Telecom Asia articles from May 2001

Telecom Asia archives from May 2001

Reasons to be cheerful.(3rd generation communications equipment)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... In case you've been on a very, very long holiday, the tepid reception given 3G spectrum sell-offs in Australia and Singapore in the last month will come as no surprise. Both governments both fell well short of their targets, Australia by more...

Why Johnny can't roam.(innovations)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The first time I heard of the concept of "anytime, anywhere" mobile communications was 1993, when a fellow telecoms grad student chose it for a thesis topic. "One day," he advised me, "all you'll need is a mobile handset and a single, personal...

Hare turns tortoise as PCCW loses sight of glory days.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... What set out to become the world's largest Internet broadband provider ends up as a lumbering local telephone colossus. Yet, that might be more than what a paper company called Pacific Century CyberWorks could ever hope for. The...

Pay TV operators won't pay the price.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Pay TV providers are walking away from Hong Kong, saying the market is too well-serviced. Two of the three that remain will bundle Internet access with their TV content. For a city known for its brash display of wealth and rapid technology...

Third time lucky for SingTel.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... To no-one's surprise, Singapore Telecom last month completed its takeover of Australia's number two carrier, Cable & Wireless Optus. SingTel has made no secret of its desire to expand its business overseas and had already attempted to buy Cable...

Troubled telcos living drama and trauma greater than fiction.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... It's been a dramatic start to the year for North American telecoms, reports Kirk Laughlin from Los Angeles The first act of Telecom `01 has packed in all the drama of a heart-stopping thriller. In theater that equals the best of Broadway, a...

Asian telecoms this month.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... movements * Cisco Systems' third quarter revenues come in at around 30% below market expectations. Cisco also announces it will axe 8,500 jobs -- about 17% of its workforce. * Nortel Networks, Ericsson and Nokia add another 8,700 jobs...

C&C08 iNET-The [R]evolution towards NGN.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Evolution continuously produces new solutions to changing environmental conditions. Based on existing, applied and working systems, new and better systems of life have developed. Every evolution includes constant revolution, otherwise evolution...

REGIONAL CARRIER REPORT Dialing Asia.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The great Asian telco shakeout is underway. After years of tentative moves, Asia's telco giants have started to restructure and redefine themselves and their markets. On one side we have the incumbents, the traditional leaders such as Pacific...

Managing the broadband service boom.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Subscriber management platforms are promising to help incumbent LECS and cable operators beef up their broadband service portfolios considerably -- and also turn the spectre of opening their access loops to competitors to their advantage ...

A B2B place to play.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Data centers aren't just about hosting Web content and ASPs. They are potentially full-fledged platforms for B2B e-commerce -- and both partner and rival to telcos. John Savageau, chief technology officer of pan-Asian IDC start-up Pihana,...

The other side of the Internet.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... In the past month, dotconomy has seen a very different face of the Internet. While in Montreal, Canada, visiting my family, I had the immense pleasure of introducing my mother to the Internet by setting up her own Web-based email address. ...

Crypto: How The Code Rebels Beat the Government -- Saving Privacy in the Digital Age.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Crypto: How The Code Rebels Beat the Government -- Saving Privacy in the Digital Age Steven Levy Viking Penguin (356 p.) Dotcom debacles aside, there is still no shortage of analyst reports claiming great expectations for fledgling...

Telecommunications Regulation Handbook.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Telecommunications Regulation Handbook Hank Intven (ed.) The World Bank, November 2000 Even or especially, in this age of liberalization, telecoms is one of the world's most closely-regulated industries. Certainly, regulation is a growth...

DSL chipset delivers product design platform.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Virata Corporation says its Aluminum 200 DSL chipset is the industry's most complete G.shdsl technology platform enabling the design of symmetric DSL CPE products for the high-volume enterprise and SOHO markets. The newest member of...

Service alliance strengthens email security.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Yui Kee Computing, a Hong Kong-based data security and anti-virus consultancy, and Message Labs, a managed service provider, have announced a new security service alliance to co-brand Message Labs' Internet-based content-filtering portfolio of...

Hybrid switch-router cuts operating costs.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Marconi has unveiled the prototype BXR-48000 hybrid switch-router for service providers to migrate their legacy and emerging IP services onto one common, multi-protocol backbone. This helps service providers save 50%-70% of their operating...

World's first CAMEL Phase 2-based prepaid roaming.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Ericsson has announced the availability of its prepaid system, which it says is the world's first of its kind that enable seamless roaming for prepaid subscribers. The system is based on Customized Applications for Mobile Enhanced Logic...

Unified messaging features for wireless service providers.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Unified messaging developer Tornado Development has announced the availability of a new suite of features for its Tornado Messenger unified messaging (UM) engine, including WAP and PDA enabled messaging capabilities and a video mail feature....

Enhanced broadband wireless access solution.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Netro Corporation, a global provider of broadband wireless access solutions, has released the latest version of its Airstar solution. Airstar Release 2.3 features an assortment of hardware and software enhancements designed to enable Netro...

Wideband antenna for full 3G-frequency band operation.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Andrew Corporation has introduced the versatile PerforMax dual-polarized base station antenna in Asia Pacific. Offering continuous coverage for GSM 1800, DCS 1900 and 3G UMTS frequency bands as well as wireless local loop worldwide, the...

Asian corporates seek hired guns.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... In these days of economic uncertainty, Asian companies and job hunters alike are trading in permanent offers for part-time, temporary or contract and project-based work. A decade ago, the 9-to-5 workday might have been the ideal job for...

TELECOM CAREER.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Former Peoples CEO deputy chair of GSM Association Jim Pratt, the managing director responsible for Telstra Corporation's international wireless operations, has been elected deputy chairman of the GSM Association for the year 2001/2002. ...

The future of VoIP.(Statistical Data Included)(Interview)
May 1, 2001... Sending voice traffic as data packets over the Internet is clearly marked as the future of voice communications. With a new Asian head office in Hong Kong, Ofer Gneezy, CEO of iBasis, one of the first global VoIP carriers in the world, talks to...

CommunicAsia 2001 now a record breaker as showtime looms.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Asia's biggest international communications and information technology exhibition and conference just keeps geting bigger. CommunicAsia 2001, to be held from 19-22 June at the Singapore Expo, is set to break a new record in both numbers of...

The death of US local competition.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Remember all those blue-sky promises about exponential increases in broad-band demand? About the Internet doubling every 90 days? About abundant and plentiful bandwidth? Well, I've seen the future in the California of April 2001 and it's...

BACKPAGE BRIEFING.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... What the world's telecoms industry is saying Denial: Having dropped $886 million last year, Pacific Century CyberWorks is understandably on the defensive these days -- particularly against media speculation that its alliance with Telstra is...