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Wireless Asia archives from August 2002
For vendors, it's not just about the kit. (Unwired).
August 1, 2002... Here's a sadly familiar tale from the vendor sector.
Ericsson, the biggest equipment maker in the most lucrative segment of the world's largest technology industry last month posted its seventh consecutive quarterly loss.
Ericsson saw...
3G results play the wild card in Malaysia's cellco shuffle: the Telekom Malaysia-TRI merger has kicked off the government's big consolidation effort to create three strong 3G players. Telekom and Maxis are now two of them, but with a third license outstanding, and Maxis and Time dotCom the only plausible merger candidates left, who will complete the triopoly? (News Analysis).
August 1, 2002... Malaysia's cellular landscape entered a state of flux last month as Telekom Malaysia effectively pulled off its dramatic takeover of Technology Resources Industries, kicking off a long-expected wave of consolidation just in time for the...
Photo messaging reignites Japan's saturated market: with the nation's wireless market approaching saturation, Japanese cellcos are now turning to photo messaging via camera-equipped phones as a new driving force to boost subscriber growth. (News Analysis).
August 1, 2002... Camera-equipped cell phones with color displays have become the newest weapon for Japanese mobile carriers in the country's maturing wireless market.
For Japan's three major carriers--NTT DoCoMo, KDDI and J-Phone--phones with built-in...
MPEG-4 licensing agreement may drive wireless video: patent holders, have agreed on a licensing scheme for MPEG-4, the open video coding standard that many believe is a key technology for wireless video content services. (News Analysis).
August 1, 2002... A licensing Impasse over MPEG-4--the open multimedia coding standard regarded by many in the wireless industry as a key technology for driving wireless video services--was resolved last month when MPEG LA, which develops and oversees MPEG...
PDA phones square off in Hong Kong. (News Analysis).(Buyers Guide)
August 1, 2002... With email being one of the most popular applications for business communication, various mobile carriers, PDA makers and handset manufactures are offering all-in-one devices that integrate personal information management capabilities with...
NTT DoCoMo says it will convert its London subsidiary into a holding company in September. (Movements).(Brief Article)
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AT&T's mobile business reports net income of $19 million for the second quarter--down drastically from $229 million a year ago. (Movements).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002...
The US mobile telephone industry may be able to bid for new airwaves given up by the federal government as early as 2004. (Movements).(Brief Article)
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Qualcomm agrees to license its CDMA wireless technology to Alcatel. (Movements).(Brief Article)
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Beijing: SK Telecom signs a MoU to launch a wireless Internet joint venture with China Unicom this year. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Beijing: SK Telecom signs a MoU to launch a wireless Internet joint venture with China Unicom this year. The two companies will finalize details, including the scope of business and amount of investment in the joint venture, by October.
Hong Kong: PCCW pulls its plug out of the city's mobile service sector after selling its 60% stake. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Hong Kong: PCCW pulls its plug out of the city's mobile service sector after selling its 60% stake in Regional Wireless Co to partner Telstra for $614 million.
Hong Kong: Hutchison Whampoa announces the brand it will use for its worldwide 3G mobile offerings: "3". (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Hong Kong: Hutchison Whampoa announces the brand it will use for its worldwide 3G mobile offerings: "3". Hutchison will use the 3 brand for all 3G offerings in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Sweden and the...
Hong Kong: SmarTone Communication becomes the city's latest cellco to launch Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS), following HKCSL, Hutchison Telecom and Peoples Telephone. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Hong Kong: SmarTone Communication becomes the city's latest cellco to launch Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS), following HKCSL, Hutchison Telecom and Peoples Telephone. The company expects at least 10,000 to 20,000 of its 1-million...
Jakarta: Indonesian telco Indosat injects $75 million in capital to cellular unit Satelindo to allow the unit to expand more aggressively in the booming cellular market. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(P.T. Indonesian Satellite Corporation Tbk)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Jakarta: Indonesian telco Indosat injects $75 million in capital to cellular unit Satelindo to allow the unit to expand more aggressively in the booming cellular market. The cash injection should help boost the number of Satelindo's subscribers...
