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IN FOCUS
Cyprus Telecommunications Authority
The Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CYTA) is established by Cyprus law
as a corporate body responsible for the provision of telecommunications
facilities, both nationally and internationally. CYTA has made substantial
investments in the past few years towards upgrading its telecommunications
network and providing a number of new advanced services to meet the
ever-increasing market demand, particularly from the commercial community.
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EVENTS
XML Web Services for the telecom market
The Eurescom workshop “XML Web Services for the telecom market” took place
at the Eurescom Conference Centre in Heidelberg from 24-25 June 2003. It
attracted 70 attendees, who represented network operators, manufacturers,
software vendors, solution providers, and academia. In an exhibition area,
several vendors and network operators were showing their latest developments
and trial results.
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PROJECT REPORTS
Contextualised Mobile Presence
Presence management (PM) technologies allow users to be continuously visible
to their friends and colleagues. PM has enabled hugely successful Internet
applications, such as instant messaging (IM) and buddy lists, with tens of
millions of users. During the last two years PM has gradually made its way
into the mobility world, with the potential of becoming a killer application
also in this market sector.
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EUROPEAN ISSUES
IST in FP6 ― the status before call 2
The first call for project proposals in the IST area of the Sixth Framework
Programme (FP6) closed on 24 April with an overwhelming number of
submissions. The European Commission received and evaluated 1,468 proposals.
This is not much of a surprise, given the budget of 1,070 million euros for
the first call alone.
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A BIT BEYOND
Bits against bites
Many people find mobile ringtones annoying. Just install particularly
unpleasant sounds on your handset, and you will see how lonely you can get
even in crowded places. Experts recommend using flatulence sounds as
ringtones to keep people at a respectful distance. The same principle could
also work with mosquitoes instead of humans. At least this is what Korean
mobile phone operator SK Telecom claimed. In July, they started offering
customers in South Korea a special ringtone to repel the nasty bloodsuckers.
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mobile games, revenues are estimated to exceed € 3 billion in 2005 according
to an Analysys forecast. And this is just a small segment in the online
entertainment market. Promising forecasts like this have encouraged telcos
to increase their commitment in the entertainment sector.