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December
Telstra’s deal with Australia’s National Broadband Network is delayed because the NBN is revising its project
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Mobile operator Maxis, headed by Sandip Das, has agreed to use Telekom Malaysia’s government-based broadband network
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Indonesia’s PT Telekomunikasi is discussing taking a controlling stake in CamGSM of Cambodia
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LG’s South Korean network operator Uplus has picked suppliers for its LTE network
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Thailand operator TOT is to run an auction in January for 3G equipment and installation contracts
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Incumbent operator Telecom NZ has won approval to bid for most of the country’s national broadband network
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New Zealand’s national broadband project has awarded its first two contracts, but not to Telecom NZ
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TeliaSonera is paying $160m to increase its stake in its Asian holding company to over 75%
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Telekom Malaysia has reduced its stake in mobile group Axiata to 1.2%, raising $131m
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November
An Australian WiMax operator is applying a software change to its Huawei base stations to test out TD-LTE
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Australia’s National Broadband Network project looks certain to proceed following the Senate’s agreement to split Telstra
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Indonesia’s Axis extends managed services partnership with Ericsson
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Australia will be the first country in the world to build an infrastructure for the digital economy. Comment by Paul Budde
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Australia's national broadband network is the best thing that's happened to Telstra, the company's CTO tells GTB
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Telstra subsidiary CSL has launched its combined LTE and HSPA+ network in Hong Kong
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Services will be the next transformation for telcos says Telstra CTO
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The government of Japan is to reduce its shareholding in NTT, raising an expected $2.2bn
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Indian fibre cable maker Sterlite is creating a joint venture with a Chinese rival, Jiangsu Tongguang
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GSM Association CEO Rob Conway launches plan to activate SIMs in cameras, meters and other devices
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China Unicom, which has exclusive rights to sell the iPhone in China, is developing its own Linux-powered competitor
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Reliance Communications is looking to sell $500m worth of bonds in its subsidiary Flag Telecom
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Global Telecoms Business announces GTB 40 under 40 for Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific in addition to event for Europe and Americas
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Rivals Telecom NZ and Vodafone are linking to bid for a New Zealand government contract to build rural infrastructure
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China Mobile has picked ST-Ericsson and Nokia to develop devices for its high-speed TD-LTE data networks
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China Unicom has given Ericsson a managed services contract for its operations in the province of Anhui
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Vodafone’s stake in SoftBank, which it acquired when it sold Vodafone Japan, will earn the company £3.1bn in two tranches
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Orange and Bouygues are to sell ZTE’s new Android smartphone in France
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Nucleus Connect, the carrier-neutral next-generation national broadband network, is now in service in Singapore
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Singapore plans competition at the set-top box for fibre-to-the-home customers
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Vietnamese operator Viettel is leading a consortium that has won the third mobile licence in Mozambique
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CamGSM, the owner of Cambodia’s Mobitel, has arranged a Chinese loan to buy Huawei kit and to refinance the purchase of Millicom’s stake in the unit
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Qualcomm is working with the organisation set up by Nobel prizewinner Muhammad Yunus to develop apps to help people escape poverty
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US company Globalstar has launched six satellites to provide satellite telephone services for Australia’s Pivotel
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Japan’s NTT DoCoMo is planning to cover 7% of Japan with 75-megabit LTE services by March 2011 at a cost of $430m, rising to 40% two years later
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The former Verizon unit, bought by Carlyle in 2005 and in Chapter 11 since 2008, is out of bankruptcy protection
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October
Research in Motion, the maker of BlackBerrys, is investing $150m in mobile software companies in emerging markets
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Chinese Apple Store will allow customers in China to buy the iPhone, the iPad, Mac and other products online
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Nokia Siemens Networks has won a contract to supply Australia's NBN Company with optical transmission systems
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Residential customers in Singapore will soon be able to pick and choose between different telecoms operators at the set-top box, says the country’s carrier-neutral FTTH operator
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China Mobile is consolidating IT services in a trial project with ZTE, and the operator will offer services to business customers
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Telekom Brunei is to build a 40,000-home FTTH network, using equipment from Huawei
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Japanese fixed and mobile operator KDDI is planning a share buyback