Kuala Lumpur: Deutsche Telekom reduces its stake in Malaysian mobile operator TRI from 15.98% to 7.99% after selling shares to a party close to former TRI chairman Tajudin Ramli. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Kuala Lumpur: Deutsche Telekom reduces its stake in Malaysian mobile operator TRI from 15.98% to 7.99% after selling shares to a party close to former TRI chairman Tajudin Ramli. Analysts take the sale as a sign that DT, who once owned 21% of...
Mumbai: telecoms provider Bharti Tele-Ventures is set to roll out mobile services in Mumbai as well as the western states of Maharashtra and Gujarat by the end of July, as we go to press. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Mumbai: Telecoms provider Bharti Tele-Ventures is set to roll out mobile services in Mumbai as well as the western states of Maharashtra and Gujarat by the end of July, as we go to press. The three new zones will extend New Delhi-based Bharti's...
Singapore: Virgin Mobile and SingTel jointly call off their Virgin-branded MVNO mobile service a mere eight months after its launch. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Singapore: Virgin Mobile and SingTel jointly call off their Virgin-branded MVNO mobile service a mere eight months after its launch. Both companies credit the decision to Singapore's saturated mobile market, where penetration rates stand at...
Pyongyang: South Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication puts off planned talks with North Korea. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Pyongyang: South Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication puts off planned talks with North Korea on starting a mobile phone service in Pyongyang as the South Korean government reviews its aid policy to North Korea following a naval...
Seoul: SK Telecom sells 2.79% of its shares in KT Corp for 340.3 billion won ($293 million) in exchangeable bonds to four financial institutions, including Samsung Securities. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Seoul: SK Telecom sells 2.79% of its shares in KT Corp for 340.3 billion won ($293 million) in exchangeable bonds to four financial institutions, including Samsung Securities. The sale reduces its stake in KT to just under 10%, which means it...
Seoul: SK Group says it is in talks with several Chinese telecom companies to set up a joint venture to produce handsets using CDMA technology in China. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Dalian Daxian Co. Ltd.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Seoul: SK Group says it is in talks with several Chinese telecom companies to set up a joint venture to produce handsets using CDMA technology in China. Dalian Daxian Co Ltd is one of the Chinese firms in talks about jointly building a plant,...
Seoul: KTF says it is in working-level talks with NTT DoCoMo to form a strategic alliance that could include a stake sale. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Seoul: KTF says it is in working-level talks with NTT DoCoMo to form a strategic alliance that could include a stake sale. The move mirrors a similar attempt by SK Group to sell 14.5% of SK Telecom to DoCoMo, which fell through due to price...
Tokyo: KDDI and Okinawa Cellular Telephone Co expand the coverage area of KDDI's "Global Passport" international roaming service. (News map: around Wireless Asia).
August 1, 2002... Tokyo: KDDI and Okinawa Cellular Telephone Co expand the coverage area of KDDI's "Global Passport" international roaming service in the US to include Los Angeles and San Diego as well as 10 cities in China. Meanwhile, KDDI will begin offering a...
Taiwan: State-owned Chunghwa Telecom says it's expecting 2002 earnings per share (EPS) to come in 16% lower than previously forecast. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Taiwan: State-owned Chunghwa Telecom says it's expecting 2002 earnings per share (EPS) to come in 16% lower than previously forecast due to a 3.6% drop in sales revenue amid intensifying competition.
Tokyo: a white paper from the Japanese Telecommunications Ministry recommends that telecommunications companies focus research and development on mobile technology. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Tokyo: A white paper from the Japanese Telecommunications Ministry recommends that telecommunications companies focus research and development on mobile technology, a field in which they have a competitive advantage over the United States.
