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Telco to help rural majority access banking services
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 05/05/2010
» Telenor Pakistan, the country's number two mobile operator, has recently purchased a bank and is now using its banking license through its network of franchisees and top-up agents to offer banking services to Pakistan's largely unbanked population, with savings, insurance and international remittance soon to follow.
Mobiles 'to become key to finance'
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 05/05/2010
» The mobile phone will definitely be the centrepiece of consumer interaction for financial services in the future, but the real battle is being fought behind the scenes by major players to establish the ecosystem that empowers it.
Gorilla in the midst of digital broadcasting revolution
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 28/04/2010
» Digital broadcasting is changing the way broadcast media works, with real-time high definition streams being shown across the globe and archives suddenly becoming alive and easily accessible.
What to expect as 3G gains momentum across Thailand
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 31/03/2010
» It has been four months now and most of the ToT's five partners have gone ahead and launched their 3G offerings commercially. Coverage is still patchy but a major network upgrade is due next month. So what can users expect, and which is the best 3G MVNO to go for right now?
Myopic view ignores increasing convergence
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 31/03/2010
» How much should Channel 3 pay for its 10-year concession extension? Half a billion baht? One billion? How about something along the lines of a trillion and a half? Broadcasting and telecommunications are converging in more ways than one and perhaps Thailand should rethink whether it actually needs a spectrum-hogging UHF broadcaster in this day and age, and if the resources could be put to better use elsewhere.
Using existing networks to run 3G is too much like common sense
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 03/03/2010
» 3G auctions for the rest of us before the end of this year? Should we rejoice at the progress that the four new Knights of Truffle and Cupcake, sorry, National Telecommunication Commissioners, have made, or is one to despair at the naivete that such talk brings? The problem is not so much about pushing ahead with 3G, but what to do with the existing 2G infrastructure.
Big Brother is watching - and waiting to break down your doors
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 24/02/2010
» What do the GT200 magic wand and the Internet Sniffer project have in common? Both are an assault on privacy and allow the state to pick on anyone at will.
Industry figures address 3G's teething problems
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 17/02/2010
» It has been more than two months since the 3G launch by ToT and its five partner MVNOs (mobile virtual network operators), but how has the consumer fared?
Stating the obvious: The GT200 is a fraud
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 10/02/2010
» It's the emperor's new clothes all over again. The GT200 is a fraud, but why are people so scared to say it?
Surprise wedding of the year goes awry
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 27/01/2010
» It could have been the surprise wedding of the year, but instead we had a runaway bride, not to mention the best man curiously absent.