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Articles in August, 2003 issue of Telecom Asia

• Keeping the US safe from competition - Inside Line - Singapore Technologies Telemedia investment in Global Crossing
  by Robert Clark
• Integration the key to enterprise IM - Insight - Brief Article
• Hanoi: Saigon Postel launches Vietnam's first cdma2000 1x network - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Manila: Smart Communications and ITXC signs an agreement for the bilateral exchange - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Intel signs an agreement to implement its chips into 802.16a gear made by Israel's Alvarion for next-generation wireless MANs, targeting rural and developing markets - movements - investments in IPone and Ocamar - Brief Article
• Nokia Networks senior VP - Telecom Career - promotion of Simon Beresford-Wylie - Brief Article
• Pandatel product chief - Telecom Career - appointment of Juergen Schroeder - Brief Article
• Equant unveils managed intrusion detection service - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Blow-out Down Under - News Analysis - third-tier telecom failures in Australia
  by Lachlan Colquhoun
• Bangkok: AIS bondholders approve a plan to raise the company's dividend limit - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Seoul: KT Corp lowers call charges from fixed-line to mobiles by an average of 5.2% - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• A US court gives the go-ahead for 3Com to participate in a lawsuit - movements - Cisco and Huawei Technologies Company Ltd - Brief Article
• Rapid service deployment with ZTE softswitch - Advertorial
• Ericsson global services head - Telecom Career - appointment of Hans Vestberg - Brief Article
• W-CDMA handset with digital TV - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Security - Backpage Briefing - Brief Article
• WLAN shipments - Insight - leading sales were Buffalo/Melco, Cisco, Samsung and Garner's John Calvert - Brief Article
• New Delhi: MTNL is bidding for license in Mauritius - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Canberra: the Australian government unveils legislation to privatize the remaining 50.1% of Telstra - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Deutsche Telekom reveals it is keen to sell its share of Globe Telecom - movements - Brief Article
• AT&T names Asia Pacific VP - Telecom Career - Steve Lowe appointed to AT and T Business Asia Pacific - Brief Article
• Intelsat taps GlobeCast pair - Telecom Career - appointments of Doug Triblehorn and Jean-Philippe Gillet - Brief Article
• VSNL and AT&T offer managed MPLS-based data services - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Indonesia ends speculation over joint operators: flashbacks, updates and nostalgia: Telecom Asia, August 1995 - Resend
• Hong Kong: Hutchison will launch its 3G mobile service in August, two months behind its previously stated timetable - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Seoul: SK Telecom will invest 221.2 billion won to expand its handling capacity and coverage area - $186.9 million - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• As Telefonica Moviles begins selling its i-mode service in Spain - movements - Brief Article
• A place in the SAN: storage protocols vie for life after fiber channel: new protocols like GFP can help carriers make their Sonet/SDH systems SAN-friendly, but emerging IP-based alternatives could tempt carriers to accelerate their DWDM plans instead - Ba
  by John C. Tanner
• GSA India Chapter chairman - Telecom Career - Sanjay Bhasin - Brief Article
• Interop/co-existence tests for UMTS FDD/TDD - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Quantum - Backpage Briefing - Brief Article
• The few, the proud, the EDGE adopters - Tanner
  by John C. Tanner
• Mobile data pricing - Insight - GPRS pricing - Brief Article
• Islamabad: Pakistan plans to offer free computer software to filter Internet Web sites for pornographic material deemed unethical in nation - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Singapore: SingTel and StarHub are headed for the courts in a dispute over the terms of the challenger's lease of SingTel's access network - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Sharp and Texas Instruments agree to jointly davelop components and software for cameraphones - movements - Brief Article
• Acting OFTA chief - Telecom Career - Anthony Wong Sik-kei leaves the Office of the Telecommunications Authority for the Innovation and Technology Commission - Brief Article
• Infonet's first CTO - Telecom Career - appointment of Paul Hibbert - Brief Article