Sydney: Telstra says it expects to deliver stronger mobile revenue in 2001/02 for corporate business but margins remain flat. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Sydney: Telstra says it expects to deliver stronger mobile revenue in 2001/02 for corporate business but margins remain flat. Telstra has signed up 130 new corporate mobile customers from rival networks since the introduction of mobile number...
Wellington: Telecom Corp of New Zealand commerially launches its cdma2000 1x service. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Wellington: Telecom Corp of New Zealand commerially launches its cdma2000 1x service. In a bid to support the rollout, TCNZ has signed a MoU with LG Telecom of South Korea to share information on CDMA and jointly develop content for data...
Sydney: the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission issues a draft report recommending extending pricing principles to cover CDMA service in the country as well as GSM. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Sydney: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission issues a draft report recommending extending pricing principles to cover CDMA service in the country as well as GSM. These principles will cover only GSM and CDMA mobile services and...
Wi-Fi and beyond hot technology in search of a business model: Wireless LANs are popping up all over the place, and service providers have plans to cash in. That's a tall order when you've got no proven business model and WLAN tech is a moving target. On the other hand, there's a lot of room for experimentation and opportunity, once roaming capabilities are established. But approach with caution.(Cover Story)
August 1, 2002... Between public hot spots offering wireless access and enterprises installing access points so employees can stay connected during meetings, wireless LAN is currently the "it" technology. There's no shortage of products--the Wireless Ethernet...
Prepaid: operators shy away from data: prepaid is one of cellular's biggest growth segments--yet Asian operators are still hesitant about fining prepaid customers the same value-adds as those on postpaid contracts. (Wireless Biz).
August 1, 2002... Prepaid has been around long enough to become an established part of every mobile operator's suite of services and billing options, indeed, it is one of the big growth areas in the industry--last year the number of Asian prepaid subscribers...
Transition to high-speed: this is the year high-speed mobile data will finally take off, promises Matti Alahuhta, president of the world's number one mobile handset maker, Nokia Mobile Phones. But long-term, he tells group editor Robert Clark, the driver in mobile will be personalization. (1 _ 2 _ 1).(Interview)
August 1, 2002... Wireless Asia: You call this a classic category phone. What categories do you segment the market into?
Matti Alahuhta [holding a Nokia 6610]: It's a global segmentation, in different categories. We have six different categories, which are...
China Mobile CFO. (Telecom Career).(China Mobile Communications Corp. appoints Xue Taohai)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... China Mobile has named Xue Taohai as CFO of the listed company, replacing Ding Donghua, who has retired. Xue has also been appointed as a director and vice chairman of the company.
Xue, 46, has been serving the company's parent, China...
AT&T Singapore head. (Telecom Career).(Collis Loh)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... AT&T has appointed Collis Loh as country general manger to head the company's operations in Singapore.
Previously Loh was a senior account manager of AT&T Singapore. He joined the company with AT&T's acquisition of the IBM Global Network...
KT picks cellular chief as CEO. (Telecom Career).(Lee Yong-kyung)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... South Korean incumbent telco KT Corp has appointed KTF president Lee Yong-kyung as its new chief executive.
Lee, 59, will lead the fixed line carrier over the next three years and will succeed Lee Sang-chul who became the information...
Robert Bong takes helm at Keppel T&T. (Telecom Career).(Keppel Telecommunications and Transportation Ltd.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation Ltd. has appointed Robert Bong, currently managing director of the company, as executive director and managing director. Bong replaces Ng Eng Ho, who is leaving Keppel T&T to pursue personal interests....
Qwest CFO. (Telecom Career).(Qwest Communications International Inc. appoints Oren Shaffer)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Qwest Communications International has named Oren Shaffer as its new chief financial officer. Shaffer, who replaced Qwest's existing CFO Robin Szeliga, currently serves as a business consultant.
Nortel CFO. (Telecom Career).(Nortel Networks Corp. appoints Douglas C. Beatty)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Douglas C. Beatty has been appointed chief financial officer of Nortel Networks by the company's board of directors, effective immediately. Beatty has been the company's controller since 1999, after leaving Nortel in 1995 to serve as Sprint...
