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BRIEFING - ASIA TELECOMMUNICATIONS - JAN 27, 2003


Jan 27, 2003 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- An executive briefing on the
telecommunications industry for Jan 27, 2003, prepared by Asia Pulse
(http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, asia-based wire with exclusive news,
commercial intelligence and business opportunities.

INDONESIA'S PT TELKOMSEL TO EXPAND NETWORK

JAKARTA - The country's largest cellular phone operator, PT Telkomsel, said 70
per cent of its investment target of US$500 million this will be used for
network expansion.

Company president Mulia Tambunan said the expansion plan is part of the
company's program to increase the number of its subscribers by 2.5 mllion to 3
million this year.

LG INTRODUCES DUAL-BAND DUAL-MODE CELL PHONE IN WORLD FIRST

SEOUL - LG Electronics Inc. (KSE:66570) announced Monday it has introduced a
dual-band dual-mode (DBDM) mobile phone which uses both the Wideband-Code
Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) and cdma2000 1x for connection, for the first
time in the world.

LGE said the new phone LG-K8100 has 2.2-inch TFT-LCD (thin film
transistor-liquid crystal display) with 260,000 color pixels and a built-in
300,000 pixel camera.

TELLABS TO EXPAND HEADCOUNT BY 25 PCT IN INDIA

NEW DELHI - Expanding its Indian operations, US based telecom equipment company
Tellabs is planning to ramp up its headcount in India specifically in the sales
by 25 per cent during 2003.

"Our current expansion plans include increasing our sales personnel by 25 per
cent from the current 20 in the year 2003, John T Cole, vice president and MD,
Asia Pacific, Tellabs told PTI here.



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