Comments on: BIG BROTHER backs off: Individual mobile phone ‘Licenses’ not for another eight months! http://lirneasia.net/2008/07/big-brother-backs-off-individual-mobile-phone-%e2%80%98licenses%e2%80%99-not-for-another-eight-months/ a regional ICT policy and regulation think tank active across the Asia Pacific Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:34:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: Most mobiles… » mobile sharing - nearly illegal in Sri Lanka http://lirneasia.net/2008/07/big-brother-backs-off-individual-mobile-phone-%e2%80%98licenses%e2%80%99-not-for-another-eight-months/comment-page-1/#comment-12924 Most mobiles… » mobile sharing - nearly illegal in Sri Lanka Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:38:52 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1735#comment-12924 [...] over to LIRNEasia to read about the proposed (and, it seems, now delayed) law in Sri Lanka to a) require a proof-of-SIM-ownership certificate to be carried along with one’s mobile and [...] [...] over to LIRNEasia to read about the proposed (and, it seems, now delayed) law in Sri Lanka to a) require a proof-of-SIM-ownership certificate to be carried along with one’s mobile and [...]

]]> By: Global Voices Online » Sri Lanka: Licenses for Mobile Phones http://lirneasia.net/2008/07/big-brother-backs-off-individual-mobile-phone-%e2%80%98licenses%e2%80%99-not-for-another-eight-months/comment-page-1/#comment-12877 Global Voices Online » Sri Lanka: Licenses for Mobile Phones Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:58:35 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1735#comment-12877 [...] LirneAsia on the welcome delay in introducing individual licenses for using mobile phones in Sri Lanka. Posted by Neha Viswanathan Share This [...] [...] LirneAsia on the welcome delay in introducing individual licenses for using mobile phones in Sri Lanka. Posted by Neha Viswanathan Share This [...]

]]> By: harsha de silva http://lirneasia.net/2008/07/big-brother-backs-off-individual-mobile-phone-%e2%80%98licenses%e2%80%99-not-for-another-eight-months/comment-page-1/#comment-12822 harsha de silva Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:00:14 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1735#comment-12822 rohan is my guest tonight [18 july 2008] on biz1st in focus at 9.30pm on mtv and shakthi tv [repeat at noon on sunday] discussing this issue along with the industry in general. catch it if you can. rohan is my guest tonight [18 july 2008] on biz1st in focus at 9.30pm on mtv and shakthi tv [repeat at noon on sunday] discussing this issue along with the industry in general. catch it if you can.

]]> By: Rohan Samarajiva http://lirneasia.net/2008/07/big-brother-backs-off-individual-mobile-phone-%e2%80%98licenses%e2%80%99-not-for-another-eight-months/comment-page-1/#comment-12793 Rohan Samarajiva Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:32:46 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1735#comment-12793 Today's Lankadeepa carried a vague retraction of the story above. It appears that the actual start date is indeterminate; but TRC does not want to say it's an 8 month postponement. Today’s Lankadeepa carried a vague retraction of the story above. It appears that the actual start date is indeterminate; but TRC does not want to say it’s an 8 month postponement.

]]> By: Nalaka Gunawardene http://lirneasia.net/2008/07/big-brother-backs-off-individual-mobile-phone-%e2%80%98licenses%e2%80%99-not-for-another-eight-months/comment-page-1/#comment-12771 Nalaka Gunawardene Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:15:29 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1735#comment-12771 This news does bring a respite to the hasty and drastic regulations that were proposed over the weekend. But don't expect the telecom and defence babudoms (aka bureaucracy) to back off so easily and nicely. It's more likely that they found holes in what they were proposing, and after spending millions of tax payer funds advertising the new regulations in last weekend's newspapers, they now say the matter will be reviewed. Meanwhile, if you read my own views on this incident - taken with other recent incidents of stepmotherly treatment - that mobile phones keep receiving in Sri Lanka, you will realise the reasons run deeper: http://www.groundviews.org/2008/07/16/mobile-phones-in-sri-lanka-everymans-new-trousers/ This news does bring a respite to the hasty and drastic regulations that were proposed over the weekend. But don’t expect the telecom and defence babudoms (aka bureaucracy) to back off so easily and nicely. It’s more likely that they found holes in what they were proposing, and after spending millions of tax payer funds advertising the new regulations in last weekend’s newspapers, they now say the matter will be reviewed.

Meanwhile, if you read my own views on this incident – taken with other recent incidents of stepmotherly treatment – that mobile phones keep receiving in Sri Lanka, you will realise the reasons run deeper: http://www.groundviews.org/2008/07/16/mobile-phones-in-sri-lanka-everymans-new-trousers/

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