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US Universal Service Fund to disburse subsidies for broadband
The US universal service fund is among the oldest and most inefficient, spending more on administration than comparators and not targeting the subsidies well. Our research has been cited in debates about improving it. The FCC under the Obama appointed Chair does not appear to be engaging in fundamental reforms, but is instead [...]
Telecommunication Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka: Quo Vadis?
Perhaps it is time for Sri Lanka Telecom Regulator to be renamed ‘Telecom Revenue Commission’ as it generates more revenue for the government than two state banks and Port and the Petroleum Corporation, suggests Rohan Samarajiva in his column to Lanka Business Online. The 3.5 billion rupee question: Does it regulate?
The answer may interest the [...]
Broadband QoSE rising on the public agenda
It is nice to know that we at LIRNEasia have been ahead of the curve on Broadband QoSE, including on understanding it as more than simply download speed. Professor Gonsalves’s paper on the subject is here.
The NYT today carried a story that says many of the things we have been talking about for the [...]
Sri Lanka regulator, asleep at the switch for years, becomes belligerent upon waking up
Finally the TRC has woken up and started paying attention to broadband QoSE. Unfortunately, like many people and animals who are prodded awake from deep sleep, it is grumpy. It is talking about guilt and “taking action” rather than sitting down with the operators and finding a solution.
“The Telecom Regulatory Commission is conducting [...]
Meet the Sinhala Bloggers…sans the anonymous political animals
At LIRNEasia, we all do our own CSR. Rohan and Harsha are perhaps among the most invited speakers to business conferences. Helani taught Information Systems to Masters students. Call this mine.
I do not blog. That is, if you do not count occasional posts at this site and comments on few others. I hate being called [...]
News generated at the LIRNEasia@5 conference
We didn’t quite think we’d be generating news at the conference, but apparently some of what was said was truly newsworthy.
Capital investment in Sri Lanka’s telecom infrastructure has plummeted amid a price war and high taxation which will crimp expansion in the future and broadband roll out in the island, top telecom operators [...]
How broad is your broadband?
Based on LIRNEasia’s broadband QoSE research findings, we ran an advertisement in the Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka’s leading English daily) on 24 November 2009. The advertisement focused on four facts. The first three were on value for money, advertised download speed as opposed to actual download speed and bandwidth bottlenecks. The lack of regulation on [...]
2nd South Asian Broadband conference starts in Colombo 26 November 2009
The 2nd South Asia Broadband Communications Conference and Workshop will be held at the Taj Samudra, Colombo, 26-27 November 2009.
We participated in the 1st conference in 2007 and found it to be quite useful. Our work on broadband benchmarking started as a result.
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