- 2010: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2007: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2006: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2005: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2004: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
March 2010
- Regulatory mayhem mutes PSTN in Bangladesh
- LIRNEasia CEO to speak at DIRSI/ACORN-REDECOM Training Seminar
- CPRsouth5: Call for Abstracts
- US Universal Service Fund to disburse subsidies for broadband
- Facebook beats Google in hits
- Ambush rocks Bangladesh mobile market
- Health workers don't need degrees to operate mHealthSurvey
- Broadband Quality in USA: Federal Communications Commission in LIRNEasia’s footsteps
- Mobile for the impaired
- Welcome to China Mobile-Bank
- Population as a growth engine
- Tied sales and the good that competition regulation can do
- Network effects exploited by Face Book, or why we advertise in Face Book
- Etisalat signals entry into m-payments space
- Expert Forum Meeting on ‘Mobile 2.0 Applications and Conditions’ in Pakistan
- LIRNEasia Dissemination event and Tutorials Singapore: 21-22 June 2010
- LIRNEasia CEO delivers lead talk at int'l ICTD workshop, New Delhi
- LIRNEasia mGov findings published in Indian media
- Green ICT: Asking the Right Questions
- Debating the wisdom of Bharti's acquisition of Zain's African operations
- How to untangle India's unholy spectrum mess
- Preparedness saves lives
- Internet beats newspapers for news in US
- SMS alerts for tsunamis, the Australian experience
February 2010
- Mobile 2.0 research findings to be disseminated in Delhi, Dhaka and Bangkok
- Adding mobile to the retail experience
- Why Haiti's Cellphone Networks Failed
- From Berlusconi's Italy, a threat to us all
- India announces 3G auctions: but are all the ducks lined up?
- Gurstein makes the case for telecenters
- Not my wish list, but as good a starting point as any in thinking about the next handsets
- On the benefits of services trade
- 5 billion USD for Zain, African foothold (finally) for Bharti, and budget telecom network model for African consumers?
- How mobile handsets are doing
- Quo warranto, TRC?
- WiFi makes the bus quiet and the students better behaved
- Pakistan Competition Commission appears to have mobile telcos on the ropes
- T@BOP3 findings published in Nokia's Expanding Horizons
- A business model nudge at 1 gigabit a second
- Latest on Indian ITES performance
- Telecommunication Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka: Quo Vadis?
- How broad is your broadband? Discover with 'Mobile AT tester'
- BOP mobile phone expenditure findings presented at PTC conference
- Photo exhibition at LIRNEasia@5
- Spectrum hoarding in India and the available remedies
- Special Committee appointed to develop broadband in Sri Lanka – Daily News
- Universal Service Fund and Malaysia
- !ncredible Indiaaaaaa…..
January 2010
- Twitter in the coalmine
- Txting champions: Where are the Filipinos?
- More i-phones slower networks; why Asian regulators need to prioritize spectrum refarming
- Early warning: still hung up on sirens. Why not cell broadcasting?
- Executive training: Alternative Regulatory Strategies for Telecommunications
- Mobile booms remittance boon in Bangladesh
- Broadband QoSE rising on the public agenda
- Unhappiness about intra-SAARC and roaming charges in Nepal
- Living without Google
- The Great Firewall of China has holes
- M-donations to Haiti: Will this be permitted in most countries?
- Nokia's transformation depends on success in emerging markets
- Farmer profits increase by 33% because of availability of agri-market price information, another research study confirms
- Uncle Sam picks the CEOs brains
- The power of love (and technology)
- Withdrawing from the world: ICTs and censorship
- Sri Lanka TRC backtracks on compliance with WTO commitments
- Aging and ICTs
- Administrative expropriation in practice: How regulators can ruin the investment climate
- Health Officials now see the beauty of real-time biosurveillance
- Regulator launching satellite in Bangladesh
- Sri Lanka: Financial Times elaborates on spam issue raised by LIRNEasia
- Tharoor tweets; MSM twit
- Asian Journal of Public Affairs: Call for Submissions
- A change in the Internet world, driven by mobile?
- Indian Prime Minister’s Office shops cheaper mobile
- Explaining mobile behavior: Latitude, culture, economics?
- Sri Lanka: President uses SMS to wish mobile users: Why not Cell Broadcasting?
December 2009
- Sri Lanka regulator, asleep at the switch for years, becomes belligerent upon waking up
- Abhayagiriya: The centre of Knowledge Economy in 5-11th century?
- Rural BPO at Mahavilachchiya: Still taxiing…
- 5th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
- Standard Operating Procedures for Real-Time Biosurveillance Program
- Agricultural price information through mobiles: Harsha's dream closer to realization
- Tsunami coverage that includes mentions of LIRNEasia
- LIRNEasia's greetings for 2010
- Regulatory risk highest in Sri Lanka lowest in Malaysia
- Reliance mulls selling family glassware
- Sri Lanka: Service sector cushions job losses in agriculture & manufacturing
- Statistical data mining talk at University of Peradeniya
- KF Lai and Ashok Jhunjhunwala seed entrepreneurship in Colombo
- LIRNEasia@5 coverage and pictures in Sunday Leader
- Stuart Weinstein at government early warning offices
- Innovative organizations
- Meet the Sinhala Bloggers...sans the anonymous political animals
- LIRNEasia joins hands with Sarvodaya village for its grass root work
- India’s international bandwidth conundrum
- Learnings on the use of ICT for agriculture
- g-phone v i-phone
- News generated at the LIRNEasia@5 conference
- Callers are calling for call and talk. Period.
- Tigo and Dialog CEO On State Of Industry
- Kristin Due Hague On Bad Government
- Industry Players on the bottom of the pyramid and the Asian market 'crisis'
- Nokia, Tigo CEO and Dialog CEO
- Questions On BOP
- Helani Galpaya on the Bottom of the Pyramid
- Kentaro Toyama of Microsoft
- Grameen Phone at the 'Base of the Pyramid'
- Tim Kelly Of World Bank On Bottom Of Pyramid
- Potential for mobile 2.0 services at the BOP
- Understanding the Bottom of the Pyramid
- Stuart Weinstein From Pacific Tsunami Warning System
- Rohan Samarajiva On Tsunami Warning In Maldives
- Reuters Market Light, For Farmers
- Contribution of policy research is the avoidance of bad decisions
- Agriculture: National Spot Exchange, India
- AgInfo to AgStrategy - The role of information in making agriculture markets more efficient
- Using ICTs For Agricultural Strategy
- Knowledge Based Economies
- Day 2 Photos
- Bill Melody Introducing Regulator Panel
- Ashok Jhunjhunwala's questions on M-commerce viability
- GupShup, Indian SMS and Advertising App
- Coverage of inaugural session of the LIRNEasia@5 conference
- CellBazaar - The Craigslist Of Bangladesh
- Mobile Money: Harsha De Silva
- M-Transfers As A Way Out Of Poverty
- Rohan Samarajiva On Regulation From The Business Model
- Timothy Gonsalves On Real Broadband Speeds
- New Approaches to Regulation; Creating Better Markets
- New Approaches To Regulation
- Video From Session On Research To Policy
- Helani Galpaya On Universal Service Funds
- Mobile Price Benchmarking Presentation
- Three Lessons From Tim Kelly, infoDev, World Bank
- Knowledge To Innovation Session
- Question From Bill Melody On Prediction
- How can researchers speak to the corporate world?
- Per Helmersen On Speaking To Decision Makers
- Rajat Kathuria On Indonesia
- How Do We Monitor Impact Of Policy Change?
- Question On Brazil Type Development
- Rohan Samarajiva's Question On Toll Roads
- Challenges Facing India And China
- Beginning Of Milinda's Discussion
- Railway reservations through mobiles in Sri Lanka
- m-Health real-time biosurveillance pilot showcased in Las Vegas
- Making government open using ICTs and decentralized innovation
- How to get South Asian women mobile access, and how not
- Two private submarine cables for Bangladesh
- Assessing a comprehensive ICT development program, e Sri Lanka
- One of our Partners wins 2009 Infosys Prize
November 2009
- South African appeal court affirms role of independent think tanks
- LIRNEasia on Radio Canada International
- Disaster Risk Reduction: Is Europe different?
- More talk on cheap talk
- Teleuse@BOP findings used in discussion of Digital Bangladesh
- m-Health real-time biosurveillance at e-Asia2009
- How broad is your broadband?
- Teleuse@BOP research presented to Indian media academics
- Iran: Controlling telecom to control people
- Helani Galpaya speaks at Brazil Broadband Seminar
- TRAI Chair visits LIRNEasia
- Progress on lowering prices of calling among SAARC countries?
- The sad Broadband workshop...
- Rohan Samarajiva speaks at OECD/infoDev workshop at the Internet Governance Forum
- LIRNEasia's research presented at India Disaster Management Congress 2009
- Universal service funds un/misspent? No problem, we'll find something for bureaucrats to spend it on
- Making access to the Internet possible: Competition versus Internet exchanges
- Chanuka Wattegama at European Commission Environment Conference
- 2nd South Asian Broadband conference starts in Colombo 26 November 2009
- Iraqis love their mobiles & payments, but there's a downside
- Productivity driving growth in China and Asia
- Warning: Your long distance carrier may be cheating
- LIRNEasia's TRE findings reported in Global Symposium on Regulation study
- Use a mobile to get pension: Mobile 2.0 research findings receives media coverage in New Delhi
- Google buys itself into mobile advertising
- More media coverage for LIRNEasia's broadband QoSE research
- BTRC to issue monthly mobile QoS report card
- Inventor calls mobile a “Too complicated” gadget
- Mobiles as microscopes
- Face-to-face and virtual sociality
- LIRNEasia broadband QoSE findings in Indian media
- No-nonsense space mission of Afghanistan
- India’s top judges display moral authority
- Per-second pulse rising mobile heartbeat of India
October 2009
- LIRNEasia contributes to rethinking on universal service funds
- Continuing saga of SIM overcount in Pakistan
- Why postal reform is part of ICT policy
- VoIP rules after rising from pariah
- WiMax defaulters are penalized in Malaysia
- GPS on mobiles
- What to do with the digital dividend
- Mobile money presentations and new networks
- TRE findings published in Thai media
- Indian schoolgirl prompts Stanford’s R&D
- Google’s Android takes on Apple
- Users as innovators
- Android on the upswing
- Sri Lanka: A Nenasala telecenter – The story of two photos
- LIRNEasia disseminates TRE results in Thailand
- Evaluation Guide for Real-Time Biosurveillance Program
- Telecom access rankings in South Asia
- ICT: Promote 3G services in Thailand
- LIRNEasia CEO delivers keynote at South Asia Mobile Summit
- Why refuseniks get mobile phones
- Young Saudis boycott incumbent for poor service
- Relevant social science
- A new disaster act may be a good way to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the tsunami
- Young Health Workers more likely to adopt the m-HealthSurvey
- LIRNEasia assists Mongolia ICTD researchers better reach policy makers
- Sri Lanka warning tower fails
- Mobile phone key pad inefficient for high volume health data entry
- Digital Divide in Broadband Quality: LIRNEasia’s Broadband Benchmarking compares South Asia with North America
- NRA Websites: Benchmarking National Telecom Regulatory Authority Websites
- FCC seeks comments on net neutrality
- Finland made 1 Mbps every citizen’s birthright
- Mobile Phones and Sharing Economies for sustaining last-mile early warning systems presented at Rutgers University
- European Union shows how to evaporate public funds
- LIRNEasia lead economist at int'l conference on mobile communication and social policy
- Telecom NZ guilty of abusing market power: Court
- Vietnam dumps adulterated mobile statistics
- Long way to go in e government services
- TPRC gains interest of Washington policy officials
- Incentives not intervention
- No more blackouts?
- You may (not) kiss the LTE Bride
- Iran: Revolutionary Guard Telecom
- Sarvodaya Fusion launches FarmerNet
- Mobile Number Portability in emerging South Asia
- Android gains traction
- The master builder of information superhighway
- Missing mobiles: A public policy lesson
- U.S. broadband lags Asian nations
- Using Volunteer Computing for monitoring Broadband QoSE
- Android brings down smartphone prices?
- Lessons of 2004 tsunami used in Samoa
- LIRNEasia COO at Asian Telecom Seminar, Pune, India
September 2009
- WiMAX still in the game in the US?
- Dark side of regulation in America
- Sweden to charge spectrum on usage
- Power to overpower telecoms profit
- UK mobile broadband providers deliver 25% of advertised speeds
- Bangladesh again blocks FDI in telecoms
- Electronics draining 15% of household electricity?
- India mulls Internet telephony ban
- Verizon gives up on voice over copper
- LIRNEasia research cited in presentation to U.S. Congress
- Broadband needs both chicken and the egg
- Bahrain regulator is making history
- G'day, mate! Get separated or else...
- IDRC features LIRNEasia Lead Economist in its annual report
- Government in the age of Internet
- LIRNEasia CEO speaks on mobile path to the Internet Economy at the OECD
- Godspeed bird-speed in South Africa
- Who will bell the (broadband) cat?
