Monthly Archives: April, 2007
CPRafrica 2012/CPRsouth7: call for abstracts and young scholar applications. Click here for details.
Are the phones working in the East?
According to this report, they are not. It will be appreciated if those with first-hand knowledge report on whether this report is correct and whether the mobile network in the North is operational. LANKA BUSINESS ONLINE – LBO The entire mobile telephone network has even been shut down to stop the rebels using phones for [...]
Intelligent benchmark regulation: Forbearance within benchmark limits
This colloquium will be on a new paper that is being developed on tools for intelligent benchmark regulation, based on Harsha de Silva and Tahani Iqbal’s presentation on Price & Affordability Indicators at the WDR Expert Forum in Singapore. The tools under consideration are price baskets and price elasticity of demand.
LIRNEasia at International Program for Development Evaluation Training
LIRNEasia’s Director of Organizational Development has been awarded a competitive scholarship for the International Program for Development Evaluation Training offered every Summer by Carleton University (Canada) and the World Bank. This signifies LIRNEasia’s continued commitment to the values of a learning organization. Last year, LIRNEasia’s Lead Economist Dr Harsha de Silva was awarded a [...]
New thinking on spectrum use from Silicon Valley
Lots to think about in newest developments on more flexible uses of spectrum. This goes way beyond imposing private property rights on frequencies; this is a completely new way of thinking about spectrum. Silicon Valley Moneymen Make a Play for Airwaves – New York Times Mr. Bose, son of the audio designer Amar G. Bose, [...]
LIRNEasia research picked up by ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT
Sri Lanka: Cutting it Mobile phone use is taking off in Sri Lanka – though not, perhaps, in ways that service operators might have hoped. FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT In the world’s poorer countries, the purchase of a mobile phone has become increasingly affordable. Using it, however, can still be a struggle. Low-income mobile [...]
Canadian Professor writes about his sabbatical at LIRNEasia
Universities are wonderful places, in some respects. Every few years (originally 6, but now there are variations) they give the people who teach in them a few months or a year to think and write. They usually go to other universities (the idea being that the company of people who think well is a good [...]
Hutch’s entry in Indonesia triggers price competition in mobile market
Hutch’s entry into Indonesia’s mobile market as the 5th significant operator has started putting downward pressure on mobile calling prices, as I had predicted in my Oped piece Lower mobile prices: Through competition or profit regulation? in January of 2007. It is too early to call it a “price war” as the article below does, [...]
Tsunami kills in Solomans
A tsunami has swept ashore in the Solomon Islands after a strong undersea earthquake in the South Pacific. Initial reports from outlying, remote areas say at least eight people have been killed, but local officials fear the death toll could rise further. The National Disaster Council chairman told reporters that some villages had been “completely [...]
LIRNEasia’s Teleuse at the BOP Study in Businessline
LIRNEasia‘s Teleuse at the Bottom of the Pyramid study has been widely cited in an excellent piece by Thomas K. Thomas of the Hindu Businessline on Indian telecom operators push to go to rural areas where they were reluctant to do so before. Currently, a village with as little as 1000 persons is considered commercially [...]
Significant progress made on making communities resilient to disasters
By Rohan Samarajiva The findings of a pilot project on learning how information-communication technologies and community-based training can help in responding to disasters such as tsunamis were discussed by community leaders and international experts at a workshop on “SHARING KNOWLEDGE ON DISASTER WARNING, WITH A FOCUS ON COMMUNITY-BASED LAST–MILE WARNING SYSTEMS” held on March 28th [...]
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