Vodafone Hutchinson Australia has said that the NBN fibre to the premises project is vital to support mobile connectivity, the Register has reported. At an open public hearing of the Joint Committee on the National Broadband Network Matthew Lobb, Vodafone’s general manager of public policy, told the committee that the argument that “because consumers love mobile tech they don’t like wires the NBN is not important” was misleading and that “getting fixed line right is absolutely crucial for mobile networks.”
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Adi Kusma is president of Biznet Networks, one the leading telecoms providers in Indonesia. He is appearing on Day One of the Broadband ip&TV Asia 2012 conference, taking place on the 15th-16th May 2012, KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Telecoms.com speaks to him about the major developments and challenges in the region.
Despite already having closed their services in India, announcing that they will cease doing business in the country and notifying their subscribers to move to a different network, operators S Tel and Etisalat have been told by India’s telecoms regulator that they must continue offering services until the license cancellation date. Loop Telecom has also announced that it will be exiting the market but must continue offering services until June 2, 2012.
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Heru Sutadi is Commissioner at the Indonesian Telecom Regulatory Authority. He is speaking on Day One of the Broadband Asia 2012 conference on the 15th-16th May 2012, KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Ahead of the upcoming conference Telecoms.com talks to him about the challenges facing service providers and operators in rolling out broadband in the country.
Praveen Rajan, Head of Internet & Services, DiGi Telecommunications, Malaysia is speaking as part of the Emerging Market Experience Exchange the day before the Broadband ip&TV Asia 2012 conference, 15th-16th May 2012, KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Telecoms.com catches up with him to see what the major concerns and issues are for this local operator.
City Telecom, one of the biggest telecoms operators in Hong Kong, has signed an agreement to sell its telecom and broadband assets to local company Metropolitan Light Co. for around HK$5bn ($644m).
Australia’s telecoms regulator, The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), has issued draft guidelines as it prepares to allocate spectrum for its ‘digital dividend auction’. The regulator is selling spectrum licences for blocks in the 700 MHz and 2.5 GHz bands in the biggest spectrum sale to be held in the country in a decade.
There are some deals that you really should see coming a long way off but somehow you miss them and then when the headline lands in your inbox like a right-hook from Mike Tyson back in the 1980′s you feel a little foolish.
We speak to Sajith Sivanandan, Country Head at Google Malaysia, about the growth he has witnessed in Malaysia’s broadband scene, and the opportunities he sees for Google as a result of this growth
We speak to Tommaso del Re, Head of Mobile and Business Development at Yahoo! India & Southeast Asia, about the influence mobile devices are having on internet usage, the increasingly fragmented nature of audience interactions, and the distinctions he has noticed in mobile internet usage across different markets in Southeast Asia.
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