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China to lead metro Ethernet adoption
News Metro Ethernet broadband access services in Asia-Pacific are expected to soar this year with China leading the charge.
Electric, gas companies light up communications
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Cisco buys Pirelli optical systems
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Faulty Asian cable slows Internet access
News Internet traffic slowed to a crawl in Asia for several hours Thursday due to failure in the Asia Pacific Cable Network (APCN).
Celcom may stick to local partner
News Celcom Sdn Bhd, the mobile phone operator controlled by debt-ridden Technology Resources Industries (TRI), may not hitch up with another foreign partner as earlier envisioned, but could gravitate towards one of the remaining four local network operators instead.
SingTel to put another US$200m into India's Bharti
News Singapore Telecoms Ltd has decided to invest another US$200 million (S$365 million) into India's Bharti Group.
Transpacific undersea cable completed
News Some of the world's leading phone companies complete the construction of an undersea cable to provide more Internet capacity between the United States and parts of Asia.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Network infrastructure, Networking, Cable, Japan, phone, Chunghwa Telecom, China Telecom, data cable, Dow Jones & Company Inc.
SingTel to put another US$200m into India's Bharti
News Singapore Telecoms Ltd has decided to invest another US$200 million (S$365 million) into India's Bharti Group.
Start-up makes quantum leap into cryptography
News A 4-year-old start-up has begun shipments of what it says are the world's first commercial data-scrambling devices that use the radically new technology of quantum encryption.
Two billion-dollar IPOs on tap next week
News Two overseas telecommunications companies have scheduled billion-dollar IPOs for next week, but some analysts are painting bleak prospects for their first-day performances.
India firms gear up to offer broadband services
News Leading service providers in India are busy positioning products to take broadband inside homes, potentially changing the nature of communications infrastructure.
No truth in foreign bid for Time dotCom shares, say analysts
News Several analysts have played down market speculation that a foreign telecommunication company could buy up a substantial stake in beleaguered Time dotCom via a private placement.
Time dotCom falls 27% in debut
News Shares of Time dotCom Bhd, Malaysia's biggest initial public offering in more than five years, tumbled as much as 27 percent in their debut on concern a slowing economy will hurt demand for its phone services.
Time dotCom falls 27% in Kuala Lumpur debut
News Shares of Time dotCom Bhd, Malaysia's biggest initial public offering in more than five years, tumbled as much as 27 percent in their debut on concern a slowing economy will hurt demand for its phone services.
BT rolls out a massive fiber network
News The telecom giant announced a network investment expected to connect as many as 10 million homes to the superfast broadband service by 2012.
Tags: Networking technology, British Telecommunications, Fiber, Internet Access, Internet Connection, Fiber Network, Sweden, network, Paris, U.S.