- Regulators and Operators trust each other more: Report
- Stranger than fiction, fairytale and folklore
- Sri Lanka: Fixed-mobile substitution drives down prices
- Broadband QoSE testing: Why AT-Tester? Why not Speedtest?
- How the developing world may participate in the global Internet Economy: Innovation driven by competition
- JVP wants Face Book accounts for Sri Lanka’s IDPs; Why not mobiles?
August 2009
- Mobiles key to Internet in Africa: Tata
- LIRNEasia responds to Bangladesh Regulator’s Consultation Paper on Broadband Quality
- Riposte from Reliance on flat rate pricing for Internet
- Computing contribution of computers to global warming
- LIRNEasia CEO among top three contenders for Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism
- Parental-control phones
- North Korea mobile is on the move
- Invisible government vs. invisible gown
- Nokia enters mobile money market
- More on anonymity on the web
- India’s broadband Juggernaut halts
- India: Reliance promotes rural mobile services
- Microsoft to assist move to mobile more-than-voice
- Mobile TV 'very slow' to take off
- Will Singapore's NBN stay fair?
- Mobile phones read barcodes: delegating the hard stuff to machines
- 2002-04 spectrum refarming in Sri Lanka praised
- Network Readiness: Sri Lanka advances; India, Pakistan and Nepal retreat; Bangladesh holds its bottom place
- World Economic Forum reads LIRNE.NET publications
- Location-based tweets
- The future of WiMAX is…………….
- When FM Radio meets the Mobile Phone in Pakistan
- Defining broadband
- LIRNEasia's Lead Economist at 27th IAAE conference, Beijing
- Discerning teleuse from mobile transaction generated information
- Maldives cell broadcast report featured in SciDev
- BTRC lacks Quality of Judgment (QoJ)
- LIRNEasia's COO presents at ITS Africa-Asia-Australasia Regional conference
- LIRNEasia researcher chairs thematic session at UN-ISDR Disaster Risk Reduction conference
- Sri Lanka: “My son would have been alive if he had a mobile phone” – Father
- PCs not the best vehicles for providing IT-delivered services to rural areas
- All that was wired will henceforth be wireless: The Negroponte Switch manifesting in the US
- Teleuse@BOP profile: Sayar Singh
- Colloquium: Identifying conditions for the delivery of m-government services to the BOP: India
- Philippines' watchdog shows its teeth
- What Women Want (at the BOP)
- Iraq is the Arab world's most competitive mobile market
- Ideas: Manga for mobiles
- Teleuse@BOP profile: Chamara Pahalawattage
- “Info lady” starts where the “Phone lady” stopped
- Migrant results from teleuse@BOP3 carried in Sri Lanka media
- Collateral cyber damage: The future of war
July 2009
- LIRNEasia, with help from RIA, responds to Bangladesh public consultation on SMP
- Mission Statement of Sri Lanka’s Pornographic Monitoring Committee: “STRAIGHT OR GAY, WE WATCH THEM ALL!”
- Multiple Number Possession, a new meaning for MNP from Voice & Data
- Corroboration for Teleuse@BOP results
- Sri Lanka to ban mobile phone use by teachers too
- Colloquium: Telecommunication regulation in M-banking
- Recession in North, but emerging Asia is expanding – The Economist
- Wireless eats wireline: Sri Lanka joins the club
- Skype may have to play Russian Roulette
- Aileen Aguero's research makes it to Peruvian press
- ITU and LIRNEasia to host household-survey training course in Bangkok
- Telecoms to be the most resilient sector in South Asia and Middle East
- BTRC takes note of discrepancy between retail vs wholesale broadband prices
- Do not text and drive
- On Her Majesty’s (Fraudband) Service
- BANNED! BANNED! BANNED! No mobile phones in Sri Lankan schools
- Rohan Samarajiva presents at seminar on national transport policy
- Bangladesh: Lowest in call charges and highest in broadband
- Browser wars and the mobile interface
- Harsha de Silva, Eisenhower Fellow
- Sri Lanka bans local sex sites; but keeps international porn open
- Sri Lanka: Central Environmental Authority and Dialog ventures into M- waste Management
- Colloquium: Freedom of Expression in Mobile Content: Pakistan
- Americans getting excited about multitasking while driving
- AM radio on mobile phones
- Mobiles afflicted with Galapagos syndrome
- More debate on cloud computing
- T@BOP3 missed call findings in the media
- Harsha de Silva presents paper at first ICT for agriculture conference in LK
- ICTs to address the language barrier?
- 3R work in the news
- Cell Broadcasting for Early Disaster Warning in Maldives: Report released today
- Perils of deregulating payphone tariffs
- India’s broadband: What to be and not to be
- LIRNEasia research brought to bear on mobile number portability question
- Colloquium: Business Models for Delivering Mobile Value-Added Services
- Teleuse@BOP qualitative results showcased in Times of India
- First instalment of LIRNEasia's contribution to Lanka Central Bank's policy making on mobile money
- Banded forbearance article published in International Journal of Regulation & Governance
- Sri Lanka: Our toes are free and we have a mobile web portal
- Colloquium: An evaluation of different models for the issuance of licenses for service provision and frequencies
- Namibian interconnection rates converged at NAD 0.60 (USD 0.07)
- World Bank gives USD 1.9m to Indonesia for Internet access
- Phones for more than voice
- Teleuse at the BOP and citation practices
- LIRNEasia research used to justify telecenters in Bangladesh
- More coverage for Teleuse @ BOP3: phones outnumber radios in continental S Asia
- Were the original e Sri Lanka telecenters urban or rural?
- Bangladesh budget retains some barriers to connectivity
- How to succeed in the BPO business (or not)
- Sri Lanka: Steepest drop in mobile prices in 2004-06
- Interview with Rohan Samarajiva: Is one call the same as another?
- Call clarity: Has Skype or broadband quality improved?
June 2009
- Sri Lanka: What is the Environment Ministry doing with the envi levy?
- Colloquium: Mobile 2.0: m-money for the unbanked
- Media coverage on public phone use findings from T@BOP3 study
- Media coverage of Dhaka release of migrant study results
- Health Workers express difficulties in m-HealthSurvey
- Teleuse@BOP migrant study findings released in Dhaka
- Who hates mobiles?
- Sri Lanka and Pakistan rise in BPO rankings headed by India, but by enough? Where is Bangladesh?
- LIRNEasia Lead Economist appointed to scientific advisory committee eARN Africa
- Bypass drives “informal” FDI in Pakistan
- Censorship: the nuclear option
- Britain to tax fixed lines 6 pounds a year for broadband: expect more mobile-only households
- Cheap connectivity to East Africa, hopefully . . .
- Fixed line substitution driven by US economic crisis
- Pakistan Telecom Authority shows futility of raising mobile taxes
- Payal Malik speaks at Connecting Rural Communities Forum, New Delhi
- Maldives cell broadcasting research showcased in World Disasters Report 2009
- Communication for Policy Impact
- Colloquium: The future of community-based hazard information systems
- Twitter, Iran and the ability to control information
- Be it resolved that mobiles have the potential to be the most transformative ICT for developing countries
- Iran: The use and limitations of ICTs in democratic protests
- US universal service policy no longer excludes mobiles
- LIRNEasia's Int'l voice benchmark findings published in Himal Southasian
- So what?
- Here come the compuphones at less than USD 100
- Ratan Tata on the mobile and the Nano as disruptive technologies
- Barcodes, mobiles and LIRNEasia research on traceability
- Still blogging, after all these years
- On improving public service at the local government level
- India's ten-year outsourcing projections off by only 6%
- Electronic connectivity: A reason to keep on going
- Sri Lanka humanitarian crisis and LIRNEasia
May 2009
- OECD broadband used by one-fifth of the population
- Real-Time Biosurveillance Program Software Requirement Specifications
- T@BOP3 findings published in India's Financial Express
- Findings from Broadband QoSE study published by Economic Times, India
- New business model to Africa via Bharti-MTN merger?
- LIRNEasia Chair and CEO awarded ICA 2009 "Communication Research as an Agent of Change Award"
- Health Workers fear m-Health may reveal accountability secrets
- "Mobile2.0:Beyond Voice?" ICA Pre-conference: Papers and presentations
- Pakistan ends Internet bandwidth monopoly
- RTBP workshop on detecting events in m-Health data
- Reflecting on Indian telecom policy, remembering the bad old days
- Internet through mobile networks (not really mobile Internet)
- Mobiles, the developing world path to the Internet?
- Telepresencing, the high end of the telecom-transport tradeoff
- Suwadana Center Volunteers ready to use RTBP's m-HealthSurvey
- Teleuse@BOP profile: Kittipong Sangsri
- Indian innovation in political communication using the mobile
- More radios than TVs and phones?
- How do You Test Mobile Broadband Speeds?
- USA: 100 Days of Obama Internet Policy
- Broadband Quality: Think before you complain
- Better weather info coming up: Opportunity for mobile operators?
- Indian urban-rural divide debate enveloped in fog
- How do we know we're doing well?
- Fixed Broadband Quality in Colombo Improves
- Ideas for maturing mobile markets: Sex info for teens
- Smart infrastructure ideas we can use: Congestion pricing
April 2009
- Putting T-Cube to the test
- Shanzai! One answer to the puzzle of cheap phones
- New issue of Info
- Output-based aid for rural telecom in Cambodia; we sincerely hope the lessons of Nepal have been learned
- Bandwidth hungry but purchasing-power poor
- Best paper award at ICTD goes to Subhash Bhatnagar of IIM-Ahmedabad and LIRNEasia
- Sri Lanka: Why a Communication Satellite?
- Research Influences Public Policy and Decision-Making – Book Launch
- Broadband Quality War: Are you a Winner or a Loser?
- ICTD2009 highlights RTBP m-Health
- Nokia sales drop, but not too much in Asia
- Flamboyant reporting on the budget telecom network model
- Ideas from Africa for South Asia
- Analytics training for RTBP m-Health
- LIRNE.NET course in Cape Town
- The science of earthquake (and therefore tsunami) prediction
- Rohan Samarajiva to present at next SA Connect Public Seminar Series
- Inclusive growth with mobiles: Findings from the BOP
- Australian government enters broadband business
- Rough consensus and running code
- Reducing roaming rates; making South Asian regional integration real
- Bangladesh; Leased line prices down, but are the customers benefited?
- LIRNEasia's Indian TRE event in the media
- Sri Lanka: Minister Thondaman, are you being led down the garden path?
- CPR intercontinental?
- Advances in modeling of long waves to help predict tsunami hazards
- Nokia finally dumps WiMax
- Mobile makes people rude and impatient: Indian Parliament
March 2009
- CPRsouth4: Call for Abstracts & Young Scholar Applications
- Sri Lanka: Dishes, dishes everywhere…
- Sri Lanka: Bottom of the Pyramid phone lady
- Announcement: Testing Mobile Broadband quality (Colombo) – April 2009
- Sri Lanka’s SMS village
- Sahana takes wing; Sri Lanka Minister recognizes a new way of producing public goods
- Denmark, Sweden dwarf US in new global IT ranking
- India: Finance Ministry nixes reduction of universal service fee
- Skype is five. Yet it's the world's biggest carrier!
- Can mobiles make a difference to African development?
- Mobile phone as a musical instrument
- Network sharing by Telefonica and Vodafone
- India inches toward reducing universal service fee
- UNCTAD discusses trade and regulation
- World Bank wanted cyber-cafes for rich; we implemented ‘Nenasalas’ for poor – Sri Lanka Minister
- On the improvement of India's universal-service policy environment
- TRE results presented at Voice & Data event in New Delhi
- Expropriation makes a comeback in Russia, with a twist
- SAARC mobile tariffs converging; competition (finally) drives down Nepal tariffs by 50 percent
- Warning: The “terminators” may return to India
- Sri Lanka: The vicious circle of mobile advertising
- Bangladesh blocks YouTube and esnips.com
- India's urban-rural telecom gap?
- Voice&Data carries TRE 2008 findings
- LIRNEasia’s Broadband Quality of Service Experience (QoSE) Testing – Feb 2009 results out!
- Mobile broadband is it
- LIRNEasia presents TRE 2008 findings today in Delhi, India
- India Regulator issues QoS guidelines; adopts some LIRNEasia-TeNet recommendations
- Progress (miniscule) on implementing low intra-SAARC international voice tariffs
- LK Release of T@BOP3 preliminary findings: March 4th, 2009
- Release of Mobile, Broadband and International Voice Price Benchmarks : February 2009
- LIRNEasia at 7th ITU WTI event, Cairo, 3 - 5 March 2009
- Sri Lanka: Universal service funds disbursed, finally
- The brain as the ultimate bottleneck in communication
February 2009
- A "connectivity scorecard" that places the US in first place
- "Broadband" over power lines
- Present Indian and Sri Lanka disease communication systems
- Total cost of ownership of mobiles comes down further, according to Nokia
- Mobile in the toilet: What to do
- m-Health can strip 10kgs off the Village Health Nurses
- Downside of introducing computers to schools in Kazakhstan
- Sri Lanka: Narayana Murthy declines to be IT advisor to President
- Mobiles and location-based services: We know where you've been
- Sri Lankan Software Industry: Repeating an experiment once failed?
