Martyn Williams

The offshoring of businesses from Europe and North America to Asia, such as call centres, is proving to be good news for regional data communications network operator Asia Netcom, its president and chief operating officer said on Tuesday.

Telecom Asia, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s biennial Asian exhibition and conference, takes place next week in Busan, South Korea.

Sony Corp. will turn over the connectivity side of its Hong Kong broadband business to competitor PCCW IMS Ltd. from early September, it said Tuesday.

The company behind China's leading Linux client distribution, Red Flag Software Co. Ltd., is shifting its main focus to its server operating system and enterprise customers, and planning to expand sales overseas, the company's acting president said in an interview on Friday.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) will begin moving staff into its new research and development centre in the Indian city of Bangalore next week, the centre's general manager said Thursday.

South Korean Internet portal operator Daum Communications Corp. is negotiating with Terra Lycos SA over the acquisition of Lycos Inc., Daum said Friday.

The total number of subscribers to NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s third-generation (3G) cellular telephone service hit five million on Monday, the carrier said on Tuesday.

NTT DoCoMo Inc. plans to set up temporary base stations for its Foma 3G (third-generation) mobile service in Athens, Greece, for two months so that customers attending the upcoming Olympic Games can use their Japanese mobile phones, the operator said Friday.