FASTTAKES: China Mobile, Verizon, Google, Telstra, Telicphil, Telecom NZ

Telecom Asia Staff
20 May 2009
00:00

China Mobile, already listed on the NYSE and HKSE, has been cleared to list on the mainland exchange, preferably using China Depository Receipts (CDRs), chairman Wang Jianzhou said.

US operator Verizon is spending around $200 on advertising costs alone to win each new customer to its FiOS fiber network, a telecom analyst said.

China has been blocking Google-owned blog service Blogger.com since late last week, possibly because of sensitivity over the looming June 4 anniversary, SCMP.com said.

David Thodey has started his new job as Telstra\'s CEO Outgoing CEO Sol Trujillo will remain until June 30.

Philippine operator Telicphil has contracted ECI Telecom as the sole infrastructure provider for the expansion of its national transmission network.

Telecom NZ has added Maori language support to the predictive text function on some of its 3G handsets.

The PPC-1 undersea fiber cable has landed in Sydney, in the second of the project\'s three landings. The $156 million cable linking Australia, Guam and Papua New Guinea will be complete by September this year.

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