Month of July , 2007

Bandwidth bogey must become talking point, says IIA

The Internet Industry Association has warned that a lack of intra-industry understanding is keeping bandwidth bottlenecks locked and allowing the implementation of politically-driven broadband solutions that will exacerbate data cost issues for the country’s ISPs.

Singapore's GSM operators may have to re-bid for spectrum

Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority has opened a consultation on alternative uses for the legacy GSM spectrum holdings of SingTel, M1 and StarHub when their licenses expire in September next year.

15 years on, a former Telstra US import laments the new guard

Fifteen years is a long time—especially when the salary rates of Telstra’s overseas management imports are considered.

Skype, Google greater threats to telcos than hackers?

It's bad enough that service providers have to defend against an ever increasing array of outside threats, from distributed denial of service attacks to zero-day exploits. Now an even bigger danger could be lurking -- the "business security threat".

More than half of Korea, Japan using mobile Internet

More proof, if any were needed, that Korea and Japan are the leaders when it comes to accessing the Internet via mobile devices. According to survey by Marketing Inside last week, more than half (53.5%) of all Koreans use the mobile Internet "from time to time".

How to improve your city's broadband ranking

Our recent rankings of the "Best Broadband Community" among 28 cities in Asia Pacific certainly garnered some attention. That's not surprising: rankings of anything, whether it's music, restaurants, the seven wonders of the world or most annoying celebrities, always seem to get people talking.