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BTRC takes note of discrepancy between retail vs wholesale broadband prices

Written by Ranmalee Gamage on July 28, 2009 — 3 Comments

In April 2009, we reported that even though leased line prices in Bangladesh had declined by 74% in 6 months, the retail price paid by consumers had not changed. This was based on the broadband benchmarking data LIRNEasia publishes every 6 months. We are thankful that the Bangladesh regulator (BTRC) has taken note of our [...]

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India: Bharti to rely less on telecom

Written by Chanuka Wattegama on November 4, 2008 — Leave a Comment

The Bharti Group is aiming to reduce its dependence on the telecom sector to 50 per cent for the group’s revenues by 2013. At the moment, telecom operations provide over 80 per cent of its revenues with new businesses which include retail, financial services and agriculture just about taking off the ground. Unveiling a new [...]

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Poor broadband performance causes New Zealand government to break up dominant teleco

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on September 27, 2007 — 1 Comment

The break up of AT&T in 1984 led to a seismic shift in telecom policy and regulatory thinking worldwide and also created the conditions for the Internet boom. New Zealand is a small country quite unlike the US, but it has taken an unprecedented step that has the potential of changing policy and regulatory thinking [...]

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