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An Interview with Stephen Song: by Yelena Gyulkhandanyan — published Feb 29, 2012 — filed under: Interview, Telecom
Stephen Song, the founder of Village Telco, an initiative to bring practical and inexpensive communication network infrastructure to rural and remote areas, speaks about factors that catalyzed the initiative, the benefits of the network, some challenges, and the Mesh Potato.
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5G Aspirations and Realities: by Shyam Ponappa — published Jun 06, 2019 — last modified Jul 02, 2019 04:29 AM — filed under: Telecom
What the government can do for 5G and Digital India with a Systems Approach.
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Fostering Strategic Convergence in US-India Tech Relations: 5G and Beyond: by Justin Sherman and Arindrajit Basu — published Jul 05, 2019 — filed under: Telecom, Artificial Intelligence
The 2019 G-20 summit underscores the importance of fostering strategic convergence in U.S.-India tech relations.
Located in Telecom / Blog
July 2017 Newsletter: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 31, 2017 — last modified Aug 23, 2017 02:03 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Researchers at Work
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Folly of Mandating Spectrum Auctions: by Jayna Kothari — published Nov 24, 2012 — last modified Dec 03, 2012 09:47 AM — filed under: Telecom
The recent failure of the 2G spectrum auctions has brought to the fore serious questions on auctions being the only mode for allocation of spectrum.
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Extractive Charges on Spectrum & Petroleum: by Shyam Ponappa — published Mar 09, 2014 — last modified Apr 07, 2014 03:57 AM — filed under: Telecom
The author examines whether government levies on these critical inputs are beneficial or detrimental.
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February 2014 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 28, 2014 — last modified Apr 07, 2014 07:27 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Digital Humanities, Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) welcomes you to the second issue of its newsletter (February) for the year 2014:
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Comments on the DoT Panel Report via MyGov: by Pranesh Prakash — published Sep 26, 2015 — filed under: Telecom, Featured
On behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society, I must commend the Department of Telecom Panel on its report. Overall, it displays a far better understanding of the underlying issues than the TRAI consultation paper did, and is overall a good effort at balancing the different sides. However, some of its most important recommendations are completely off-mark and would be disastrous if accepted by the government.
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Centre- or State-Driven Development?: by Shyam Ponappa — published Feb 12, 2014 — filed under: Telecom
Federalism requires a strong Centre as well as strong states, and effective organisation and coordination -- which can be facilitated by using the Internet.
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An Introduction to Spectrum Sharing: by Beli — published Feb 24, 2014 — last modified Mar 20, 2014 09:34 AM — filed under: Telecom, Featured, Shared Spectrum
We will look at how current technology – mainly GSM, but also CDMA and touching upon LTE - shares spectrum, how they might share spectrum, the trade-off between spectral (in this case, 'trunking') and 'economic' efficiency in the traditional, purely intra-operator shared scenario, and how it might be overcome by inter-operator sharing.
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