- Straight-talking IT leader to advise Sri Lanka President
- India has most competitive mobile market in the world
- On the cons of satellites
- A comment on the failing international telecom policy of Bangladesh
- Cisco global mobile data traffic forecast
- Bushfires ravage Aussie telecom networks
- 31 percent of Internet use in the US occurs in front of a TV
- LIRNEasia to release T@BOP3 findings across India
- Village health workers in Tamil Nadu given free phones
- Dams and earthquakes
- Intra-SAARC (or at least to India) international call rates inching down
- Regulation by the crowd
- Tunnels of Gaza and VoIP funnels of Bangladesh
- Are mobilephone markets saturated?
- Market Prices on the Small Screen: Transforming Farmers’ Markets in Sri Lanka
- Event on the Telecom Regulatory Environment of the Philippines
- Several Panacea m-Health pilots presented in Kandy
- Our first home made satellite is for Telecom and Research - Iran
- Should telcos abandon the BOP market?
- Another telecenter story. Or will the ending be different because it's Google's?
- India plans $20 laptop
- Why unconditional broadband subsidies can be bad
January 2009
- Sri Lanka: Dialog assists Disaster Management
- UK: Broadband in every home by 2012 ?
- Next Generation Networks discussed in Colombo in April
- Regulatory independence sabotaged in Bangladesh
- 13th Executive Course on Telecom Reform, 20 - 24 April 2009, Cape Town
- Isuru: The face of Rural BPO business in Sri Lanka
- Global economic crisis begins to bite, even in the telecom industry
- DoT, BSNL in MoU for rural reach
- One Billion Internet users?
- USA: Obama details Recovery Plan but short on Broadband goals
- Time for India to get its regulator in order?
- ICTs not by themselves, but to improve other things
- New communications act in Maldives
- Do ICTs contribute to or alleviate climate change?
- Sri Lanka Mobile Broadband Advertising: Dialog takes a U turn; et tu Mobitel?
- How the Internet can help a policy research organization
- India: The Impact of Mobile Phones
- Sri Lanka: Finally, calls to India are cheaper than to the US
- Mobile companies to Obama fans: Don't hang on the phone
- Obama’s Stimulus Plan Includes $6 Billion for Broadband
- Indonesia: Qatar Tel to begin Indosat shares tender
- Asian regulators talk quality of broadband services
- Harsha De Silva: Reaching out to new audiences
- A contribution to the discussion on India-Sri Lanka economic relations
- Dangers of facebook hyped?
- Does a websearch kill a tree?
- Setback to One Laptop per Child
- Sri Lanka: Bharti Airtel rates out
- More than 40 towers a month in the small Sri Lanka market
- Vietnam: IT, telecoms revenue up 38%
- China's telecom sector gets 3G licenses
- Sri Lanka: Different Codes for Different Folks
- Another reason for terrorists to hate Mumbai
- "Take two asprin and call me in the morning" upgraded by broadband
- Sri Lanka to regulate m payments?
- India: 3G Auction on Jan 30
- India: Telecom sector to create 150,000 jobs in 2009
- India: Interconnection charges to change after 2002-3?
December 2008
- Sri Lanka: Sixth GSM operator licensed?
- What should we fear, the exaflood or the data drought?
- Talking on the phone while driving, hands-free or not, said to be dangerous
- Maldives: Dhiraagu license renewed, but no more exclusivities
- Americans debate collusion in SMS pricing
- 3 tsunami warning towers, 25 more to come (repeat story from 2006)
- Mobile 2.0: Beyond Voice? Draft program available
- Indonesia to implement Wimax broadband in 2009
- Sri Lanka: Whither onshore BPOs @BOP?
- Mobile Content Developer: An Unusually High-Paying Job – Yahoo
- Broadband Internet helps rural community
- India Telecom: The ringtone is loud and clear
- 2008: Watershed year for telecom sector in India
- Sri Lanka Telecenter connectivity story 4: Pocketed Broadband
- Most of Siemens bribes were for telecom
- Four years after Tsunami 2004 : Your smiles are ours
- Sri Lanka Telecentre connectivity story 3: The 128 kpbs umbilical cord is not too bad…
- Looking forward to a transformational year...
- A year in review: 2007-2008 Annual Report
- Sri Lanka telecenter connectivity story 2: If there is a will there is a way…
- Sri Lanka telecenter connectivity story 1: Not an infrastructure issue always…
- Telecom corruption: Every country should check Siemens court papers
- Three Mediterranean cables out: Maldives connectivity down 100%?
- Dialog Telekom’s Broadband Revolution: As narrated by GSMA
- LIRNEasia’s Broadband research on MTV
- Forty years of the mouse, but collective computing dream unrealized
- Indonesia: Bakrie Telecom gets approval for tower sales
- India to auction 3G first, WiMax is next
- Mobile set to overtake fixed in international voice in 2009
- Sri Lanka: Bharti Airtel – Coming soon?
- North Korea to get 3G network despite cell phone ban
- Mobile Operators: Who had the happiest customers of them all?
- China to issue 3G licenses
- India: Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh says broadband penetration modest, but still hopeful
- Telecenters can now test their broadband quality more comprehensively
- Two LIRNEaisa projects feed to World Meteorological Organization on Common Alerting Protocol
- Wikipedia, SMS and You Tube among best innovations recognized by ‘The Economist’
- USA: Broadband Users On Quest For Speed: Horowitz
- First 21Mbps Mobile Broadband Network to Europe
- Tracing the SIMs of the Mumbai raiders
- Sam Pitroda's story: “I bypassed telecom system to serve the Bottom of the Pyramid”
- India: Among checked, 20% SIM cards cannot be traced
- Every child in country that invented Internet should be online - Obama
- U.S. broadband Internet satellite scheduled for launch in 2011
- AT&T, Nokia Tighten Belts: What would be the impact on developing world?
- UK: Broadbad speed rules come into force tomorrow
- USA: FCC's Free-Internet Plan Could Morph Into Free Airwaves
- Broadband in Bangladesh: Should we remain pessimistic?
- Use of mobiles in the Mumbai attacks
- Surgeon saves boy's life by SMS
- Pakistan ranks world's fourth in broadband growth? (with such a tiny base!)
- LIRNEasia research discussed at e-agriculture virtual forum
- New Zealand: 500,000 customers hit by Telecom broadband blackout
- No porn please, we're American
- LIRNEasia research published in the ITID journal: Spring 2008 issue
- Sri Lanka: Media assists illegal mobile phone trading?
- Sri Lanka: Supreme Court suspends three environmental levies
- Common Alerting Protocol unheard of in Asia-Pacific except Sri Lanka
- Mumbai attacks and the role of media: Television to Twitter
- Mobile internet usage on the rise
- Europe backs mobile roaming cap
- Bangladesh: 'Broadband to one third of people by 2015'
November 2008
- The alleged takeoff of mobile advertising and the role of quality of experience
- New 'Net Neutrality' policy would clog the Internet?
- Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Sarvodaya, Big Brother and Broadband
- Mobile and Internet are eating your soul: Vatican
- Skype says 25% calls are from mobile
- Cyberchondria: An opportunity for telecenters?
- LIRNEasia at IGF, Hydrabad, India
- South Africa Connect Public Seminar on Next Generation Networks
- LIRNEasia at ITU Asia-Pacific Workshop on Use of ICTs in Response to Disasters
- Lalith Weeratunga elected to Chair, ICT Committee, UN-ESCAP
- Passage to India
- Canada regulator ruling a blow to net neutrality advocates
- An antidote to the scare stories
- Telecom, Google veterans to Write Obama’s Tech Policy Priorities
- What do we know about Sri Lanka's Telecentres?
- Mobile messaging grows globally
- Oh my Lord! You text, drive and kill?
- Sri Lanka’s Computer Literacy: Target 60%; Achieved 19.5% - ICTA
- Know your broadband – LIRNEasia/Sarvodaya workshop (For bloggers and telecenter operators), Nov 25, 2008
- One Laptop per Child: the issue is economics
- Call for Papers: Infrastructure Regulation - What works, Why, and How do we know?
- Broadband: Customers in Colombo and Chennai get more or less the same speeds, but the promises vary widely
- Mobile benchmarks overtaken by events
- Burma: Generals spooked by electronics charge comedian under electronic transactions law
- WiFi on steroids
- Sri Lanka: Another effective policy intervention?
- Google does voice commands
- GSMA urges Bangladesh to licence 3G to expand broadband
- IBM to bring broadband over power line to rural America
- Assessing the benefits of reducing leased-line prices in India and Indonesia
- Questions about the budget allocation for e villages
- Indonesia: Telecom regulator rewards operators: But are they the best?
- Policy enlightenment
- Mobile broadband to soar in Asia: GSMA
- India: Existing telecom operators may have to pay more for 3G
- India remains on course toward 3G mobile licenses
- Mobile market to take hit in 2009?
- Seven Indians among 100 global influential telecom people
- Sri Lanka: No UPAHARA for farmers, fishermen, street vendors and tea pluckers
- Sri Lanka: A bad tax made technology neutral, finally
- USA: FCC approves 'white space' for broadband
- LIRNEasia book reviewed in the Asian Economic Bulletin
- Indonesia Telecom Players Honoured
- India: Interconnection issues may dampen new operators’ roll-out plans
- India: Bharti to rely less on telecom
- Bharti Airtel to launch Sri Lanka operations in December 2008
- The Interview with Rohan Samarajiva
- What is the cheapest remittance mechanism of them all?
- Sri Lanka: Lanka Bell pays users for incoming calls
- Australia to also provide early detection of tsunamis
October 2008
- Sri Lanka: Roadblocks to convergence strategy
- Malaysia plans QoS, unhappy with WiMax
- Evidence that Sri Lanka's international termination rates are too high
- Rohan Samarajiva elected to ICA Board
- Three days with Telecenter Family (and Four Lessons learnt)
- Microsoft tries to understand BOP teleuse
- Who invented the mobile phone?
- LIRNEasia's ED to present at IIC annual conference, 3 - 4 November, Hong Kong
- Rapid rise in rural telephony in India
- Learning how to innovate at Sarvodaya event
- IBM says consumers prefer mobile device over the PC
- Mobiles and media freedoms
- Net neutrality can raise broadband prices
- Cloud Computing vs. Cloud Services (Which one RMS calls stupid?)
- Google CEO Wants to Be 'President' Obama's Tech Chief?
- Can Telecoms escape Financial Crisis?
- Cloud Computing: The Silver Lining in Economic Crisis?
- Economic freedom and consumer rights
- LIRNEasia research on international roaming in the news
- Sri Lanka: Senior citizen plans legal action against Telecom Regulator
- Natasha at UN workshop to link Disaster Management to Space Technology
- Sri Lanka: Tsunami warning towers, a day late and a penny short
- Wholesale broadband from the sky by 2010
- Handset maker profits with focus on BOP
- My Name is Vint Cerf, I'm a Scientist and I am Voting for Barack Obama
- Volunteers agree RTBP m-Health will benefit community
- Pakistan numbers come crashing down
- Bangladesh doesn't need a universal service tax
- More talk on intra-SAARC talk
- Canada: Rural broadband - A chicken and egg question
- Will missed calls be made history by per-second billing and low, low rates?
- UAE launches mobile tariff for migrant workers
- Dialog narrows digital gap with HSPA
- World Bank in action: Disaster Risk Management in the Information Age
- Call for Papers: Asian Journal of Public Affairs
- Talking contention ratios at Telecoms World South Asia
- LIRNEasia research published in Telektronikk
- Malaysia proposes to slash ASEAN roaming charge
- BTRC gets $1.46 mn bonus to punish mobile operators
- Price war ends receiving party pays in Sri Lanka
- Interview with Pakistan universal service fund CEO
- Harmonization of cell broadcasting channels
- Colloquium: TRE Pakistan study 2008
- LIRNEasia engages in act of "social corporate responsibility"!
- Bangladesh takes LIRNEasia advice, belatedly and partially
- Maldives: Ideally positioned to lead in cell broadcasting
- LIRNEasia to present at live webcast on Disaster Risk Management in the Information Age
September 2008
- Cloud Computing: Richard Stallman calls us STUPID! (With respect, we don’t agree RMS!)
- Texting Overtakes Voice in US Mobile Phone Usage: Nielsen's Report
- Barack Obama calls for broadband deployment during debate
- LIRNEasia Executive Director a candidate in 2008 ICA elections
- BTRC demands $16.23 million for each MHz of 2G spectrum
- Mobile2.0: Beyond voice? Call for papers
- LIRNEasia at 2nd UN-SPIDER workshop, 13 - 15 October, Bonn, Germany
- LIRNEasia's sister organization holds International Conference on Converging Mobile Media
- TeliaSonera entering Nepal and Cambodia
- Exploring further bottom of the pyramid
- Colloquium: Indonesia TRE Study 2008
- Reports: 2G frequencies can make big savings on 3G deployment
- Why Indonesian telecom experts feel their regulatory environment so miserable?
- European Union to slash mobile charges
- Colloquium: Bangladesh TRE Study 2008
- Bangladesh government's effort to slow down mobile growth finally likely to bear results
- Barack Obama gives up his plans for ‘Net Neutrality’?
