Communications & Telecom

Nine Chinese operators and telecommunication equipment makers have formed an alliance to jointly develop mobile multimedia applications and standards, according to the official China Daily newspaper.

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

In California, there might be a new killer app for voice over Internet protocol (VoIP): balancing the state budget. A top-to-bottom look at spending called the California Performance Review (CPR) recommends adopting VoIP across state government as a way to save up to US$6.3 million per month statewide.

Striking Aliant Inc. workers received a total of $3 million earlier this week when both the Communications, Energy and Paperworks Union of Canada (CEP)

The Indian government's budget, introduced Thursday in Parliament, belies fears that leftist parties supporting the new government led by the Congress Party would scuttle the country's reform program.

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Responses to the New Zealand government's decision not to unbundle the local telecommunications loop have been swift and condemning.

Next year may be a big one for regulation of VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) in the U.S., according to some speakers at the Voice on the Net (VON) conference in Santa Clara, Calif.