Info infrastructure for knowledge economies. Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEasia

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1 Info infrastructure for knowledge economies Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEasia

2 Information infrastructure is a pillar of KE Companies, government, non-profit organizations (including educational) and people must be able to Communicate in multiple forms, locally and globally Retrieve information locally and globally Publish Transact Compute remotely, etc.

3 Organizations, including those engaged in BPO, require... Broadband (at least 256 kbps up and down; always on) that is Readily available In configurations that are responsive to customer needs Including service-level agreements and Redundancy Value for money (price + quality) Generally provided over fixed links, fiber or copper But now increasingly over wireless

4 People require... Broadband (at least 256 kbps up and down; always on) that is Ubiquitous Flexible Value for money For most in Sri Lanka Over mobile networks With common-use sites (telecenters) as complement

5 Elements common to both, and current status International private leased lines of good quality (including redundancy) and price Three operators after international liberalization of ; Gateway still not fully open Domestic backbone available to all operators at cost-oriented prices and on non-discriminatory basis Security and payment infrastructure Two major networks; No open access, yet Inchoate payment networks developing in mobile

6 Domestic leased line prices (2 MB/2 km), benchmarked with South Asia and EU 55,393 12,000 23, ,438 3,249 Source: Broadband Benchmarks : Feb 2008 Preliminary results, LIRNEasia, 18,

7 Domestic leased line prices (2 MB/100 km), benchmarked with South Asia 2,760,290 40,576 2,437 4,447 18,283 6,350 Source: Broadband Benchmarks : Feb 2008 Preliminary results, LIRNEasia,

8 Business broadband (2MB, unlimited offering), benchmarked with South Asia and EU 57,385 16,619 3,779 4,540 Source: Broadband Benchmarks : Feb 2008 Preliminary results, LIRNEasia, a a119

9 Home broadband (256kbps, unlimited offering), benchmarked with South Asia & EU 6,695 2, Source: Broadband Benchmarks : Feb 2008 Preliminary results, LIRNEasia,

10 Business broadband QOS, India & Sri Lanka 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% Download from own ISP Domain Delivery VS. Stated 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% Download from yahoo.com Delivery VS. Stated 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Time LK (SLT 2M / 512k) LK (Dialog 2M / 512k) IN (BSNL 2M / 256k) IN (Airtel 512k / 512k) 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Time LK (SLT 2M / 512k) LK (Dialog 2M / 512k) IN (BSNL 2M / 256k) IN (Airtel 512k / 512k)

11 Home broadband QOS, India & Sri Lanka 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% Download from own ISP Domain Delivery VS. Stated 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% Download from yahoo.com Delivery VS. Stated 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Time LK (SLT 512k / 128k) IN (BSNL 2M / 256k) 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Time LK (SLT 512k / 128k) IN (BSNL 2M / 256k)

12 Conclusion... Much room for improvement Info infrastucture being improved, building on market opening actions such as ending of international exclusivity and issuance of WiMAX frequencies But, not as bad as portrayed in the Book, based on obsolete and tagential data

13 Broadband Benchmarks South Asia: Feb Preliminary Findings can be found at: content/uploads/2008/03/broadband-benchmarks-feb pdf.pdf