Data Centers expand, including in China (surprisingly)
Our work on broadband QoSE showed that quality deteriorates when one has to communicate with the Internet cloud. We’ve been pushing for action to reduce the prices of international backhaul from Asia,...
View ArticleExtending the reach of LIRNEasia research: Broadband QoSE results in a...
A good value-added blogpost drawing from LIRNEasia research Helani Galpaya’s work: These are only a few graphs and download speeds are only one measure. What’s nice is that we can now quite confidently...
View ArticleThrottling more common in mobile networks than on fixed networks?
As attention shifts to broadband quality of service experience, more tool for understanding what’s going on are becoming available. One tool Glasnost is described in the NYT: In general, the Glasnost...
View ArticleBelated post on presentations made at ITS India conference, New Delhi, Feb 2012
LIRNEasia organized a panel on Broadband Bottlenecks in Asia at the ITS India Conference. Here are the slides that were presented at the session, with apologies for the late posting. Helani Galpaya...
View ArticleDiagnosing broadband quality in the Pacific
The Pacific is a tough environment for ICTs. Small populations scattered across thousands of islands over one third of the earth’s surface. More or less the opposite of South Asia. But distance does...
View ArticleQuality of service and sending-party-network-pays: An absurd connection
Mr Luigi Gambardella of ETNO responded to one of my tweets and asked me to relook at their proposal. I did (CWG-WCIT12/C-109 of 6 June 2012). On the face, it appears that they are concerned about...
View ArticleSlow WiFi can ruin your broadband experience
I like to point out in all the talks that I give on broadband that it’s the slowest link that defines the experience, as in the strength of the weakest link is the strength of the chain. Here is an...
View ArticleMixed messages from Bangladesh regulator
For too long the government of Bangladesh has hesitated to accept the fact that the only realistic way a majority of its people can be connected to the Internet is over wireless media and has tended to...
View ArticleFraudband in Germany too?
Germans have a reputation for technical prowess. You’d expect the operators there to be technically superior in delivering what they promised when they sold broadband service. But it appears that they...
View ArticleCloud computing is needed in developing countries, but the barriers have to...
Today at IGF 2013 in Bali, I was part of a panel on cloud and mobile computing. We at LIRNEasia need cloud computing. But we are also realistic about the challenges. Here is the slideset I used to...
View ArticleA response to an essay about mobile access not being real access to the Internet
This is not to dismiss the idea of connecting via mobile phones. I have spent the last few years researching the challenges of pulling together real connectivity and access for the poorest, and it’s no...
View ArticleAssessing the benefits to Sri Lanka of direct connection to SEA-ME-WE 5
All these years Sri Lanka was connected to its main international communication conduits (SEA-ME-WE 2, 3 and 4) from Colombo and Mount Lavinia (a suburb of Colombo) over branch cables. In the case of...
View ArticleMyanmar: Can coverage keep up with demand?
The telecom operators in Myanmar are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. The demand for SIMs is so high that call and data quality is compromised. If they restrict supply, a black market...
View ArticleLIRNEasia research used to advance Philippines broadband debate
LIRNEasia Research Fellow Grace Mirandilla Santos has been playing a leading role in getting the new rules on broadband quality approved. Here is one news report quoting her: INTERNET users in the...
View ArticleWhy (some) regulators need to get involved in broadband quality testing
Today, I had to field questions on behalf of Shazna Zuhyle and Grace Mirandilla Santos who made a canned presentation at CPRsouth 10 in Taipei on Measuring Broadband Performance: Lessons Learnt,...
View ArticleLIRNEasia research discussed with young Filipino IT enthusiasts
An online publication has written about Grace Mirandilla Santos’s presentation at a recent Youth Congress on Information Technology: Citing various studies, Santos also revealed that 80% of all...
View ArticlePersistence in policy advocacy in the Philippines
Grace Mirandilla Santos, LIRNEasia Research Fellow, is nothing if not persistent. She has been hammering away at the broadband quality problem in the Philippines for a long time now. The big party...
View ArticlePhilippines broadband quality proceeding approaches conclusion
Grace Mirandilla Santos has been working on this for a long time. Even after the formal proceeding ends, it appears she will have to help. Cabarios also expressed difficulties in getting wired and...
View ArticleSlow meshing of Bay of Bengal region
According to Twitter, some people are without Internet in Bangkok today. Today's Tot internet failure from flooding wouldn't have been if only it were a mesh rather than point to point as @samarajiva...
View ArticleLIRNEasia’s contribution to work under the Broadband for All Pillar of ESCAP...
Most of the organizations that were given time at the First Session of the Steering Committee meeting used the time to advertise themselves. I chose instead to present our broad range of contributions...
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