Telkom's BSCS

AAG will be ready in the next two or three months. Indosat and Telkom have to be ready to connect to the system. Plain text: Jakabare & BSCS shall also be ready in this time frame.

Pacnet's New Presence: Vietnam & Thailand

Just checked again the world's telecom wholesale news after weeks-long pause :-D. This is one of the interesting news: Pacnet tries to get closer with traffic sources, this time in Vietnam and Thailand. Currently, international & inter-regional wholesalers tend to reach more potential customers, not only those which belong the industry giants but also medium-size customers. This might be a visible effort to anticipate loss of traffic, since many nationally-strong telcos are able and currently tend to build their own infrastructure. Disagree ? You are free to comment! :-D

Asia Pacific Gateway APG (1)

The following low-res picture might be a better illustration for Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) than my previous sketch. It seems legitimate, but I couldn't  find something to confirm this. It was published by a japanese news portal (livedoor.com ?).

Asia America Gateway AAG (4)

Citing PLDT/BusinessMirror, Primetrica has recently reported that AAG might be operational in August this year (2009). If it's true, it is faster than my prediction, but offcourse it's still slower than the original schedule in Q4|2008.

"...the installation of the Philippine terminal station, as well as those in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Guam, Hawaii and US mainland has been completed"

Google vs. Bing

As reported by several media, Microsoft's new search engine "Bing" has made a good debut in the business. StatCounter has identified that after two weeks of its formal introduction, Bing has overtook Yahoo as the second rank search engine, following the incumbent Google :-D ... O.k. true, it might still be changed as time goes, Yahoo might strike back :-D ... Google might innovate something to defend its (currently-reduced) market share.