Monthly Archives: January, 2008
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China starts hearing on mobile roaming charges
China on Tuesday started a public hearing to discuss lowering domestic mobile roaming charges, state media said, to address complaints from users.
Hosted by the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planner, the hearing discussed two proposed plans for roaming charges, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Both proposals involve cancelling the existing roaming service [...]
Congestion among mobile networks reduces:TRAI
NEW DELHI: The level of congestion among the networks of different cellular operators has come down considerably in the July-September period, according to telecom regulator TRAI.
The performance of the Cellular Mobile Service Providers with respect to the congestion of Point of Interconnections has improved in September, 2007 with the number of POIs with congestion coming [...]
Sober thoughts on submarine cables across the Pacific
TelecomTV – TelecomTV One – News
Of course that’s not to say that everything is rosy and you can just lay it and the business will come. I was a little surprised at the hostile reaction I received in a panel session when I suggested that some of the builds on thinner routes were [...]
US to auction 700 MHz spectrum reclaimed from broadcasters
One of the most significant auctions of frequency spectrum in the world is about the start in the US. The process of moving spectrum-hogging broadcasters out of these valuable bands (a process known as spectrum refarming) began in the 1990s. How many Asia-Pacific spectrum managers have even got started on the [...]
No to price war; yes to service war
Sri Lanka’s Tigo celco to sidestep price war – LANKA BUSINESS ONLINE
Sri Lanka’s mobile service provider Tigo plans to rely on giving better value to increase market share and revenue and not wage a price war with rival local mobile operators, company officials said.
“We do not believe that a price war will benefit [...]
Free WiFi in Singapore
Economist.com – Cities Guide
Singapore’s free Wi-Fi service, which since December 2006 has covered almost all public areas, has been extended to the place it was most notably lacking: the terminals at Changi Airport. Users of the airport, including those at the new Terminal 3 and Budget Terminal, can now log on to wireless@sg [...]
USA to Test ‘White Spaces’ Broadband Devices
Despite protests from broadcasters, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) next week will begin testing devices that will allow Internet service providers to utilize unused spectrum for wireless broadband service.
The commission on January 24 will kick off a four-to-six week lab test of equipment that will allow ISPs to access this spectrum, known as “white [...]
Why the iPhone won’t be in Asia
Robert Clark says: Apple and China Mobile recently broke off talks over selling the device in the mainland after the Chinese carrier rejected Apple’s insistence on a 30% commission. An executive at a non-mainland operator said the company was keen on selling the iPhone, but just couldn’t raise Apple’s interest. Apple doesn’t have a senior executive [...]
Sri Lanka government decrees mobile use socially desirable
In the process of trying to deflate inflation numbers (not inflation), the Government of Sri Lanka has removed alcohol and tobacco from the new price index because they are socially undesirable (not because government taxes are driving those prices through the roof) and included for the first time mobile phone charges.
This is a [...]
Another use of the Aladdin’s Lamp
Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular – New York Times
Until recently, cellphone novels — composed on phone keypads by young women wielding dexterous thumbs and read by fans on their tiny screens — had been dismissed in Japan as a subgenre unworthy of the country that gave the world its first [...]
2/3rd of 2004 Tsunami wave height caused by Horizontal Forces
“Scientists have long believed tsunamis form from vertical deformation of seafloor during undersea earthquakes. However, seismograph and GPS data show such deformation from the 2004 Sumatra earthquake was too small to generate the powerful tsunami that ensued. Song’s team found horizontal forces were responsible for two-thirds of the tsunami’s height, as observed by three satellites [...]
The coming issue is broadband
Broadband | Open up those highways | Economist.com
As Taylor Reynolds, an OECD analyst, puts it, innovation usually comes in steps: newcomers first rent space on an existing network, to build up customers and income. Then they create new and better infrastructure, as and when they need it.
In France, for example, the regulator forced [...]
Coming soon in Capital: Broadband connection through power lines
The North Delhi Power Limited (NDPL) and the Ministry of Information Technology are working towards an initiative that will make broadband connections through power lines possible. “We will send Internet signals through electricity transformer and channelise them through cables running overhead and underground,” said NDPL spokesperson Ajay Maharaj. “Residents would be given a device to [...]
Colloquium titled, ‘Communication and Technology: What’s New?’
lirneasia_colloquium_jan_08.ppt
A Colloquium will be conducted by Robin Mansell on the 19th of January 2008 at the LIRNEasia office in Colombo.
Robin Mansell, Ph.D., joined the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) in 2001 where she is Professor in the Department of Media and Communications. She is Honorary Professor at the LINK Centre, Wits Graduate [...]
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