Opinion
IIC Asia Forum: Challenges & Prospects of Digital Dividend for Indonesian Telecommunications & Broadcasting Business
Singapore
Commentary in TODAY, 6 Jul 2012: Too costly to miss out on fibre, by Lim May-Ann
This commentary first appeared in TODAY, Singapore, 6 Jul 2012 OpenNet, Singapore’s builder of fibre infrastructure, is having a tumultuous...
3G Auctions: A Change of Course (in Networking Knowledge for Information Societies: Institutions & Intervention)
3G Auctions: A Change of Course in Networking Knowledge for Information Societies: Institutions & Intervention Edited by Robin Mansell, Rohan...
The Risk Game
In the latest in an ever growing number of massive cyber security breaches the Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) and Online...
IPv6
Finally it happened. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has run out of IPv4 numbers. The world now...
Boxed-in
Singapore is the latest to face the problem that is technically referred to as ‘conditional access’, meaning the conditions that...
Telecommunications Development in Asia
No industry has expanded faster than telecommunications, gained so many new users, added so much value, spread so rapidly to...
OFTA’s Broadband Wireless Access Consultation Paper – A Response by TRPC
Short Response to the Broadband Wireless Access Consultation Paper by John Ure.
Unbundled Local Loop?
Response to OFTA’s Review of the Regulation Policy for Type ll Interconnection, Analysis and Preliminary Conclusions: 16 December 2003.
Auctions, Sunk Costs, and Other Arcane 3G Issues
The pre-publication version of '3G Auctions - A Change of Course' that appears as chapter lll.ii in Robin Mansell, Rohan Samarajiva and Amy Mahan (2002) Networking Knowledge for information Societies: Institutions & Intervention, Delft University Press: a festschrift for Professor William Melody.
3G on the Line – A Response
Original editorial and letter responses by John Ure.
E-Government in China
Pre-publication version of the chapter to appear in Zhang Junhua, Martin Woesler, eds.(2002) China's Digital Dream.
Convergence in Hong Kong
Chapter from M.Hukill, R.Ono, and C.Vallath eds. Electronic Communication Convergence: Policy Challenges in Asia, Singapore, 1999.
Book Review –Telecommunications Regulation Handbook
Review of Hank Intven (2000) ed. Telecommunications Regulation Handbook, infoDev Program, The World Bank, ISBN #0-9697178-7-3.
Convergence and China’s National Information Infrastructure
Published in M. Hukill, R. Ono, and C. Vallath (eds), Electronic Communication Convergence: Policy Challenges in Asia, Sage Publications, New Delhi, chpt 5, pp.115-147 (2001).
China Telecommunications Regulations 2000
Summary of key points found in China's draft telecommunications regulations, widely circulated in recent weeks.
Quality Issues and Programme Diversity
Response to the 1998 Review of Television Policy, by Joyce Nip Yee Man and John Ure.
Hong Kong’s Telecommunications Policy
Published in Wong siu-lun and T.Maruya, Hong Kong Economy and Society: Challenges in the New Era, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong and the Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, 1998 (pp. 39-60).