Monthly Archives: August, 2008
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Iran aims at 3rd GSM license
Iran is expected to announce a tender for a third GSM license in the country within the next few days, but may be required to offer generous terms to encourage investors into the country. The political interference in the tender for the second mobile license is still causing legal problems at the International Court for [...]
NTU, Singapore calls for ICT4D grant proposals
The Strengthening ICT4D Research Capacity in Asia (SIRCA) Programme of NTU Singapore has announced a call for grant proposals.
The SIRCA Programme seeks to identify future research leaders and to facilitate their development through the support of research grants. The awards are intended to ensure capacities to conduct research in the area of Information and Communications [...]
India adds 9.22 million mobile users in July
Indian mobile telecoms firms added 9.2 million users in July, taking subscribers in the world’s fastest growing wireless market to nearly 300 million, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said on Monday.
Leading mobile firm Bharti Airtel signed up 2.7 million customers, enough for it to overtake state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd as India’s largest telecom [...]
Sri Lanka: Now Internet porn banned, it is time to immobilise mobile porn
The war against porn continues – at full throttle. We are just twelve kilo meters away from porn-free net. Stay tuned. You may hear the good news anytime.
Meanwhile ‘National Child Protection Authority of Sri Lanka’, which claims keeping an eye on your child even when you are sleeping, wants to keep an eye on your [...]
Bahrain too forces mobile users to re-register (but for a different reason)
A campaign to crackdown on people making nuisance calls as well as hoax calls to emergency services was launched yesterday.It will require all mobile phone owners in Bahrain registering with their operators before the end of the year.
Telecommunication Regulatory Authority general director Alan Horne said that there were around 600,000 Batelco and Zain mobile telephone [...]
Internet telephony is open: Call charges set to decline in India
The complete opening of Internet telephony, as recommended by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) a few days ago, will not only lead to steep fall in all type of call charges, be it local, national or international, but also help in increasing broadband penetration, an area where India lags behind.
Industry analysts say person [...]
Nripendra Misra: The last protocol
August has been a busy month for the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) and its chairman, the redoubtable Nripendra Misra, a dyed-in-wool bureaucrat who has in his regulatory avatar done arguably more than any of his predecessors on the job. He has plenty of support and equally bitter critics who wish he would give [...]
Burma takes a “giant leap” in telecoms
Now you are “allowed” to exchange SMS with your friends in Burma. But you are to be registered with the Burmese authorities first. “GSM phones in foreign countries can now send test messages to Burma,” an E-Trade Myanmar Company employee told The Irrawaddy. The number of mobile phones in Burma reached around 266,000 at the end [...]
Recharging without wires
Desktop to Laptop. Fixed phone to mobile. Wired connectivity for the laptop to wireless connectivity through WiFi. All important steps in the untethering of people from places in the communication process.
But one wire remains. Every time we want to recharge a battery (or work for a long time in one place) we have to find [...]
Google on mobile?
It appears that erstwhile rivals Google and Verizon are talking about putting Google on the mobile palmtop. Good news for those who see a mobile-centric future, like us.
Poor economy and taxes begin to bite in Sri Lanka
Hutch, a pure BOP play that was making very good profits, has reported declining profits and revenue growth. One quarter does not a trend make. But seen together with Dialog’s bad results for the last quarter, it suggests things are not looking good for the telecom sector which is taking multiple hits with tripled spectrum [...]
NGOS Need to Think Beyond Just Mobile Costs, Consider Policy
A Review by Frederick Noronha. MobileActive.org
August 18, 2008 | KatrinVerclas
Civil society can play a large role in getting people digitally connected, say the co-editors of the new book ‘ICT Infrastructure in Emerging Asia: Policy and Regulatory Roadblocks’.
“However, in order to reap the full benefits from connectivity in a long-lasting manner, underlying issues of policy, affordability [...]
Mobile phone is shaping a new Afghanistan
Afghanistan is rising like a phoenix. The country is still vulnerable to a lethal conflict. Yet its people have captured the power of technology in their hearts and they have been defying all the odds to build a better life. Mobile phone has now truly become the socio-economic lifeline of Kabul. Hopefully the entire nation will [...]
The pace of mobile phone sales
LiMo Foundation says that while the world’s population is increasing by a net three persons every second, giving us a population expansion of 180 every minute, 10,800 each hour and 259,200 every day. You think that’s astonishing. Well, mobile phones can better that. Every second there are 38 mobile phones sold and that’s 2,280 every minute, [...]
Condom ringtone promotes HIV awareness in India
As part of its work to fight the spread of HIV, the BBC World Service Trust has launched a novel ringtone in India designed to break down the social taboo of using condoms. The new advertising campaign, which features a ‘condom a cappella’ ringtone is also funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda [...]
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