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Coming Around Again: Old Solutions Surface in the Digital Revolution |
| Author: |
David Eldon |
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Chairman |
| Organisation: |
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited |
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| Recent times frothy with spectacular stock market and business growth and equally spectacular decline have not been able to suppress the digital revolution. David Eldon, Chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, outlines the consumer benefits of the continuing revolution and convergence of telecoms and Internet technologies. He offers participant companies six ingredients vital for a recipe for success in these difficult times. It includes customer proximity, strong branding, operational integrity, flexibility, reach and differentiation. |
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2 |
| Topic: |
Global Seamless Networks for Digital Revolution |
| Author: |
Takuro Ito |
| Title: |
General Manager, Optical Network Product Marketing Division |
| Organisation: |
NEC, Japan |
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| The convergence of voice and data has created new opportunities in Asia-Pacific as the digital revolution, in the form of data and Internet usage, spreads from the USA. Global carriers are emerging to utilise new and high-capacity trans-oceanic networks that are so vital in the Asia-Pacific geographical context of island nations. Takuro Ito of NEC, proposes a dual-aspect network architecture solution comprising mesh networks (in a change from ring) and terrestrial and submarine integration of global networks. |
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3 |
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Malaysia's Approach to Communications, Multimedia, Information and Content Services - Aspirations of a Hub |
| Author: |
Tan Sri Nuraizah Abdul Hamid |
| Title: |
Chairman |
| Organisation: |
Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission |
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| This article presents an overview of the economic and regulatory perspectives on the regional issues of the digital revolution and technological convergence. The author, Tan Sri Nuraizah Abdul Hamid is Chairman of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission. In her eminent career Tan Sri has worked in various economic Ministries and she brings this experience to bear in a comprehensive analysis of the industrial and technological issues facing Malaysia, ASEAN nations and Asia-Pacific as a whole. |
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Article no.: |
4 |
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Network Convergence Asia-Pacific Style |
| Author: |
Geoff Johnson |
| Title: |
Research Director |
| Organisation: |
Gartner Group |
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| A long chain of software, applications, appliances and carriers delivers content to the consumer. The chain is complex and today, since the advent of the Internet, can take advantage of an ever-increasing variety of delivery routes, systems and specialised hardware. This is a global phenomenon, but each region of the world, due to cultural differences, boasts a somewhat different version. This article summarises the key features of content conversion and how it is manifested in the Asian region. |
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Article no.: |
5 |
| Topic: |
New Rules for the Freedom Economy |
| Author: |
A Lee Gilbert |
| Title: |
Information Management Research Centre (IMARC) |
| Organisation: |
Nanyang Business School, Singapore |
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| A whole spectrum of rules, laws, policies and social norms influence our interactions to converged technologies. The need for new rules remains unproven. The social and behavioural issues relating to the use of convergent technology is of far greater significance for the researchers of the Singaporean Information Management Research Centre. This in-depth research casts doubt on many of the conventionally held perspectives on how users actually react to the digital revolution. |
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Article no.: |
6 |
| Topic: |
Reaching Beyond Fixed-Link Networks: How Satellite Can Expand Development |
| Author: |
Eui K. Koh |
| Title: |
Vice-President |
| Organisation: |
of New Skies Satellites N.V., Asia-Pacific Region |
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| The digital revolution has ensured that the Internet is a critical foundation for companies in today's information-driven economy. Broadband connectivity to the Web is no longer just an option but a business imperative. This article from Dr. Koh, Vice-President Asia-Pacific of New Skies Satellites (a spin-off from INTELSAT), explores how service providers and corporate subscribers can use satellites to obtain the essential broadband connectivity. It also explores converging applications that will harness this complementary broadband access technology. |
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Article no.: |
7 |
| Topic: |
Regulation - Keeping Pace with Technology's Advancing Frontier |
| Author: |
Anthony S. K. Wong |
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Director-General |
| Organisation: |
Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) |
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| Convergence involves more than mere technology; it is a coming together of services and markets. In IP technology the distinction between voice and data is disappearing. Anthony S. K. Wong, Director-General of Telecommunications at the Telecommunications Authority of Hong Kong, presents a view of the numerous regulatory aspects of telecommunications convergence. A strong advocate of regulatory adaptability over rigidity, he describes the effects of telecoms-broadcasting convergence, liberalisation and technology-neutral regulation. |
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Article no.: |
8 |
| Topic: |
Revenue Leakage in the Digital Revolution |
| Author: |
Luke Sayers |
| Title: |
Partner |
| Organisation: |
Price water house Coopers |
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| The Internet revolutionises the way service providers do business-for better and worse. Sayers and Knight, partners in PricewaterhouseCoopers, Australia, argue that as revenue-raising opportunities appear in one area they disappear or reduce elsewhere. The latest opportunities are in bandwidth-heavy services such as video streaming, web-based applications and IP-virtual private networks. But telecom companies need to replace margins lost on local and long-distance services. Internet-based technologies allow carriers to revolutionise back offices and find growth in revenue assurance. |
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Article no.: |
9 |
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Telecommunications, Micro-finance and Entrepreneurialism - Co-operative Strategies for Poverty Alleviation |
| Author: |
Ranjith Hettiarachchi |
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CEO |
| Organisation: |
Association of Asian Confederation of Credit Unions (ACCU) |
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| Can there really be a simple solution to a problem as endemic and complex as rural poverty? Many approaches to poverty alleviation focus on a single cause. Ranjith Hettiarachchi of the AACCU takes a broader perspective as he examines micro-finance and telecommunications strategies for the 21st century. Co-operative and collaborative solutions offer the best hope, building on the well-established credit union movement that began in the 19th century. |
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Article no.: |
10 |
| Topic: |
The Future of Wireless Infrastructure in Asia-Pacific: Convergence and Cost-Effectiveness |
| Author: |
Chi Yoo |
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Vice-President Mobility Segment Asia-Pacific |
| Organisation: |
Lucent Technologies |
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| Chi Yoo of Lucent Technologies examines the new tight markets facing the next generation. Observing that in the recent past technological demands have overwhelmed commercial rationales, Yoo adopts a realistic view of earlier rosy growth forecasts. Making profits on existing Internet technology has proved hard enough, let alone untried technology relying on telephones with tiny screens and keypads. Any decisions to invest in future wireless must be business decisions not technological. |
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Article no.: |
11 |
| Topic: |
UMTS Moves from Paper Promises to Provable Performance |
| Author: |
Valy Lev |
| Title: |
Corporate Vice-President and General Manager, GSM/UMTS Systems Division |
| Organisation: |
Global Telecom Solutions Sector, Motorola, Inc. |
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| Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) evolution has been widely anticipated but has yet to be realised in practice. Dr. Valy Lev, Corporate Vice-President and General Manager GSM/EDGE/UMTS Systems Division, Motorola, Inc., here examines some of the key messages for operators to consider when faced with the very difficult and potentially costly decisions that have to be taken when evaluating and implementing UMTS. Radio access networks or 'starting with UTRAN' offers food for thought. Downlink shared channels and intelligent coverage offer additional solutions. |
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