Tag Archive for ‘Mauritius’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'Mauritius'

Call for papers: Mobile2.0: Beyond voice
Deadline: 31 October 2008.

Seacom laying Africa undersea cable

on November 22, 2007

Mauritius-based private equity venture Seacom has started the construction of a fibre optic cable that will link southern and east Africa with India and Europe.

The $650 million project covers more than 15,000 kilometres to link South Africa to India and France through Mozambique, Madagascar, Kenya and Tanzania. It is expected to provide first broadband access to countries in East Africa, which are currently using satellite connections.

In a similar project, NEPAD e-Africa Commission signed a deal with an American firm 5-P Holdings in November 2007 for the construction of an undersea submarine cable to link every country in Africa with the outside world.

This is a joint project between African investors and US telecommunications development company Herakles Telecom. The cable will be ready to…

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Tags: Africa, Alcatel-Lucent, broadband access, East Africa, Europe, fibre optic, France, Herakles Telecom, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, satellite connections, South Africa, Tanzania, telecommunications development, United States, USD.

FLAG to invest $1.5 billion on new submarine cable network

Divakar Goswami

on December 30, 2006

FLAG Telecom plans to deploy the largest IP-based submarine cable network that will connect 60 countries, including many that currently have poor connectivity by 2009. India, Indonesia, and Philippines are among the countries that FLAG’s NGN network will have a presence in.
Reliance to carry FLAG far and wide:

“We live in a world where there is too much of bandwidth for some, little for others and none for many - there is unequal access to bandwidth in and across countries, continents and communities,” said Anil Dhirubhai Ambani, chairman, Reliance Communications. “FLAG NGN will democratise digital access,” he added.

FLAG NGN will comprise of our systems. FLAG NGN System 1 would cover Asia that includes India, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei and Honk Kong. FLAG NGN…

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Tags: Africa, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani, Asia, Brunei, China, Cyprus, FLAG Telecom, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mediterranean, Mozambique, Philippines, Reliance Communications, Republic of South Africa, Singapore, submarine cable network, Tanzania, the Philippines, Turkey, United States, US West Coast, USD, Vietnam.

National Early Warning System

Rohan Samarajiva

on March 7, 2005

*National Early Warning System: Sri Lanka (NEWS:SL)*

_A Participatory Concept Paper for the Design of an Effective All-Hazard Public Warning System (Version 2.1)_

There are multiple ways to view this document:* View Document as HTMLPortable Documents:* Document (pdf, 411 KB)
* Annexes (pdf, 1.76 MB)

*Executive Summary*# *The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed the lives of one in 500 of Sri Lanka�s people and displaced one in twenty has highlighted the critical importance of an effective National Early Warning System for Sri Lanka (NEWS:SL)*. Meeting this need, which has been discussed (and forgotten) after each of our too frequent disasters such as the cyclones of 1978 and the floods of 2003, can no longer be postponed.
# *Public warning is a system, not a technology*. The identification, detection and…

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Tags: Bangladesh, floods, hazard detection systems, html, Indian Ocean, Mauritius, Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka Act, social infrastructure, Sri Lanka, technology*, telecommunications, telecommunications network.

Colloquium LIVE Feed

Divakar Goswami

on December 16, 2004

Sujata: summary too lenghty
Luxman: Since audience is EU needs to have language on ICT uplifting “masses” and “rural” access.
Malathy: Process element of regulation is not there?
Rohan: Study was originally for investor study and language taken from WTO language leaving out the independence of regulator. Process question will be in another study comparing different sectors.
Malathy: why cant process be built into current study?
Rohan: More questions you put in the response rate is poor.
Luxman: If performance indicator isnt ok, then need to know what is going wrong with regulator..
Rohan: If sector is doing well, why should I care if regulator isnt answering letters on time?
Sujata: Perception could be added for evaluating process regulator?
Amal: When respondents received questionnaire they thought it was too long. And deadlines keep slipping
Rohan:…

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Tags: Australia, Bangladesh, Chanukah, electricity, electricity sector, European Union, Ghana, hold media conference, India, internet costs, Kerala, Maldives, Mauritius, National Science Foundation, Nepal, OECD, Pakistan, United States.

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