LIRNEasia » backbone networks http://lirneasia.net a regional ICT policy and regulation think tank active across the Asia Pacific Tue, 22 May 2012 08:33:51 +0000 en hourly 1 LIRNEasia engages in act of “social corporate responsibility”! http://lirneasia.net/2008/10/lirneasia-engages-in-act-of-social-corporate-responsibility/ http://lirneasia.net/2008/10/lirneasia-engages-in-act-of-social-corporate-responsibility/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:18:47 +0000 Nirmali Sivapragasam http://lirneasia.net/?p=2558 Large corporations engage in acts of Corporate Social Responsibility.  Non-profit organizations like ours sometimes engage in acts of Social Corporate Responsibility.   SCR differs from CSR because the beneficiary here is a corporation.  We recognize that large corporations can affect the course of events in countries and in some cases, the world.   Therefore, when a large corporation with massive resources asked us to help educate their senior managers (especially those in charge of CSR) about key issues in telecom, we agreed. 

Here are four one-pager briefs that were prepared for this purpose:  the topics were Underserved areas; access and backbone networks, spectrum and  ICT4D in South Asia (excluding India).

]]> http://lirneasia.net/2008/10/lirneasia-engages-in-act-of-social-corporate-responsibility/feed/ 0 Preconditions for Effective Deployment of Wireless Technologies for Development in the Asia-Pacific http://lirneasia.net/2007/03/preconditions-for-effective-deployment-of-wireless-technologies-for-development-in-the-asia-pacific/ http://lirneasia.net/2007/03/preconditions-for-effective-deployment-of-wireless-technologies-for-development-in-the-asia-pacific/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:42:22 +0000 Ayesha Zainudeen http://www.lirneasia.net/2007/03/preconditions-for-effective-deployment-of-wireless-technologies-for-development-in-the-asia-pacific/ 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 of barriers to entry to hitherto monopolized markets. More than half the Asia-Pacific countries now allow some form of market entry in basic services (higher in mobile). However, even where entry is allowed, conditions are not optimal for investment. For innovations using wireless, the creation of a better telecom regulatory environment constituted by better policies, regulation, and implementation with regard to market entry, management of scarce resources, interconnection and access, and the enforcement of regulatory and competition rules is essential. In sum, wireless matters, but only when policy and regulatory preconditions allow it to matter.

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