Conducted by Miraj Khaled.
Bangladesh has had a monopoly since 1989. The sector was opened in 1996. The Telecom Act was enacted in 2001. The regulator was established under this Act.
During this period the number of mobile subscribers increased significantly, with a peak in 2006. The fixed phone tariff fell dramatically from 2001 to 2002 and again in 2007.
The number of mobile subscribers seem to have grown exponentially, while the fixed subscribers remain much unchanged. There is a sharp rise from 2002 to 2003, this can be explained by the entrance on Banglalink in 2004 into the sector.
The six main mobile operators are AKTEL, Banglalink, Citycell, Grameenphone, Teletalk and Warid. Grameenphone seems to have dropped from over 70% market share in 2001 to 45% in 2008.
Total…
The study was conducted by Ms. Helani Galpaya.
She first went over the overview of the Maldives, both in general and telecommunications.
Previous monopoly partially privatized, and Dhiraagu is established in 1988 and continues to dominate the market.
10% of GDP is attributed to communication services, of which telecom is dominant.IN 2001 mobile prepaid services were launched and hence resulted in a surge in the number of mobile subscribers. In 2005, Wataniya enters the market (through a relatively transparent process). The anticipation of this entry results in a large drop in the incumbent prices.
The current market: There is a monopoly on fixed: Dhiraagu. However, the exclusivity ends in 2009. There is a duopoly in the mobile between Dhiraagu and Wataniya. Broadband is also a duopoly between Dhiraagu and…
The study was undertaken by Payal Malik.
The liberalization was done in 2000, and there has been a large increase in the total number of subscribers. Mobile increases expediently from 2004, this is partly due to the TRAI allocating CDMA subscribers into the mobile category as opposed to fixed.
Year on year growth scores show that the mobile sector is growing as well.
Rohan: It is useful to get the CAGR scores for comparison as well.
Within the mobile sector Bharti is still leading with a market share of 23.74%, reliance comes in second place with 17.54% and Vodafone/ Hutchinson in thrid with 16.90%.
The incumbent defines all interventions in the policy making process.
Market for the fixed operators show that BSNL still continues to operate with 83% of the market,…
The study was conducted by Erwin Alampay.
The number of mobile subscribers rose significantly since 1998, this is due to prepaid being introduced. This made access easier to potential subscribers.
Also, after 1993 the number of fixed telephone lines that were installed increased significantly and have remained constant since.
The number of mobile subscribers are very low from 1991 to 1998, this could be explained by the high cost of obtaining a handset amongst other factors.
The main 3 mobile operators are Islacom, SunCell and GCash.
Helani: is it possible to plot the price of a 1 min mobile minute and the price of an SMS?
Erwin: Its a little tricky, cause the SMS price has remained the same over time, and includes bundled offers or unlimited SMS offers.
Movement in data/internet
There…
The study was conducted by Deuden Nikomborirak and Saowalak Cheevasittiyananond.
The total numbers of subscribers have increased significantly since 2001 with the entrance of the 3rd player into the telecom sector. This is the concept of the disruptive new entrant. Until 2001, a duopoly existed and there was a system of price fixing. This changed with the entrance of the new player.
The independent regulator (NTC) came into play in 2004.
HHI in mobile seems to be falling while both broadband and fixed line is rising.
Helani: what is happening in the broadband market?
Deunden: TelecomAsia was able to expand their services, as no real competitors exist. So the large operator just seems to be capturing a larger part of the market.
Fixed line market seems to be following the same…
The Colloquium hopes to assess how the project can be sustained within the Sarvodaya arena.
Chaminda Rajakaruna opened the presentation with a brief introduction to Sarvodaya. Sarvodaya is a widely expanded grassroots levels organisation. He went on to present the vision of the Deshodaya as well.
Purpose of the intervention was to take the mssge behind Sarvodaya and Deshodaya to the media through text, video and audio. He went on to emphasise that the mainstream media is not adequate to address the grass root levels. He went on to explain in details why TV, print and audio media are not adequate for Sarvodaya’s needs. A better alternative would be community radio. However, those that have been established in the past have faced sustainability problems.
Mainstream media tends to…
Nuwan noted that this leads on from the earlier coversation that were had in regard to Early Warning Systems (EWS) and explained why classification is importat for people in this field. This is important mainly for comparisons between countries, institutions and technologies. And so a ranking should be established.
Four examples were identified,
- Community based last mile hazard warning system
- Traceability of agriculture markets- trying to maximize the profit of the produce.
- Dam failure EWS
- Financial EWS- Looks at currency and banking crisis within a country.
Looking at early warning systems in a abstract way.
There are some ambiguous schemes that have been used..
- According to a space of time
- Multiplicity of events
- Decision model
- Domain: financial, flood, tsunami, cyclone etc
Therefore it can be noted that ICTs are used to try and minimize or distance the…
Nuwan Waidyanatha will conduct a colloquium on the topic of ‘My spring break in Kunming: Classification of Early Warning Systems on the 29th of July 2008.