- Small Victory for LIRNEasia: Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court issues Interim Order against Tax on Mobile Phones and Telecom Towers
- Google entices mobile phone users with voice search
- LIRNEasia's ED at Telecoms World South Asia, 2008
- Peer review through blogging
- Does Google reduce our ability to think?
- LIRNEasia needs YOU! (if you are not the photographer!)
- Digital cigarettes
- RTBP m-Health Connect in India
- Not having broadband could cost some households a fortune
- Colloquium: Maldives TRE Study 2008
- Scarcity of time for webservices (or why I am not on linkedin)?
- Early warning and/or mangroves
- Report: SMS not ideal for Emergency Communications
- Some in IT say India is over-hyped as an innovation
- Sri Lanka: Telecom's contribution to economic growth and the impact of taxes
- m-Powering India: Mobile Communications for Inclusive Growth
- Colloquium: Telecom Regulatory Environment Study, India 2008
- Canada's broadband quality below threshold?
- India: BSNL to share network with private telecom operators
- Japan, Netherlands, Sweden Lead in Broadband Quality, reveals study
- Connecting the unconnected and more at ITU Telecom Asia 2008
- Colloquium: TRE Philippines Study
- Coming soon: Blood test in mobile phone
- Coming to a mobile near you soon: Facebook, Hi5 and Orkut (Now showing mygamma.com)
- India: Bharti Airtel gives US$ 40 million to promote telecom innovations
- A world free from 9/11s and tsunamis?
- Bharti Airtel hopes to enter Sri Lankan telecom market this year
- Mobile game in Sinhala and mobile myths, also in Sinhala
- Internet traffic bids farwell to America
- Some Net neutrality fans suffer from 'paranoia': Verizon
- India: New telecom players allotted spectrum in four circles
- Define Canada's Telecom Future and win a $ 1,500 scholarship
- Google goes to space to link "other 3 billion"
- GSM Asia Pacific Conference: Mobile operators beginning to see the value of evidence-based interventions
- 'The meek shall inherit the web' - The Economist
- Colloquium: Telecom Regulatory Environment Study- Thailand
- India begins process to auction 3G airwaves
- Samarajiva on Montage: How mobile phones can save Elephant pass?
- Net Neutrality debate: No free lunches, so why 'FREE BROADBAND'?
- Sri Lanka: Emperor’s new CDMA laws
- Comcast to Appeal FCC's Decision on Internet Blocking
- India: Internet, broadband fail to catch up with mobile growth
- Asia-Pacific region leads high-speed Broadband connectivity, but wide divide prevails, says ITU
- Colloquium: Telecom Regulatory and Policy Environment in Sri Lanka: Results and Analysis of the 2008 Survey
- Net Neutrality: Why LIRNEasia may not see byte to byte with Barack Obama
August 2008
- Identifying the bottom of the pyramid
- New Orleaners asked to evacuate as Hurricane Gustav nears
- Simplifying mobile tariffs?
- Download caps in the US
- Internet traffic bypassing the US?
- Sri Lanka to have a Telecom Icon
- UK Broadband customers overpay by 70% - Survey
- Pakistan focuses on expanding broadband services
- India, Bangladesh to compete in broadband
- Obama = Broadband; McCain = Dial-up?
- Warning: Slow progress in Iraq's telecoms
- Democratic Convention Brings Calls for Broadband Policy
- Sri Lanka telecom FDI: Is this the high point?
- LIRNEasia Executive Director at ITU Asia 2008
- Over 500m new mobile subs in Asia's emerging economies-report
- Iran aims at 3rd GSM license
- NTU, Singapore calls for ICT4D grant proposals
- India adds 9.22 million mobile users in July
- Sri Lanka: Now Internet porn banned, it is time to immobilise mobile porn
- Bahrain too forces mobile users to re-register (but for a different reason)
- Internet telephony is open: Call charges set to decline in India
- Nripendra Misra: The last protocol
- Burma takes a "giant leap" in telecoms
- Recharging without wires
- Google on mobile?
- Poor economy and taxes begin to bite in Sri Lanka
- NGOS Need to Think Beyond Just Mobile Costs, Consider Policy
- Mobile phone is shaping a new Afghanistan
- The pace of mobile phone sales
- Condom ringtone promotes HIV awareness in India
- International gateway monopoly dies in Bangladesh
- Sri Lanka: Udaya Gammanpila says Environmental Levy does not burden public
- No kidding! Operator pays YOU for incoming calls!!
- LIRNEasia's 2005-06 work on dam safety pays off, but incompletely
- Sri Lanka: Same Broadband; Different Taxes?
- Nigeria smiles with telecoms growth
- Siemens exits telecoms sector after 160 years
- Grameenphone fined for illegal VoIP services
- TRAI and DoT lock horns on India's 3G policy
- You may need guarantors to buy a mobile connection in India
- Sri Lanka: Road to ‘Dharma Rajya’ does not look 'toll-free'
- Another LIRNEasia researcher joins Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
- Is Indonesia the next big thing in broadband?
- Colloquium: Sarvodaya Satellite and Web Radio as precursor to Sarvodaya Community Radio – The way forward and the challenges
- Envy tax on mobile phones shows TRC doesn't have a clue
- Copper comes back?
- Ruined Broadband at Polonnaruva: Should we blame Mobitel, Dialog or King Parakramabahu?
- India goes for MVNOs
- Regulatory competition in Pakistan likely to increase regulatory risk
- LIRNEasia’s rapid response kindles quality in Bangladesh broadband
- m-Health project partner meeting at IIT Madras
- India can do better on mobile phone growth
- Pakistan acts on unregistered SIMs
- Sri Lanka: Is Computer Literacy a politically dependent variable?
- An Internet inventor opines on network management
- Grameen and Obopay plan Mobile Banking for developing nations
- Deep ISP Inspection: free throttling detector launched for Internet users
- Sri Lanka: BIG BROTHER wants a photo of every mobile user!
- Sri Lanka price war hots up, posing a challenge to LIRNEasia benchmarking
- Sri Lanka: Taxing poor to clear the e-waste of rich
- Now for implementation . . .
- Sri Lanka government paper editorializes for a fourth undersea cable to India
- Sri Lanka Pornography Regulatory Commission?
- m-Health project kickoff
- California judge rules early cell phone termination fees illegal
- Grameen takes Village Phone to Indonesia
July 2008
- Assessing the General: How did the Pakistan telecom sector do in 2002-2008?
- Download this book, absolutely free!
- Report: 2.1B wireless broadband customers by 2015
- ICTs in conflict settings discussed, with reference to LIRNEasia study among others
- An op-ed calling for spectrum reform
- Mobile phones, cancer and car crashes
- What are these monkeys doing in our blog?
- Colloquium: Classification of Early Warning Systems
- Colloquium: Classification of Early Warning Systems
- Building Sri Lanka's Knowledge Economy
- From Ashok Jhunjhunwala's review of ICT infrastructure in emerging Asia
- Call to reduce intra-SAARC phone tariffs published in Bangladesh too
- Largest number of Internet users in a country? China
- Sri Lanka: Restricted usage = more revenue? Do we miss something?
- New leadership for the Pakistan Telecom Authority
- Indonesia: Telecom giants demand oligopoly?
- Buy, Sell, Swap, Peer, Transit and Lease Bandwidth
- Wireless energy (and supposedly cheap too, in the long run)
- Orascom building North Korean 3G Network
- More on the telecom-transportation tradeoff (but none of this is possible without good broadband)
- Special issue of SouthAsiaDisasters.net carries LIRNEasia contribution
- Maldives introduces mobile recharge from ATMs
- Dialog prompts for mobile re-registration: A solution?...may be, may not be.
- WiMAX: A reality check in China
- Thin computers that are also cheap (but will they work in places with bad broadband?)
- Jaffna, in Sri Lanka war zone, now has commercial 3G/HSPA
- What is the path to wireless nirvana? WiMAX or LTE?
- Telecom-transport tradeoff works, when transport becomes costly
- Pakistan has lowest international telecom prices (in the world!) but not to SAARC neighbors
- Telecoms top best business firms in Sri Lanka
- BIG BROTHER backs off: Individual mobile phone ‘Licenses’ not for another eight months!
- More household spending on "free" education than on "not-free" communication?
- Will the TRC allow parents to keep in touch with their children using mobiles?
- Do the terms of the US net neutrality debate have relevance to low-bandwidth countries?
- Don’t share your mobiles! BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!
- Climate change and ICTs
- Tsunami Detection by GPS
- Evaluation in Practice
- Deadliest job in America: Working on cell phone towers
- LIRNE.NET meets IDRC
- Mobile WiMAX - The End is Nigh
- 12th Executive Course on Telecom Reform: Report and Presentations
- OFTA Hong Kong: The best telecom regulator website in Asia Pacific
- LIRNEasia researchers at ITS 2008, Montreal, Canada
- Study says many USA dial-up users don't want broadband
- Europe mobile phone operators warn that price caps hinder investment
- BT and Virgin fight over Broadband speed
June 2008
- Appreciation: Norman Gunawardene – immense contribution to telecom reforms
- Bangladesh to use Satellites for disaster risk reduction - it's logical
- Benefiting the BOP?
- Telcos urge Indonesia to limit telecom entrants
- Over 3.6% of US mobile users make purchases via cellphones - Nielsen Mobile
- FCC redefines ‘Broadband’
- Indonesian Mobile Phone Providers Found Guilty of Price Fixing
- India mobile tariffs may further fall after fee review
- Development through mobiles: LIRNEasia research cited
- Expert Forum on ICT Sector Indicators and Benchmarks Regulation: Presentations
- 10.7 million telephones installed in Sri Lanka by 2007 – report: Are you sure?
- 12th executive training course on regulation successfully concluded
- Poster-girl for capacity building efforts by LIRNEasia and CPRsouth: Introducing Grace Mirandilla
- Is ‘Banded Forbearance’ good for Barbossa?
- Expert Forum: ICT Sector Indicators and Benchmark Regulation
- 'Free' mobile broadband next year?
- EU Telecom ministers dismiss plan for central regulatory body
- BT offers quicker broadband - or money back!
- 12th Executive Course on Telecom Reform, Singapore, commences today
- LIRNEasia To Facilitate Sharing Of Mobile Research Insights
May 2008
- CPRsouth3: Transformation Strategies for Telecom Operators - December 5-7, 2008 in Beijing, China
- What Good Is Broadband
- Reflections On Research To Practice
- An Easy Guide for Mobile Phone Repairing (for less than one Dollar!)
- Sri Lanka not to allow mobile phones as gifts
- LIRNEasia at Global Event on Measuring the Information Society
- Benefits of telecom at the BOP?
- Gender and telecom at the BOP: Is there really a divide?
- Request For Comment: Broadband QoSE testing Phase 2
- LIRNEasians donate for Burma cyclone victims
- Telecentres: Panacea for all woes or over-hyped and under-delivered phenomenon?
- Indian Railways to provide broadband Internet on rails
- Book Review: A guide – not a substitute for common sense
- Mobile Phone - the real Doctor McCoy
- Asia at the leading edge of communication and new media developments?
- Will you be virtual too?
- Africa: Fastest Growing Market For Mobile Phones??
- LIRNEasia Knowledge Sharing Workshop, 10 - 12 May 2008
- No Early Warning Signs for China
- Sri Lanka: Mobile phone interruptions in East today??
- Cyclone "Nargis" – time series before, during, and after
- Paying for Wi-Fi
- India's Bharti Airtel may buy South Africa's MTN
- Building Digital Life Lines during Disaster
- Bhola Cyclone contributed to toppling Pak rule of Bangladesh; will this topple the Burma junta?
- Watching TV thru Internet
- Death of the public pay phone?
- RIA convenes research planning & dissemination meeting in Cairo
- Telecom operators continue to dominate FDI inflows
- Framing the knowledge economy debate better than most
- Advisory Board member Tim Kelly joins infoDev
April 2008
- UK mobile broadband speed averages 1.46Mbps, but ads claim more
- TeleCON’2008 commences in Karachi
- Expert Forum on ICT Sector Indicators and Benchmark Regulation for SAARC Regulatory Authorities
- Younger people get into mobile banking
- LIRNEasia researchers present at International Workshop on ICTs and Development in Asia
- Broadband providers ordered to come clean in ads
- Ultra-fast broadband plan 'waste of money' - New Zealand govt.
- Mobile Platform Portability: The Next Big Leap in Mobile?
- The rise and rise of mobile data usage
- Mobile market will decline, says Nokia
- Broadband in UK: speeds 'less than half those advertised'
- Nokia's new 3G Handset 6212 optimized for Mobile Payments
- Monopoly: The good the bad and the not-so-ugly
- Lara Talks on 'Monopoly'
- FCC to consider use of mobile cell broadcast for emergencies
- Is mobile phone a polluter?
- South Asian Natural Disasters Blamed on Leaders
- Network readiness report 2008 shows backslide in South Asia
- EU Allows Mobile Phones on Airplanes
- Kenya launches one of world's first cellphone-to-cellphone cash-transfer systems
- Huge growth seen for mobile broadband
- Why not ‘Times of India’ suggest a better broadband QoSE testing methodology to its readers?