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South Korea's SK Telecom is planning to invest in a platform for mobile applications
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Telstra is to end its network sharing agreement in Australia with the joint venture between Vodafone and Hutchison
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Australian operator Telstra has raised €500m in bonds on European markets, via BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and HSBC
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Hong Kong operators PCCW and Hutchison are reported to be talking about sharing LTE network infrastructure
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KDDI’s new range of Android phones will be pre-loaded with Skype software, allowing customers to make unlimited Skype-to-Skype calls
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NEC says that it is to spend $1.2bn in the next three years on developing cloud computing
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Indosat director Fadzri Sentosa says that the company may auction its towers, though foreign investors are not allowed to bid
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ZTE is the latest to launch a 3G Android-powered tablet PC, rivalling Apple’s iPad and other devices
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NTT and Dimension Data have announced that NTT’s offer to acquire Dimension Data is now wholly unconditional
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Samsung’s Android-powered Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab are to go on sale in Japan via NTT DoCoMo
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Maxis of Malaysia sets out to change lives throughout Asian region
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Three Indian operators are discussing terrestrial links with China Telecom, which wants to set up an office in India
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September
Mobile data demand will expand market for TDD, says ZTE head
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Thailand backs 3G investment in network sharing plan for state-owned TOT
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China Unicom has raised $1.8bn to invest in 3G and fixed broadband through a bond issue
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Privately held Digicel launches broadband in Caribbean’s fast-growing markets
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China Unicom is to put the wifi-enabled Apple iPhone 4 on the market on Friday
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Thailand’s National Telecommunications Commission is appealing against a legal ruling over 3G licences with state-owned CAT Telecom
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Malaysia is to offer four LTE licences, four WiMax licences and one further licence in its 4G spectrum plans
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Private equity group Permira has bought Asia Broadcast Satellite, in a venture with the existing management
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The New Zealand government has picked the 14 companies to negotiate provision of its ultra-fast broadband network
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China’s telecoms regulators have approved the Apple iPhone 4 for sale by local operators
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Vodafone has sold its holding in China Mobile, worth $6.5bn and plans to sell other minority holdings
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Alcatel-Lucent has won a contract to build a backbone network for Telekomunikasi Indonesia
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Singapore operators are competing to offer high-speed broadband, with the launch of Nucleus Connect, a carrier-neutral provider
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The boom in laying submarine cables along the east and west of Africa has two years to run, with the next demand likely to emerge from Asian countries and regions that missed by the main links
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China Telecom, the world’s largest fixed carrier, is to connect with CENX, the US-based carrier ethernet exchange
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Paul Reynolds tells Global Telecoms Business that two separate companies, one owning infrastructure and one running services, would be worth 30% more to shareholders
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Reynolds explains plan to split of Telecom NZ into separate network and services companies
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Telstra is doubling the peak speed of its 3G services to 42 megabits a second, but only for half the Australian population
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Three of Thailand’s three operators are to bid for 3G licences, while a fourth opts to create an MVNO
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August
Reports suggest Vodafone is considering selling its stake in China Mobile, a deal that could raise $4bn
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Malaysia’s Maxis is to build a fibre-to-the-home network using equipment from Huawei
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Richard Li’s PCCW is to raise $167m by selling shares to outside investors, in a sale managed by Morgan Stanley
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Wang Jianzhou will remain chairman of the world’s largest telecoms company but has been replaced as CEO
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PCCW, Hong Kong’s largest operator, is to raise $300m in its first sale of bonds for five years
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Next has signed a five-year contract with Cable & Wireless Worldwide for a network covering the UK and Hong Kong
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July
China Telecom looks for IT investment opportunities in European market, says the head of its EMEA business
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China Mobile and China Telecom have signed up Alcatel-Lucent to build FTTH networks
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AIS will invest $1.4bn over the next three years on building its 3G network across Thailand
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Chinese operators are to invest $18bn in 3G technology this year alone, according to a government statement
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Vodafone and Hutchison’s joint venture in Australia has given Ericsson the task of upgrading its network
