Tag Archive for ‘The Netherlands’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'The Netherlands'

Mobile number portability: the case for and against

on October 4, 2007

The implications of mobile number portability (MNP) were discussed at a Workshop on Implementing Mobile Number Portability, held in August 2007 in Islamabad, Pakistan. The forum, comprising participants from the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, provided insight into the technical, regulatory and operational aspects impacted by the porting process, with a focus on the Pakistani MNP experience.

The reasons cited in favor of MNP were classified into advantages to subscribers and regulators. The former were benefited by an increase in choice (of packages) and the eliminated costs of having to inform third parties of a number change, while the latter saw MNP as an approach to attract new investment and generate healthy competition. Operators on the other hand, were split in their views; new entrants…

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Tags: Africa, Asia-Pacific, Australia, cellular telephone, Finland, fixed line services, GSM, Hong Kong, implemented solution, intelligent network, Ireland, Islamabad, John Horrocks, Malta, Middle East, MNP, Pakistan, PTA, Singapore, SMS, Telecommunication Authority of Singapore, The Netherlands, United Kingdom.

Talking CAP in Harbin, ISCRAM-CHINA 2007

Nuwan Waidyanatha

on September 3, 2007

Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) was the talk of the town in Harbin at the ISCRAM-CHINA workshop, which took place August 26-27, 2007. The event was jointly organized by the ISCRAM-Community and the School of Economics and Management – Harbin Engineering University. The workshop was a post-conference meeting to the International Disaster Reduction Conference (IDRC), which took place 21-25 August, 2007.

LIRNEasia project manager, Nuwan Waidyanatha, was 1 of 2 Sri Lankan delegates invited to present a research paper and the other was Chamindra De Silva of Lanka Software Foundation – Sahana Project. LIRNEasia presentation titled “Common Alerting Protocol Message Broker for Last-Mile Hazard Warning System in Sri Lanka: An Essential Component” was 1 of 115 papers published in the workshop proceedings. The paper was based on the…

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Tags: America, China, Delft, European Union, Harbin, Harbin Engineering University, Lanka Software Foundation, Last, Mile Hazard Warning, Mile Hazard Warnings, Nuwan Waidyanatha, School of Economics and Management, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, Van de Walle.

VoIP is a four-letter word in USA

Abu Saeed Khan

on July 10, 2007

A new report from the North American research house, Instat, reveals that the US is way behind its European cousins in consumer Voice over IP (VoIP) adoption – and this despite the fact that 2006 was a particularly good year for the technology globally with the wordwide total of VoIP subscribers increasing by 34 million.

The leading European VoIP adopters over the course of 2006 were France, Germany, and the
Netherlands. According to Instat analyst, Keith Nissen, “The EU market increased by over 14 million subscribers last year largely due to local loop unbundling, the introduction of cable telephony and triple-play service bundles as well as operator consolidation.”

By contrast the US added a mere four million new VoIP subscribers over the same period. Keith Nissen says US…

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Tags: cable telephony, European Union, France, Germany, Instat, Keith Nissen, The Netherlands, United States, voice-over-IP, VOIP.

HazInfo paper on CAP published in ISCRAM Delft confernce proceedings

Nuwan Waidyanatha

on May 18, 2007

The HazInfo paper on CAP titled — Hazard Warnings in Sri Lanka: Challenges of Internetworking with Common Alerting Protocol, has been published in the ISCRAM proceedings. The conference took place from 13-16 May 2007in Delft, The Netherlands. The final program of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management available on their website. It contains the complete program, including the abstracts of all papers and presentations. Conference was held at the Techniche Universiteit Delft.

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Tags: Delft, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands.

Building Digital Communities forum at ITU World 2006, Hong Kong

Indi Samarajiva

on December 20, 2006

Rohan Samarajiva and Divakar Goswami from LIRNEasia chaired back-to-back Forum sessions at the ITU World 2006 in Hong Kong on December 7.

The Building Digital Communities session, chaired by Divakar, covered a wide-swathe of topics. In his opening remarks [PDF], he outlined on some of the issues that would be covered in the presentations and discussion to follow.

In his Keynote address, the Indonesian Minister of Communication & IT, Sofyan Djalil proposed that global equipment manufacturers should adopt a new business model where they share some of the investment risk with operators while deploying infrastructure in financially unviable areas in developing countries. He suggested that the current model where developing countries are only purchasers of high cost equipment and services, breeds dependency and is unsustainable in the long run. In…

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Tags: Asia, broadband access, Divakar Goswami, Heather Hudson, high cost equipment, HK Knowledge Management Society, Hong Kong, Hungary, Knowledge Management, Ministry of Economy & Transport, Panelists Les Hales, Rabobank Group, Rohan Samarajiva, SAN FRANCISCO, Telecom Management, The Netherlands, Univ of San Francisco.

Iceland takes over from Korea as Broadband Champ

Rohan Samarajiva

on April 14, 2006

OECD Broadband Statistics, December 2005

In December 2005, four countries (Iceland, Korea, the Netherlands and Denmark) led the OECD in broadband penetration, each with more than 25 subscribers per 100 inhabitants.

