Tag Archive for ‘Internet services’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'Internet services'

Call for Papers: Infrastructure Regulation: What works, Why, and How do we know?
Deadline: 05 December 2008.

What do we know about Sri Lanka’s Telecentres?

on November 20, 2008

Here are the summarised results from the telecenter operator survey done by LIRNEasia at the weCan workshop in October 2008. Sample was not representative, but large enough to get a general idea about the telecenter operations in Sri Lanka.

Out of a total of 147 operators surveyed, the bulk, 101 were from Nenasalas, the 500 odd telecenter network created under the World Bank funded e-Sri Lanka programme. 10 were from Sarvodaya multi-purpose telecenters and 6 from others (eg. public libraries) 30 have not specified the type of the telecenter.

Do telecenters in Sri Lanka make money? Yes. They report an average monthly income of Rs. 22,119. (=USD 201) This is associated with a relatively large standard deviation of Rs. 21,714 (= USD 197) indicating a variation within…

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Tags: Broadband, Colombo, electricity, ICT Agency, ICTA, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Internet charges, Internet services, Nenasala, odd telecenter network, print services, printing series, Rs, Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka, survey, telecenter, telecenter network, telecentre, USD, VOIP, weCAN, World Bank, World Bank The.

Lessons from Nepal least-cost-subsidy auction for Sri Lanka

Rohan Samarajiva

on October 8, 2007

Harsha de Silva, who studied the first least-cost-subsidy auction in Asia in Nepal as part of the 3rd cycle of WDR research, draws out the lessons for Sri Lanka in an op-ed piece published in Sri Lanka’s leading English language daily. Now that Nepal is considering another least-cost-subsidy auction, the subject has become topical in Nepal too. The detailed study is available on the web.

:: Daily Mirror - FINANCIAL TIMES ::

An effective access regime that will allow optimal use of the existing backbone, better interconnection enforcement throughout the country, transparent licensing that would remove the pall of corruption or allegations of corruption hanging over the Telecom Regulatory Commission and the licensing authorities, more transparent and efficient spectrum management including the complete unlicensing of WiFi…

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Tags: Asia, India, Internet services, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Harsha de Silva, Telecom Regulatory Commission.

Colloquium on Thailand’s Telecommunication Sector

Tahani Iqbal

on November 30, 2006

As part of the Six Country Indicators Project, Deunden presented the interim findings from the Thailand country study (over Skype). The study assesses Thailand’s telecom sector and regulatory performance. It employs the common methodology and list of indicators adopted for the Six Country study.

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Tags: Bangkok, Internet services, little competition Internet, state enterprise, Thailand.

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

Divakar Goswami

on October 7, 2006

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 to customers, have disturbed ISP
businesses.

“Every day, a lot of ISP customers switch to network operators because they provide cheaper tariffs to access Internet,” she said to Bisnis yesterday. Internet tariffs from network operators are cheaper than ISP’s because those operators apply very high leased lines, forcing ISPs to charge higher retail prices, she said. Leased line is the network that connects ISP with the customers. This network is hired by…

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Tags: Access.Net, Asia, Association of Indonesian Internet Service Providers, Cable TV, cellular network, direct internet services, Europe, higher retail prices, IDR, India, Indonesia, Indonesian Infocom Society, Internet Association Draws, Internet Providers Criticize Leased Line Tariffs, Internet services, Internet tariffs, Internet users, ISP, ISP association, Jakarta, local telecommunication network, multimedia services, network operator, network operators, retail customers, satellite network, similar products, Teddy A. Purwadi, USD, wireless fidelity.

India’s International bandwidth capacity grows 95 pc

Divakar Goswami

on September 24, 2006

The Hindu Businessline, Thomas K Thomas, New Delhi , July 13Increasing usage of broadband and Internet-based services has prompted Indian international bandwidth providers to raise their capacity by 95 per cent over a one-year period.

According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, bandwidth owned by various gateway service providers such as VSNL, Reliance Communication and Bharti has gone up to 12.7 Giga bytes in March 2006 compared to 6.5 Giga bytes at the end of the previous financial year.

Explaining the growth, Mr Kiran Karnik, President, Nasscom, said: “Bandwidth requirement is largely being driven by the IT industry, particularly the BPO sector, and also rapid Internet adoption at homes. In addition, it is being fuelled by requirements of a growing economy. Everything is moving towards data…

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Tags: Bharti, Broadband, broadband services, dial-up Internet users, India, Internet Service Providers Association of India, Internet services, Internet Telephony, Internet-based services, IP telephony, Kiran Karnik, leased line Internet services, Nasscom, New Delhi, rapid Internet adoption, Reliance Communication, sample product, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, telephony, Thomas K Thomas, VSNL.

More on the Bangladesh undersea cable

Rohan Samarajiva

on May 23, 2006

The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 704
Submarine Cable:
BTTB given unlawful control over network
Other ISPs will be discriminated against
Abu Saeed Khan

The government violated the law by allowing the state-run telecoms monopoly to own and operate the country’s only submarine cable network. Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) built the SEA-ME-WE4 submarine cable and its associated infrastructure from the earnings of its other telecoms ventures and the law explicitly prohibits such practices of subsidisation.

Subsection C of Section 49 of the telecoms law says, “If an operator provides more than one service, but there exists competition in the market in providing one of such services and no competition in case of another service provided by him, then subsidy from the earnings of the service which is…

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Tags: Bangladesh, Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board, Chittagong, Cox, data connectivity services, fixed telephony, Internet Service Providers, Internet services, optical fibre, Saeed Khan, state-owned Internet service, submarine cable network, telecoms law, Web Edition Vol..

India

Indi Samarajiva

on February 4, 2005

Mass computings next big thing runs into an archaic law that bans outdoor use of Wi-Fi

Thakkar

RESHMA PATIL & PRAGYA SINGH
Posted online: Sunday, February 06, 2005 at 0154 hours IST
Indian Express

MUMBAI, NEW DELHI, FEB 5: When tech entrepreneur Jayesh Thakkar geared to connect computerswithout wires20 km away in two Vadodara offices, his corporate client first applied for a licence. They have been waiting for a year. At Mumbai, a construction giant is waiting since nine months for permission to wirelessly connect offices in two suburbs. [...]
Most big corporates stay away from outdoor WiFi use because licences are cumbersome and bureaucratic, says Thakkar, director, JayRaj Exim, a company WiFi-enabling offices in Mumbai. By the time a licence arrives, what if the technology is outdated? [...]
Many WiFi believers…

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Tags: archaic law, Arun Mehta, India, Internet access, Internet services, Jayesh Thakkar, MUMBAI, New Delhi, Potential applications, telemedicine, Vadodara, Wi-Fi.