CLP Telecom head steps down. (Telecom Career).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... CLP Telecommunications Limited says Peter Heavyside, the company's current managing director, will step down following the integration of its Oxygen branded retail Internet services into PowerCom Network Hong Kong Limited, a newly established...
Cisco North Asia MD. (Telecom Career).(Cisco Systems Inc. appoints Frankie Sum)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Cisco Systems has named Frankie Sum managing director for North Asia, covering Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Philippines. Sum was previously managing director for Cisco Hong Kong.
He is replaced by Errol Chan, who will head the Hong Kong...
Redback names AP customer head. (Telecom Career).(Redback Networks Inc. appoints Alex Li)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Redback Networks has appointed Alex Li as director of customer services for Asia Pacific. Li comes to Redback from Nortel Networks, where he was responsible for the service business for the enterprise segment in Asia.
BT ignite Asia Pacific head. (Telecom Career).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... BT has named Graham Moore as president of BT Ignite Asia Pacific, BT's business services and solutions division. Moore will be based in Hong Kong and oversee BT's operations in the region.
Palm's Judy Bruner joins SanDisk board. (Telecom Career).(Judy Brunet)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... SanDisk Corporation has appointed Judy Brunet, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Palm Inc., to its board of directors.
Bruner replaces Catherine P. Lego, founder of Lego Ventures, and will serve as a member on the audit...
VTec appoints CEO. (Telecom Career).(VTech Holdings Ltd. appoints Paddy Law Wai Leung)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Paddy Law Wai Leung has been appointed CEO of Hong Kong-based cordless phone manufacturer VTech Holdings, replacing Allan Wong, who will continue serve the company as chairman, responsible for the group's strategic direction. Law, 41, joined...
Doubt over W-CDMA as EV-DO steals a march. (Wheel Of Industry).
August 1, 2002... Visitors to CommanicAsia 2002 in Singapore could be excused for wondering what all the wailing and wringing of hands in the industry is all about.
After all, the show filled five halls at Singapore Expo and visitor numbers increased as...
Encryption for J2ME apps. (tools).(NTRU Neo for Java)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Security firm NTRU has released NTRU Neo for Java, a security system designed for wireless Java devices and applications. NTRU Neo for Java, provides public key-based encrypted data transfer and user authentication services that overcome the...
Mobile roaming manager. (tools).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Am-Beo has launched Roam Manager, a new product to handle TAP 3.9 transactions for inter-carrier roaming, including full support for GPRS and value-added services. The TAP 3.9 specification is the latest release of the data standard that...
ECI evaluation tool. (tools).(embedded communication interface)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... connectBlue has launched the ECI (Embedded Communication Interface) Evaluation Kit, a tool designed to enable Bluetooth product developers to test and evaluate ECI protocol functionality. ECI, jointly developed by connectBlue and Ericsson...
SMS broadcast from the Web. (out now).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Web apps developer Xara Online has released two SMS messaging applications. The Group SMS Personal app enables a user to send SMS text messages to up to 100 individuals (that can be sorted into different groups) from a private admin Web page....
PDA speech recognition. (out now).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... InfoTalk Corporation says that its speech recognition engine, InfoTalk-Recognizer, is now optimized for PDAs running on Intel StrongARM and XScale technology and Microsoft PocketPC 2002.
Now RealOne interface for communicators. (out now).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... RealNetworks has released a new version of its RealOne Mobile Player for Nokia 9210i and 9290 communicators. The latest version sports a new user interface that provides easy navigation between media playback, related links and Web sites.
Nokia/IBM content delivery tie-up. (deals).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Nokia and IBM will team up to provide a complete content management and delivery solution for wireless operators and service providers. The modular solution combines Nokia's delivery server and IBM's Digital Media Factory framework, enabling...
Remote back-office access alliance. (deals).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Wireless platform provider Air2Web has partnered with Jakarta-based IT solutions company SDI Technologies to jointly develop and deploy wireless enterprise solutions using the Air2Web wireless platform that will enable employees to wirelessly...
