Friday, June 5, 2015

Wi-Fi Gaining Traction in Sri Lanka

Wi-Fi hotspots might be a more important platform for Internet access across South Asia than many presently believe.

Chanuka Wattegama, board director of the Information and Communication Technology Agency in Sri Lanka, said Sri Lanka has a low-cost Wi-Fi project that offers the first 100MB for free each month.

About 40 percent of users manage to stay under the 100 MB mark, he said. Perhaps paradoxically, some larger mobile operators seem to believe highly available Wi-Fi helps theire business, while smaller providers fear the low-cost Wi-Fi service is a threat.

The M Hotel Singapore | 10-11 September 2015

Which platforms will win the race to connect the next two billion in Asia?

Spectrum Futures 2015 will examine spectrum abundance:

Licensing use of spectrum impossible to use in the past
Sharing spectrum without clearing existing users
Wi-Fi, balloons, new satellite constellations and other new platforms

Spectrum Futures 2015 will bring together regulators and service providers from throughout the Asia-Pacific region to allow the exchange of ideas about key policies to help emerging markets like India, the Phillipines, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia and Myanmar connect to their populations to the Internet within the next decade.

Join the conversation at Spectrum Futures 2015.