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Articles in July, 2003 issue of Telecom Asia

• China Netcom's merger pains - News Analysis
  by Kaiser Kuo
• Beijing: China Netcom is set to launch the "Little Smart" - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Taipei: the Ministry of Transportation and Communications will conduct a domestic after-hours auction for shares of Chunghwa Telecom this month, as part of its latest plan to sell a 12 to 13% stake through American Depositary Receipts - ADRs - News map: A
• Hutchison Whampoa launches legal proceedings against KPN for refusing to provide a $248 million loan for their British mobile start-up, 3 UK - movements - Brief Article
• Loss-making Openwave Systems will eliminate 180 jobs, or 12% of its work force, and take a charge of $8 million to $14 million as it tries to cut costs - movements - Brief Article
• Next stop: the region: with an IPO, a major acquisition, and 35% customer growth, it was a big year for Maxis Communications. The firm is now casting its eyes around the region, CEO Dato' Jamaludin Ibrahim tells Robert Clark - Best GSM Carrier: Maxis Comm
  by Robert Clark
• Tekelec unveils IN and mediation apps - Premiere: latest products and services - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Intelsat elects new board - Telecom Career - International Telecommunications Satellite Organization - Brief Article
• WorldCom's real fraud cost $1 trillion - Telecom Planet
  by Grahame Lynch
• Microsoft telephony no cause for alarm. . Server 2003 - Tanner - Microsoft's Real-Time Messaging and Platform Group touts upcoming Office Real Time Communications RTC
  by John C. Tanner
• Replacements driving handset market - Insight: one month's telecom research - Brief Article
• Dhaka: Telecom Malaysia International Bangladesh will invest $120 million to expand its GSM network - TMIB - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Singapore: the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore declares mobile number portability a free service - IDA - MNP - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Ericsson, Huawei, NEC, Nortel Networks and Siemens have formed a new industry group, Common Public Radio Interface , aiming to develop public standards for key base station interfaces - CPRI - movements - Brief Article
• Asia's winners 2003 - Cover Story - Brief Article
• Inside the cocktail … - Awards to telecommunications-related companies - Brief Article
• Traffic management chips to boost capacity - Premiere: latest products and services - Agere Systems Inc - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• 3 Uk Coo - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Steady on for WLAN equipment growth - Stat Snap - Brief Article
  by John C. Tanner
• Short life of fiber - Insight: one month's telecom research - Brief Article
• Seoul: SK Telecom stick to its stance on the bailout of SK Global - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Two reports on WorldCom's accounting processes compiled by the bankruptcy court and the US SEC provide the first-ever documented links between the carrier's accounting shenanigans and former CEO Bernie Ebbers, with one report suggest that Ebbers at the ve
• Ericsson says it is on track to invest $500 million in research and development in China - movements - Brief Article
• Turnaround story: Chris Anderson won the Best CEO award after Optus' impressive recovery in 2002-03. The former media executive, who joined Optus seven years ago - Best Asian Telecom CEO: Chris Anderson, SingTel Optus - Interview
  by Robert Clark
• Entry-level SME Gigabit Ethernet switches - Premiere: latest products and services - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Motorola GTSS Asia Pacific marketing & technology director - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Reforming telco governance after the scandals; in the wake of the fraud, greed and excess of the late '90s, the focus in the US now is on corporate reform - Telecom Corporate
  by Joan Engebretson
• The bubble: a retrospective - Inside Line - Lessons learned in telecom industry
  by Robert Clark
• Turning point for wholesale voice - Insight: one month's telecom research - Brief Article
• Chennai: Vodafone sells its 20.76% stake in RPG Cellular to Indian mobile phone group Aircel - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Canberra: the Australian government issues a final direction requiring Telstra to publish separate accounting of its wholesale and retail operations - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Telekom Malaysia and France Telecom agree on sharing some of their Asian capacity - movements - Brief Article
• SmartAX making your broadband network SMART - Advertorial
• The changing face of interconnection: Anthony Wong the soon-to-depart Director-General of OFTA, talks to John C. Tanner about why Hong Kong has cost-based fixed-to-mobile interconnect when most markets do not - Best Regulator or Minister: OFTA, Hong Kong
  by John C. Tanner
• Data features for optical transport system - Premiere: latest products and services - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• C&W non-executive director - Telecom Career - Cable and Wireless PLC - Brief Article
• Sport: it's not exactly the UEFA Cup - Backpage Briefing - Two rival VDSL line code modulation schemes—DMT and QAM—are tested - Brief Article
• Australia may add D-AMPS and CDMA to GSM palette - Re send: flashbacks, updates and nostalgia: Telecom Asia, July 1998 - Brief Article
• Beijing: the Ministry of Culture licenses ten local firms to open Internet cafe chains - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Tokyo: Softbank will launch a new DSL service with a downlink speed of up to 26 Mbps, to counter the new DSL service to be provided by rival NTT West, which offers a transmission speed of up to 24 Mbps - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• A US court ruling approves a preliminary injunction barring Huawei from using some Cisco manuals and help files as well as some code that runs Cisco routers - movements - Brief Article
