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Articles in Sept, 2004 issue of Telecom Asia

• Untapped SME channel
• Lucent Technologies raises its outlook for the rest of the year after the company posts a net profit for the fourth consecutive quarter
• 48-port Gigabit Ethernet switch
  by Fiona Chau
• Juniper Networks worldwide channels VP
• The FCC proposes a rule that will allow law enforcement agents wiretap VoIP calls
• Waiting for the VoIP volcano to disrupt
  by Robert Clark
• The Ministry of Information and Communication cuts the monthly charges for Korea's mobile operators by 7.8%, effective from this month
• Broadband in the Home: new age in Digital Home Networking
• REDtone Telecommunication Pakistan, a unit under Redtone International, Malaysia's biggest discounted call service provider, receives a long distance and international license to offer domestic long-distance and international voice telephony, as well as d
• Comarco debuts Wi-Fi analyzer
  by Fiona Chau
• Nwt Coo
• Survival
• Telstra reports a 20% jump in net profit to a record A$4.12b , driven by cost cutting that offset weak soles growth
• Focus shifts to core strengths
  by J. Burrows
• Robust infrastructure growth
• Ericsson posts Q2 earnings of $706m, reversing a year-ago loss of $359m
• TCNZ adds new board member
• EMC Software VP
• Optical Illusions: the state and prospects of the all-optical network
• AT&T exits residential local and long-distance sectors as it shifts its focus to business services and emerging technologies such as VoIP
• Internet trading and routing platform
  by Fiona Chau
• Nokia Connect GSM Solution
• Dual-mode: a long time in coming
  by Masrizal Mokhtar
• Saudi Arabia awards a mobile license to Etisalat Telecommunications
• Low-cost GigE switch for small business
  by Fiona Chau
• Orient Networks appoints CFO
• Policy
• State-owned BSNL places advance purchase orders with Nortel for the eastern southern region, and Nokia for the northern region for its mobile network expansion
• 21st century man: BT is the latest old-school global carrier to reinvent itself for the age of convergence. BT Group chief technology officer Matthew Bross, who is overseeing the carrier's radical transformation from stovepiped services and disparate netw
  by John C. Tanner
• The Finance Ministry will allocate $4.9m in funds from the 2004 state budget to develop rural telecommunication services under a universal service obligation scheme
• Narrowing mobile premium fuels FMS
• Nokia sees its shares drop sharply after it reports a drop in sales and core earnings and warns its profit will suffer for the rest of the year
• Telstra chairman
• Wavecom CEO
• A wireless industry group called WWiSE —which includes Texas Instruments, Broadcom and Conexant—submits suggestions to the IEEE 802.11n task group for the new WEAN standard, which will offer significantly faster WEAN network speeds
• Crime
• Multistream business planning—the platform for success
• Hanaro moves to firm footing
• AT&T wins a $14m, three-year contract to connect worldwide outposts of the New Zealand Government's Trade, Foreign Affairs and Labor departments
• Videoconferencing solutions for systems integrators
  by Fiona Chau
• New management team of New World TMT
• Litigation
• Telecom Corp of New Zealand reports a 6.3% increase in its net profit for its fiscal year ending June 30
• Web services on the event horizon: Web services are set to evolve from a service-oriented architecture to real-time event-driven architecture , but EDAs are more likely to complement SOAs than replace them—once they're standardized
  by Fiona Chau
• UDSL chip offers HDTV over copper
  by Al Senia
• Taiwan's cellcos seek compensation from Chunghwa for unbilled resale calls
  by Robert K. Carter
• Motorola records a net loss of $203m in the second quarter due to the partial spin-off of its chip unit, but sales increased 41% to $8.7b
• Reach taps north Asia director
• F5 business development manager
• Paknet, a subsidiary of Pakistan Telecommunication Company launches a DSL service which is initially available in Islamabad
• Cisco Systems posts a 41% increase in fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on a 26% increase in revenue, its strongest sales increase since the tech downturn
• Taxing times for telecoms: new taxes are politically tricky—President Arroyo's SMS tax proposal received such a resounding backlash that it looks doubtful that the government will ever approve it
  by John C. Tanner
• The unwired continent: Asia's wireless revolution is spreading to the countryside, supplanting wireline and putting phones into the hands of new customers. The next step: low-cost Net appliances
  by Robert Clark
• Asia's Internet traffic gets heavy
• The Ministry of Information Industry will announce the results of the ongoing 3G trials at a conference in early November
• Cheap bandwidth, no vision
  by Stewart Fist
• PCCW Skyhorse CEO
• RFI's global marketing manager
• The Taiwan Institute of Economic Research forecasts that local fixed-line and mobile carriers will see their 2004 business revenues grow
• Phones to Tibet
  by Robert Clark
• Don't miss ZTE at ITU Telecom Asia
• VPLS: trouble waiting to happen: VPLS is generating buzz as a free alternative to IP-VPN, but with no standard, few deployments and barriers in the metro, it won't be putting IP-VPN or frame relay out of business any time soon
  by Dan Sweeney
• Cable model rates approach DSL level
• Cable & Wireless plans to invest $7m to $10m in an Indian telecom carrier in the next 12 months via its 100% subsidiary Cable & Wireless India
• Converged mobility solutions
  by Fiona Chau
• Polycom taps marketing chief
• Email
• The governments of Korea, Japan and China agree to start an international working group to share their advancements in information technology
• Supporting the bundled package: to offer personalized bundled services with a single bill, operators are finding they need to integrate their front-office and back-office systems to create a single, unified view of the customer
  by Raghu Prasad
• Txt Power, a consumer group in the Philippines, plans to lead the first cyber-protest
• Broadband/traffic growth on international routes
• OFTA issues an industry consultation paper to determine appropriate charging methodologies for 3G mobile virtual network operators and content service providers
• VoIP peering service
  by Fiona Chau
• Equant Australasia security consultant
• Networking opportunities across Asia
• Softbank posts a net loss of 17.9b yen in the April-June quarter, down 48% from a 34.7b yen loss in the same period a year earlier, helped by a 42% rise in sales as more customers signed up its ADSL services
• Island hopping with HF
  by Robert Clark
• Constructing a new generation of metropolitan optical networks