Telecom Asia articles from February 2001

Telecom Asia archives from February 2001

Counting the cost of the Internet.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Some problems are best solved by letting them alone. The often highly-charged dispute over the Internet bandwidth deficit afflicting the western Pacific is probably one of those. The bigger Internet powers in the Asia-Pacific have been...

WAP/i-mode challenge a fixed fight.
February 1, 2001... Last month, NTT DoCoMo finalized its $9.8 billion deal with US wireless company AT&T Wireless, of which DoCoMo now officially owns 16%. That, along with DoCoMo's additional investments around Asia and Europe over the past year, has sustained...

Hong Kong's 3G dilemma.(third generation cellular regulation)
February 1, 2001... The Hong Kong regulator is under fire yet again from the local industry over its 3G plans, this time for proposing that operators open up as much as half of their new networks to the MVNOs. Hong Kong's telecom regulator, OFTA, has run into...

Watchdog could seal Optus' fate.(Australian Competition and Consumer Commission)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... SingTel looks to have the inside running on acquiring Optus, but the final decision on the sale is more likely to be influenced by regulators than by markets. Lachlan Colquhoun reports The planned break-up of Australia's only full service...

Asian telecoms this month.(includes multiple articles)
February 1, 2001... movements * South Korean conglomerate SK Group has reserved a 1.4.5% stake in its cellular operator, SK Telecom, for a future foreign partner by selling shares from two subsidiaries, SK Global Co. and SK Corp, Signum IX, a company based in...

Speed up! Tap the full potential of booming mobile data business.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... With subscribers ever increasing and cellular penetration reaching its full potential, mobile operators must find ways to stay competitive other than merely setting aggressive tariffs. Value-added services and customized content are the key to...

Surviving the bandwidth bubble burst.(international fiber optics development)(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2001... It's the pain phase for the world's fiber barons. Nearly a million kilometers of new inter-city fiber is on the way. Yet capacity prices are dropping, major dot-com customers are failing and Wall Street doesn't want to help. If anyone...

Cache cow for online content.
February 1, 2001... Internet bottlenecks are preventing online content from living up to its full potential. A new breed of content delivery network operators are offering bottleneck bypasses with managed cache platforms, but until the IETF comes up with a Layer...

NEC's road to 3G.(Toshiyuki Takenaka)(Interview)
February 1, 2001... The telecommunications industry is focused squarely on Tokyo and the imminent launch of the world's first 3G network by NTT DoCoMo in May. IMT-2000 will offer more bandwidth, richer user experiences, and bring in a new range of services...

Dotsex education.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Like it or not, sex does sell, in real life and on the virtual landscape of the Internet. You can see it in the smiles of glamour models hawking lipstick, or those virtual hosts that have now become a part of MTV's regular programming. ...

PREMIERE.(high-density packet processor for broadband networks from Mitel Semiconductor)
February 1, 2001... High-density packet processor for broadband networks Mitel Semiconductor has announced the availability of what it says is the world's highest density SAR (segmentation and re-assembly) device. The MT90502 AAL2 SAR device, which...

Women seek their place in telecoms industry.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2001... For years, the telecommunications industry has traditionally been a male dominated engineering-driven sector. But the scenario is set to drastically change, with more female talent entering into the industry. The worldwide telecom boom...

TELECOM CAREER-PEOPLE.(includes multiple articles)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Pacific Internet appoints GM for Singapore Pacific Internet has promoted Ong Teck-guan to general manager of its Singapore operations. In his new role, Ong will develop and implement medium and long-term business plans. He will also head...

BT ponders Asian bail-out.(British Telecommunications PLC)
February 1, 2001... BT's plans to piece together a pan-Asian cellular operation through a string of minority investments are in tatters as the parent company struggles with a mountain of debt. Fortunes change quickly. A year ago, BT was riding high on the...

Electronic tobacco.(cell phones)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... The American telecommunications industry continually generates torrents of claims, mis-information, unsubstantiated projections and hyperbole. But while much of this is relatively harmless, it is no laughing matter when it comes to issues of...

BRACK PAGE BRIEFING.(world's telecoms industry)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... What the world's telecoms industry is saying Dotbomb: The US dotcom sector lost investors $1.5 billion in December 2000 alone, according to market researcher Webmergers.com. Altogether 210 Internet companies folded during 2000, the company...