Reports
Net Neutrality
The net neutrality issue has raised its head again, and this time Asia is getting involved in the debate. the...
Broadband Wireless Access in Asia Pacific: From Opportunity to Profitability
This paper does not dispute the ongoing central importance of the network operators and their ability to command revenue on...
ICTs Post-recession
As the global economy slowly pulls itself out of the greatest recession since the Second World War, the role of...
Mobile Banking in Indonesia: Assessing the Market Potential for Mobile Technology to Extend Banking to the Unbanked and Underbanked (Final Report)
Mobile Banking in Indonesia: Assessing the Market Potential for Mobile Technology to Extend Banking to the Unbanked and Underbanked (Final...
Will Obama Have to Give Up His Blackberry?
Next time President Obama visits the Arab Gulf States, he can leave his Blackberry at home. Because of its unique...
Content Factories and The New Media Model
Google has recently patented an algorithm that identifies search subjects that are under-represented on the Web. For companies such as...
The Changing Face of TV
The famous off-hand remark by Lord Thompson of Fleet who in 1960 described his Scottish TV station as a “licence...
Spectrum liberalization
A presentation by John Ure to the IET-OFTA Asia Pacific Radio Spectrum Conference 2010, Hong Kong 8th-9th April 2010 Downloads...
Access Price Benchmarking for APCC
Access Price Benchmarking for APCC – a study produced for the Asia Pacific Carriers’ Coalition (APCC) Executive Summary 1. This...
Cloud Computer or Pie in the Sky?
Sometimes the headline occurs to the writer before the story, which is usually not a good sign for what is...
Macro-Economic Effects of Telecoms Reform
Presentation by Prof John Ure to the APEC Economic Committee, Hiroshima, Japan 25 February 2010 Documents Internal Copy
The meaning of Google vs. China
Cyber attacks are becoming more common, or at least are receiving more public attention. They range from the loan hacker...
Mobile Banking in Indonesia: Assessing the Market Potential for Mobile Technology to Extend Banking to the Unbanked and Underbanked
A Study for the IFC. Agenda • Introduction to the Study: Key Issues • Working Hypotheses • Focus Group Discussions...
Separation: Will It Work?
Building high speed broadband networks (HSBN) has become a signature theme of national information infrastructure policies around the globe. The...
China’s Wireless Option(s)
Industrial Policy: A long history… Concorde was an Anglo-French supersonic turbojet powered passenger aircraft launched in 1969. It kept the...
Australia: Emergency Telecoms Coverage
The announcement in Australia by the minister of a AUD60 million ‘Digital Regions Initiative’ to improve NGN-based health, emergency and...
Mobile payments in Asia Pacific
A report for KPMG. This report explores the development of the market for mobile payment systems in Asia Pacific and the...
Card payments in Asia Pacific: The state of the nations
Traditionally, Asia Pacific has been a region dominated by the use of cash. In recent times, the increase in the...
The state of the telecoms industry in Asia Pacific
A report for KPMG, printed Apr 2009. Downloads: solar panels for sale 2009-04_KPMG_StateOfTelecomsInAPAC_Report
Payments Asia Summit: Transformation of payment systems: channels, technologies and business models
A presentation at the Payments Asia Summit by John URE essay on school uniforms Downloads: 2009-03_TRPC_TransformationOfPaymentSystems_Presentation
Malaysia Broadband Conference: The Broadband Revolution: New Policies, Planning and Development ASEAN Trends
Presentation by John Ure to the Malaysian Broadband Conference, 10th Anniversary of the MCMC Download 2008-10_TRPC_TheBBRevolution_presentation.pdf