- Bharti Airtel chief denies forming cartel with other telecom players
- Triple play soon in Calcutta
- AT&T Warms Up to Google's Android For Mobile Phones
- BSNL to expand broadband to 25,000 Indian villages
- Broadbasing Broadband: Times of India -Editorial
- IT firms to leave India?
- China Telecom, after seeing negative growth, buys Beijing Telecom
- India eases sharing rules for wireless operators
- Mobile broadband subscribers increase by 850% - GSM Association
March 2008
- Cuba lifts mobile phone ban
- LIRNEasia on policy influence : TRAI completely removes ADC
- Elephantine wastage
- Media Coverage on Mobile Benchmarks
- LIRNEasia practice on research --> policy: For discussion
- Additional coverage for LIRNEasia study on ICTs, Transaction Costs & Traceability in Agri markets
- Beyond Tunis: Changing Policy
- Censorship of LIRNEasia book gets media coverage
- Latin American and Asian mobile prices and methodologies compared
- The end of municipal WiFi in the US
- Lack of local content drives users overseas and quality drops when international traffic increases - SLT
- "Building Sri Lanka’s Knowledge Economy"
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke: Imagination par excellence
- NYT obituary on Arthur C. Clarke
- Happy to hear LIRNEasia's work is appreciated
- Pure BOP play in Sri Lanka increases EBITDA by 52.5%
- LIRNEasia releases ‘AshokaTissa’ methodology and preliminary results of broadband QoSE testing
- LIRNEasia loses a friend
- Mobile 2.0 at the airport
- Broadband quality in UK: Glass half full or half empty?
- "Environment conservation levy" targets households with fixed telephones and possibly all handsets
- Book censorship in Sri Lanka?
- The big picture on broadband QOS
- Broadband Quality: Are you getting what is promised?
- TRC is to get an advanced disaster-communication vehicle designed by LIRNEasia associate Peter Anderson
- LIRNEasia at ITS
- LIRNEasia at International Communication Association Conference
- Vista trashed by Microsoft senior managers
- Parents, children and mobile phones
- Terminating the (telecoms) Terminator
- LIRNEasia holds final HazInfo Workshop in Jakarta
- Findings from Mobile Benchmarks South Asia, March 2008 released
- LIRNEasia public lecture makes it to the press
- LIRNEasia at the ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg
February 2008
- Bandwidth price drops changing Internet dynamics
- Pakistan is not the only country that blocks Internet
- Europe in the lead of anti-trust law
- Sri Lanka Bank of Ceylon to widen electronic payments
- Pakistan Lifts Ban on YouTube Web Site
- Google extends from search business to pipe
- Nine India telecom applicants get approval
- HazInfo Dissemination Workshops wrap up in Jakarta
- m-payments coming to Afghanistan via Roshan
- Black box of Internet traffic management under regulatory spotlight
- Bharti Airtel may be re-drawing plans for Sri Lanka
- Mobile phones can substantially reduce agriculture transaction costs - reveals LIRNEasia public lecture
- HazInfo video positively reviewed
- Not exactly what we said, but close
- Do farmers too benefit by keeping records?
- Liberalisation key for next billion Internet users: OECD
- Pakistan mobile second slowest growth in two years
- Mobile investment boom in India foretold
- US bemoans falling behind in broadband (and lacking data to measure the extent of the fall)
- Colloquium: Harsha de Silva's presentation for the Agriculture Workshop
- Maldives considering a third undersea cable?
- Mobile phone and Niger's grain markets
- Executive Director chairs session at Ministerial program at 2008 Mobile World Congress
- Executive Director at Aspen Institute India Joint Roundtable on Communications Policy
- More momentum for mobile: Microsoft throws its shoulder and its cash
- Blocking SMS when it is needed most
- Interview with LIRNEasia researcher featured on New Digital South
- Colloquium: Harsha Liyanage talks on telecentre sustainability
- A Year in Review: LIRNEasia Annual Report 2006-2007
- Location based mobile ads trialed
- Colloquium: Agriculture workshop on traceability and Transaction costs
- The Great Firewall of China and its Sri Lanka equivalent
- Tweet: SMS speak
- This is how a technology dies: Telex phases out
- Workshop on Transaction Costs and Traceability: Potential for ICTs in the Agricultural Value Chain
- Colloquium: Presentations for Agriculture Workshop on Skype
- ICTs in Agriculture: A public lecture by Professor S. Bhatnagar
January 2008
- Need for redundancy highlighted again
- Orascom wins a 3G license in North Korea
- Social entrepreneurship, the aftertaste of village phones and Yunus' plans for the future
- LIRNEasia on opening plenary of Euro CPR
- Mobile internet to grow in South Africa
- LIRNEasia research cited in online column
- Don’t charge more for calls to fixed lines, India mobile operators told
- We know who you are, we know where you are, we know what you buy, we know who you talk to
- A key element of Mobile 2.0 is shaping up
- T@BOP research featured in telecenter sustainability discussions
- India Telecom regulator issues guidelines for mobile TV
- Competitors slam SingTel
- Taxation and the minimum cost of ownership
- UK homes to get super-fast fibre via the sewers
- Where fine arts meet science...
- China starts hearing on mobile roaming charges
- Congestion among mobile networks reduces:TRAI
- Sober thoughts on submarine cables across the Pacific
- US to auction 700 MHz spectrum reclaimed from broadcasters
- No to price war; yes to service war
- Free WiFi in Singapore
- USA to Test 'White Spaces' Broadband Devices
- Why the iPhone won't be in Asia
- Sri Lanka government decrees mobile use socially desirable
- Another use of the Aladdin's Lamp
- 2/3rd of 2004 Tsunami wave height caused by Horizontal Forces
- The coming issue is broadband
- Coming soon in Capital: Broadband connection through power lines
- Colloquium titled, 'Communication and Technology: What’s New?’
- Google's Android Apps Make First Appearance
- BSNL plans India's largest IPO, to raise over US$ 10 billion
- Telecom Cook Islands Completes Commercial Deployment Of GSM Softswitch
- Asian countries slide e-government rankings
- BSNL to pump $500 million in CDMA
- Kenyan mobile pays toll for unrest
- Yahoo joins mobile wars
- HazInfo Project Featured in DataQuest India
- A better battery for laptops
- Network overload: Your message has failed
- Double trouble with one laptop per child
- Asian consumers most prolific SMS users?
- TRAI to issue Mobile TV licences
- Indonesia tsunami detection system
- Myanmar hikes satellite TV fees from $ 5 to $ 780
- 59% South African subscribers think broadband services not bad
- India takes a tough call on broadband; why not others?
December 2007
- Coverage for LIRNEasia book
- More coverage for the HazInfo project
- At the close of a productive year...
- Unorganised mobile retailers feel the heat in India
- LIRNEasia tested satellite warning system gets more publicity
- A triumph of reforms?
- Indonesia conducts tsunami response drill
- LIRNEasia Lead Economist at UNESCAP Expert Group Meeting
- LIRNEasia contributes to disaster risk-reduction discourse
- Mobiles supplant professional letter-writers in India
- Escape velocity: Reaction to "We are like that only" by Rama Bijapurkar
- LIRNEasia researcher's book reviewed
- TRE in Latin America
- German report on tsunami warning status in Indonesia
- LIRNEasia researcher contributes to two regional publications
- Indian coverage for HazInfo project
- Email to Sri Lanka
- What can ICTs do for this mother and her son?
- 'ICT INFRASTRUCTURE IN EMERGING ASIA: Policy and Regulatory Roadblocks' launched
- Hovering broadband over Malaysia
- The award goes to...LIRNEasia!
- CPRSouth2 in Chennai
- Making Communities Disaster Resilient at GK3
- Canadian frost-byte of mobile fraudband
- Reality check by LIRNEasia at India Telecom 2007,
- Who is the least generous of them all?
- India still tops on BPO; Sri Lanka stalled due to war
- Award winning mobile networking firm uses LIRNEasia data
- Broadband speeds: Same story in KL too
- Certainly not a toy!
- LIRNEasia at GK3: on disaster warning and ICTs becoming invisible
- Realistic vision of mobile 2.0 at the BOP
- LIRNEasia book launch: 16 December 07, IIT, Chennai
- HazInfo findings on WorldSpace published in WPMC Proceedings
- Telecom Winners In Fast-Growing Asia
- LIRNEasia at GK3, 11-13 December 2007, Kuala Lumpur
- Documentary film highlights telephone revolution in Asia's emerging markets
- Beginnings of action on e-waste in Sri Lanka
- Teleuse on a shoestring: Poverty reduction through telecom access at the bottom of the pyramid
- Another rural shoring initiative in Sri Lanka
- Benchmarking and regulation workshop in the Maldives
- Mobile only
- Chinese mobiles give headache to Myanmar
November 2007
- Spectrum crunch in India, caused by government delays
- More spectrum freed up for mobiles in Canada
- Global mobile penetration hits 50% today
- Paraguay blocks stolen mobile phones
- Global system could cut disaster toll by 2018
- Opening the US mobile networks
- Developing world not sure $ 100 (er...$ 176) laptop is what they need
- Wi-Fi losing out to 3G in South Africa
- Malaysia to cancel WiMAX licenses
- Afghan Wireless Launches Per-Second Billing
- US may slice USF for rural broadband
- False tsunami warning costs lives in Bangladesh cyclone
- UK wants to put broadband in the ‘fast lane’
- Second HazInfo Dissemination Workshop held in India
- Tales of the mobile web
- Time for regulators in emerging Asia to start planning spectrum for wireless broadband
- Early warning worked in Bangladesh but now the challenge of recovery
- Thai regulator comes under fire over convergence
- Teleuse survey from the Philippines
- BSNL launches ‘TV on mobile’ in Chennai
- Indonesia's Telkom asks Telkomsel to appeal anti-monopoly ruling
- Remittances and those who move them
- Access to ICTs in Indonesia: LIRNEasia research quoted
- Seacom laying Africa undersea cable
- UK regulator probes "fraudband"
- Is this the time for India to move into ICT products the big way?
- Fixed phones droop in China, while mobiles galore
- Storm brews over Bangladesh weather warnings
- Shamistra blogs IGF
- Too much of a good thing?
- Cyclone casualties in Bangladesh
- P2P content under emergency in Pakistan
- India prepares for Mass Casualties
- EU sets out new strategy for a single European telecom market
- LIRNEasia at GSMA Mobile Asia Congress
- Redundancy, redundancy
- Indian Govt to auction spectrum for 3G, Wi-Max services
- Trials of 100 Mpbs Mobile Broadband is on track?
- Telecom spectrum war in India hots up
- On Indians taking to the phone, but not to the computer
- Getting Sri Lanka back to 2nd place in South Asia
- Good move, but tax wireline too
- Broadband at the Bottom of Pyramid
- Sri Lanka Minister wants to ban mobile use by children
- Mesh Networking at WWRF
- Dialog/U-of-Moratuwa/Microimage Early Warning Innovations used in HazInfo presented at WWRF
- Colloquium: Reporting KPIs for LIRNEasia
- Future without wires
- Open platform for mobile Internet
- Brits texting like crazy
- UNCTAD's guidance on measuring the Information Economy
- Developing a prioritized set of actions to grow the Sri Lanka telecom sector
- "The Long Last Mile" Now Available Online
- On the architect of the coming google phone
- Unreal broadband
- Sri Lanka's SMS use growing, but revenues not
- The vision of DesiCrew, an Indian pioneer in rural outsourcing
- Phones at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Telecom Accessibility
- Cellphones as wallets: Royal Bank of Canada, Visa test mobile technology
- By next year half of all humanity will have a mobile phone
- US lawmakers need broadband indicator
- Tuition outsourcing?
- Soaring quarterly numbers for telecom majors Reliance Communications and Bharti Airtel
October 2007
- Indonesia disaster preparedness a work in progress
- Friedman on rural outsourcing
- "Green" tax to be imposed on mobiles?
- "Facebook" technology to fight poverty
- Joseph Wilson nominated for CCP
- Dhaka HazInfo Dissemination Workshop | October 25, 2007 at BUET
- India's Mobile Phone Market Fastest Growing in World?
- The Chinese are coming
- Cellular operators urge Indian Govt. to go slow on Mobile TV
- Mobiles for humanitarian action?
- Foreign investors may join Indian GSM firms against 'pro-dual-technology' policy
- Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) announces tariff cut
- Regulation must stay one step ahead of innovation: Chidambaram
- Are early warning systems gender biased?
- Rural BPOs: Corporate responsibility or business?
- International telecoms licensing in Bangladesh
- White space in the future of wireless broadband
- Disaster Risk Reduction Imperative in School Curricula
- ITU approves WiMax
- 'Getting a Dial Tone: Telecommunications Liberalisation in Malaysia and the Philippines' by Lorraine Carlos Salazar
- Western Union to transfer money to 'mobile wallets'
- Interesting development in the EU
- LIRNEasia's policy influence on mobile tax issue in Sri Lanka
- TRAI issues rules for cheaper bandwidth
- What is Mechanism Design? - Explaining the research that won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics
- Insurance as a solution to disaster risk reduction
- Nobel in economics to scholars who developed tools to address questions of institutional design
- India Inaugurates Tsunami Warning System
- Nordic countries, Germany, Netherland top in IT skills in Europe
- Driving Productivity at the Bottom of the Pyramid: How ICT can help
- Burma back online?
