Asia-Pacific global telecomm leader. (Network News).The sixth regional telecommunications Exhibition and Forum for the Asia-Pacific, was held from the 2 to 7 December at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (Traditional Chinese: (HKCEC HKCEC Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center ), Hong Kong SAR (Segmentation And Reassembly) The protocol that converts data to cells for transmission over an ATM network. It is the lower part of the ATM Adaption Layer (AAL), which is responsible for the entire operation. See AAL. SAR - segmentation and reassembly , China. ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. TELEcom ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. 2002 again attracted world and regional leaders from the telecoms and IT industries as well as key figures from governments across the region. The depth of technology innovation in the Asia-Pacific was highlighted by the fact that 60% of the exhibitors were first time participants from the region. According to Mr Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General of ITU, the extremely high quality of the exhibitors, trade visitors, industry and policy leaders in attendance reinforces the ITU TELECOM reputation as a unique non-profit showcase for telecommunications technologies and as a forum for strategic policy discussions relevant to the regional and global industry." The release of the 2002 edition of the ITU Asia-Pacific Telecommunication Indicators during the event reinforced the theme of `Asia Leading Change' as the theme of TELEcom ASIA 2002. In the mobile economy, the Asia-Pacific region is poised to overtake Europe as the world's largest market during 2002, although mobile penetration is still below 10%. Two of the top three mobile economies worldwide, as measured by mobile phones per capita [Latin, By the heads or polls.] A term used in the Descent and Distribution of the estate of one who dies without a will. It means to share and share alike according to the number of individuals. , are from the region. They are Taiwan, China and Hong Kong, China. The region also hosts the economies with the largest number of mobile Internet users: Japan and the Republic of Korea. Mobile technologies also contributed to raising total teledensity dramatically in many developing countries that might otherwise have expected to remain locked into low levels of access. Thanks to mobile substitution, while half the region's developing countries had a teledensity of less than one in 1993, this had been reduced to only two (Afghanistan and Myanmar) by mid-2002. www.itu.com |
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