While the show is over, the big picture business messages of relevance from CommunicAsia 2005 must live on. Capitalizing on the business of telecommunications requires a thorough understanding of global opportunities, infrastructure intelligence and the consumption habits of your consumer and enterprise customer prospects. For this priceless perspective, which goes above the who and the what to deliver the why, check our our show coverage from Singapore.

Bob Wallace, Editor-in-Chief, Telecommunications Magazine

Communica-ting Asia

CommunicAsia 2005 Show Wrap

by Stephen McClelland

Trade shows notoriously mark an industry barometer - to mix metaphors - of overall health. In telecom terms, events like CommunicAsia are indeed indicative of a better regional aspiration. This year, the positives were a much improved sentiment with attendance numbers topping 60 000, and a feeling of recovery.

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Submarine telecom: Asia on the move

With bandwidth prices stabilising and capacity spend increasing, there is reason for Asia s regional submarine telecom systems to be optimistic

by John Hibbard

There may be some nervousness emerging about the global economy, but currently there seems to be no nervousness about the economy of the telecom industry. After doom and gloom in the early years of the decade, an upbeat mood has emerged  notwithstanding the fall in margins of the core revenue generator, the voice business.

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Access pricing: unlocking the door to competition in Asia

Transparent access pricing regimes still hard to find in Asia

Be Very Afraid of Scary Services

Can operators increase their share of wallet?

by Ouida Taaffe

Telecom operators are a crossroads. As voice, both fixed and mobile, becomes a commodity they need to ensure that they can get value out of new data services.

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Bears in the China shop

Analysts conservative on Chinese 3G

Service Provider CEOs Cautious of 3G World

3G: Make haste slowly, even in Asia

by Stephen McClelland

Are Asian 3G operators more subdued in than they should be, given that everyone seems to believe the industry is in upturn? Perhaps. But Asian service providers are still pondering the overall impact of 3G mobile – and how to get the best out of it. And some considerations still continue to irritate them and stall market development, notably handsets. “The number of handset models is still very limited,” says Lin Chuan Poh, CEO of SingTel Mobile.

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Media Industry’s New Challenge: Go Mobile, Says Ericsson CEO

The Keys to Business Success

Mobile 3G Operators Targeted the Wrong Customers?

Premiums, not price wars, are the answer, says researcher

3G Could Get in a Fix in Korea

Samsung to launch WiBro handset in April 2006

No Need for Port in the Storm

Sony Ericsson targets 3D mobile games market

Ericsson to Drive Mobile Music with Napster

Equipment vendor moves further into services

The Death of Distance

France Telecom Embraces Fixed-Rate for IP Services

Telecommunications and its 'Discontents'

Mobile operators need to get a grip on content revenues

Why Asia Matters

The telecom momentum is now on across an entire region — but it needs new ways of thinking

by Stephen McClelland

Never trust league tables, they are almost always out of date, a snapshot of the past. In telecom services, the league is particularly complex. In the league table of top 10 operators in the world, only one Asian player makes it in, albeit to No 1 position. Japan's domestic incumbent, NTT, easily slugs everyone when business turnover is converted to US dollars

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Singapore welcomes VoIP

Firm Plans Another 'Early Adopter' Tactic

Island state Singapore has prided itself on being in the forefront of every single significant development in telecom in the past three decades as an early adopter market. Outside in the hot Singapore sun, you can see more or less fully deployed 3G networks and fixed broadband facility across the island.

WiMAX 'will boom in Asia-Pacific'

Forum Expects Booming Business

The Philipines: A Text Messaging Success Story

A Business of Telecommunications Leader?

Simplicity Sells in Mobile Phone Business

Capitalizing on Complexity

Wireless on Wheels

“Features-rich-mobiles” from South Korea’s LG

Assessing Asian Opportunities

Business intelligence for provider profit.

by Bob Wallace

Identifying and understanding business opportunities in this vast and alluring region requires far more than an understanding of technology trends and take rates. To cash in requires knowledge of geo-political issues, population, density, terrain, regulatory rules and cultural climates - all of which frequently changes from country to country.

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China: Parting with Tradition
China Telecom intends to shed the mantle of — traditional network carrier — through large-scale NGN deployment.

By Ken Wieland

China Telecom is in a period of network and business model transition. Like many wireline incumbents around the world, it has seen a drastic slowing of fixed-line voice revenue growth.

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Korea: Broadband, Convergence and Portability
Big plans, big projects — but big prospects?

By Ken Wieland

The boundary line that formerly distinguished Korea's highly developed broadband and mobile networks is fading. In one direction, broadband connections are becoming mobile with extensive Wi-Fi (e.g., KT's Nespot) and soon WiBro networks (e.g., KT and Hanaro).

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Japan: A Future Mobile Society?
Today's Japanese applications may be worldwide successes tomorrow

By Stephen McClelland

You could be forgiven for thinking that in everyday life the mobile phone has become the most important tool for the Japanese. It certainly has spawned an astonishing range of applications and uses.

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