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Global mobile penetration hits 50% today

Informa Telecoms & Media reveals that worldwide mobile penetration will hit 50 per cent – or around 3.3 billion subscriptions – on Thursday, just over 26 years since the first cellular network was launched. 
Since its birth in 1981, when the first mobile telephony network was switched on in Scandinavia, the mobile phone has become one [...]

Missed calls / beeping / flashing – a universal strategy?

Missed calling (also referred to as beeping, flashing and many other names) has been most talked about in Africa; Johnathan Donner has been talking and writing about it for some time now; his research provides interesting insights into what he calls the ‘rules’ of beeping. A recent Reuters article looks at the growing phenomenon [...]

Software-defined radio to be implemented in India?

Software That Fills a Cellphone Gap – New York Times
Rural cellularization may not sound like much, but Mr. Bose is a follower of Clayton M. Christensen, the management guru, who also happens to serve on Vanu’s board. Mr. Christensen told him that the best place to start a new business is where there [...]

Indonesian Internet Association Draws on LIRNEasia Research to To Ask for Lowering Leased Line Prices

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Internet Providers Criticize Leased Line Tariffs

Bisnis Indonesia, Sept. 26, 2006, T2
JAKARTA: The Association of Indonesian Internet Service Providers urge network operators to lower leased line tariffs to allow a healthy competition in providing Internet services for retail customers. Chairman of the Association Sylvia W. Sumarlin said that network operators, which also provide direct internet services [...]

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