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Ericsson is to take over field maintenance for China Mobile’s base stations in the province of Hebei
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Japanese operator NTT has made an agreed bid worth £2.1bn for South African IT group Dimension Data
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Research in Motion is planning to launch an app store in China to help it compete in the local smartphone market
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Google’s licence to operate in China has been renewed for one year by the Chinese regulatory authorities
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China Network Systems, a Taiwanese cable and broadband operator, has been put up for sale by buyout firm MBK
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DoCoMo CEO Ryuji Yamada says the company will start an app store to allow independent providers to develop and sell mobile applications
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Hong Kong Broadband speeds up FTTH services
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SK Telecom in South Korea is in talks with Apple about a deal to offer the iPhone and launch the iPad
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Users stopped from service that suggests answers
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June
South Korea’s SK Telecom is spending $100m on buying a 25% stake in WiMax operator Packet One of Malaysia
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Security concerns mean the US government has stopped Emcore selling a controlling stake in its optical fibre business to a Chinese investor
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Indonesian operator in infrastructure deal
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Taiwanese mobile operator Far EasTone is buying the owner of fixed operator Sparq
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Australia’s National Broadband Network Company will use Alcatel-Lucent equipment, announces senior executive Kevin Brown
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Two Indonesian CDMA mobile operators, Telekomunikasi Indonesia and Bakrie Telecom, may merge their businesses
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Indosat CEO Harry Tirtotjondro says new bond issue will be used to refinance the Indonesian company’s $499m debt
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Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo plans to fill gaps in its LTE service, due to be launched this year, by offering femtocells
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China Telecom is to connect with Nepal Telecom using an optical fibre cable, improving the landlocked country’s international connections
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Australian incumbent Telstra has agreed to work with the government’s planned National Broadband Network
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Telekom Malaysia is to build a national high speed broadband network with equipment from ZTE
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Australia’s merged Vodafone and 3 mobile operation has raised $2.58bn to repay loans from the two main shareholders
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Malaysian operator Maxis is considering raising $1.4bn, half of which will be used for capital expenditure
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Bakrie Telecom in Indonesia is to merge its CDMA operations with those of Telekomunikasi Indonesia
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Japanese comapnies Fujitsu and Toshiba are discussing merging their mobile phone manufacturing operations
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Thailand’s National Telecommunications Commission will refarm unused frequencies for new services, says commission member Natee Sukolrat
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Telkom Indonesia to issue bonds to support capital expenditure
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NTT associate Internet Initiative Japan is to buy AT&T’s outsourcing operation in Japan, which has 1,600 business customers
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China Mobile has appointed Li Yue, 51, as president and director, while veteran Wang Jianzhou becomes chairman of a new board of directors
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May
Qualcomm EVP Derek Aberle has signed a deal licensing technology for Chinese TD-SCDMA technology with CK Telecom
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Malaysia’s Maxis is to spend $427m on improving 3G coverage from 60% to 80% of the country
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Management World 2010: New Zealand operator TelstraClear is using a new product from Clarity to offer white-label ISP services
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Neil Montefiore, CEO of Starhub in Singapore, tells Global Telecoms Business that half the phones it sells every month are iPhones, and it needs to take urgent action to cater for the data explosion
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The Australian Competition Tribunal has rejected Telstra’s bid to raise the wholesale price for access to its copper network
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Starhub faces iPhone-fuelled data explosion
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Management World 2010: China Mobile has been able to cut capex by 85% in switching from TDM to IP networks, VP Liu Aili tells opening session of Management World
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China Telecom has agreed with RIM to sell the Storm smartphone in China, competing with China Unicom, which sells the iPhone
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The Chinese operation of Alcatel-Lucent is working with Aruba Networks to offer wifi-based mobility services to corporate customers in China
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Reports from Indonesia suggest that the government wants to adopt LTE in its 4G strategy in place of WiMax
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China Mobile has set up its Zong subsidiary in Taiwan in a plan to invest in local mobile operator Far EasTone
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ZTE is to build the next phase of a WiMax network in Malaysia for Packet One, at a cost of $76m
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Indonesian operator Indosat is raising $500m in a bond offering and has launched 42 megabit HSPA+ using equipment from Ericsson
