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Braham Singh - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
BRAHAM SINGH is CEO of RED SNAPPER, a Malaysian Government backed initiative to deploy mobile/fixed wireless broadband in Asian cities & rural areas.
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- Solar India's Promise Versus Ground Realities
[News-and-Society:Energy] In India there's a huge difference between what you're told, promised and what's actually out there. This article attempts to adequately caution investors in solar energy before they venture into a market that can be as frustrating as it is exciting.
- Muni-Solar Comes of Age
[News-and-Society:Energy] Demand for electricity is burgeoning, more so in those countries not equipped to meet this growth. Which is why I am convinced with a passion that the same way wireless technologies mitigate tele-density issues globally, rendering them non-issues in India and parts of Africa, so too should PV provide an affordable answer to the problem of power generation in such areas. American PV technology along with innovative financial schemes like Power Purchase Agreements (PPS) successfully address a global problem. Enter Muni-Solar.
- Solar Energy After Spain
[News-and-Society:Energy] When Spain put a cap on how many Solar watts would be eligible for generous "feed-in tariffs" in 2009, the global market for Photovoltic cells hit a wall. This article posits that Spain was just a trigger and that a demand-side shift as occurring now, is inevitable.
- Applied For an Indian Cellular License Lately?
[Communications:Mobile-Cell-Phone] The Indian Telecommunications Regulator's (TRAI) August 2007 recommendations instigating the riot of applications for a cellular license also contained caution against precisely such a lemming-like approach for those who cared to read. Visible to jaundiced eyes however was nothing but the recommendation against capping number of service providers. One would expect more astuteness from those who aren't an incumbent's proxy or in queue to futures in spectrum.
- WiMax & the Cellular Establishment
[Communications:Mobile-Cell-Phone] There was understandable consternation in cellular ranks during February 2007's 3GSM conference in Barcelona when the august Arun Sarin warned his brethren WiMax could usurp their business. Unforgivably frank, he also mentioned the impending obsolescence of the 3G standard in the wake of a WiMax onslaught. Why the warning and how imminent a threat?
- Navigating Spectrum With Cognitive Radio
[Communications:Broadband-Internet] What with the buzz around the FCC's auction rules on the upcoming 700 MHz sale few noticed the Commission's geek squad also flew its Kitty Hawk into white spaces between TV broadcast spectrum bands that same July. The test flight wasn't spectacular or anything but like the Wright brother's bird it quietly made history. For those not blinkered there appears little choice now but to gradually do away with reserving spectrum for service providers and instead have them deploy service using equipment with radio characteristics adaptive to the real-time conditions of the environment, which is what cognitive or adaptive radio is all about.
- WiFi In The Cross-Hairs
[Communications:Broadband-Internet] Someone may have messed with MuniWireless but WiFi isn't the perp. In 1999, the European countries kicked off plans to auction spectrum for 3G. A ballpark US$200B down the road and 3G still seeks validation. But the establishment is on its side allowing the 3G bus to careen from country to country leaving a trail of red ink. However, just one ISP blunders with WiFi deployment in American cities and the Inquisition is back.
- Gnashing Teeth At The TRAI
[Communications:Mobile-Cell-Phone] It would be better for all concerned if the authority to allocate spectrum resides with TRAI, the Indian Regulator. The government however chooses to hold on to that power so lets not have their department of telecommunications bemoan the recent deluge of applications. That comes with the turf.
- India Excludes ISPs From WiMax Auction
[Communications:Broadband-Internet] If the Minister of Telecommunications heeds the recent DoT recommendation to exclude ISPs from bidding in the WiMax auction, it'll spell the death of any hopes we harbor to have a national wireless broadband footprint in India. The Cellular operators - currently favored by the DoT for WiMax licenses - will never deploy WiMax in any configuration that cannibalizes their existing revenue streams. This effectively puts them at odds with the national interest on this matter.
- Why The FCC Should Listen To Google
[Communications:Mobile-Cell-Phone] The Cellular Establishment is lining up to oppose the Google proposal favoring granting wireless broadband spectrum to independents who are less likely to delay deployment of true ubiquitous wireless broadband as unlike the cellular players they are not beholden to legacy air interface investments.
- Direct to Mobile - The Turf Wars
[Communications:Mobile-Cell-Phone] The article stresses the importance of conditional access capabilities to make Internet related TV delivery mechanisms more acceptable to content owers and it urges the Telcos to seize the day before the Broadcasters eat their lunch.
- Indian Mobile Infrastructure - To 3G or Not To 3G
[Communications:Mobile-Cell-Phone] Emulating European cellular operators whose track record belies such faith, some Indian cellular carriers may be chalking out transition paths to 3G. Even if the collection rates in India were not as dismal as they are, deploying 3G could be a disaster waiting to happen.
- Letting Go of 3G - A Viable Alternative For Asian Carriers
[Communications:Mobile-Cell-Phone] In a shotgun wedding that could be avoided, Asian GSM operators are walking down the aisle towards 3G, when they should be bolting to the door. Even the ones not beholden to any license fee, are under the impression that 3G is divinely ordained. This is all the more unfortunate because a very viable solution exists in their marrying WiMax and other OFDMA type networks instead of the 3G.
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