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Iran: Controlling telecom to control people
In the old days, you’d just take over the newspapers and the TV channels. Now you have to take over the phone company too.
It is implanting 6,000 Basij militia centers in elementary schools across Iran to promote the ideals of the Islamic Revolution, and it has created a new police unit to sweep the [...]
Sri Lanka: Roadblocks to convergence strategy
It appeared that convergence was high on the agenda of Sri Lanka’s telecom operators. SLT introduced IPTV and Dialog put together a whole set of services including a satellite TV service and purchased a terrestrial license as well. There was talk of mobile TV being introduced.
The new TV regulatory regime introduced surreptitiously [...]
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