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Executive Director chairs session at Ministerial program at 2008 Mobile World Congress
Rohan Samarajiva chaired the panel discussion on ‘Convergence in Regulation – Designing Regulation for Convergence’ at the GSMA Third Annual Government Mobile Forum on 12 February 2008. The Forum was a part of the 2008 Mobile World Congress, taking place from 11-14 February 2008 in Barcelona 2008.
The panellists included:
Maria Del Rosario Guerra, Minister for Communications, [...]
Philippines pioneers international remittance via SMS
Reading the reports from Barcelona, one may think that remitting money using the functionalities of the mobile phone is something new. However, it appears that it is a functioning service in the Philippines, the SMS capital of the world.
The next billion is from Asia and Africa
Another story that reinforces our emphasis on the emerging Asia-Pacific and the Bottom of the Pyramid:
LANKA BUSINESS ONLINE – LBO
Making affordable phones and targeting consumers with smaller budgets have now become priorities for the largest companies in the sector who were all present at this week’s 3GSM trade show in Barcelona.
“There are [...]
GSMA honours Indian government
Barcelona, Feb 13 (bdnews24.com) – The GSM Association (GSMA) has presented its Government Leadership Award 2007 to India for exceptional achievement in mobile communications policy.
India has been selected because of its success in establishing a framework of policies and regulations, which have stimulated the growth of mobile telecommunications over the past three years.
The latest data [...]
Mobile as a payment mechanism
Inside the LIRNE.NET community, we have for some time been discussing a program of research centered on what we all mobile multiple play, a convergence of services around the transactional capabilities of the mobile phone and its unparallelled connectivity.
Our friend and colleague Abu Saeed Khan is reporting on a major development on these lines [...]
LIRNEasia speaks at Global Telecom Market Research conference in Barcelona
LIRNEasia Lead Economist, Dr. Harsha de Silva presented findings of a new study on telecom use at the bottom of the pyramid in five emerging Asian countries at the well attended ESOMAR global market research conference, Telecom 2006: Convergence Revolution held in Barcelona from 29 November – 1 December 2006. The study covers India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, [...]
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