Tag archive: John Ure
Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) Services and Broadband in Asia and the Pacific: A Study of Value and Opportunity Cost in the Assignment of Radio Spectrum
With the digital dividend on the agenda of economies of the Asia Pacific region it is timely to review the...
Lost and Found in Translation
Words. Here is an example of some, imaginatively (and unexpectedly) cited by the ITU’s Trends in Telecoms Reform 2013. (And...
It Ain’t Necessarily So
In the world of social media and instant online news feeds, what actually constitutes ‘news’ is rather problematic. The 140-character...
No News is Bad News
In March, two announcements were made pointing in opposite directions. First, Google announced the closing down of Google Reader, a...
Access Price Benchmarking for APCC
Access Price Benchmarking for APCC – a study produced for the Asia Pacific Carriers’ Coalition (APCC) Executive Summary 1. This...
TRPC Director response to FT article Jan 26: China’s subtle censoring of overseas scholarship
Deng foresaw the last door to open From Prof John Ure. Sir, Mark Elvin (Letters, January 26) gives some examples...
What’s there to think about?
2013 is the year of the Water Snake in the Chinese zodiac. Water is considered to have the colour black,...
TRPC Director response to FT article Dec 27: Asia must free itself from the chains of the west
It’s not western ideology that poses threat to Asia How To Get Your Ex Girlfriend Back Using Psychology Sir, The...
Information over the Internet
At Davos this month Tim Berners-Lee, regarded widely as the father of the World Wide Web, warned of silos that...
Dotty.com
2012 ended on a discordant note for the Internet. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is the forum at which governments...
Irrational Expectations?
Nate Silver is a clever man. Using “quants” he correctly predicted the outcome of the US presidential race in every...
TRPC Director’s response on FT: Cuban missile crisis not solved by sabre-rattling
From Prof John Ure, October 21, 2012 11:38 pm This response first appeared on the Financial Times, Singapore on 21...
Telecoms and Security: Old Wine in New Bottles
A recent report by the US Senate warned that entry of telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei into the US market would...
Standards for Standards
No one wants to risk using a drug that is not fully tried and tested and accredited by the relevant...
Net Neutrality Revisited
Regulatory capture was a concept developed by economist George Stigler of the University of Chicago, but it was already a...
Commentary in TODAY, 31 Jul 2012: ICTs may offer green shoots of hope, by John Ure
by John Ure 04:45 AM Jul 31, 2012 This commentary first appeared in TODAY, Singapore on 31 Jul 2012. In...
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TRPC Director and AIC Executive Director John Ure quoted on Net Neutrality [TODAY, 30 Jul 2012]
Can telecom network operators (telcos) or Internet Service Providers (ISPs) control the way you consume Web content? In Singapore, generally...
3D Printing
It used to be the case that a dental patient wanting a crown for a tooth needed to sit through...
Technology, Oh Technology and Manchester City
On May 7th hundreds of millions of viewers around the world watched the exciting climax to the English Premier League...
The internet: Innovation, Data flows and Markets
APEC Conference on Innovation and Trade April 4-5 2012, Sands Expo and Convention Center, Singapore Keynote speaker: Prof. John Ure Downloads...
How Unassailable is Facebook?
2012 is scheduled as the year Facebook goes public. It has been well advertised that Facebook does not need the...