vietnam's military run operator, Viettel, as part of its efforts to expand overseas
• The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications will urge mobile carriers to disclose their leasing fees for mobile virtual network operators
• NTT Group sees its net profit surge 32% in fiscal 2007 on booming long distance and international communications business
• New Zealand Telecom reports that its March quarter net profit fell 28% to NZ$140m , compared with NZ$195m a year ago
• The Singapore government will call for S$1.14b in new infocomm tenders this financial year
• SingTel's January-March quarter profit grew 10.5% year-on-year to S$1.1b
• StarHub records a net profit of S$80m in the first quarter, up 15% from a year earlier, with help from a rise in post-paid mobile revenue and ARPU
• SingTel, Bharti Airtel, Globe Telecom and SingTel subsidiary Optus have signed an agreement with Apple
• Bharti Airtel and SingTel plan to set up a separate company for the acquisition of South Africa's MTN Group
• Deutsche Telekom is examining a possible bid for loss-making US mobile provider Sprint Nextel
• Nortel Networks posts a bigger first-quarter loss as a series of charges weighed on results
• Sony Ericsson expects 10% industry volume growth in 2008, due largely to the low-end emerging markets
• Alcatel-Lucent posts a fifth straight quarterly loss and braced investors for a bleak 2008 future
• NEC reports a 22.68b yen profit for the fiscal year ended March 31
• Arab operator Orascom Telecom has successfully tested its network in North Korea
• Ericsson CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg predicts that by 2013 some 6.5b mobile subs and more than 2.5b broadband subs—two-thirds of them mobile—will be in service, generating massive demand for fresh network capacity
• The Greek government and representatives of Deutsche Telekom strike a deal on sharing ownership and management control of Greece's largest telecom company, OTE
• TeliaSonera, Tele2, Telenor, HI3G Access and Intel paid $346.3m for fresh nationwide frequencies in Sweden in a spectrum sale completed last month
• TomTom wins European Union approval to buy mapmaker Tele Atlas with regulators saying it was unlikely the deal would limit competition
• HP announces deal to acquire EDS
• The path to NGN: a joint private-public investment approach to nationwide, next-gen networks holds appeal, especially to smaller and emerging markets. And the radically different nature of next-gen technologies also calls for the active involvement of tel
  by Robert Clark
• Ready to exploit multi-play services: real-time convergent charging is key for operators to realize the full revenue potential of multi-play services
  by Fiona Chau
• Reconnecting the skies: the return of inflight broadband: two years after Connexion By Boeing bit the dust, inflight broadband is poised to stage a comeback. Inmarsat is leading the way in the L-band space, but Intelsat aims to bring Ku-band back in the g
  by John C. Tanner
• Opening up to outsiders: SingTel's new CEO for global markets and wholesale Sanjiv Aiyar talks to group editor Joseph Waring about the need for a mindset shift for traditional telcos and the continued pressure on margins
  by Joseph Waring
• What commoditization? Telstra is unfazed amid talks of commoditization and concerns about a looming capacity glut; the company believes differentiation still clinches the game
  by Fiona Chau
• Balancing technology and service innovation: a panel of telecom insiders debates what is core, the threats and opportunities of partnering, and the industry's glacial pace of service innovation
• IMS offers new approach for enterprise segment
  by Claduio Castelli
• Next-gen text messaging
• MI adds video to voice-mail
• Chunghwa launches 'Channel Me'
• Telstra adds directors
• CSL appoints international services head
• Telecom NZ names transformation chief
• Digi taps marketing head
• New exec at AT&T
• UlStarcom hires regional VP
• Linktone taps COO, CFO
• Tandberg Television appoints VP
• Intelsat names new chair
• Motorola HK names GM
• Alcatel-Lucent hires new exec
• RFS gets marketing VP
• Appointment at Bubble Motion
• Strategy by design, not intuition
  by Joseph Waring
• Networking opportunities across Asia
• Forum to unravel IPTV success puzzle: IPTV is poised for bigger growth as operators aggressively court video subscribers and quality of experience is seen as the key to successful rollouts
  by John Janowiak
• A glimpse into the future
• Telco growth lies in the cloud
  by Robert Clark
• Telecom messaging robbery
• Just the cellphone
• Eggheads unleashed
• Golden phones
• The next-gen telco: telcos' future success will rely on how rapidly they can evolve their business models in response to the constantly changing business needs and rising customer expectations, brought by new technologies and competitors
• Solutioneering—it's a state of mind: as our industry transforms itself to create new growth and value, Nokia Siemens Networks is on a mission to put its customers in the driving seat of change. Dipankar Dasgupta, Head of Solution Sales Management, As
• Gain a unique competitive advantage in the connected world with Nokia Siemens Networks solutions