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Don’t charge more for calls to fixed lines, India mobile operators told
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has said that mobile operators may be pushing consumers to give up fixed line telephone by charging a higher tariff for cell-to-fixed line calls. The regulator has asked the operators to stop the differential tariff as it was not justified.
“The differential and higher charges levied by cellular service providers for calls to fixed lines do not have adequate justification. This can be viewed as an attempt to promote substitution of fixed line traffic by mobile traffic and may lead to forced substitution of fixed lines by mobiles, thereby reducing the target market for fixed line broadband,” senior TRAI officials said.
Read the full story in ‘The Hindu – Business Line’ here.
Straits Times: LOW-INCOME TELEPHONE USERS IN ASIA
LOW-INCOME TELEPHONE USERS IN ASIAHello, can you connect us? By Francis Hutchinson & Lorraine Carlos Salazar, For The Straits Times Source: The Straits Times, June 12 2007 – Review Section See print version
NEW research on the use of telecommunications among low-income groups in India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand challenges the conventional wisdom that, in developing countries, customers for high- technology goods are to be found only among high-income groups. According to a multi-country survey, the poor are already accessing telecommunications and form a large untapped market with significant unmet demand. This wide and deep client base offers vast opportunities for enterprising telecommunications companies if they can develop appropriate business models to cater to them.
Regulatory burden to be reduced on new international operator in Indonesia
The Indonesian government imposed unreasonable burdens on the new entrant for international service in a recently issued White Paper 140. LIRNEasia highlighted the unfairness of burdening new entrants with obligations that the two existing incumbents (Telkom & Indosat) were not subjected too in comments it submitted to DGPOSTEL (one of the two regulatory bodies): 4.4 The Indonesian policymakers may have misunderstood the concept of asymmetric regulation. Asymmetric rules place additional burdens on dominant group of providers that other operators are not subjected to. In the current White Paper, many additional burdens are imposed on the new entrant that are not imposed on the two incumbents, PT Telkom & PT Indosat. Requirements for building FO from Indonesia to TIER-1 IP backbone, building domestic FO to Internet Exchange, building 10 Indonesian Central Gateway etc should be applied to all international gateway operators or to none at all.
On March 16, the Director General of DGPOSTEL conceded that requiring new international operator to build 10 new gateways was a heavy burden on the new entrant especially when the two existing operators in total had six.
The tender for the telephone fixed line is postponed till June March 16, 2007(Translated from Bisnis Indonesia, March 16, 2007) Jakarta:[...] The ..read more
Phone subscribers to reach 746 mln in China
Phone subscribers in China may reach 746 million by the end of 2005, of which handset subscribers will approach 400 million and fix-line phone users will exceed 353 million, according to xinhuanet.com.
Xi Guohua, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Information Industry, revealed the data at the China Telecom Annual Work Meeting for 2006. Since the competition of handset to substitute fixed-line telephones is intensified growth of handset subscribers continues to surpass that of fixed-line telephone. By the end of 2004 nationwide handset users reached 334.8 million, and about 5 million new users added to the number each month over the year.
The sustained growth of handset users brought with it the swelling short message business. According to statistics, mobile phones sent 217.76 billion short messages in 2004 while the first ten months of 2005 have witnessed transmission of 246.66 billion short messages, 40.1 percent more than the same period of last year. Assuming each message costs 10 cents at least the market income approached 25 billion yuan.
Apart from short messages, China’s handset value-added business sees numerous new services and applications. Multimedia message adds sound and pictures to short messages. WAP service can connect the mobile phone with the Internet ..read more
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