Telecom Asia articles from March 2001

Telecom Asia archives from March 2001

Two faces of Japan.
March 1, 2001... Telecom-wise, Japan, the word's second-biggest market, is two countries. On the one side we have NTT DoCoMo, i-mode and the coming launch of 3G. On the other is monopolistic NTT, unfair competition and the slow rollout of broadband. NTT...

Your turn to choose Asia's best.
March 1, 2001... This month marks the start of voting for the fourth Telecom Asia Readers' Choice Awards. Once again you have the chance to take part in the region's most prestigious industry awards in 14 categories and win one of four Handspring Visor Deluxe...

Send in the hackers.
March 1, 2001... With the Internet being The Future of Communications etc everyone from ISPs, CDSPs, ASPs and all other kinds of SPs are looking for new types of services to offer customers, especially as fixed line broadband access and 2.5/3G networks continue...

Bursting with bandwidth.
March 1, 2001... Fewer then three in every 100 Indians have a phone, but that's not stopping a raft of companies planning to string multi-terabit cables across the country and offshore. The bottlenecks are in the last mile and in the incumbent-dominated...

Tycoon's power ploy.
March 1, 2001... The spotlight is on Thailand's new prime minister, Shin Corp. chief Thaksin Shinawatra, over his extensive telecom and media holdings. So far the tycoon has given no assurances, reports Jaruwan Ngamman from Bangkok Conflicts of interest?...

Tackling Thaksin.
March 1, 2001... Can the Thai telecom industry expect a level playing field under the new Thaksin government? Telecom Asia's Jaruwan Ngamman spoke to Dr Anupap Tiralap, the Director of Mahidol University's Telecommunications Management Program Telecom...

When the cable breaks, money flows.
March 1, 2001... The break in the China-US submarine cable system taught the industry some valuable lessons about the vulnerability of connectivity in Asia. The Internet ground to a standstill in much of the Greater China region on 9 February due to an...

A hard sell.
March 1, 2001... Governments around the region have run into trouble trying to sell down their stakes in telcos. 2001 is shaping as a difficult year for telecoms privatisations in the Asia Pacific. Already, two major share sales of Asian telcos have run...

Interconnect delay stalls Taiwan fixed line competition.
March 1, 2001... A year after winning license bids, Taiwan's three new fixed network players are ready to roll-out their services. Thanks to Chunghwa's stalling tactics over interconnection, they must cool their heels further. Faith Hung reports from Taipei ...

Asian telecoms this month.
March 1, 2001... movements * Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa confirmed plans to bid for fixed telephony licenses from the Indian government by teaming up with local partners. Hutchison already operates four cellular networks with partners in major...

CLOSING THE DIVIDE.
March 1, 2001... Digital divide or digital opportunity? The best approach to closing the divide could be to treat the unwired as potential customers. But while some say clean water and basic healthcare are more important, others claim communications is...

Testing times for Bluetooth.
March 1, 2001... Bluetooth 1.0 has been out since 2Q99, but only 20 products from the Bluetooth SIG's 2,100-plus membership have seen the light of day so far. Holding up the deluge is the fact that Bluetooth offers some tricky test challenges For over two...

Raising the banner for online ads.
March 1, 2001... The decline of the dotcoms is just the latest blow for the struggling Web advertising sector -- yet advocates say Asia's online ad sector is primed for growth. One effect of the downturn in Internet stocks has been the much weaker revenues...

Asian quest.
March 1, 2001... If there weren't enough international bandwidth providers already, US Qwest is the latest to hang up its shingle in the region, taking aim at IP and data services markets. But, as Qwest president international Ross Lau tells Robert Clark, the...

The wait for e-commerce.
March 1, 2001... Last month, I attended a media round table in Hong Kong with the Asia Pacific head of the optical networking division of one of the world's biggest communications equipment vendors. While the subject of transporting bits over light beams...

PREMIERE.
March 1, 2001... The industry's latest products and services Redback expands optical presence with SmartEdge 100 Utilizing Redback Networks' core multi-service architecture and ASIC technology, SmartEdge 100 offers service providers a multi-service...

Tech students unfazed by downturn.
March 1, 2001... The dotcom meltdown isn't putting off students from IT and engineering courses. Experts point out technical skills are still heavily in demand The dotcom meltdown has brought the Internet job boom to a shuddering halt, with Internet...

TELECOM CAREER.
March 1, 2001... AdSociety appoints two new directors Online advertising company AdSociety has appointed Patrick Chiu director of m-advertising and Samantha Chan director of corporate communication. Chiu's responsibilities include the formation of...

Siemens looks for winning combination.
March 1, 2001... With the dawn of third generation mobile services, German juggernaut Siemens is counting an the breadth of its expertise in both new technologies and traditional industries. Like every company in the telecommunications sector, Germany's...

BRACKPAGE BRIEFING.
March 1, 2001... What the world's telecoms industry is saying ANALYSE THIS: "Well, you might say that they provide protection, kind of like a mobster. If you don't pay them a retainer they might disparage you in their reports, or worse, fail to include you...