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    Some are more neutral than others in spectrum sector

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 12/05/2010

    » Neutrality. It is easy to preach it but sometimes in order to be neutral, one must take sides. Nowhere is this paradox more true than in the mess that is spectrum regulation in the mobile telecommunications sector.

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    Not quite a God Phone, but I couldn't be happier with the Nexus One

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 05/05/2010

    » Google Nexus One. What does it mean? How good is it? Is it really the God Phone that many have been talking about? Or is it a failed experiment given its dismal sales compared not only to the iPhone, but even its fellow Android by Motorola.

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    Orwell would approve

    Database, Published on 28/04/2010

    » The troubles from the Iceland volcano gave one struggling industry a boost; Cisco Systems reported that the closing of all airports in Europe brought a big increase in the use of video conferences by people stuck on the ground; it was more of a claim than report — anecdotal, in the word of Cisco executive Fredrik Halvorsen — but it appeared that grounding airplanes was a big help for the videoconferencing sector; among those who didn’t get the word were the transport ministers of Europe, who whined that they could not hold an emergency meeting on stalled air traffic because they could not fly to some capital city for the meeting.

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    Thai regulators wait to bring order to the industry

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 24/03/2010

    » There is still a lot of life left in CDMA 2000 while Thailand's regulators wait to bring order to the industry while some GSM operators are toying with the idea of launching 3G on the 1800 MHz band, Japanese style.

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    Dtac announces network upgrade

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 17/03/2010

    » Dtac has launched its Apple iPhone 3G and 3G offerings along with the announcement of the completion of a network upgrade that means it is now the first telco to have EDGE in every cellsite nationwide, with top speeds of 120 to 200 Kbps. The telco has also launched a new series of price plans that together will see it shift over a hundred thousand iPhones to the Thai market this year.

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    Many obstacles in the way of 3G coverage

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 17/03/2010

    » Providing 3G coverage will prove much more difficult than many expect and is not just a case of re-using old 1800 cells sites to the nature of the technology that could see cell sizes range from over 100 kilometres to just down the road depending on the number of active users in the cell, as Alcatel-Lucent Thailand's head of solutions and marketing, Laurent Perche, explains.

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    WiMAX operators re-think their business plans

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 03/03/2010

    » 3G will continue to evolve with speeds reaching 42 Mbps this year and 84 Mbps soon, lessening the need for LTE and making WiMAX operators and regulators re-think their business and frequency allocation plans, while on the device side we will soon enter an era where everything is connected and see an explosion of new form factors filling all sorts of niches that will make our lives better and richer.

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    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.

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    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.

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    DTac raises ambitions but lessens footprints

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 06/01/2010

    » By using solar power, each DTac base station spares the environment 20 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year, as well as being silent.

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