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Just two years ago, the mobile phone market was pretty ho-hum. You had your candy bar phones and your flip phones. There were BlackBerry devices and Windows Mobile phones. Those phones had calendars and contact lists, and a few other apps that were too annoying to use. Few people ever added any new applications to their phones. Surfing the Web was for emergency use only, since it was slow and ugly.

Finding ways to limit DoS attacks and SMS spam by making it harder to spoof the origin of electronic communications is on the agenda at a telecommunications standards meeting this week -- but civil rights advocates worry it could put an end to anonymity on the Internet.

While Motorola is in disarray as a result of its split into separate companies, Nokia and Samsung will be able to grab market share, analysts agree.

The global optical networking market has reached a new post-2001 high of $US4.4 billion which was driven by blockbuster revenue postings by Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei, according to an Ovum report for the fourth quarter of 2007.

The Internet's leading standards bodies have joined forces to clarify a set of next-generation network transport specifications that critics warned could cause massive interoperability problems for service providers.

With more than 1 billion phones sold globally for the first time, 2007 was a banner year for mobile phone sales. As sales continue to grow, the big questions this year are whether global market leader Nokia can expand in North America, and whether Motorola can stop its slide.

Asia Pacific telecom spending for the first three quarters of 2007 topped US$47.1 billion, up six per cent from the first three quarters of 2006.

China's largest mobile phone network operator will have a 3G (third generation mobile telecommunications) network based on TD-SCDMA technology up and running in eight cities by the end of this year, in preparation for testing ahead of the Summer Olympic Games slated to start next August in Beijing, industry leaders say.

Rad Data Communications and 23 other leading telecommunications industry vendors are participating in the largest and most diverse public Carrier Ethernet multi-vendor interoperability test ever staged.

Global shipments of DSL equipment in the first quarter increased 5 percent sequentially to a record 25 million ports, according to market research firm Dittberner.

Telstra today super-charged the speeds on its Next G network from 3.6Mbps to 14.4Mbps and boosted the cell range up to 200km for more than 40 rural and coastal sites.