• Nokia begins shipping the 6650 mobile phone - movements - Brief Article
• From EV-DO to W-CDMA: Korea's KTF won out against bigger rival SKT in the world's most advanced CDMA market to take the honors as Best CDMA Carrier. CEO Nam Joong-soo tells Belle Jung KTF's next goal is to launch W-CDMA this September - Best CDMA Carrier:
  by Belle Jung
• QAM VDSL analog front-end chip - Premiere: latest products and services - Metalink Corp - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Ex-Xerox CEO leaves Lucent board - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Apps: camera phones continue to generate buzz wherever they pop up, thanks to a combination of of novelty value, sales figures, and the apparent need in certain markets to enact laws banning their use in changing rooms and swimming pools - Backpage Briefi
• Deutsche departs Celcom to complete Malaysian shakeout - News Analysis
  by Lachlan Colquhoun
• Bangkok: Shin Satellite says the Indian government has agreed to extend leases on seven transponders - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Canberra: the Australian government rejects a proposal by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission - ACCC - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• NTT DoCoMo clinches a strategic partnership with Italian Cellco Wind - movements - Brief Article
• Three Swedes of Iranian origin have been sentenced to jail terms of up to eight years for selling secrets stolen from Ericsson - movements - Brief Article
• Intelsat's new groove: Ramu Potarazu, president and COO of Intelsat, tells global technology editor John C. Tanner about Intelsat's new triple-play focus on data/Internet, media/entertainment and government customers - Best Satellite Carrier: Intelsat - I
  by John C. Tanner
• TDM-based modular CWDM system - Premiere: latest products and services - Pandatel AG - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Acterna India sales head - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi's reputation as a secure technology - Backpage Briefing - Brief Article
• Wi-Fi roaming made easier - First Mile
  by John C. Tanner
• Softswitching for cellular - Insight: one month's telecom research - Brief Article
• New Delhi: Reliance Infocomm chairman Mukesh Ambani says the company's limited mobility wireless service is logging usage - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Singapore: SingTel chairman Ang Kong Hua admits buying 235,000 shares in rival M1, but denies conflict of interest - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Alcatel will join a joint venture formed by satellite operators SES Global and Gilat a year after it first expressed interest - movements - Brief Article
• Regional strategy comes up trumps: SingTel's success in winning this year's Telecom Asia Awards is a direct result of its offshore expansion strategy, with more than 60% of revenue and EBIT derived outside Singapore. CFO Chua Sock Koong speaks to group ed
  by Robert Clark
• NetScreen and Trend Micro expand partnership - Premiere: latest products and services - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Far EasTone business & marketing VP - Telecom Career - Far EasTone Telecommunications Company Ltd - Brief Article
• Star TV COO joins Hugles - Telecom Career - Bruce Churchill, president and COO of News Corp's Star Group, will leave the company - Brief Article
• Cutting costs and increasing revenues in the metro network - Advertorial
  by Ruth Blumhouse
• Making money from lower back-end costs - Insight: one month's telecom research - Brief Article
• Kuala Lumpur: Maxis plans to spend 1.3 billion ringgit on networks and news services this year to regain its recently lost market leadership - $342 million - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Singapore: M1 is working with LogicaCMG to deliver audio and video streaming services for its GPRS network - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Tellabs completes its $135 million acquisition of multi-service edge switch vendor Vivace Networks - movements - Brief Article
• How the judging was done - Judging of the Telecom Asia Awards took place in two stages; financial performance is awarded
  by John C. Tanner
• New 802.11a/b/g chipsets for access points, gateways and routers - Premiere: latest products and services - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Richard Li relinquishes CEO role - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Portal Software Asian VP - Telecom Career - Hires David Yuen as vice president and general manager - Brief Article
• Limited mobility war opens up fresh front in Indonesia - News Analysis
  by Mersagita Prabudi
• Hong Kong: CSL says it will launch its 3G service in early 2004 - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Tokyo: KDDI connects its VoIp network with that of Japan Telecom and PoweredCom - News map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• The US SEC issues so-called Wells notices to two former executive of Lucent Technologies - movements - United States. Securities and Exchange Commission - Brief Article
• Nokia says handset sales in the Asia-Pacific region fell 20% to 30% during outbreaks of SARS - movements - Brief Article
• Solution to the saturation problem: while most countries are pushing to make mass broadband deployments, Korea is already a saturated market. Yoon Jong-Lok, executive vice president of KT's marketing group, tells Robert Clark that solutions are the soluti
  by Robert Clark
• Air-dielectric coaxial cable - Premiere: latest products and services - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau

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