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LIRNEasia’s Mobile Benchmarks (South Asia and Southeast Asia) and Broadband Benchmarks Report for October 2008 has been released. Click HERE for more information.




Bangladesh as top telecom investment opportunity

More indications that the BOP [Base of the Pyramid] markets in South Asia are beginning to develop a criticial mass of attention:

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A survey carried out by an unusual collective of researchers from the Russian School of Economics, the London Business School, various colleges of Cambridge University and the Anglo-Russian telecoms investment group Altimo, comes to the conclusion that those companies, manufacturers, vendors and service providers want to make the most of the world’s telecoms markets should focus on Bangladesh, India and China.

The report says southern and south-eastern Asian markets will provide suppliers with the most lucrative opportunities over the course of the next five to seven years thanks to a felicitous combination of “high projected per capita GDP growth and significant current capital expenditure”.

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Teleuse on a Shoestring: Expenditure and perceptions of costs amongst the financially constrained

Avanti Moonesinghe, Harsha de Silva, Neluka Silva & Ayoma Abeysuriya
April 2006, Version 2.2 Version 3.0
The latest in the series of Teleuse on a Shoestring papers is now available for comment.
 It is often claimed that access to telecommunication facilities is a propeller of economic prosperity in developing countries.  Mobile phones in particular are considered pivotal in encouraging growth.  Prahalad (2004), in Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid asserts that defining change in the world’s poorest economies will be led by access to communications and not through the evolution of IT as was the case in the advanced countries of the world.  A study by the London Business School has also found that, in a typical developing country, an increase of 10 mobile phones per 100 people…