- Innovating for Asia's BOP
- Implementing Mobile Number Portability in Sri Lanka
- Is India showing us the mobile centric Internet future?
- GPhone aims to conquer mobile net
- Bangladesh opens international gateway
- Village with a mesh network, but not a single telephone Part 2
- More than Voice at the Bottom of the Pyramid
- SMS use declining in India?
- Introducing open source and Internet culture to the mobile networks through gPhone
- Internet access as basic human right and Burma's undersea cable
- Lessons from Nepal least-cost-subsidy auction for Sri Lanka
- HazInfo Dissemination Workshop in Bangladesh on October 25th
- A Quick Study of the Tsunami Alert of 12 Sep 2007
- Diversifying Participation in Network Development
- HazInfo Canadian Researcher speaks at the 1st WRECOM Conference in Rome
- Most trouble with optical fiber: Bangladesh???
- Interview of Professor Muhammad Yunus by Harsha de Silva
- On disaster risk reduction, with an emphasis on cities
- Mobile number portability: the case for and against
- Burma's cyber city is a lie?
- Technology is not enough?
- Hutch on an aggressive growth path in Sri Lanka
- LIRNEasia researchers at Michigan State U
- Cell Phones Double as e-wallets in RP
- Internet telephony pioneers stumble
- Japanese push fiber over profit
- "Mobile kills the telecenter star"--Helani Galpaya at U of Southern California
- Colloquium- Sharing knowledge on disaster warning : community based last- mile warning system- Workshop in Dhaka
- Advance publicity for HazInfo dissemination meeting, Dhaka, 25 October 2007
- Mobile money in the Philippines
- India remains outsourcing favourite, says survey
September 2007
- BOP strategy in the Caribbean
- Missed calls / beeping / flashing - a universal strategy?
- Violation of common-carrier principle: a battle is won but war continues . . .
- Philippines is 2nd fastest-growing broadband market: Ovum
- Convergence versus common-carrier principles
- Poor broadband performance causes New Zealand government to break up dominant teleco
- Technology gives world rare view of Myanmar's rage
- LIRNEasia researcher at Wireless World Research Forum Meeting
- RP 2nd fastest-growing broadband market
- Dialog continues rapid rollout with USD 100 million investment from IFC
- Burning down Myanmar's Internet firewall
- $100 laptop sells at $200 after governments pull out
- Google said to be considering consortium for cable across Pacific
- No progress on dam safety in Sri Lanka
- Software-defined radio to be implemented in India?
- Reflections on the response to the false tsunami warnings on September 12, 2007
- Notice for CBSL Public Lecture, September 27, 2007
- Real-time Analysis of the events of 12 September
- Tsunami warning tower fails on September 12th
- Review of tsunami warning/alert
- LIRNEasia/WorldSpace to present HazInfo results at WPMC 10th International Symposium
- Focus moves to effective communication with media re impending disasters
- USO for broadband in India
- Problems of South Asian Broadband: LIRNEasia research quoted
- Knowledge Forum organized by Sri Lanka Telecom
- Assessment of response to Bengkulu earthquake
- Tsunami alert wasn't needed, says NDWC
- Thin-client vision realized through mobiles?
- Mobile system promises free calls
- Why not leave it to the parents (and the government stick to its knitting)?
- Effects of telecom tax increases on prices in Sri Lanka discussed
- LIRNEasia and Ministry of Disaster Management visit disaster-resilient Sarvodaya village
- BPO @ BOP
- Mobiles for the 'world's poorest'
- The Role of Telecom Operators and Broadcasters in a National Public Warning System
- Scientist who foretold the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami warns of possibility of another in Northern Bay of Bengal
- Government retreats a little on taxing BOP mobile users
- Competition in mobile video could threaten mobile operators
- Cell-phone number portability costly
- World now has 4b phone lines, says UN
- Colloquium on forecasting mobile teledensity
- Regulatory panel at South Asia Broadband Congress and Expo, Sep 4, 2007
- Broadband connectivity vital for businesses
- Talking CAP in Harbin, ISCRAM-CHINA 2007
- Getting ready for Mobile 2.0
- More mobile money moves
- The case against punitive taxation of mobile users in Sri Lanka
- Teleuse @ BOP research discussed with telecenter operators
August 2007
- "Free" WiFi on the skids
- The rural revolution
- Etisalat begins cellphone operation in Afghanistan
- India's TRAI wants 'open' telecom sector
- Iraqi students' digital mobile vault
- Rural Sri Lanka gets high speed web access
- Yahoo extends freemail to mobile world
- India records best-ever monthly net new customers
- More mobile-only American homes than fixed-only homes
- Afghan cell-phone use booming
- Operators can annually make extra US$4.9bn from SMS money transfer
- Nigeria to introduce mobile number portability to remedy quality of service problems
- Bangladesh cable goes down a second time (and comes back after 10 hours)
- Shaving seconds off disaster warning in Japan
- Euro CPR calls for papers
- Micropayments in a developed world; m-payments in our world
- With Bharti coming telecom competition is getting tougher
- LIRNEasia at Telecentre National Alliance
- IDRC internships
- Doubts becoming widespread re mobile penetration number
- Reducing environmental impact of mobile networks (as well as costs)
- Bangladesh isolated by submarine cable break
- Tsunami detection system coming up; will the last mile be ready?
- Iraq sells 3 mobile licenses for $3.75 billion
- Bangladesh liberalizes international telephony
- HP gets ready for mobile 2.0
- ICTA, Sarvodaya and LIRNEasia on pro-poor e-governance
- Engineers work to reconnect Peru
- Possible research focus on expatriate workers and their use of ICTs
- Village Phone facing obsolence in Bangladesh
- Mobile Craig's List in Bangladesh
- Rural broadband services in Vietnam
- LIRNEasia researchers to present at TPRC
- Possibility of undersea mudslide triggered tsunami raised by Dharmasarojana
- More on mobile 2.0 for the BOP
- Bharti to offer mobile 2.0
- LIRNEasia's TRE research discussed in ITU Report
- Call for papers: 17th Biennial ITS Conference
- Telkom Kenya attracts 7 bidders
- Dialog and NDB to launch eZ Pay mCommerce solution, an alternative to Visa/Master Cards
- Sri Lanka plans to tax mobiles more heavily
- Independence of regulatory agency becomes an issue in the Philippines
- The days of SMS are numbered?
- Ashok Jhunjhunwala: A man who makes a difference
- Touch-screen lawsuit bites Apple iPhone
- French put va va voom into broadband
- Motorola tops ultra low-cost handset vendor ranking
- Texting no better than drinking for drivers
- India's semiconductor intake will be more than double
- US regulators sorting bad Apple off iPhone
- Colloquium: In-situ Capacity Building for Telecom Reform in Asia – Beyond CPRsouth2
- The 'Next Billion'
- Nepal rural wireless pioneer wins Magsaysay Award
- Internet within the reach of 70% of Maldives population
- Myanmar to implement cyber village project
- GPhone: Google does not deny
- Effects of on- and off-net calling on social networks
- Another instance of Voice failing and SMS triumphing during Disasters
- Nokia sales surge in Africa-ME as a well as in Asia Pacific
- Sri Lanka Telecom plans to introduce CDMA Broadband technology to Sri Lanka
- We're all journalists now
- Broadband in UK does not deliver
- FCC partially rules for Google on open networks
July 2007
- HazInfo Paper Accepted for the 1st WRECOM Conference in Rome, Italy
- Privatization reduces political victimization
- Flood, famine and mobile phones
- Researchers wanted
- USD 600 million in FDI expected, mostly in telecom and IT
- Thailand tsunami evacuation drills observed by Sri Lanka disaster chief
- New list of Top Ten Trends for global telecoms industry
- LIRNEasia at ISCRAM-CHINA 2007
- New ideas on HR development
- Sri Lanka’s telecommunications commitments under GATS: Assessment and issues for the future
- $100 Laptop to use Mesh Networking
- Fourteen countries have more mobile phone subscribers than people
- The trials and tribulations of connecting Rwanda to the WWW
- Ideas change policy
- Something a little more interesting than a phone call from the top of Everest
- A whole new way of thinking about mobile handsets
- Travails of Internet telephony
- Update from the SMS capital of the world
- Colloquium on streamlining the LIRNE network websites
- Hoarding USO funds in India
- Benchmarking broadband in the OECD
- Nokia focuses on rural markets
- More on the Negroponte laptop
- Sprint mutes subscribers for calling customer service
- IDA for new interconnect, numbering arrangements for wireless broadband voice
- Future of telecenters
- Sharing the lessons of the Last-Mile HazInfo Project with Indian colleagues
- Asia Pacific Internet use lags behind rest of the world
- VoIP is a four-letter word in USA
- TRAI can regulate broadcasting: Delhi High Court
- Revisiting LIRNEasia's Mission Statement and the addition of a Vision Statement
- Documenting the Capabilities of Measuring ICT Statistics in India
- UMTS in 900 MHz band? Vive la France!
- Making money and doing good in Afghanistan
- Emerging markets: who needs PCs?
- Vint Cerf on mobile phones as a means of accessing the Internet
- A mobile that also does WiFi
- Regulatory reforms urged for Mobile Banking
- Quite a contrast with LIRNEasia's research on women's use of mobiles!
- Bangladesh breaks into top 10 mobile markets
- Colloquium: Last-Mile Hazard Warning System in Sri Lanka: Lessons Learned from the Pilot Phase
- Prototype of future mobile phones
- USD 60 billion in BPO exports projected for India: will other South Asian countries see some of it?
- How telecoms survived the Israeli-Lebanese war
- Qualcomm provides rural medical services in Thailand
June 2007
- Cambodia’s mobile sector growing, finally
- When in debt, sell your telecoms assets: Sarkozy
- Jordan remains most competitive market in Mid-East
- MNC manufacturers dominate Indian mobile market
- Falling price and raising awareness drives PC market in Sri Lanka: IDC
- Doing public policy in a Googley way
- Pradip Baijal: No lessons learnt from telecom
- The Drum Beat on Mobile telephony
- Pakistan exceeds 60.8 million mobile SIMs in operation
- Wireless Communication and Development in the Asia-Pacific: Institutions Matter
- Software Issues in Sri Lanka Part 8
- On LIRNEasia.net's policy of no editorial control
- Senegal telecenters going out of business
- Sports news on mobiles
- Straits Times: LOW-INCOME TELEPHONE USERS IN ASIA
- New studies question benefits of USF subsidies to wireless carriers
- South Africa's intrusive new mobile legislation
- LIRNEasia presents its research in Pakistan
- Sri Lanka to make mobile numbers portable across operators
- Dialog unveils network expansion plans
- Unorthodox ways of 'losing' mobile phones
- Vietnamese telco opens US office
- Where have all the WiFi`s gone?
- Patents holding back progress in the ICT sector
- Sri Lanka villages can be evacuated in 2 minutes
- Colloquium on Research and Policy Processess
- Privacy on the agenda of Indian telecom sector
- Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
- 'Imperialists' and 'Guerillas' slugging out broadband war
- Bright prospects for WiMax in Asia and rural Australia: Lehman Brothers
- Grameen Foundation makes it easier to set up Village Phones
- Th economics of "free" Internet in cities
- Myanmar bids for world record on slowest e-mail
- Race is on to lay submarine cable on eastern Africa coast
- Vietnam's submarine cable 'lost' and 'found'
May 2007
- Insurance through prepaid mobile
- Reliance makes India's 2007 negative growth
- Opacity leads to confusion in SLTL share sale
- Emerging markets are driving innovation: Gartner
- Telcos eye South Asian investment opportunities as 3G begins to roll
- Tectonic shifts as Asia drives global telecom business growth
- The Dragon is on the move
- Wireless Unbound - Mckinsey Report on wireless benefits
- A different model for supplying payphone services; let's hope it will work
- Google proposes real-time auction for efficient spectrum use
- Mobile phone call from the top of Mount Everest
- Bhutan getting into BPOs
- Mobile phone banking being piloted in India
- Connect the young, and the old
- Tsunami warning in 45 minutes
- Economics of international telephony and Bangladesh
- HazInfo paper on CAP published in ISCRAM Delft confernce proceedings
- Coverage for the Last Mile project
- Internet being censored increasingly: First comprehensive global survey reveals
- New law would let US telcos off the hook for "illegal surveillance"
- Thailand seeks to regulate prepaid SIM cards anew
- World Telecom and Information Society Day 2007
- LIRNEasia's push for liberalization of Indonesia's IPLC market gets traction?
- India may force carriers to open networks
- Mobile phones and (fish) market performance in Kerala
- Last excuse for charging USD 200 per CDMA connection gone
- Slow start by Bharti Airtel in Sri Lanka?
- Iran claims higher Internet penetration than Malaysia’s!
- Hong Kong plans three new 2.3GHz licenses
- Harvard Professor compares Google to “Soviet State”
- Wireless Opportunities and Solutions: A Regulatory Perspective; Montevideo, Uruguay, March 2007
- TM more than doubles outlay for Bangladesh, Indonesia & Sri Lanka
- Emerging markets: a basic services bonanza?
