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December
The Asia-Pacific is the world's fastest growing market for telecommunications. China alone is adding mobile subscribers at a vast rate every month ? and that will speed up now that China is a member of the World Trade Organisation
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June
TCC is the biggest, most successful operator in Taiwan's cellular market, and it has just bought a rival brand from US operator SBC. Yasmine Chinwala interviews the company's president, Joseph Fan, about how he's become the leader in a highly competitive business
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May
What is behind Singapore Telecom's planned purchase of Australia's Optus? According to Jo Kent, it is part of a planned expansion out of its home market
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Many telcos are looking for a way to move themselves from the world of simply delivering bandwidth to bringing electronic services to their customers. Paul Singh, chairman and chief executive officer of Primus, tells Alan Burkitt-Gray that his strategy is in place
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China's huge investment programme and the development of metro networks elsewhere are keeping up the demand for optical fibre ? but the demands on suppliers are getting tougher, write Scott Bender and Ravi Vijayaraghavan, vice presidents with Bain & Company in Chicago and Singapore
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A year ago Dr Ziggy Switkowski described Telstra as hip, cool and fast moving. After the end of the dotcom boom he's less euphoric, but the company he heads is pursuing an adventurous path across the world's fastest growing markets.
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April
Sang-Chul Lee became president of Korea Telecom in January 2001. During his three-year term of office he plans to oversee the complete privatisation of the former incumbent, the launch of a pilot third-generation mobile phone service and rapid investment and growth domestically and abroad. Interview by Tristan Swain
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March
It has a potential wireless market bigger than the whole population of the US, and sales are growing annually by a number equal to the population of Canada. No wonder investors and suppliers are enthusiastic about integrated operator China Unicom. Alan Burkitt-Gray interviews company president Wang Jianzhou.
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February
Demand for VoIP is booming in Asia, says Barnaby Page, but elsewhere the technique is presenting business challenges for operators