TELECOM IN TODAY'S NEWSPAPERS

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Top StorynnCommunications Daily -- The Universal Service Fund should be tied to all forms of communication, Senate Commerce Committee Chmn. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said Tues. at a hearing (p1).nnAmong OthersnnWall St. Journal* -- Companies that want to switch wireless e-mail service from BlackBerrys to other devices would incur costs of as much as $844 per user, according to a recent report. nn -- The president of Vodafone’s Japanese unit said an expected huge impairment charge at the parent company won’t affect its business strategy in Japan. nn -- Telekom Malaysia reported a 4th-quarter net loss after a previously disclosed payment of about $237 million to settle a legal dispute with Germany’s Deutsche Telekom. nnFinancial Times* -- The privatization of Australian’s Telstra will go ahead, prime minister John Howard said, shrugging off market concerns over the group’s flagging share price. nn -- Spain’s Telefónica on Tues. said it was considering selling its phone-directory unit TPI following its $26 billion takeover of UK mobile operator O2. nn -- Nokia increased its market share during 2005 to levels not seen for more than 2 years.nn -- Cable and Wireless Chmn. John Pluthero said he planned to halve the workforce by the end of the decade and cut the company’s customer base from 30,000 to 3,000 key clients. nnWashington Post -- Many users are in limbo as they await a federal judge’s decision about whether to shut down device maker Research in Motion’s U.S. operations for infringing on patents. nnUSA Today -- Talking on cellphones or using laptops on an airplane could disrupt cockpit operations, according to a new study. nn -- Lucent on Tues. named its corporate controller, John Kritzmacher to be chief financial officer. nnCD -- Emotions flared over a push to improve the efficiency of govt. spectrum use, as a 2-day Washington summit kicked off (p2).nn -- The American Red Cross wants to partner with carriers on scaling issues to temporarily enlarge its network capacity during disasters (p8).nnWashington Internet Daily -- NSA wiretapping is justified because domestic terrorism can’t solely be dealt with by criminal law, former CIA Dir. James Woolsey testified at a Senate hearing (p1).nnBoston Globe -- Internet authorities in China have set up a new family of Chinese-language alternatives to .com and other popular Internet address domains. nnL.A. Times -- Former Salomon Smith Barney broker Philip Spartis won a $1-million defamation verdict against a lawyer in the WorldCom stock case. n nn_____________________nn*The Wall St. Journal and the Financial Times can be accessed online via paid subscription only.