Home to some 1.5 billion people, South Asia is paying a high price to access the Internet as service providers have been slow to deliver cheaper broadband connections, analysts say.
The region has embraced telephones, mobile phones and computers and India has a flourishing software and outsourcing industry, noted industry watchers at the first South Asia Broadband Congress here earlier this month.
But South Asia has lagged behind in hopping onto the broadband bandwagon, observed Sanjay Gupta of India’s Midas Communication Technology.
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Abu Saeed Khan
AFP has carried this story, which has been also picked up by telecomasia.net (http://www.telecomasia.net/article.php?type=article&id_article=5733).
zzainudeen
LBO
http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/fullstory.php?newsID=848098492&no_view=1&SEARCH_TERM=5
Also picked up on
Yahoo! News: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070916/tc_afp/srilankaittelecombroadband
Sydney Morning Herald:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/South-Asia-slow-to-hop-on-broadband-bandwagon/2007/09/16/1189881325197.html
Jayed.US:
http://jayed.us/2007/09/16/south-asia-slow-to-hop-on-broadband-bandwagon/
Australian IT:
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22430846-15306,00.html
DZONE IT BlackBelt (Blog):
http://itblackbelt.wordpress.com/2007/09/17/south-asia-slow-to-hop-on-broadband-bandwagon/
samarajiva
Coverage in Pakistan: http://www.dawn.com/2007/09/17/top16.htm
zzainudeen
The Bottom Line (Sri Lanka)
http://www.thebottomline.lk/2007/09/19/B19.htm
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