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Canadian broadband operator Axia NetMedia is working with Vodafone to bid for a national fast broadband project in New Zealand
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New Zealand Telecom chief Paul Reynolds may sell its international wholesale voice unit or merge it with another operator’s
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Richard Li’s PCCW has secured a $2.05bn revolving credit deal for its subsidiary Hong Kong Telecommunications from 21 banks
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Indonesian mobile operator Bakrie has raised $250m to repay existing loans and to fund further capital expenditure
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KT is pushing vendors Samsung and Intel to create an alliance to stimulate Korea’s home-grown version of WiMax
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April
Laptop maker Acer is planning to launch a range of mobile internet terminals and to expand its marketing in China
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Drew Kelton of Telstra and Vineet Taneja of Nokia are to join expanding Indian operator Bharti Airtel in senior roles
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Former Sprint and Clearwire executive Wing Lee is offering $1 million in prizes to stimulate applications and devices for his new WiMax network
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Huawei and ZTE are among Chinese equipment makers whose products have been banned from Indian networks, in a government ruling
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Former Sprint and Clearwire executive Wing Lee is now running YTL Communications, a project to build an $850 million nationwide — and mobile — WiMax 4G network across Malaysia. YTL is offering $1 million in prizes to stimulate new applications and devices
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China Mobile, headed by Wang Jianzhou, is expected to take a 12% stake in Taiwan’s Far EasTone for $566m
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Four phone makers — Fujitsu, NEC, Panasonic and Sharp — have joined with chip company Renesas to establish a common platform for mobile applications
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The world’s largest operator, China Mobile, has awarded ZTE a contract to build an IMS core network on which it can run converged fixed and mobile services
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Telstra is planning to increase the price it charges rivals for wholesale access to its local loop
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One of Nortel’s last operations, its joint venture with South Korea’s LG to make mobile equipment, is being bought by Ericsson
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Malaysian operator Axiata is raising $300m through a debt issue to refinance existing borrowings
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Australia’s Optus, owned by Singtel, is expected to start trials of LTE services in May, with NSN as the vendor
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Thailand’s telecoms regulator NTC has appointed commissioner Natee Sukonrat to examine ways of licensing WiMax and other wireless services in 2011
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Chinese equipment vendor ZTE says it hopes to sell 2-3 million handsets into the Indian market
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Paul Reynolds, head of Telecom New Zealand, is considering proposals to split the domestic company in two, and is reviewing bids for AAPT, its Australian subsidiary
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Rinaldi Firmansyah, head of Telkom Indonesia, has hired Macquarie to advise on restructuring and expanding its tower subsidiary
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Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan is testing LTE in association with Nokia Siemens Networks
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Chinese smartphone makers are considering making offers for Palm, the producer of the Pre, which is up for sale
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There are 500 WiMax 4G broadband networks in operation and the market is finally growing after Intel’s investment stimulus of $2 billion-plus
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China’s minister of industry and information technology, Li Yizhong, wants to expand the number of 3G customers from 16m to 150m by next year
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State-owned CAT Telecom in Thailand is to buy out Hutchison’s CDMA operation in the same country for $232m
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Two Chinese companies have ordered $2 billion worth of handsets from Nokia, but one of the orders shows a substantial decline on 2009
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March
ZTE chairman Hou Weigui has replaced Yin Yimin as president, putting Shi Lirong in his place
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China Mobile and China Unicom have ordered equipment worth $1.8 billion from Ericsson for mobile network upgrades
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David Thodey, CEO of Australian operator Telstra, has reshuffled his management team again
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The owner of Indonesia’s Telkomsel is considering spinning off its CDMA operator, Telkom Flexi, into a separate company
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Wang Jianzhou, chairman and CEO of the world’s biggest operator, says the company is ready to invest in businesses in Asia and Africa
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MobiTel in Cambodia has signed a network expansion deal worth $200m with Huawei
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CEO Srinath Narasimhan is re-investing the cash from that wholesale voice in wireless networks and value-added services in India and other emerging markets
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Motorola is close to taking a decision on splitting the company into a handset business and a separate network infrastructure operation, which may be sold off
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Telstra has raised €1 billion in bonds as the Australian senate postpones a vote on splitting the company
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The Japanese government is considering splitting off NTT’s fibre service into an open access network
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TPG Telecom has finally won control of Australian network Pipe in a deal valued at $373 million