• Where the growth is: today's telecom landscape may be tough, but look close and you'll find a number of opportunities that are beginning to take root. This analysis looks at six US market segments posting growth of at least 30% per year - Telecom Corporat
  by Joan Engebretson
• Fubon in driver's seat at Taiwan Cellular - News Analysis - Fubon Financial Holdings
  by Robert K. Carter
• Hong Kong: China Unicom is reportedly looking for a syndicated issue of at least $700 million, with the aim of acquiring more networks from its parent - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Seoul: Hanaro Talecom fends off a takeover bid from the American International Group by approving a $423 million share issue - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Hutchison Whampoa CFO Frank Stixt insists there was no need to write down its 3 UK investment, as its partners have done, despite it is under pressure from analysts to do so - movements - Brief Article
• Working within their capacities - Forum: Asian bandwidth - Panel Discussion
  by Robert Clark
• Ciena's China head - Telecom Career - Zhou Jianhui - Brief Article
• 3G drive-test system - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Unequal - Backpage Briefing - Brief Article
• Outsourcing going mainstream - Insight - Brief Article
• Bangkok: the Communications Authority of Thailand delays its IPO - CAT - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Tokyo: the Telecommunications Ministry says in its annual telecommunications white paper - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Sony Ericsson will cease making CDMA handsets for the North American market, and shed 500 jobs in ah attempt to swing into profit - movements - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB - Brief Article
• HK mergers law emerges - Telecom Forum
  by Michael Reede
• Corporate market VP - Telecom Career - New World Telecommunications appoints William Kwan - Brief Article
• Access concentrator for cellular backhaul - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Growth in Japanese 3G - Insight - Brief Article
• Bangkok: United Communication Industry withdraws its $739 million bid to build a CDMA network - UCOM - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Tokyo: Debt-laden KDDI sells its 1.24% stake in SingTel for S$344.3 million - $198.9 million - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• European, American and Australian legislators are drafting laws that would criminalize the delivery of spam - movements - Brief Article
• With a little help from its partners: an active partnering strategy has helped Juniper Networks weather the worst of the telecoms capex winter, most recently seen in a tie-up with Lucent. "It's really important that companies understand how to partner wel
  by John C. Tanner
• 3Com worldwide sales EVP - Telecom Career - appointment of Nick Ganio - Brief Article
• Secure visitor management solution - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Small print - Backpage Briefing - Brief Article
• Inmarsat warms up for broadband - First Mile
  by John C. Tanner
• Beijing: the State Council appoints MII chief Wang Xudong as director of the State Council Informatisation Office - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Jakarta: Telkom appoints PricewaterhouseCoopers to re-audit its 2002 financial results - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• A US court approves WorldCom's $750 million fine to settle fraud charges in its record-setting $11 billion accounting scandal - movements - Brief Article
• Gilat Satellite Networks is cutting its workforce - movements - Brief Article
• AAPT chief executive - Telecom Career - Brief Article
• Juniper upgrades China role - Telecom Career - Eric Yu of Juniper Networks - Brief Article
• Slowing down for the market - Telecom Planet
  by Grahame Lynch
• GPRS still playing catch-up - Stat Snap - Brief Article
• Hong Kong: PCCW issues a $500 million ten-year bond, its second debt issue of the year - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• Islamabad: Pakistan approves a long-awaited deregulation scheme allowing private investment in the fixed-line sector - News Map: Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
• US Commerce Secretary Donald Evans is promising a decision soon on the ST Telamedia bid for Global Crossing - movements - Brief Article
• Getting to the outsource: by contracting out its network ops, a carrier is tied in with a vendor partner who is going to cut costs while it delivers a next-gen network. Or is it limiting its future to a single supplier with its own agenda? The industry ou
  by Robert Clark
• Sprint MD for Japan and Korea - Telecom Career - Kei Furuta - Brief Article
• W-CDMA-compatible MMS solutions - Premiere - Brief Article
  by Fiona Chau
• Retiring - Backpage Briefing - Brief Article