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India: 3G Auction on Jan 30
India’s Department of Telecommunications, or DoT, Friday said the auction of radio bandwidth for third generation, or 3G, mobile phone services will take place as per schedule on Jan. 30 and that there will be no further delay.
Analysts and industry players, however, expect the process not just to be further delayed, but also to attract [...]
Sri Lanka: Mobile phone interruptions in East today??
Chief ministerial candidate Rauff Hakeem told ‘Lanka Dissent’ that the Ministry of Defence has ordered service providers to interrupt mobile phone services in the Eastern Province, which goes to polls tomorrow (May 10th).
He also said that the government was preparing to stage a massive vote rigging on election day and the move seems to prevent [...]
Fixed phones droop in China, while mobiles galore
China Mobile Ltd., the world’s biggest wireless-phone carrier by number of users, added record subscribers in October as China Telecom Corp., the nation’s largest fixed- line carrier, lost customers for the third straight month.
About 6.6 million people signed up for China Mobile’s services last month, compared with its previous high of 6.1 million in September, [...]
Dial for freedom with Amnesty Wireless
Dhaka, March 23 (bdnews24.com) — Grameen Bank’s Muhammad Yunus stunned the world by unveiling a poverty alleviation initiative using mobile phone on March 26, 1997.
He buys bulk minutes from Grameenphone’s GSM mobile network and resells among the microcredit borrowers in Bangladesh.
The industry now recognises such business model as Mobile Virtual Network Operator or MVNO. Yunus [...]
Banning Cellphones in Conflict Zones Counterproductive
This article shows that government’s instinct to ban cellphones from conflict zones because of the belief that it will be used by militants/terrorists to further their cause, actually neutralizes one of the security agencies most potent weapons to track subversives. I doubt that the Sri Lankan government will allow cellular service to be available any [...]
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