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A group of New Zealand entrepreneurs are planning a cable to increase the country’s capacity to California and Australia
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PHS operator Fitel has won a WiMax licence from Taiwan’s regulator and plans to start services in the north of the island later in 2010
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South Korean smartphone maker LG has launched its first Android phone in its home market and is expected to have 10 on offer this year
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China Mobile, the world’s largest operator, is setting up a Taiwanese subsidiary, but it will not be allowed to invest in local telecoms operators
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Sony head Howard Stringer is reported to be planning to launch a smartphone to challenge Apple’s iPhone
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NTT is using wholesale provider TTK to deliver its services to customers across Russia
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Mike Quigley of Australia’s open-access company has announced the first five areas where it will build fibre-to-the-home fibre networks
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The Australian federal government has taken an equity stake of $89m in the first state rollout of its national broadband network
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China Mobile is considering taking a 20% stake in a Shanghai bank, according to reports from China
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February
Private equity owned Pacnet, created from Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet, plans to raise $500m in an IPO for acquisitions and expansion
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YTL, headed by Wing Lee, is about to launch a nationawide WiMax network in Malaysia
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The Philippines telecom regulator will allow existing 3G licence holders to bid for the country’s last 3G licence
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Australia’s minister for broadband, Stephen Conroy, has launched the first construction work on the country’s planned National Broadband Network
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China Unicom has made China;s biggest ever bid for international telecoms expansion with a $2.5 billion offer for Nigeria’s Nitel
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Willcom, a Japanese operator owned by Carlyle and Kyocera is expected to file for bankruptcy protection but is seeking investment from rival operator Softbank
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Smartphone maker HTC is to buy back 15 million shares at a cost of around $1.8 billion
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SingTel’s Australian business, Optus, is refusing to sell its hybrid fibre coax network to the state-controlled National Broadband Network
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Globe Telecom in the Philippines is to spend nearly $500 million in 2010 on expanding its mobile and broadband activities
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Software-defined radio has allowed Telstra’s Hong Kong mobile operator to run 2G and 3G services on the same infrastructure
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With investment from Saudi Telecom and Malaysia’s Maxis, Axis has started to build its market in Indonesia, explains CEO Erik Aas
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January
New Zealand’s incumbent operator is suggesting an alternative solution to the government proposal for a national fibre-to-the-home project
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The Indian government is claiming that SingTel was offering international long distance services without a licence
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Personal computer maker Lenovo Group is planning to introduce an Android smartphone in China
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The Chinese government is believed to be telling mobile operators that they have to scan text messages to filter out content it dislikes
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The Opposition parties in Australia’s federal parliament have come out against the government proposals to break up Telstra
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Google has told China Unicom, Samsung and Motorola that it will delay the launch of Google-branded Android handsets in the Chinese market
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AIS, part-owned by SingTel, is to spend $335 million on expanding its network in Thailand in 2010, reaching 15-22 extra cities
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According to sources, Singapore Telecommunications is to sell 25% of its Australian operator, Optus, raising around $3.7 billion
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LG is aiming to increase its sales of mobile phones in 2010 from last year’s figure of 117 million to 140 million
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China Unicom, one of China’s three telecoms operators, is integrating its fixed and mobile operations and reorganising its business
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Huawei plans to hire 5,000 research and development staff in Bangalore in an expansion of its R&D centre costed at $500 million
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Li Ka-shing’s Hong Kong industrial giant Hutchison Whampoa is offering $542 million to acquire the shares in its mobile telecoms offshoot, HTIL
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Australian operators Telstra, Optus and Vodafone Hutchison are expected to bid for 4G spectrum to be auctioned by the government
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Huawei expects global contracts to rise from $30 billion to $36 billion in 2010, a rise of 20% — though slower than the previous year’s 36% growth
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SK Telecom in South Korea is responding to iPhone competition from rival KT by planning the launch of 12 Android phones
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Li Ka-shing’s Hutchison Whampoa is considering taking complete ownership of HTIL, its telecommunications subsidiary with interests in emerging markets
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Telkom Indonesia is to raise $214 million to help fund its planned $2 billion capital expenditure for 2010, according to CEO Rinaldi Firmansyah