Telecom Asia articles from April 2001

Telecom Asia archives from April 2001

Singapore's conundrum.(telecommunications deregulation)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... It's time to look at deregulation, Singapore style, 12 months after the opening of the city-state's telecoms markets. How're they doing? Singapore's story is instructive about the perils and pitfalls of telecom deregulation and the...

Telecoms technology: everybody wants some.(U.S. trade policy)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Three years ago, US Republicans were in an uproar over the alleged transfer of American satellite technology to China under the Clinton administration. Since then, you may have noticed, that issue has pretty much died. Last month, however,...

US slowdown looms over Asian telecoms.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... With the US economy on the slide, US-based telecoms firms are cutting costs and jobs at home. Is the Asian telecoms sector next, or will it be the industry's port in the storm? No one is talking about a recession -- not out loud, at least....

Laos looks to new law to boost telecoms investment.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Shin Corp-backed Lao Telecom is set to lose its full service monopoly under the first Laos telecom law, due to be enacted in the middle of the year. Sweden's Telia is first in the queue to enter the market, reports Jaruwan Ngamman The Lao...

Taiwan players suit up for broadband clash.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Chunghwa Telecom and its fresh competition are gearing up for broadband battle, with over 800,000 DSL/cable modem customers expected by the end of this year. The new blood is hopeful, but Chunghwa has cash and a massive dial-up subscriber base...

Telecoms fraud under investigation in Oz.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Australian telecoms users are being ripped off by fraudsters to the tune of thousands of dollars in IDD charges a month, but telcos are refusing to be left holding the bill. Australia's Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman is...

Convergence face-off in the Philippines.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Incumbent telco PLDT and media giant Lopez Group are squaring off with next-gen subsidiaries offering bundled telecoms services from fixed lines and mobiles to CATV and high-speed access. The battle to dominate the Philippine...

Asian telecoms this month.
April 1, 2001... movements * The APCN-2 submarine fiber cable has landed in Hong Kong and Singapore. Reach, the IP backbone IV between PCCW and Telstra, who each own 6% of APCN-2's capacity, says the system is on track to be completed in September this...

Opportunities amidst the crisis.(telecom industry)
April 1, 2001... Despite the bust, top telecom talent is still hard to come by The tech crash and the global economic slowdown have sparked a rash of revised forecasts and job-cuts by major vendors and telcos. Yet the need for skilled telecoms professionals...

A simple plan: Subsea cable deployments in the modern age.
April 1, 2001... With 150 years of submarine cable history behind us, the telecoms industry has gotten undersea cable deployment down to a science -- so much so that planning the system is more work than actually building it. So how come millions of surfers can...

Peering into the future.(InterNAP's internet congestion solution)
April 1, 2001... Next-gen routers, switches, servers and set-top boxes aren't going to help end users download MP3s any faster when the Internet's peering points bog down. US-based InterNAP says it's time to bypass Net peering in favor of centrally managed...

SingTel's regional bets.(Singapore Telecom's, Lim Toon)(Interview)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... Tech crash or no, Singapore Telecom continues to invest in Asian businesses. It is building an 8.2 terabit mega-cable to India, is in a tussle with Vodafone for Cable & Wireless Optus in Australia, and is eyeing BT's regional assets. Chief...

Cashing in on next-generation service.(billing and customer relationship management issues for wireless services)
April 1, 2001... The move to 2.5G and 3G wireless services raises numerous billing and CRM issues. Operators not only have to innovate new and untested services, but also have to decide which billing scheme will strike the best balance between customer...

Those i-mode/mobile data blues.(NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc.'s wireless service)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... For the last six months of so, Dotconomy has been following the discussions on a mailing list focused on NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service (or Keitai, as the group's member like to refer to it -- Keitai being the Japanese term for mobiles). ...

ViewStation MP links Maori students across New Zealand with qualified Maori teachers.(Polycom Inc.'s new video conferencing system)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The new Polycom group video communications system, the ViewStation MP, is now being used to support a video teaching program initiated by New Zealand's Ministry of Education to link underprivileged or remotely located Maori students with...

Network management simplified.(Foundry Networks Inc.'s IronView Network Manager)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2001... Foundry Networks has released IronView Network Manager, a next generation network management platform for its enterprise, service provider and metro provider customers. In its first release, IronView will ship with a suite of Web-based...

Agere T8150 solution extends scalability for computer telephony servers and VoIP gateways.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2001... Agere Systems, formerly Lucent Microelectronics Group, says its newly released Ambassador T8150 H.100/H.110 StarFabric Bridge solution is a highly scalable, high-capacity switching chip solution for computer telephony servers, VoIP gateways,...

Aztech boosts DSL interoperability with Copper Compatible certification.(Aztech System Proprietary Ltd.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Aztech Systems said it has received a CopperCompatible certification from Copper Mountain Networks for its Ethernet-based ADSL router, the Aztech DSL Turbo Router 900E. "With the CopperCompatible certification, the DSL Turbo Router 900E is...

Agilent adds distributed test capabilities to VQT.(Agilent Technologies Inc.'s Voice Quality Tester)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2001... Agilent Technologies has added new features to its Voice Quality Tester (VQT) that simplify testing and troubleshooting for next-generation networks. The new Agilent VQT now allows network technicians and engineers to evaluate the voice...

6WIND launches IPv6 access equipment.(IP Edge Device)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2001... Telecom startup 6WIND has debuted its first product: the 6200 series IP Edge Device, a smart IP access router which combines in a single unit all the features needed to provide a new set of IP services. It includes QoS management and...

Philips OPUS optimizes 3G multimedia capabilities.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Philips Semiconductors is now offering its Optimized Philips UMTS Solution (OPUS), a system that facilitates the development of 3G chipsets, prototypes and the integration of new features. Based on Philips' Nexperia SCP (Standard...

HR outsourcing: Leave the hiring to us.
April 1, 2001... A growing number of telecoms and IT companies are outsourcing their human resource operations to outside companies to cut costs and focus on core competencies. For telcos and IT firms, the challenge ahead is not only to survive intense...

A higher stage of outsourcing.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... Telcos and other corporates have been outsourcing their support functions for some time. Now, eyes are on a Telecom New Zealand experiment as it hands over day-to-day network operations to its vendor. The world used to be this simple:...

The world's worst phone company.(Cable & Wireless)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
April 1, 2001... It is praised by financial analysts for its remarkable re-invention. It praises itself for what it claims as the world's most technologically advanced IP network. But it still makes too much of its money via neo-colonialist monopoly...

BACKPAGEBRIEFING.(telephone call from orbit )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Space: Telephony reached truly stellar proportions in the metaphorical sense last month when US astronaut Marsha Ivins made the world's first telephone call from orbit onboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Ivins placed a direct-dial phone...