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To: djane who wrote (7536)	9/24/1999 2:53:00 AM
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Asia Pacific telcos unprepared for Y2K says Meta Group Published on Thursday, September 23, 1999 TELECOMS NEWSBYTES The Meta Group has surveyed 55 telecom providers servicing the Asia Pacific region and found that only 25 per cent reported full Y2K compliance. A further 50 per cent were highly confident of compliance by the fourth quarter of this year, a rate Meta decries as "surprisingly low for a critical service." In developed countries such as Japan and Australia, Q4 compliance rated at 65 per cent. "Use of global service providers ... will not insulate users - in-country service provision is often still constrained to local carriers," warns Meta. Organisations are counselled to "immediately investigate their Asia Pacific network service providers' Y2K status as part of overall supply chain certification, and should plan for failure of telecom service, especially data, in less-developed countries." Copyright (c) Post-Newsweek Business Information, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright (c)1999. South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All Rights Reserved.