- Indonesia limits foreign ownership of premium call services
- Non-transparent licensing for Palapa Ring project?
- Rural telecoms still a big problem in the US
- Linux evolves for mobile devices
- Negroponte's one-laptop-per-child thesis challenged
- CPRsouth2: Empowering rural communities through ICT policy and research - December 15-17, 2007 in Chennai, India
- 12th LIRNE.NET course, Singapore - February 2008: Announcement
- Developing a new rural payments system in China
- One in three Pakistanis is mobile
- India's USD 100 computer
April 2007
- Unicode compliant browser in Sinhala launched
- South Asia slipping in e-readiness? Pakistan as the exception
- Delivery of educational content using WorldSpace radio
- How mobile phones can help monitor disaster victims
- 17.46 percent Indians have phones as ARPU falls to $7.7
- Municipal WiFi in London
- Bangladesh as top telecom investment opportunity
- Which industry in Sri Lanka attracted the most foreign investment in 2006?
- Mobiles: The next frontier of browsing
- Oxford Analytica Briefing on Teleuse@BOP
- Software Issues in Sri Lanka Part 7
- Colloquium: Proposed structure and content of the TRE Manual
- LIRNEasia Six Country Multi-component Study 2006-2007 Country reports available: Pakistan,India,Philippines & Thailand
- Telecom sector contributes to LK economic growth, while prices decline
- LIRNEasia researcher invited to ITU meeting on disasters in Alexandria, Egypt
- Are the phones working in the East?
- Intelligent benchmark regulation: Forbearance within benchmark limits
- LIRNEasia at International Program for Development Evaluation Training
- New thinking on spectrum use from Silicon Valley
- LIRNEasia research picked up by ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT
- Canadian Professor writes about his sabbatical at LIRNEasia
- Hutch's entry in Indonesia triggers price competition in mobile market
- Tsunami kills in Solomans
- LIRNEasia's Teleuse at the BOP Study in Businessline
- Significant progress made on making communities resilient to disasters
March 2007
- Sahana wins software award given last year to Wikipedia!
- Call for papers on disasters/hazards
- Study: Spectrum auctions prone to anti-competitive behavior
- Bridging the Divide: Building Asia-Pacific Capacity for Effective Reforms
- Designing the Internet from scratch at Stanford
- nextbillion.net
- Choices: Is the Sri Lankan preference for fixed phones irrational?
- Least cost subsidy auction indicates Indian rural areas commercially viable
- Telecom giants eyeing rural market
- BOP Families To Trigger Mobile Penetration in Asia
- 3R presents Bharata Natyam Recital by Rasika Khanna
- Global wireless ARPUs drops 6.4%
- Internet still an obscure term in India, says study
- In India, only 9% use their own mobile phones
- India's Universal Service officials seek information about teleuse at the Bottom of the Pyramid
- Dial for freedom with Amnesty Wireless
- Colloquium on Refining TRE Methodology
- India - GSM daily adds almost 150k in February as CDMA falters
- Media coverage of Teleuse@BOP Project
- Teleuse at the Bottom of the Pyramid presented to 15th Convergence event in New Delhi
- Is Thailand sleepwalking backwards?
- Malaysia awards four WiMax licenses to new entrants
- Mobile roaming, or the art of gouging someone else's customer
- Following successful course, LIRNEasia plans regular offerings; next course in March 2008 in Singapore
- LIRNEasia-Sarvodaya disaster warning forum
- LIRNEasia researcher appointed Secretary to Minister of Finance Thailand
- Can HSDPA leapfrog infrastructure bottlenecks to bring Indonesia online?
- Regulatory burden to be reduced on new international operator in Indonesia
- CFA Sri Lanka Seminar: Emerging Trends in Telecom
- Good practice in telecom reform
- Mobile money transfers services awaiting Govt approval in India
- Choices: Calls or gold?
- India woos West with education
- Teleuse at the Bottom of the Pyramid
- WDR Expert Forum on ICT Sector and Regulatory Performance indicators
- Preconditions for Effective Deployment of Wireless Technologies for Development in the Asia-Pacific
February 2007
- Sri Lanka’s telecom sector soars on mobile growth
- Philippines pioneers international remittance via SMS
- Zimbabwe tops Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka in ICT Opportunity, according to ITU
- Prizes for poverty reduction using technology
- The next billion is from Asia and Africa
- Asia Pacific mobiles now over one billion
- Hazard Warnings in Sri Lanka: Challenges of Implementing CAP
- GSMA honours Indian government
- Mobile as a payment mechanism
- Tips on how to end poverty or run the country?
- 2006 South African ICT Sector Performance Review
- WDR Expert Forum, March 2-3, 2007, Singapore
- Indian mobile firm stake goes for USD 11.1 billion
- SAFIR Core Course on Infrastructure Regulation
- More news coverage of TRE, highlighting Indo-Pak comparison
- India: Broadband Target Will Be Met
- Uganda: Banking on Infrastructure
- WiMax pricey; mesh using WiFi the solution to last mile?
- Mobile phones as fashion
- Missed calls in the news
- Regulatory responses to infrastructure failures caused by disasters
- Why no toll free numbers?
January 2007
- Internet out in Jaffna, according to Free Media Movement
- Are subsidized data networks the solution?
- Radio is best for disaster warning; remotely activable satellite radio is very best
- Nokia profits from booming markets in the Asia Pacific
- Motorola releases USD46 handsets in Sri Lanka
- LIRNEasia at GSM>3G India
- Evaluating ICT policy in Indonesia: Interview with LIRNEasia researcher
- Mobile phone powering along in India and Pakistan
- Singapore-US regulatory bout
- Thai tsunami buoy helps Sri Lanka at expense of Phuket
- Americans are robbed in the name of subsidies
- CPRsouth inaugural conference to commence
- "Living in the Information Society" - NCPAG Conference in Philippines (April 2007)
- Lower Mobile Prices: Through Profit Regulation or Competition?
- Reach out and see somebody
- Internet or internet?
- Jaffna reconnected to the world?
- Market power and anti-competitive practices in CDMA?
- Laptop for USD 100 with WiFi and new interface
- Regulations hampering wireless infrastructure deployment in developing countries
- Indonesia addresses the last mile problem
December 2006
- How safe from a tsunami?
- FLAG to invest $1.5 billion on new submarine cable network
- Taiwan's vulnerability to outage was known
- Taiwan quake shakes telecom links in Asia
- We wish to believe
- Indian Ocean tsunami warning
- Telecom Regulatory Environment survey results from 6 countries released in India
- Universal, Ubiquitous, Equitable and Affordable forum session at ITU World 2006
- Building Digital Communities forum at ITU World 2006, Hong Kong
- LIRNEasia provides input at policy forum in Indonesia
- LIRNEasia speaks at Global Telecom Market Research conference in Barcelona
- LIRNEasia presents BOP study findings at CEPA Poverty Research Forum
- More on Maldives
- Opportunity to study at Manchester, esp for Sri Lankans
- Researcher wanted
- Cable and operator redundancy for Sri Lanka
- Beyond cheap coverage
- Mobile multiple play
- Indonesian Minister proposes new initiatives to stimulate Internet growth at ITU World 2006
- LIRNEasia at International Telecommunication Union Telecom World 2006
- India mandates access regime for cable landing stations
- Software Issues in Sri Lanka Part 6
- Progress with tsunami detection buoys
- LIRNEasia website assessment gains traction
- Colloquium on Pakistan's Telecommunication Sector
- Indian Ocean tsunami detection buoy
- Is there a future for international voice?
November 2006
- USD 150 computer
- Colloquium on Thailand's Telecommunication Sector
- Disaster preparedness, not just relief: Indian PM talks the talk
- Latin American Operators Target Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP)
- Plea: An ounce of prevention . . .
- Colloquium on Sri Lanka’s Telecommunications Sector: A Tale of Missed Opportunities?
- Mobile operators eligible for Indian USO Fund
- Internet through mobile networks in Bangladesh
- Broadband battles
- Bhutan ends integrated monopoly
- KURIL ISLANDS' Earthquake
- TRAI seeks overhaul of long distance guidelines
- CPRsouth1 - Selections complete
- Pakistan overtakes Sri Lanka in telecom
- Power without wire
- Evidence-based policy advocacy
- Satellite broadband
- Unreliable connectivity
- Afghans glow with Roshan's one million mobile users
- Training Course in Telecom Reform: Strategies to achieve connectivity and convergence
- India adds record 6.6m mobile phone subscribers in October
- Bridging the "last mile"
- Ashok Jhunjhunwala in prestigious panel discussion
- Benefits of telecom reform
- Bangladesh the 'Golden Boy' of South Asia: Global UNDP Report
- Colloquium: Indonesia Sector Performance/Indicators study
- The new new thing in WiFi
- Build it, but will they come?
- Who adds more phones a month in South Asia?
- Village with a mesh network, but not a single telephone
- GrameenPhone has pushed universal access in India
- Why do governments prefer to clean up after disasters, and not reduce the risks?
- Benefits of telecom reform
October 2006
- Over 200,000 in Jaffna deprived of phone service now for two months
- Profiting with low ARPUs
- Usability of University Research in the Internet Age
- CPRsouth1 - Reviews in progress
- HazInfo Partners win more awards
- Webhamuva: Tsunami Voices Final Report
- Way to go..article on LIRNEasia in the Indian Media
- The country that has said no both to the Internet and to the mobile phone
- US about to be overtaken by Slovenia in broadband
- CPRsouth1 - Call for Young Scholar Applications and Call for Papers
- Asia Pacific to account for 45% of mobile subscriber growth worldwide
- S Asian countries lose 2-16% of GDP to "natural" disasters
- ICT Infrastructure Issues in Sri Lanka Part 2
- Software Issues in Sri Lanka Part 5
- Mobile networks to be powered by Bio-fuels
- Colloquium on Real-Time Biosurveillance For Early Warnings in Sri Lanka
- What is the addressable market for telecom?
- Wireless: Seeking a voice in future of WiMax
- Indonesian Leased Line Prices to Fall by 50%
- Teleuse and Living Conditions in the North & East (Sri Lanka)
- Call for papers: Living the Information Society
- HazInfo Partners, Dialog/U of Moratuwa/MicroImage shortlisted for innovation award
- Indonesian Internet Association Draws on LIRNEasia Research to To Ask for Lowering Leased Line Prices
September 2006
- Sri Lanka Telecom links up with India’s BSNL
- Baseline Sector Analysis of the BPO industry in Sri Lanka
- "Mobile web" moving from hype to reality?
- India's International bandwidth capacity grows 95 pc
- DoT demands Rs 2,000 cr more for universal fund
- Business process in-shoring in Sri Lanka
- 100,000 Internet Kiosks Planned in Rural India
- Mobiles break bones as Africa aims high
- Beauty parade likely for 3G licenses in India
- Nepal officially unlicenses WiFi; so has India: when will the rest of S Asia?
- India tops in bridging digital divide
- Why the Indian telecom regulator embraced competition
- US West Coast Tsunami Warnings Live Test
- Is India’s exponential mobile "growth" becoming "malignant"?
- WiFi in the Valley
- CPRsouth1 - Manila, Philippines; January 19-21, 2007
- Bridging the Divide
- UK city gets into free wi-fi game
- Indonesian Minister Proposes Auction for Backbone Rollout
- Report on text messaging for disaster warning in Sri Lanka
August 2006
- Bangladesh High Court declares VAT on mobile phone SIM card illegal
- Competition improving service and attitudes
- Nepal Parliament directs unlicensing of WiFi frequencies
- 5 LIRNEasia Researchers Presenting at Digital Opportunity Forum, Korea
- Summary of achievements of first cycle of research
- Baseline Sector Analysis of Sri Lanka's BPO industry
- Colloquium on Digital Opportunity Index Applied to Indonesia: Assessing ICT Policy and Regulatory Environment
- Standardizing Sinhala for IT Part 4
- Marking the Shift from Relief to Disaster Prevention and Mitigation
- Net readiness index: South Asia slides; Sri Lanka slides more
- $100 laptops to debut with Thai kids
- More on Google's Wi-Fi service
- Regulator Slashes Telstra’s LLU Fee
- Talk is cheap and getting cheaper
- Fiber to the home, thanks to competition
- PC turns 25
- Shift away from traditional media driven by Net
- Colloquium on "Bridging the Divide: Building Asia-Pacific Capacity for Effective Reforms"
- Iraqi mobile use
- Forward movement on dam safety in Sri Lanka
- Google mesh network is running in California
- Progress Reported on Tsunami Warning System
- Sri Lanka's Computer Literacy Survey Questionnaire
- The bounty of sensible regulation in Africa and Middle East
July 2006
- The Wi-Fi threat to mobile
- Learning to Respond Intelligently
- Sri Lanka Disaster Act a Disaster?
