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Vic Hayes and Wolter Lemstra of the Economics of Infrastructures section in the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology, have co-authored a paper entitled, Unlicensed: The case of Wi-Fi, which argues that the current day success of Wi-Fi is a combined result of (1) a change in the US communications policy in the 1980s; (2) the industry leadership provided by NCR to create a global standard; and (3) the influence of the users that moved the application of Wireless-LANs from the enterprise to the home, from indoor to outdoor use, from a communications product to a service, and from operators to end-users as the provider of that service. This paper was presented at the Genesis of Unlicensed Wireless Policy Conference at George Mason University School of Law in April 2008, and will appear in a forthcoming issue of info.

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Ewan Sutherland, Research Fellow at the LINK Centre has just completed a draft study, “Counting mobile phones, SIM cards & customers.” This paper discusses the challenges of counting the number of mobile subscribers in context of the reality multiple SIM card ownership. This has implications for counting the unconnected, for roaming and mobile termination rate regulation, among others.

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Professor Robin Mansell, Head of the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics (LSE), will conduct a colloquium entitled “Communication and Technology: What’s New?” at the LIRNEasia office in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The colloquium will focus on the inter play between communications and the technology that supports it.

Click here to download Mansell’s paper, Communication and Technology: What’s new? in .pdf format.

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Click here to read LIRNEasia’s blog summary of the colloquium.

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A working paper by Prof. William Melody discusses a telecom takeover operation in Denmark lead by a group of five foreign private equity specialists and their plans both at a national and regional level. The paper looks at the financial rationale, the legal aspects and the implications of this operation on the network development and public policy. Private Equity Takeover of Telecom Infrastructure in Denmark focuses on one national case but are lessons for other countries, both developed and developing, where similar takeover strategies are being proposed.
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Rohan Samarajiva, Joseph Wilson, Harsha de Silva and Tahani Iqbal presented recent research conducted by LIRNEasia at a media and stakeholder event organized by the Pakistan Telecom Authority in Islamabad on 14 June.

Following opening remarks by Chairman of PTA, Major General (R) Shahzada Alam Malik, Samarajiva and Wilson presented the new improved version of the six-country Telecom Regulatory Environment study, with emphasis on Pakistan.

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