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18 March 2010
Privatising India’s BSNL hits fresh opposition
The staff unions of India’s state-owned giant Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) have written to company management, saying they will hold a demonstratio...
Thailand set to resume delayed auction of 3G licences
Thailand were set to resume its delayed 3G licence sale after the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), the telecom regulator, secured the nec...
India’s Bharti sets up Airtel Bangla in Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s Warid Telecom, whose 70% stake was recently acquired by Indian telco Bharti Airtel, has been renamed Airtel Bangla Ltd. ...
Education and the NBN
While not all the new education initiatives are necessarily directly linked to the NBN a connection does in fact exist in every single aspect of educa...
17 March 2010
Ongoing mobile licence problems in Iran
The Iranian market grew very strongly during 2008 and 2009 due to the continued affects...
Gypsii and Twitter tie-up to launch Tweetsii
Mobile social network provider Gypsii announced in March 2010 that is would launch a new application that integrates location and social networking te...
16 March 2010
Featuring Telstra BigPond Music
Telstra's BigPond Music offers is the largest Australian owned online music store with over 1.2million tracks for download in high-quality...
Smartgrids - a new method of economic innovation
The communications revolution is shifting the national and global focus towards e-health, e-education and smart grids...
Finland - Mobile call charges cheapest in Europe
Finland has one of the most advanced mobile markets in the world and has been an early adopter of emerging technologies...
15 March 2010
The NBN and the business market
While there has been a great deal of emphasis on the customer access network the NBN will also most certainly cater for the business market....
ACCC's involvement in the NBN
With the arrival of the government’s NBN plans – back in early 2009 - and the change in management at Telstra the ACCC...
Telstra separation - Plan B
BuddeComm believes that there is a certain amount of wriggle room in relation to the structural separation of Telstra...
The NBN business case and the implementation study
I am not overly enthusiastic about the Opposition’s relentless politicking in relation to the NBN, but they do have a point...
Smart grids and the NBN
The trans-sector approach is catching on. NBN Co and the electricity utilities are now very actively engaged in exploring cooperative ways...
Rich Communication booming
Infonetics Research in their new report ‘Rich Communications Suite Services, Devices and Subscribers’ state Rich Communication Suite (RCS) aims to uni...
Interactive whiteboard
Hitachi Australia has unveiled the FX-Trio, the world’s first interactive whiteboard allowing three people to write on the board simultaneously...
Smart Vehicles
Smart vehicles are vehicles that can think, communicate with each other and the transport network...
12 March 2010
Interest in mobile LBS continues to grow
Despite the hype regarding this technology since around the year 2000; many analysts are still predicting big things for the future of mobile LBS, par...
European EV policies
The European Union has indicated that it wants to see standards for electric vehicle (EV) plugs, loaders and batteries that will enable electric vehic...
The MySpace evolution continues
While MySpace was once a leader in social networking, in recent times it has trailed behind Facebook and been overshadowed by the rise of Twitter. Oth...
11 March 2010
Australia - Smart Grids - Major Players & Projects
Nexium Telecommunications, a subsidiary of Ergon Energy, has signed a $20 million agreement with BHP Billiton-Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA). ...
Positive signs for mobile advertising market
Despite the business models for mobile advertising still being trialled and developed, analysts are predicting mobile advertising spending will contin...
10 March 2010
3G services launched in Jordan
Orange Jordan has launched 3G services in Jordan, making Jordan the first Arab country in the Middle East to launch 3G services outside the wealthy Gu...
Roaming in the very competitive Jordanian mobile market
Competition has been fierce in the Jordanian mobile market for some years, resulting in penetration of around 100% despite GDP per capita at around US...
Colombia plans national satellite
In March 2009, the Colombian government approved the guidelines for the construction of a Colombian Ku-band satellite...
Asia Pacific smart grid initiatives
South Korea, which boasts one of the world’s most ambitious decarbonisation strategies...
Cheap broadband in Hong Kong
City Telecom is hugely successful and building on this, the company aims to be the largest ISP service provider in Hong Kong by 2016...
5G wireless from R&E Networks
Bill St Arnaud mentioned in one of his previous blog that the Research and Education (R&E) networks are ideally positioned for deployment of the next ...
08 March 2010
Asia Pacific fibre deployments – what it means for Google
According to the FTTH Council Asia Pacific, China will soon dominate fibre to the home deployments...
Mobile competition and innovation in Japan
Japan’s mobile market place remains an aggressive arena...
Google’s new PowerMeter API
The new PowerMeter API (application programming interface) released by Google is designed to assist developers and manufacturers to build home energy ...
Welcome back Communications Law Centre
It was good to learn that the Communications Law Centre has received a new lease of life...
Italian government acts on broadband strategies
In common with many other EU governments, the Italian government has made access to broadband services a priority...
Budd:e
I was rather surprised when somebody alerted me to this service, so I of course immediately went to the website and checked it out. ...
04 March 2010
WiMAX equipment and device market
A new report from Infonetics Research ‘WiMAX Equipment, Devices, and Subscribers’ found the WiMAX market is coming out of the recession period strongl...
02 March 2010
Mobile Market is Dysfunctional for Multinational Customers
Multinational Companies (MNCs) cannot get what they are looking for on the mobile market, which is: cross-border one-stop shopping; one-stop billing...
01 March 2010
Retail clause and the telcos
I realise that - at least if one follows the media – it might look like that I am one of the few people who support the retail clause in the proposed ...
The truth about broadband speeds
Research published by broadband comparison website www.broadbandexpert.com.au...
Roaming Voicemail
According to vRoam most travellers do not realise that they are charged three times for voicemail when roaming using their normal Australian SIM ...
Amcom acquires IP Systems
In February 2010 the company bolstered its presence in the enterprise voice market following the acquisition of IP Systems...
Emerging trends from 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
Observations of emerging trends identified at the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona included...
Broadband TVs - a game changing moment?
We have heard a great deal about convergence over the last two decades but not a lot has actually happened...
26 February 2010
Big Mobile
Australian company Big Mobile has partnered with News Digital Media, Optus, and Vodafone Hutchison Australia, to represent platforms ...
Africa growth outlook 2010
BuddeComm has updated its entire range of Africa market reports and comes to the following conclusions:
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