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New list of Top Ten Trends for global telecoms industry

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Abu Saeed Khan
on July 26, 2007
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Pyramid Research has released a list of the Top Ten Trends that will influence the telecoms sector in the region (and elsewhere) throughout the coming year.  It claims that subscriber growth will be the number one ‘critical development’ in the Asia Pacific region through 2008.

The new research shows that subscriber growth is expected to be highest in Indonesia, which will see a 45 per cent increase in its broadband market ever year for the next five years. By 2012, 80 per cent of Asia’s mobile subscribers will be from China, India, Indonesia, and Pakistan, with regional subscriptions totaling 2.2 billion. Read more.

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Colloquium on streamlining the LIRNE network websites

by
Indi Samarajiva
on July 17, 2007
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LIRNEasia decided to use a blog as its website rather than a conventional website. Website has done well so far; about 3,000 comments so far.

Some issues of importance:
Front page changes every two days, due to number of posts. Scrolling nature means that sometimes the most important topics do not remain at the top for long.
Weaknesses concerning retrieval of documents (unless you know exactly where it is).

Proposed structure:
Our website should be designed to meet Asia Pacific needs. Anything that does not fall under that purview will be handled by the other websites in the network.

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Future of telecenters

by
Rohan Samarajiva
on July 14, 2007
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As LIRNEasia plans its future research plans, which will be centered on mobile as a “more-than-voice” mode of access to means of communication, information retrieval and publishing, as well as completion of transactions (including payments), we have come up against the need to critically examine current efforts on, and plans for, telecenters.   Obviously, this is a discussion that will be Asia-Pacific-wide, like everything LIRNEasia does.  However, we’d like to get this started with a provincial news report in a Sri Lankan newspaper, simply because it was posted on the website by a reader/writer.  The comments and thoughts of all on the future of telecenters are welcome.

:: Daily Mirror - Opinion ::

The Nenasala Information Technology Training Centre in Ganewatta DS Division in Hiriyala electorate which was…

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Asia Pacific Internet use lags behind rest of the world

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Abu Saeed Khan
on July 11, 2007
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New research has found that even though the Asia Pacific region accounts for one third of the world’s online population, PC-based Internet usage there is lower than in the rest of the world 

The study covers 10 Asia Pacific countries and says that in May there were nearly 284 million people aged 15 or older accessing the Internet from a home or work computer, representing 10 per cent of the region’s population above the age of 15. Read more.

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Revisiting LIRNEasia’s Mission Statement and the addition of a Vision Statement

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Ayesha Zainudeen
on July 9, 2007
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LIRNEasia is in the process of updating and fine-tuning its Mission Statement; this is being done in light of the rapid expansion–both in terms of research interests and geographical coverage. The process was kick-started at a planning meeting in Kandalama, Sri Lanka on 30 June, where LIRNEasians reviewed the current Statement, and came up with some suggestions as to how it can be improved to more accurately capture its mission.

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Bangladesh breaks into top 10 mobile markets

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Abu Saeed Khan
on July 4, 2007
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Bangladesh has been elevated to ninth position among the top 10 mobile phone markets in the Asia-Pacific region during first quarter of 2007. A recent study of UK’s The Mobile World revealed it. Three months ago, in the fourth quarter of 2006, Bangladesh was in the 10th position. But it overtook Taiwan after adding nearly three million subscribers during the first three months of 2007. Read more.

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MNC manufacturers dominate Indian mobile market

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Abu Saeed Khan
on June 27, 2007
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The mobile market in India is flourishing because of massive increases in mobile subscribers, that are fueling more mobile handset production, says US research firm Gartner. The report adds that the subcontinent produced close to 31 million mobile phones in 2006, valued at around £2.5 billion.

India’s 2007 handset production is forecast to be the highest in the Asia-Pacific region at 68 per cent in terms of units and 65 per cent in terms of value, says Gartner. The research house expects mobile handset production to more than triple by 2011 to reach nearly 95 million. Read more.

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The Drum Beat on Mobile telephony

by
Ayesha Zainudeen
on June 19, 2007
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The Drum Beat is a weekly electronic publication exploring initiatives, ideas and trends in communication for development, published by The Communication Initiative. This week’s issue (# 399) focuses on mobile telephony, and is relevant for planning LIRNEasia’s next research cycle. Some of the articles include:
Pocket Answer to Digital Divide (Jo Twist)
Telecommunications: A Dynamic Revolution (David White)
New Trends in Mobile Communications in Latin America (Judith Mariscal and Eugenio Rivera)
From Matatu to the Masai via Mobile (by Paul Mason)
Wireless Communication and Development in the Asia-Pacific: Institutions Matter (Rohan Samarajiva)
The Real Digital Diversity (Seán Ó Siochrú)
Must Haves: Cellphones Top Iraqi Cool List (Damien Cave)
UK Children Go Online: Final Report of Key Project Findings (Sonia Livingstone and Magdalena Bober)
Read more on The Drum Beat

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Wireless Communication and Development in the Asia-Pacific: Institutions Matter

by
Ayesha Zainudeen
on June 18, 2007
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An article entitled ‘Wireless Communication and Development in the Asia-Pacific: Institutions Matter’ by Rohan Samarajiva is featured in The Drum Beat, a monthly e-magazine published by The Communication Initiative.