The Colloquium will focus on the question that came up during one of the LIRNEasia brain storming sessions which was “what can and what can’t the Last-Mile Hazard Warning System do?”; i.e. what are its capabilities and capacities? The answer was “lets classify the LM-HWS”
“During the 3 months I had between submitting the ‘biosurveillance’ proposal and being awarded the research grant, I spent time taking a stab at the open problem of /classifying early warning systems/. The theoretical framework looks at applying system theory, complexity theory, and queuing theory as a basis to derive the classifiers. The belief is…
The main theme of the presentation was that traceability increases the value of the produce. This makes the product more marketable. Farmers dealing with the EU market have to deal with increasingly more stringent levels but this has also allowed those engaged in the traceability process to use it as a tool to market their produce.
Are their other users to the farmer?
- Elimination of the middle man and hence a rise in profit margins
- A degree of knowledge flow of the technical aspects of traceability
- Ability to market the product as a differentiated good.
Is there a net benefit? what are the cost? who pays for traceability? is it a purely private good?
- Is it a public good? it can be used to avoid national catastrophic national implications of the…
Please find the concept note added : sustainability-first-concept-note-for-research-version-1.pdf
Please note that this Colloquium is being Skypecast at https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/search.html?search=lirneasia
The Colloquium started out with basic introductions of Dr. Harsha Liyanage and the LIRNEasia crew.
He then went on to explain that he was interested in Telecenters and the Sarvodaya Fusion movement. He went on to tackle the issue of whether Telecenters are sustainable in their own right. He says that there is a negative perception about the sustainability of Telecenters. This is the view often shared by policy makers, regulators, researchers and donors. He went on to speak of the blog site and the telecenter network that has been created to improve the sustainability.
Helani questioned the reasoning behind the reason for focusing on telecenter networks. Harsha responded that prior…
The Colloquium started off with Helani Galpaya giving a brief over view of the agriculture project. Harsha de Silva then went on to give a brief overview of the agriculture market as it is… today. The relevant market is limited to 2.3 million farmers. But even this is not the entire focud group as they have to be entreprenial farmers.
However, the volumes of exports of non plantation crops are extreemly small in comparison to tea. Sri Lanka is the largest exporter of cinnamon. However, China also produces a lower quality cinnamon produce. This proves that there is a great use for traceability. It is clear that the demand on the global market has changed. This is apparent in the demand for organic foods etc. Harsha…
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Please note that a Colloquium will be held on Tuesday the 5th of February to review the presentations that will be delivered at the Agriculture Workshop from the 21st - 23rd of Feb
The Colloquium will be conducted by Shamistra Soysa, Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara and Harsha de Silva.
The Colloquium will be blogged in live time and I urge those who cannot attend to participate virtually.
The Colloquium will commence at 4 p.m (SL/ India time) and will be held at the LIRNEasia office in Colombo.
The Colloquium will be be available for online participation through a conference call on Skype
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- Request for details to be exchanged
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A Colloquium will be conducted by Robin Mansell on the 19th of January 2008 at the LIRNEasia office in Colombo.
Robin Mansell, Ph.D., joined the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) in 2001 where she is Professor in the Department of Media and Communications. She is Honorary Professor at the LINK Centre, Wits Graduate School of Public & Development Management, South Africa, as well as Honorary Professor at SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex. She is also a Trustee of IDS (Institute of Development Studies), Sussex, and is an elected academic Governor of the LSE from 2005. She is President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). She was elected in July 2004 and serves for four years.
Robin’s…
The Colloquium that was a follow-on from the discussion held in Kandalama regarding KPIs was conducted by Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara and Shamistra Soysa.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are those that help in measuring the success of the day to day activities of an organization. This means that the KPIs would lead to KRIs.
First the mission statement was reviewed, with comment on the structure to highlight the important areas.
Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara noted the critical success factor that would feed into the strategies and thereby facilitate the mission statement. However, critical success factors cannot be measured and hence can prove to be problamatic.
Rohan Samarajiva noted that the concept of productive partnerships need to be included in the critical success factors.
Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara noted that the Performance Indicators (PIs) are the factors…
The colloquium which was conducted by Ms Natasha Udu-gama and Nuwan Waidyanatha was focused on the material to be presented at the Disaster management workshop to be held in Dhaka.
The Colloquium started off with review of the sessions and programme of the workshop.
Sujatha Gamage stated that the term ‘Last- Mile’ should be used in conjuction with the First Responder Action title for Session III to maintain consistancy. Nuwan argued that this is not the case as the term last- mile is more related to the concept of communication rather than the last respondent.
Professor Rohan Samarajiva questioned if the message relay function can be seen to be as a seperate operation to ICT networks. He noted that we need to stay with either the Government or…
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