Based in Dubai, she drove strategic initiatives for portfolio companies and led new investments in telecoms, technology and infrastructure in South and Central Asia.
As a result, the impact of the SNO may now be less than dramatic because other new telecoms companies and technologies have emerged in the meantime.In particular, the rise of mobile phones, voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) services and wireless broadband mean that competition has seeped into the South African telecoms market, even without the SNO.
The new data system, created using telecoms technology by Reactive Technologies (RT) and now successfully tested on the UK's National Grid, could also allow the optimum use of intermittent renewable energy, an important feature given the fast-rising proportion of green energy on the grid.
By contrast, the disastrous investments in the late 1990s were in new telecoms firms that were building their operations.In technology, private-equity interest has grown as the industry has matured, and cash-flow and profitability have become more predictable.
He advised that when it comes to starting a new telecom company, it's much easier in the technology area than the service provision area.
Of course, technology is the lifeline behind this new telecom culture.
And, for the most part, these studios and their new telecom owners are woefully ill-equipped to fight these big technology platforms at their own game. .
New telecom orders are down 45%.
With his 100-day promise for a new telecom policy and intent of regularizing old policy anomalies, there is a belief that the industry will get a level playing field not only for all players but all telecom technologies like CDMA and GSM and eventually LTE (long term evolution).
