Tag Archive for ‘ADSL’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'ADSL'

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Sri Lanka: Same Broadband; Different Taxes?

on August 16, 2008

We all missed the obvious flaw, but not Malinda. The full credit for detecting that you are taxed differently for the same service should go to the eighteen year old from Kurunegala - the ever vigilant consumer. He pointed out in the latest post in his local language blog for a 512/128 kpbs Wi-Max connection you may have to pay about Rs. 675 as tax (30%) but for a 512/128 kpbs ADSL connection you pay only Rs. 337.50 - half of that. (The figures might not be exact but the argument still valid)

Why a Wi-Max broadband consumer should pay 100% more tax than any of her ADSL counterpart for the same service is an interesting question. Wi-Max technology does not pollute environment more or Sri Lankan…

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Tags: 3G, ADSL, Broadband, Dialog Broadband Networks, Rs, Sri Lankan government, Wi-Max technology.

Unreal broadband

Rohan Samarajiva

on November 3, 2007

Excerpt from an article contributed to Montage, Sri Lanka’s only English language news magazine. LIRNEasia is starting a small research initiative on establishing benchmarks for broadband quality.

Real broadband « Montage

So what do we want the operators to do? When you sell us a 512 Kbps residential connection or a 2 Mbps business connection, try to give us something approaching what you promised. Most of the time. We (most of us, at least) will understand if there are bad times; if the speed drops for a few hours in a day. But we won’t if the bad times are all the time.

Right now, many people don’t have much choice when it comes to broadband. Because the obsolete monopoly on drawing wire to homes and offices has…

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Tags: ADSL, Broadband, Sri Lanka.

Burma’s cyber city is a lie?

Rohan Samarajiva

on October 4, 2007

The military rulers of Burma are planning to open a cyber city, based on Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor, in January 2008. The following report states that the announced starting tenants are made up.

TelecomTV - TelecomTV One - News

Now, it just so happens that I was tracking a story on the junta’s plans for its very own cyber city just before the protests began. There have been quite a few reports across Asia recently that the Burmese “government” is building its 10,000-acre (4,050 hectare) “Yadanabon cyber city” project about 70 kilometres east of Mandalay, Burma’s second largest city.

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Tags: ADSL, Alcatel, Asia, Bangkok, Burma, Cable TV, China, Internet black hole, Irrawaddy, Malaysia, Myanmar, Reporters without Borders, Russia, satellite conference, Shin Satellite, Thailand, Xinhua news agency.

Broadband connectivity vital for businesses

Ayesha Zainudeen

on September 4, 2007

Anjana SAMARASINGHE
The Daily News, 3 September 2007 | See Print version
Sri Lanka needs to focus special attention on broadband connectivity as it is becoming more important for the development of businesses in the country.

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Tags: ADSL, Broadband, broadband infrastructure, broadband services, broadband technology, Colombo, copper based technology, Daily News, Rohan Samarajiva, Service Level Agreement, Sri Lanka, telecommunications watchdog, wireless alternative, wireless broadband.

With Bharti coming telecom competition is getting tougher

Ayesha Zainudeen

on August 27, 2007

We could still do better; But more taxes could kill the industry

The Nation Economist, Sunday 26 August 2007 | See Print version

I have to say that JHU does not know economics. What is the rationale behind taxing the only sector that is growing? The industry is giving government enormous amount of revenue. Twenty percent of every mobile rupee goes to the government. If you squeeze the goose for more eggs the goose will ultimately die. To my knowledge some of the taxes the government is thinking of will really kill the industry. We have got data which say people in the bottom of the pyramid are willing to spend Rs.500 per month on communication. So if the government put another tax these people will be discouraged…

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Tags: 3G, ADSL, Bangladesh, banking, Brazil, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, China, Consumer Finance Service, Delhi, fiber optic, India, Indian Army, Indian military, intelligent network, microwave, microwave networks, Mt Lavinia, MUMBAI, Pakistan, Rohan Samarajeewa, Rs, Russia, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Telecom, Sunil Miththal, Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka.

Can HSDPA leapfrog infrastructure bottlenecks to bring Indonesia online?

Divakar Goswami

on March 16, 2007

Most Indonesians access the Internet primarily using fixed wireline infrastructure, mostly dialup. Because of lack of competition in the fixed line sector due to various reasons fixed line growth has been stagnant which has also affected Internet growth in the country. Not only are no new lines being added to bring more homes online, the inadequate backbone infrastructure in large swathe of the country makes deployment of broadband services unviable even if incumbent’s local loop bottleneck could be bypassed.

However, yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (March 15, 2007) seems to suggest that high speed 3G wireless technology like HSDPA can bring broadband on a large scale to Indonesians. It (misleadingly) implies that since HSDPA is merely a software upgrade to 3G networks it will not require any new…

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WiMax pricey; mesh using WiFi the solution to last mile?

Rohan Samarajiva

on February 4, 2007

With new acronyms (NGN) being introduced instead of better service (ADSL that actually gives the 2 mbps or 512 kbps we paid for), our thoughts had begun to wander to WiMax, but sadly, cold water is being poured on that hope too.

On continuing discussion of municipal wireless there is a great quote in here: ‘Using municipal Wi-Fi for residential coverage, [Sanjit Biswas] said, was “the
equivalent of expecting street lamps to light everyone’s homes.” ‘

Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers - New York Times

WiMax, which will be a high-power version of the tower approach, comes in two flavors: mobile, which has not yet been certified, and fixed, which is theoretically well suited for residential deployment. Unfortunately, it’s pricey. Peter Bell, a research analyst at…

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Tags: ADSL, Broadband, DSL, municipal wireless, Peer-to-Peer, Peter Bell, TeleGeography Research, Towers - New York Times, USD, Washington, Wi-Fi, wireless internet.

Evaluating ICT policy in Indonesia: Interview with LIRNEasia researcher

Divakar Goswami

on January 26, 2007

As part of a special review of ICT policy in Indonesia, e-Indonesia, the Indonesian ICT monthly magazine, interviewed a number of key stakeholders including the Minister Sofyan Djalil, Commissioners from BRTI, the regulatory body, civil society group, industry reps and ICT experts.

LIRNEasia researcher, Divakar Goswami, was also interviewed. The interview is featured in the online edition here. The interview is in bahasa. The English text of the interview is below:
1. How’s the growth of ICT in Indonesia for along 2006 (as we see from regulations, infrastructure development (hardware and software), human being, ICT industry etc)?

Information and Communication Technology sector (ICT) in Indonesia is one of the most dynamic sectors of the economy contributing most to GDP growth rate (around 16%) than any other sector. The ICT…

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Taiwan quake shakes telecom links in Asia

Divakar Goswami

on December 27, 2006

The strong quake off Taiwan’s coast on December 26 damaged six separate submarine cables and severely disrupted telecom links in the East, Southeast and South Asia. Internet connectivity in a number of countries are either down or are slowed down thanks to taffic that is being rerouted over networks that have escaped damage. Most of Jakarta (Indonesia) and Pondicherry (Southern India) have been without Internet until this afternoon (Dec 27) at least. In our office in Sri Lanka, SLT’s ADSL connection (though congested) is working. However, Lankacom’s leased line is down since it probably connects to the Internet backbone via Singapore.

These disruptions have major consequences for any business that relies on telecom for delivering their services, including, banking, trading, call centers, remotely managed services etc.…

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Colloquium: Indonesia Sector Performance/Indicators study

Ayesha Zainudeen

on November 9, 2006

As part of the Six Country Indicators Project, Divakar presents the interim findings from the Indonesia country study. The study assesses Indonesia’s telecom sector and regulatory performance. It employs the common methodology and list of indicators adopted for the Six Country study.

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100,000 ADSL connections? How about speed?

Rohan Samarajiva

on May 28, 2006

The following news item talks about SLTL’s plans to give 100,000 ADSL connections (more than the total number of main lines in 1990!). This is good news indeed. But it would be even better news if the network were to be properly dimensioned so that customers could get the speeds they pay for.

:: Daily Mirror - FINANCIAL TIMES ::
SLT is also shifting its focus to non-voice data services and delivering broadband technologies.

“SLT Chief Corporate Officer Mrs. Pat Abeysekara stressed that plans are underway to roll out 100,000 ADSL connections in all 32 regional telecommunications areas. A request for a tariff revision for ADSL has also been submitted to the TRCSL.

Trials will also be conducted with newer technologies like IP TV (Internet protocol TV allowing users…

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Tags: ADSL, broadband technologies, Colombo, Internet protocol TV allowing users, IP, Kandy, Pat Abeysekara, telecom services, telecommunications areas.

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