Monthly Archives: March, 2008
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Pure BOP play in Sri Lanka increases EBITDA by 52.5%
At last report, Hutch Sri Lanka had an ARPU of around USD 3.
Sri Lanka Hutch subscribers double in 2007 – LANKA BUSINESS ONLINE
Subscribers of the Sri Lanka mobile unit of Hutchison Telecom doubled to more than a million in 2007, while revenue growth topped 50 percent, the group said in a statement.
Total subscribers [...]
LIRNEasia releases ‘AshokaTissa’ methodology and preliminary results of broadband QoSE testing
At a well attended public seminar yesterday (March 18) at Institution of Engineers (Sri Lanka), LIRNEasia released its Broadband QoSE testing methodology (named ‘AshokaTissa’, after the greatest collaboration between India and Sri Lanka, the movement of Buddhism across the Palk Strait) and the preliminary test results of three of the most widely used broadband [...]
LIRNEasia loses a friend
It is with deep regret that LIRNEasia reports the demise of Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Some of us at LIRNEasia had the opportunity of closely working with him in our professional lives.
In November 2005, LIRNEasia had its last official encounter with him when few representatives from WorldSpace (our partner in the Last-Mile Hazinfo project) including [...]
Broadband quality in UK: Glass half full or half empty?
Half of the UK’s broadband users are unhappy with the service from their internet providers even though high-speed connections are at their cheapest and fastest, according to a survey by price comparison service uSwitch.
With 15 million customers – half the country – spending £3bn on broadband every year, the gap is widening between the companies [...]
“Environment conservation levy” targets households with fixed telephones and possibly all handsets
The government promised a broad-ranging environmental levy in the last budget speech. Some sensible people inside government appear to have defanged what could have been a very nasty piece of legislation.
The Bill that is scheduled to be debated in Parliament on the 19th of March makes provision for the levy to collected by telecom operators [...]
Book censorship in Sri Lanka?
LIRNEasia’s first book was launched at a ceremony at IIT Madras in December 2007. Three months later, the book is not yet available for sale in a Sri Lankan bookstore. Why?
According to Sage India, a respected academic publisher, the book is held up at Sri Lanka Customs. The problem is that it [...]
The big picture on broadband QOS
Video Road Hogs Stir Fear of Internet Traffic Jam – New York Times
For months there has been a rising chorus of alarm about the surging growth in the amount of data flying across the Internet. The threat, according to some industry groups, analysts and researchers, stems mainly from the increasing visual richness of [...]
Broadband Quality: Are you getting what is promised?
Quality of Service Experience (QoSE) of broadband was a topic that has been discussed in LIRNEasia blog for sometime and we find many readers share the view of the Australian cartoonist who portrayed information superhighway to a modern car with cart wheels – the infrastructure.
LIRNEasia’s on-going QoSE benchmarking project aims to find the answer to [...]
TRC is to get an advanced disaster-communication vehicle designed by LIRNEasia associate Peter Anderson
Peter Anderson who spent part of his sabbatical in Sri Lanka assisting with the conduct of simulations for the Last-Mile HazInfo Project is to develop a mobile communications command vehicle for immediate post-disaster coordination for the government of Sri Lanka. He first came to Sri Lanka in January 2005 to participate in the [...]
LIRNEasia at ITS
LIRNEasia researchers will participate at International Telecommunications Society 17th Biennial Conference in Montreal, Canada, June 24-27, 2008.
Rohan Samarajiva, Helani Galpaya and Payal Malik will be among panellists at a double session on ‘New regulatory approaches in the face of rapidly changing demand’. This session showcases key findings from recent LIRNE.NET research in four different continents.
In a separate [...]
LIRNEasia at International Communication Association Conference
LIRNEasia researchers will participate at the International Communication Association conference in Montreal, Canada, May 21-26, 2008.
Rohan Samarajiva will present a paper based on LIRNEasia’s study on the gendered aspects of telecommunications use in emerging Asia, entitled, ‘Who’s Got the Phone? The Gendered Use of Telephones at the Bottom of the Pyramid‘.
Abstract: ‘Much has been said [...]
Vista trashed by Microsoft senior managers
They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know. – New York Times
It turns out that Mike is clearly not a naïf. He’s Mike Nash, a Microsoft vice president who oversees Windows product management. And Jon, who is dismayed to learn that the drivers he needs don’t exist? That’s Jon A. Shirley, a Microsoft board [...]
Parents, children and mobile phones
Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK) – New York Times
Innovation, of course, has always spurred broad societal changes. As telephones became ubiquitous in the last century, users — adults and teenagers alike — found a form of privacy and easy communication unknown to Alexander Graham Bell or his daughters.
The automobile ultimately [...]
Terminating the (telecoms) Terminator
First the EU said: Network interconnection by means of the Internet Protocol (IP) has been a vital enabler of the Internet’s ubiquity and success. IP-based interconnection has usually been achieved without explicit regulatory obligations, and has for the most part been highly effective.
Given the rapid evolution of the economic, technological and social environment this study of [...]
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