- ICT for Disaster Management Forum - A Summary Report
- Sri Lanka "ready for any tsunami"
- Pangandaran highlights importance of last mile
- Live Feed: Common Alerting Protocol Workshop of the Last Mile HazInfo Project in Sri Lanka
- Indonesians die again without official warning
- Indonesia tsunami system 'not ready'
- HIH Standard Operational Procedure Training Workshop
- “Responsive Innovation for Disaster Mitigation" - A Public Lecture by Gordon Gow
- Terrorists have failed to scare FDI to India
- LIVE FEED: Colloquium: Initial findings from the Base Line Sector Analysis of the BPO Industry In Sri Lanka
- Taipei to replace cellular with wifi?
- Standardizing Sinhala for IT Part 3
- Reforms reduce disparities
- Digital Opportunity Index 2006 Report is out
- University in the age of the Internet
- FCC to levy USF charges on web phones
- Mobile price war begins in Sri Lanka
- Cheaper alternative to mobile phone calls?
- Pressure to reduce roaming charges
- Keeping connected in the aftermath of a disaster (Lessons from 7/7 events)
- FDI bad for developing countries?
- Internet lowers phone charges
- Telecom Policy Research in Asia: A Framework for Assessing Knowledge Capacity
- Indian spectrum policy flawed according to Qualcomm
- DoT shelves new Indian Telecom Policy
June 2006
- Sri Lanka Cabinet gets involved in spectrum refarming
- Not enough demand for city WiFi?
- Open access for new African cable
- ICTs and disaster conference in Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka regulator announces WiMAX licenses
- India: Growth, reforms and services-led growth
- Sri Lanka incumbent offers more data services
- Asian Backbone Study: A General Model Applied to India
- LIRNEasia at Research ICT Africa (RIA!) Annual Meeting
- Live feed: Colloquium on A Common Alerting Protocol Message Relay
- Increased backhaul capacity needed globally
- Digital archive for Communication Policy Research (CPR)
- TRAI issues Wireless Broadband Consultation Paper
- Will Bhutan do better with competition?
- Bangladesh's cellphone growth slows on new subscription regulation
- TRCSL invites bids for 5th mobile telecom player
- India: A Crucial Cog for I.B.M.
- Sarvodaya Monitored Tsunami Drill
May 2006
- US scraps long distance tax
- Reding: EU lagging on telecom research
- Standardizing Sinhala for IT
- Tamilnadu adopts Tamil SMS solution developed in Sri Lanka
- 100,000 ADSL connections? How about speed?
- Net neutrality: Implications for emerging Asia?
- More on the Bangladesh undersea cable
- Report on Workshop on ICT Indicators, New Delhi
- Banning Cellphones in Conflict Zones Counterproductive
- First Phase of HazInfo Project Completed
- Community-level education to be included in Indonesia Disaster Law
- Wi-Fi “Innovation” in Indonesia: Working around Hostile Market and Regulatory Conditions
- Pacific states hold tsunami test
- Seismic monitoring in Sri Lanka
- Cooperation on Indicators at APC Meeting, Bangladesh
- Mobile masts to measure rainfall
- Dharamsala meeting on WiFi
- LIRNEasia Economist at MIT's Poverty Action Lab
- 12 million Ultra Low Cost Handsets Purchased
- Shoestrings study in the news
- Britain’s digital divide remains unbridged: Ofcom Report
April 2006
- Effects of political environment on ICT sector
- Teleuse on a Shoestring: Expenditure and perceptions of costs amongst the financially constrained
- Questioning ICT Myths
- Civil society role in regulation
- Effectiveness of Disaster Assistance
- Webhamuva showcased at Small Grants Launch, World Bank
- Iceland takes over from Korea as Broadband Champ
- Central Bank on telecom growth in LK
- Mangroves role in tsunami questioned
- Computer sales in Pakistan, B'desh and Sri Lanka
March 2006
- Clinton on the last mile in disaster warning
- Information sought on siren systems and school drills for tsunami preparedness
- Lifetime free prepaid
- Sri Lanka "encourages" CDMA rollout by increasing duty on handsets
- Usable Knowledge for Growing the Sector, New Delhi
- Nigerian License Unification
- Fiber network in Jaffna?
- Workshop on ICT Indicators for Benchmarking Performance in Network and Services Development
- A GSM Payphone on a Motorbike
- Where is talk cheap in South Asia?
- Regulation and investment
- No half-way house to unified licensing?
February 2006
- Conditions for Smart Subsidy Sucess
- GSM Association on mobiles and development
- Wireless and development
- Mapping disaster research
- Strategic use of telecom services on a shoestring
- Spectrum refarming on the agenda
- Internet Presence of Telecom Researchers
- NEWS RELEASE: Jaffnaites spend up to 12% of their monthly regular income on telecommunications
January 2006
- How Research Influences Policy
- Microsoft backs mobiles to access Internet
- Hazard Warning Initiatives: Media Event
- Colloquium: Methodologies for estimating grey/informal markets
- NEWS RELEASE: Telephone use on a shoestring in Sri Lanka and India – Men's use of telephones no different from women's
- Dam Safety Concept Paper Released
- Politics of Wi-Fi in Cities
- TRC allocates Rs. 2.5m for eNABLE project, new ICT centres
- NEWS RELEASE: Systematic use of telecom franchisees can help tap fortune at the bottom of the pyramid - Lessons from Grameen
- Telecom Use on a Shoestring in Bangladesh
- Discussing ICT and disasters
- Webhamuva yields bicycles
- NEWS RELEASE: Low-income telephone users uncounted, but spending more than expected
- Cashing in on the village phone
- Bangla mobile growth and a debate about FDI
- Last-Mile Hazard Information Project is On
- NEWS RELEASE: Indian Universal Service Fund experience shows that open access to backbone is precondition for effective use of subsidies that minimize market distortion
December 2005
- NEWS RELEASE: Pakistan leads in providing regulatory services on-line
- Bangladesh Illegal VoIP operators make fortune as govt stalls licensing
- All links must work in disaster warning
- Season's Greetings from LIRNEasia!
- Usable Knowledge for Growing the Sector:
- Phone subscribers to reach 746 mln in China
- Research report available: Replicability of Microfinance Approach to Extending Telecommunications Access to Marginal Customers: the Grameen Approach
- Has telecom regulation in India taken a beating?
- Do Policy & Regulation Matter?
- LIRNEasia at WSIS, Tunis, Nov 17
- Bangladesh to be Connected to Submarine Cable
November 2005
- LIRNEasia at WSIS Nov 15
- LIRNEasia's Executive Director moderates panel discussion on offshoring
- Study of Indian Universal Service Instruments
- Satellite Radio for Hazard Warning Demonstrated to Sir Arthur Clark
- Reducing transaction costs
October 2005
- Waves of Compassion: Sarvodaya's Tsunami to Deshodaya Plan after Six Months of Action
- ICT for Development Workshop at IIM, Calcutta Dec 3-4
- Rural Telephony TRAI has got it right, finally!
- LIRNEasia researcher at International Workshop on Building an Information Society: Road to Tunis, Dhaka
- LIRNEasia's WiFi Study in Indonesia Influences Policy Process
- LIRNEasia training course: Catalyzing change: Strategies to achieve connectivity and convergence
September 2005
- Motorola for sub$30 handset for "unconnected"
- LIRNEasia's Singapore Course Program Finalized
- Colloquium: Developing a Knowledge Base for Telecom Reform in Asia: Measures of Quality and Usability
- LIVE BLOG: Colloquium: WiFi Access Innovation case study
- LIRNEasia at WSIS, Tunis
August 2005
- Benchmarking Asia-Pacific Telecom NRAs
- Grameen Phone Project-Colloquium Aug 26
- NYT article: 'Cellphones Catapult Rural Africa to 21st Century'
- Comparative Analysis of Leased Line Tariffs
- Fixed line substitution
- LIRNEasia course filling up fast
- Fixed line spike in Sri Lanka
- Dam Hazard Press Conference August 10, 2005
- LIRNEasia partnership with Sarvodaya
- WDR Expert Forum, Singapore September 30, 2005
- LIRNEasia builds Taiwan links
- LIRNEasia researcher to senior position at WTO
July 2005
- VSNL Buys Top VoIP Carrier
- ICTs and early warning
- 3rd Dam Safety Town Meeting-Polonnaruwa
- Presidential Commission public hearings
- Colloquium: 'Benchmarking National Telecom Regulatory Authority websites of Asia-Pacific Region'
- Town Meetings in Kandy & Gampola
- Concept Paper for a Dam-related Hazard Warning System in Sri Lanka (INTERIM)
June 2005
- Stimulating Investment in Network Development
- UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP) Releases ORDIG Policy Brief and Input Paper on Internet Governance 7 June 2005
- Kantale Dam: 19 years later
May 2005
- LIRNE Course on Telecom Reform
- India's finance ministry eyes windfall in 3G auction
- Dam Safety Expert Consultation May 20
- Colloquium: "Diversifying Participation in Network Development: Moving Beyond the Market"
- ICT policy as development strategy
- Activities Report Sept 2004 - March 2005
- May 20 Colloquium: Diversifying Participation in Network Development
April 2005
- Colloquium: Hazards to Disasters the Role of Electronic Communication LIVE
- Industrial policy revisited
- Research priorities for 2005-06
- Choices: LBO Monthly Column
- USO fund may finance rural mobile telephony
- Presentation of NEWS:SL to Mano Tittawela
- University links explored
- Tsunami Lessons
March 2005
- Public Goods & Suppy of Warning System
- LIRNEasia recommendations resonate among policymakers
- NEWS:SL Presentation to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry
- NEWS:SL - Press Release (March 2005)
- NEWS:SL Executive Summary - Sinhala & Tamil Translations
- Parliamentary Select Committee
- Tsunami remembrance through research and dissemination
- National Early Warning System
- India's Budget Impact on Universal Service Obligation
February 2005
- Learning from the tsunami
- Colloquium: Virtual Organizations
- Government supply of WiFi in competition with Private Suppliers
- Monthly column
- Video News Conference With Local & Foreign Experts for Disaster Warning System
- Draft Concept Paper on a National All-Hazards Warning System for Sri Lanka
- India
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- Arthur Clarke on ICTs & Disasters
January 2005
- Trip Report, Honolulu, January 16-19, 2005
- Adapting to an ICT based Emergency Warning System
- The Permanent Disaster
- Expert Forum: National All Hazard Disaster Warning System
- Warning System Expert Consultation
- My talk on disaster warning in Honolulu
- LIRNE at ICT4D and higher education conference
- Rohan Samarajiva on BBC regarding disaster management prepardeness in Sri Lanka
- World Bank President urges Tsunami reconstruction be driven by the affected
- SMS as part of Early Warning System
- Harsha de Silva's efforts & Indrajit Samarajiva's talk
- LIVE FEED Colloquium Jan 7, 2005, Disaster Management
- Design of eSri Lanka
- Telecom sans Frontiers
- Tsunami recovery and ICTs
- Mobile Phones on Roaming Save Lives of Tourists in Sri Lanka
- ICTs and Universities Conference
- Tsunami Timeline
- A Phone Call saves an entire village in Pondicherry
December 2004
- Anti-reform article
- Tsunami response 30th Dec
- Regulatory aspects of disaster management
- Responding to the tsunami
- Day after the Tsunami
- Rapid Response - TRAI, October 2004
- Rapid Response - TRCSL October 2004
- Season's Greetings from LIRNEasia
- Melody Interview plus
- Mobility Roundtable
- Colloquium LIVE Feed
- Rohan Responds Rapidly to Nepal
- Incumbents Win in India's Broadband Battle
- TRAI for lower Access Deficit Charge (ADC) to promote growth
- Who wins and who loses as phone calls move on to the internet?
- LIRNEasia to hold colloquium on benchmark indicator system
November 2004
- Luxman's Birthday at Wadiya
- Mission statement-Tabulated Comments
- Happy Birthday Luxman!
- LIRNEasia on LIRNE.net
- FAQs
- VoIP Growth (11% of international)
- Defining the vision and mission of LIRNEasia
- 2nd Colloquium
- Opening in ICT Activism
- Big picture of telecom reforms
- VSNL adds global backbone by acquiring Tyco
- Projects
- Document Manager
- The Govi Gnana Service: a unique ICT for development initiative to fight agricultural poverty in Sri Lanka
October 2004
- News Feeds
- Net Thru a Wall Outlet
- Broadband wireless services in Bangladesh
- infoDev Discussion Notes
- Intel to Join in a Project to Extend Wireless Use
- PIPU Progress Report - 2002-04
- Minutes of Colloquium
- LIRNEasia Running Dogs on Rupavahini TV
- Email Posting Enabled
- Global Cell Giants to Capture Bangladesh Market
- Rural Mobile Use in Sri Lanka
September 2004
- $53 Million for Wiring Sri Lanka
- Public Administration in an e-Economy
- Live Notes on Group Discussion
- What is LIRNEasia?
- Bhoop Raj Pandey: Successes in Nepal
- Randy and Michael Spence
- Rohan Samarajiva
- A Broad Perspective of Regulation
- Data Problems in the Bangladesh Case Study
- Day 2 Starts
- South Africa Case Study
- LIRNEasia Launch Party
- Sri Lanka Case Study
- Lunch is Good
- India Case Study
- Expert Forum on Regulation and Investment
- Meeting With Prime Minister Rajapakse
- Why LIRNEasia?
- LIRNEasia Office Opening
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