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Recent article from North America 2007

	Article no.:	15
	Topic:	Where TV will go
	Author:	Joe Hogan and Marc Price
	Title:	(Joe Hogan) CTO, Founder, Board Member, and (Marc Price) Senior Telecom Strategist
	Organisation:	Openet
	PDF size:	228 KB

About author:
Joe Hogan is the CTO, Founder and board member of Openet. He has more than 20 yearsí software engineering experience from his years with Openet, Retix Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. Mr Hogan was a senior architect with Sunís European kernel development centre before leaving to found Openet. He is the principal architect of Openetís Fusionworks framework and is responsible for Openetís engineering group and CTO technology office. Mr Hogan represents the company in the IETF, 3GPP, IPDR.org and GBA forums and frequently speaks at and chairs billing mediation, IMS and prepaid conferences throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Marc Price is the Senior Telecom Strategist at Openet, specialised in telecommunications systems, with more than 15 yearsí experience helping define strategies and deploy solutions for mediation, rating and billing. Before joining Openet, Mr Price was the lead software architect for a real-time, object-oriented rating and billing system for convergent telecommunications service providers. Mr Price holds honours degrees in Mechanical Engineering and International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.

Article abstract:
Sophisticated television technology - TiVOs, Slingboxes, video on demand, mobile TV, among others has revolutionised the market. Broadband providers, cable companies, mobile and fixed telephone operators and such have raised the level of competition. Unfortunately, much of the new functionality comes in a box - itís provided by a device, not as an application the service providers can charge for. By intelligently analysing their transaction data, service providers should be able to devise a new generation of services that satisfy users and build revenues.

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Free article from Asia-Pacific II 2003

	Article no.:	14
	Author:	Sikandar Naqi
	Title:	Executive Director
	Organisation:	Instaphone
	Topic:	ICT Sector in Pakistan
	PDF size:	208 KB

About author
Pakistan's telecommunications systems, despite real progress in the last five years, do not meet the country's needs. Teledensity in urban areas is only 5.8 per cent and is less than one percent in rural areas. Cellular usage is growing; there are over 2.8 million subscribers. The Internet is available in 1400 towns. With strong government stimulation, the private sector has installed over 120,000 pay phones and public call offices and has deployed fibre optic cable TV and Internet in the larger cities.

Article abstract
Pakistan's telecommunications systems, despite real progress in the last five years, do not meet the country's needs. Teledensity in urban areas is only 5.8 per cent and is less than one percent in rural areas. Cellular usage is growing; there are over 2.8 million subscribers. The Internet is available in 1400 towns. With strong government stimulation, the private sector has installed over 120,000 pay phones and public call offices and has deployed fibre optic cable TV and Internet in the larger cities.