He is not just talking. Neil Tagare brought the world FLAG (Acquired by Reliance in 2003) and Project Oxygen (Never kicked-off). He has now launched an online outfit (BySellBandwidth) where capacity will be traded somewhat like the Real Estate. BusinessWeek and TelecomTV have covered Neil’s latest venture.
The idea of setting up an exchange for trading bandwidth between users with too much capacity and those with higher needs fell out of favor several years ago with the demise of Enron and Global Crossing, which were involved in illegal accounting.
But Neil Tagare wants to revive that business. Many international carriers — including PCCW, KPN, PLDT, Globe, C&W, Reach and Tata — have signed up with Neil Tagare’s exchange, which at this point is free. Neil, however, seems to be upset with a recent initiative of BTRC for the second submarine cable in Bangladesh.
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Elwood Pye
This is a brilliant article by Mr. Khan.
Could he kindly contact me as soon as possible at asiapac@sympatico.ca as I will be visiting Dhaka in the next few weeks and require his input on global telecommunications futures.
Thank you.
Kirk Miller
Elwood please contact me
Amar
That guy (Neil Tagare) is wayyy off…. First of all the main purpose of the 2nd BD submarine cable is for redundancy. Also as the state owned company owns the 1st cable, they can not efficiently allocate the bandwidth. Thus an alternate private cable is required for BD.
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