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Photo exhibition at LIRNEasia@5
As part of LIRNEasia’s 5th year anniversary conference, “research -> policy -> knowledge based economies“, a photo exhibition was commissioned at the event to capture different aspects of the use of mobile phones by those at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP). The images which were sourced from Flickr from both budding as well as [...]
Pradip Baijal: No lessons learnt from telecom
Despite the phenomenal growth of India’s mobile sector, broadband growth has severely lagged behind. Pradip Baijal, the former Chairman of TRAI comments on some of the reasons for this sluggish growth.
We always spoken about infrastructure sharing for last mile. The most important infrastructures that can be shared is backhaul infrastructure. BSNL and other operators should [...]
India woos West with education
BBC News, Bangalore
Long known for its outsourcing, India is now increasingly marketing itself as a destination for affordable education.
From his bedroom in Bangalore, biology teacher Vishal Bhatnagar uses an [...]
Wireless: Seeking a voice in future of WiMax
By Eric Sylvers International Herald Tribune
Published: October 9, 2006
MILAN A battle is brewing that may well decide how Europeans connect to the Internet using cellphones, laptops and other portable devices in the coming decade.
Mobile phone companies, chip makers and manufacturers of wireless networks are pushing their sometimes conflicting cases for how the limited amount of [...]
Baseline Sector Analysis of the BPO industry in Sri Lanka
The final report of the study that was conducted on Sri Lanka’s BPO sector is available for download below as a PDF file (931kb)
A Baseline Sector Analysis of the Business Process Outsourcing Industry of Sri Lanka
Mobiles break bones as Africa aims high
BBC Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5344654.stm
Does anyone here suffer from Nebrols (Network Broken Limbs Syndrome)
Beauty parade likely for 3G licenses in India
According to this article that appeared today in India’s Business Standard, TRAI seems to be considering using a base price + beauty pagent mechanism to award 5 licenses (of 5MHz each) for companies to introduce 3G services.
The prduence of using beauty pagents needs to be questioned. The failures of 3G auctions in Europe in 2000 [...]
Why the Indian telecom regulator embraced competition
Sept 12: Pradip Baijal, the former chairman of the TRAI, puts forth his comments on TRAI’s experiences with competition regulation in this article on Rediff.
Read the entire article HERE
Baseline Sector Analysis of Sri Lanka’s BPO industry
The current potential global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) market of USD 11.5 billion is expected to grow ten-fold to around USD 120-150 billion in the near future. However, Sri Lanka only recently started emerging as a potential destination for outsourced work.
Given that the BPO industry is in its infant stages in Sri Lanka, there is [...]
$100 laptops to debut with Thai kids
Thursday, August 17, 2006 Posted: 1431 GMT (2231 HKT)
(AP) — The ambitious project to provide low-cost laptop computers to poor children around the world is about to take a small step forward.
More than 500 children in Thailand are expected to receive the machines in October and November for quality testing and debugging.
Read [...]
Regulator Slashes Telstra’s LLU Fee
The article raises some interesting points with regards to the potential impacts of regulatory intereventions (in this case on the issue of LLU). Subsequent to being forced to reduce its LLU fee, Telstra stock has stumbled. Can anyone with more regulatory experience on this blog share their thoughts on this article? Is this a case [...]
Talk is cheap and getting cheaper
With so many options becoming available to consumers to circumvent their mobiles and fixed phones, I wonder how much longer we can expect a single tier internet.
The linked BBC article examines some new VOIP companies which are providing last mile access (for PC/PHone to phone communication) for free.
Sri Lanka’s Computer Literacy Survey Questionnaire
Sri Lanka’s Department of Census and Statistics will be conducting a household computer literacy survey in October 2006. The questionnaire for the survey has been posted on their website for comments. Comments have been requested by August 14, 2006.
The document can be found HERE
The documents includes instructions on how to send comments.
FCC to levy USF charges on web phones
June 21 (Bloomberg) — Vonage Holdings Corp. and other providers of Internet-based telephone service must help subsidize services in rural and low-income areas, U.S. regulators said.
A rule adopted today by the Federal Communications Commission requires providers of Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, service to contribute 10.5 percent of their long-distance revenue to the Universal [...]
Workshop on ICT Indicators for Benchmarking Performance in Network and Services Development
LIRNEasia and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), with the assitance of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada, co-sponsored the “Workshop on ICT Indicators for Benchmarking Performance in Network and Services Development” in New Delhi from 1-3 March 2006. The workshop highlighted the need for accurate, standardized and comparable indicators for the [...]
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