Business app platform for Chunghwa portal. (deals).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Ericsson selects corporate portal app developer BroadVision to supply its enterprise application platform for Chunghwa Telecom's wireless portal, which is promised to offer "relevant, rich content and services" to mobile phone and PDA users,...
Hutchison 3G Java platform. (deals).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Hutchison 3G UK has contracted UK-based wireless software firm elata to supply a platform that will enable Hutchison 3G to intelligently target, personalize and deliver wireless Java applications to customers. The platform will be deployed...
ART speech tech ported to OMAP. (deals).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... ART Advanced Recognition Technologies has ported its latest speech recognition solution, the smARTspeak XG, to the OMAP family of high-performance, ultra-low power application processors from Texas Instruments.
T&M collaboration. (deals).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Test and measurement vendor Metatron Technologies and Keppel Telecommunications and Transportation are collaborating to bring monitoring and optimization products and services to carriers throughout Asia and Europe, helping them to quickly and...
Logica and Intec expand partnership. (deals).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Logica and OSS vendor Intec Telecom Systems have signed a new global agreement for Intec's entire product portfolio. The agreement is an extension to an existing relationship covering Intec's Interconnect billing software and will now include...
Globe goes Disney. (deals).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Walt Disney Internet Group and Globe Telecom have struck a deal that brings Disney Mobile branded wireless content to the Philippines for the first time. The Disney Mobile service can be accessed through SMS short codes or a WAP menu on the...
Bluetooth for Microsoft HID. (deals).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Taiyo Yuden has been selected as the Bluetooth module supplier for Microsoft Corp. for its next-generation wireless keyboard and mouse systems. Under the contract, Taiyo Yuden will manufacture Bluetooth modules with Microsoft's HID (human...
Money and Machines: 3G money-spinners. (Forum).
August 1, 2002... We have defined a method that we believe could provide a good insight into possible revenue-generating UMTS applications or at least those applications or services that have the greatest chance of success. We call it the 5 M's: Movement,...
Whose standard is it anyway? (Street Wise).
August 1, 2002... The more things change the more they stay the same in the search for standards that will bring about the mobile Internet.
In the past two years, the industry has not let up in its relentless pursuit of a workable solution to unify the...
Is mobile's multiplier effect ready to dip? (Lynch).
August 1, 2002... Economists have a term--"externalities"--which they use to describe the unintended or unobvious effects of a commercial transaction or act. They also have another term--"multiplier effect"--that describes the higher value of economic outcome...
Blaming the messenger in the 21st century. (Short message: around the wireless industry).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... As if cell phones didn't catch enough flak for causing brain tumors and road accidents, now they're being blamed in Zambia for destroying marriages.
So said Judge Chidongo Shawa during a court case in which Leah Chama of Matero sued her...
Mobile phone fingers the bloke that stole it. (Short message: around the wireless industry).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... A Singapore teenager whose cell phone was stolen and sold illegally managed to get it back--not by identifying the thief or the person the phone was sold to, but by identifying the ringtone he'd programmed for it.
Rahman Magundario, 39,...
Jam cell signals, spruce up your living room. (Short message: around the wireless industry).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... A team of electronics engineers at Iwate University in northern Japan have come up with a way to get around bans on celt phone jamming: anti-cellular wood paneling.
The team, led by Hideo Oka, has developed what he calls "magnetic wood",...
Resistance is futile. (Short message: around the wireless industry).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... A recent wireless data content report reckons it's determined the killer app for wireless data networks. And sorry, but it's still porn.
That's the conclusion from a new Visiongain report focusing on wireless porn content, which asked...
Sir Richard, you are spoiling us ... (Short message: around the wireless industry).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Virgin Group chairman Sir Richard Branson appeared in New York to kick off the launch of his latest MVNO, Virgin Mobile USA. And, in an arguable first, he did it in the form of exotic dance.
Dangling from a crane above Times Square and...