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Copper comes back?
Nicholas Negroponte said, in the context of the United States, that all that was carried on wireguides would shift to wireless (e.g., telephony) and all that was carried by wireless (e.g., television) would shift to wireguides. Wireless was better at connecting people who were inherently mobile; while wireguides made better sense for hauling large [...]
Coverage for LIRNEasia book
Click on the links to see the full articles covering LIRNEasia’s book, ICT Infrastructure in Emerging Asia: Policy and Regulatory Roadblocks.
‘BSNL’s monopoly over infrastructure a hindrance to growth’ – Financial Express (India)
Rural connectivity is now the focus of every telecommunication player in the country. Almost all stakeholders, from handset manufacturers to service providers, believe that [...]
The rural revolution
In the remote agricultural province of Lao Cai in Vietnam a few shared community phones are being replaced with high-speed WiMAX broadband connections and VoIP telephony for thousands of residents.
In rural Cambodia, a new 3G/UMTS mobile network is being deployed for delivery of high-bandwidth wireless services, including live streaming of mobile TV channels.
In [...]
Bangladesh isolated by submarine cable break
It was only in 2005 that Bangladesh got connected to the world through an undersea cable. It is being claimed that this link has been sabotaged, at the same time as the government ordered the shut down of mobile networks, serving multiple millions of customers.
:: bdnews24.com ::
Dhaka, Aug 23 (bdnews24.com) – International telephony, [...]
Bangladesh liberalizes international telephony
The government will auction three international gateway (IGW) and two interconnection exchange (ICX) licences among private operators in October, a top official said Monday. But no foreign company or foreign joint venture will qualify to apply for IGW or ICX licence. Even the non-resident Bangladeshis’ business outfits are not eligible either. Only the companies fully [...]
The Drum Beat on Mobile telephony
The Drum Beat is a weekly electronic publication exploring initiatives, ideas and trends in communication for development, published by The Communication Initiative. This week’s issue (# 399) focuses on mobile telephony, and is relevant for planning LIRNEasia’s next research cycle. Some of the articles include:
Pocket Answer to Digital Divide (Jo Twist)
Telecommunications: A Dynamic Revolution (David [...]
Economics of international telephony and Bangladesh
Bangladesh government seems to be convinced to open its last monopolistic area of telecommunications; international telephony. This is a good initiative, which needs to be supported as it would bring quality and cheap international telecoms services. However looking at the on-going debate on various aspects of this subject in the name of “VoIP Licensing” no [...]
Harvard Professor compares Google to “Soviet State”
Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, Associate Professor at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachussetts, has criticised the increasing global tendency for everything on the Web, in telephony and in computing to be recorded, archived and kept forever.
He said, “In March 2007, Google confirmed that since its inception it had stored every search query every user [...]
Market power and anti-competitive practices in CDMA?
CDMA has been a major force in helping drive down per-line costs of telephony. Has this been possible even with excessive royalties extracted by Qualcomm?
Qualcomm Under Scrutiny by Korean Antitrust Agency – New York Times
The South Korean antitrust agency has formed a task force to investigate the licensing and business practices [...]
India’s International bandwidth capacity grows 95 pc
The Hindu Businessline, Thomas K Thomas, New Delhi , July 13Increasing usage of broadband and Internet-based services has prompted Indian international bandwidth providers to raise their capacity by 95 per cent over a one-year period.
According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, bandwidth owned by various gateway service providers such as VSNL, Reliance Communication and [...]
TRCSL invites bids for 5th mobile telecom player
From LankaBusinessOnline
Extended Family
05 June 2006 14:23:29
Sri Lanka opens the door for fifth mobile phone operator
June 5, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka plans to expand its mobile phone market to five players, in a bid to bring down costs of telephony, the telecom regulator said Monday.
Sri Lanka’s mobile market had grown 53.5 percent to 3.34 million [...]
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 [...]
USO fund may finance rural mobile telephony
NEW DELHI, APRIL 13: The government is in the process of amending the Indian Telegraph Act to extend the Universal Service Obligation (USO) fund support to cellular mobile services (both GSM and CDMA).
As of today, the government is giving USO fund support to only the fixed line operators offering services in the rural areas.
“We [...]
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