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India’s Universal Service officials seek information about teleuse at the Bottom of the Pyramid
On March 22nd, LIRNEasia was invited to present the Teleuse@BOP findings to the staff of the Indian USO Fund and interested members of the Telecom Commission. It was a great honor to share our findings with this knowledgeable audience, knowing that they make the decisions regarding disbursement of the world’s second largest universal service fund.
While [...]
Reach out and see somebody
Seems like a good business idea for entrepreneurs in countries like Bngladesh, India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka, with large migrant populations. Even at double the US set up costs, it won’t take long to start earning returns. Of course, good broadband is a necessary condition.
Abroad at Home – New York [...]
Building Digital Communities forum at ITU World 2006, Hong Kong
Rohan Samarajiva and Divakar Goswami from LIRNEasia chaired back-to-back Forum sessions at the ITU World 2006 in Hong Kong on December 7.
The Building Digital Communities session, chaired by Divakar, covered a wide-swathe of topics. In his opening remarks [PDF], he outlined on some of the issues that would be covered in the presentations and discussion [...]
Broadband battles
Here is an issue that will feature large in India and even Bhutan, but not Sri Lanka. The reason is that the former countries have a sizable number of cable connections, which will in the future be used to provide broadband access in competition to phone companies.
Because of the profligacy of frequency-based broadcast licensing [...]
Britain’s digital divide remains unbridged: Ofcom Report
by Martyn Warwick – 28/4/2006 11:57:47
http://www.telecomtv.com/news.asp?cd_id=6652&url=news.asp?cd_id=6652
Ofcom, the UK’s uber-regulator of telecoms and the media has just published its Communications Market Report for the Nations and Regions of the UK. It analyses the availability, take-up and usage of telecoms, Internet and broadcasting services and applications across the whole of the British Isles. The watchdog will use [...]
Who wins and who loses as phone calls move on to the internet?
The Economist Dec 2, 2004
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3446429
…today almost all broadband connections in the world are fixed links provided either by telcos or cable companies. But in the next couple of years a handful of promising new wireless technologies, the best known of which is WiMax, will start to blanket large regions with broadband access over the airwaves.
This [...]
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