In October 2005, the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication (ARNIC) at the University of Southern California (USA) held a workshop - “Wireless Communication and Development: A Global Perspective” - as part of a multi-disciplinary effort to study the emergence of new communication infrastructures, examine the transformation of government policies and communication patterns, and analyse the social and economic consequences. In this 23-page paper, Rohan Samarajiva, Director of LIRNEasia traces regional trends related to the growth of wireless technologies - computers and telephones - and explores the regulatory and policy environment that is needed to continue to…

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Vietnam’s submarine cable ‘lost’ and ‘found’

by
Abu Saeed Khan
on June 2, 2007
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Dhaka, June 1 (bdnews24.com)—Maritime thieves have stolen at least 11-kilometres Vietnamese portion of Thailand bound SEA-ME-WE3 submarine cable and sold the 100 tons of illicit cargo as scrap, reported VietNamNet Bridge online newspaper Tuesday.

Such bizarre underwater international telecoms infrastructure robbery occurred on March 25 and since then Vietnam’s Internet users have been struggling with far slower speed.

The broken cable system, named TVH, was built in 1993-1995, connecting Thailand, Vietnam and Hong Kong with a capacity of 560 megabits per second.

The Vietnam Telecom International (VTI) got puzzled when the cable went down. It occurred soon after the Asia Pacific region recovered from prolonged bandwidth crisis as earthquake snapped bunch of submarine cables in the Taiwanese coast

VTI called a submarine cable fixing ship from Singapore. But its…

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LIRNEasia researcher invited to ITU meeting on disasters in Alexandria, Egypt

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Rohan Samarajiva
on April 12, 2007
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Nuwan Waidyanatha, the Project Manager of the Last-mile HazInfo Project, has been invited to speak on the findings of the project at an important regional event attended by a host of dignitaries including the Director of ITU-D, Mr Sami Al-Basheer, the seniormost official dealing with disaster issues in the UN system, Sir David Veness, and Mr Cherif Ghaly, the chair of the UN Working Group on Emergency Telecom.  Draft program is here.
Nuwan will speak on the lessons of the on-the-ground technology evaluations conducted by LIRNEasia and Sarvodaya in a majority of the tsunami-affected districts of the island, reported at the workshop in March.  It is a significant recognition that a speaker from an organzation that has existed only for 2.5 years has been invited to…

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Bridging the Divide: Building Asia-Pacific Capacity for Effective Reforms

by
Ayesha Zainudeen
on March 28, 2007
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Rohan Samarajiva and Sujata Gamage |The Information Society - An International Journal, Volume 23 Issue 2, 109
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Author Posting. (c) Taylor & Francis, 2007. This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in The Information Society, Volume 23 Issue 2, March 2007. doi:10.1080/01972240701224200 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01972240701224200)

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BOP Families To Trigger Mobile Penetration in Asia

by
Ayesha Zainudeen
on March 28, 2007
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Sonal Desai | CXOToday.com

Mumbai, Mar 27, 2007: Mobile penetration will penetrate the homes of bottom or pyramid (BOP) families in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, a study instituted by LIRNEasia has found.

Titled, “Teleuse on a Shoestring- A Study of the Financially Constrained in Asia,” it interviewed and maintained diaries of respondents from Thailand and Philippines besides the above mentioned countries. A C Nielsen conducted the fieldwork. International Development Research Center (IDRC), Canada funded the research.

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Choices: Calls or gold?

by
Ayesha Zainudeen
on March 10, 2007
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By Rohan Samarajiva 
LBO >> Choices : Priceless Link      
08 March 2007 08:26:29

http://www.lbo.lk/fullstory.php?newsID=2020236857&no_view=1&SEARCH_TERM=24 
 
March 08 (LBO) - Indonesia, like Sri Lanka, sends its women to foreign lands to work as housemaids. The numbers may be larger, though the proportion is smaller. 
 
Telecom networks are expanding fast in both countries, Indonesia faster. The telecom sector is attracting massive investments in both countries as operators scramble to meet the burgeoning demand.

Generally, politicians and officials responsible for a sector are happy when it grows. Therefore, I was surprised to hear several senior telecom officials in Indonesia express concern about lowered gold sales supposedly caused by excessive use of calling cards by expatriate housemaids.

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Preconditions for Effective Deployment of Wireless Technologies for Development in the Asia-Pacific

by
Ayesha Zainudeen
on March 2, 2007
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Rohan Samarajiva

Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) - MIT Press, Winter 2006, Vol. 3, No. 2, Pages 57-71

Abstract: Wireless technologies play an enormously important role in extending access to voice and data communications by hitherto excluded groups in society, especially in the world’s most populated region and now the largest mobile market, the Asia-Pacific. The present rates of growth and levels of connectivity could not have been achieved without wireless in the access networks, for mobile as well as for fixed, and in the backbone networks. But the solution is not simply wireless; it is wireless combined with new investment; it is wireless combined with other inputs and systems. Participation in the supply of services to meet pent up demand must be enabled by the removal…

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