Iceland now leads the OECD with a broadband penetration rate of 26.7 subscribers per 100 inhabitants.

Korea’s broadband market is advancing to the next stage of development where existing subscribers switch platforms for increased bandwidth. In Korea, fibre-based broadband connections grew 52.4% during 2005. This switchover effect is evident by the net loss of DSL (-3.3%) and cable (-1.7%) subscribers during the year.

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Tags: Broadband, Denmark, DSL, Iceland, Korea, OECD, The Netherlands.

LIRNE Course on Telecom Reform

Divakar Goswami

on May 31, 2005

On behalf of LIRNEasia, LIRNE.NET and the School of Communication and Information at the Nanyang Technological University, it is our pleasure to extend to you a special invitation to participate in the 7th LIRNE.NET course on Telecom Reform in Singapore, September 25-30, 2005. The course, Catalyzing change: Strategies to achieve connectivity and convergence, is designed to enhance the strategic thinking of a select group of senior decision makers in the telecom and related sectors in Asia and elsewhere. Previous Telecom Reform courses have been offered in Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. This is the first time one is being offered in Asia.

The focus will be more on the most current strategic issues than on nuts and bolts knowledge. A day will be set apart for…

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Tags: 7th LIRNE.NET, Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Competition and Regulatory Policy Unit, Delft University of Technology, Europe, Ewan Sutherland, Harsha Vardhana Singh, India, InfoComm Development Authority of Singapore, INTUG, Jens Arnbak, Latin America, LIRNE.NET, Malathy Knight-John, Nanyang Technological University, Professors William Melody, Public Enterprise Reform, Rohan Samarajiva, School of Communication and Information, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, The Netherlands, William Melody.

Live Notes on Group Discussion

Indi Samarajiva

on September 19, 2004

These are live notes, so they’re borderline incomprehensible. The value was more in that Rohan wanted to make a live text record of conference proceedings on the Net.

Payal Mallik, Group 1:

Case Studies, success stories of application. From India- Karnatika, first action was to formalize the land records which translates to land reforms through ICTs. Governments get to see the productivity gains from ICTs.

Citizen/Government Interface: this morning governance was pointed out as a critical area. What nature should the interface take?

Gap Between Content Development and Demand: Language issues, and what to ppl actually want from these applications.

Proposed Projects removed, I think the microimpact is still a little far from realization.

Happy with proposed projects: These subsidy studies should be underlined in a certain, clear theoretical framework. This…

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Tags: Broadband, certain technology, e-channelling, e-choupals, electricity, Global Knowledge Partnership, Important tools, India, Randy Spence, Singapore, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, VOIP.

Expert Forum on Regulation and Investment

Indi Samarajiva

on September 16, 2004

Mount Lavinia Hotel

Today is the official start of the LIRNEasia Expert Forum on Regulation and Investment. Rohan Samarajiva is enamoured of ‘real-time updating’, hence you will be getting a plethora of information.

Dr. William Melody delivered the commencement address, beginning with a simple question: “What are the characteristics of 21st Century Network Economies and Information Societies?” He also answered the question ‘What does LIRNE do?’ saying that “it serves mainly to develop human capital and contribute expert opinion to the world dialogue on regulation. LIRNE is established in Denmark, the Netherlands, South Africa, UK, and now Sri Lanka.

The World Dialogue on Regulation mission is to facilitate an international dialogue to generate and disseminate new knowledge. While our primary target is primarily involved to people who are involved in…

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Tags: Denmark, India, Michael Spence, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Regulation mission, Rohan Samarajiva, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suman Bery, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, William Melody.

Why LIRNEasia?

Indi Samarajiva

on September 2, 2004

Provisional Mission Statement: Improving the lives the people of Asia - by making it easier to use the information and communication technologies they need; by changing the laws, policies and regulations to enable those uses; by building Asia-based human capacity through research, training, consulting and advocacy.

Why LIRNEasia?
Enormous amounts of money are invested annually in ICTs. The potential of information and communication technologies, or ICTs for economic and social progress is substantial. ICTs aren’t necessarily the answer to higher incomes and development in itself; but together with other factors, they provide a means to improve people’s capabilities and knowledge so that they may better their lives. ‘Asia’ is the collective name for the countries roughly encircled by Russia, Turkey, Egypt and the Indian and Pacific Oceans.…

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Tags: Afghanistan, Asia, Bangladesh, Bay of Bengal, Bhutan, Broadband, Business Center for Internet, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombo, communication technologies, Denmark, DHAKA, Distance Learning Center Limited, Egypt, Hong Kong, Indian oceans, infoDev, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Development Research Center, Internet users, ISP, IT-based teaching facility, Korea, LIRNE.NET, LIRNEasia, LIRNEasia\'s mission, mobile phones, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Myanmar, Pacific oceans, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, The Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, United States government, video conferencing, virtual organization, Wi-Fi.

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