tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81421830071176248322024-02-19T17:29:04.265+07:00Internet in LaosA factual comparison of the different Internet Service Providers (ISP) in Laos. This blog provides an extensive amount of information on the Tiered and Unlimited plans in Laos for all kind of technologies (3G, Wimax, xDSL).Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142183007117624832.post-22119407168248139622013-06-06T16:07:00.001+07:002013-06-10T04:40:28.005+07:00Millicom (Tigo) looking for a comeback in Asia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Millicom is
one of the final 12 bidders looking for one of the two licenses in the neighbor
country of Myanmar. The race is involving some big players such as Airtel,
Singtel, Orange or MTN.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Myanmar is
considered as one the last eldorado for the telecom sector. The country counts
only 7% mobile penetration against 90% for Laos and 100% for Thailand. With 55
millions population, there is a huge market potential. The 12 telco providers
are engaged in a beauty contest to seduce the MPT that they are the right one
to the task.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Millicom is
not the biggest bidder but would certainly be considered as one of the favorite
considering its experience in South Asia (Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia) and broadly in
emerging markets.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The two final
winners will be announced June 27<sup>th </sup>2013.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Follow-up Tigo Myanmar on <a href="http://www.tigomyanmar.com/">Facebook</a>.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142183007117624832.post-4290002992811660482012-11-14T09:19:00.001+07:002012-11-14T09:20:15.066+07:00ETL launches its unlimited data planBeeline, Laotel and Unitel already have their own unlimited data plan. ETL was the last one to join up the race and launch it this week. With a major difference though.
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The Lao National Authority of Post and Telecommunication (NAPT) regulated the minimum rate per MB on mobile phones. This is the reason why as of today, no unlimited plan has been launched on such devices but only on datacards or tablets (that are not subject to regulation).<br> To make sure the SIM is only used in that kind of devices, subscribing to unlimited data plans usually disable the call capability.<br><br>
Probably thanks to its state-own position, ETL is ignoring these regulation concerns and launch its unlimited data plan on mobile. Calling is not disabled here. Even better, they are cheaper !<br>Can we really speak of fair competition in Laos? Really doubt it. The funny thing is that 2 weeks earlier, Laos entered WTO...
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This is the plan details:
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<b>ETL 2Teen plan:</b><br>
SIM Price: 20,000 LAK<br>
Daily rate: 5,000 LAK/day<br>
Call rate: 300 LAK/mn<br>
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<tr class="tableizer-firstrow"><th></th><th>Beeline</th><th>Unitel</th><th>Planet</th><th>LTC</th><th>ETL</th></tr> <tr><td>256 Kbps</td><td>LAK 350,000</td><td> </td><td>LAK 150,000</td><td>LAK 150,000</td><td>LAK 150,000</td></tr> <tr><td>512 Kbps</td><td>LAK 500,000</td><td>LAK 220,000</td><td>LAK 350,000</td><td>LAK 260,000</td><td>LAK 220,000</td></tr> <tr><td>1 Mbps</td><td>LAK 1,000,000</td><td>LAK 350,000</td><td>LAK 1,000,000</td><td>LAK 400,000</td><td>LAK 350,000</td></tr> <tr><td>1,5 Mbps</td><td>LAK 2,000,000</td><td>LAK 550,000</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>2 Mbps</td><td>LAK 2,300,000</td><td>LAK 680,000</td><td>LAK 2,500,000</td><td>LAK 800,000</td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>3 Mbps</td><td>LAK 4,000,000</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>4 Mbps</td><td> </td><td>LAK 1,700,000</td><td> </td><td> </td><td></td></tr></table>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adsl">ADSL</a> for Unitel, LTC and ETL
<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimax">Wimax</a> for Beeline and PlanetUnknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142183007117624832.post-88271967364840801562012-11-07T15:06:00.001+07:002012-11-07T15:07:11.222+07:00LTC to launch the first 4G commercial service in Laos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On Nov 5 and 6, the Asia-Europe Meeting Summit took place in Vientiane, LAO PDR.
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This was the opportunity taken by LTC to announce the launch of its 4G mobile network.
The Chinese vendor Huawei was chosen for this project and installed 20 LTE mobile sites in Vientiane for the summit.<br>
LTC plans to open the service to the public within this month being the first 4G commercial service in Laos. The service will be data-only as a first step (datacards) but voice services and nationwide expansion are planned later on.
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Source: <a href="http://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2012/10/30/ltc-set-to-launch-laoss-first-4g-network-next-month/index.html">LTC set to launch Laos’s first 4G network next month</a>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_(telecommunication)">More information about LTE</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142183007117624832.post-63148451188454665182012-07-11T18:48:00.000+07:002012-07-11T18:54:10.367+07:00ETL strikes again<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.etllao.com/">ETL</a> new promotion is already a hit. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The offer is fairly simple: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Pay 1,650,000 LAK in one time and get 1 smartphone FREE + 1,650,000 LAK bonus over two years.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bonus is broken down by step of 60,000 LAK/month over the 20 first months if the sub refills 60,000 LAK/month.
The rest of the bonus is given over the last 4 years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The trick here is to advertise that the smartphone is free and the bonus only to payback the initial deposit. This allows the Lao mobile operator to comply with the price regulation as offering huge bonus to its high ARPU subs (60,000 LAK minimum refill per month). </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the <a href="http://internet-in-laos.blogspot.com/2012/05/etl-first-mobile-operator.html">Gmail to SMS feature</a>, ETL proves that it is possible to innovate, be creative and offer promotions to its subscribers in spite of the price regulation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A new player in this fool’s game where </span><a href="http://www.beeline.la/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beeline</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> used to be the king... As for the Russian company, it is still M.I.A...</span></div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.beeline.la/index.php/en/internet-service">Beeline</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142183007117624832.post-54221003815362920932012-05-17T21:46:00.001+07:002012-05-17T21:47:18.882+07:00ETL, the first mobile operator...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, it happened. Once in a while, ETL guys decide to wake up and do something crazy. And where do we less expect ETL than the technological race?
ETL completely blows away LTC and Beeline by being the first operator in Laos to partner with Google and his amazing chat to SMS service.
These guys are so modest that it is not advertised anywhere. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well pretty easily. From the embedded chat in your Gmail page, you can now send SMS to any ETL number for free. The quota is 50 SMS and you get a new 50 SMS pack when someone replies to you from his phone to your chatbox.
If your quota goes down to zero, you just have to wait 24 hours to get some credits again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For now, only ETL numbers are supported. Lets hope the competitors will wake up and follow the new high-tech leader in Laos: ETL !<br><br>The list of all supported operators can be found <a href="http://support.google.com/chat//bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164876&rd=1">here</a>.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142183007117624832.post-58999566134338850382012-05-15T08:26:00.002+07:002012-05-15T08:27:11.399+07:00Beeline LTE 4G in action<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look what I found on Youtube !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal with this long-anticipated IPv4 address exhaustion, and is described in Internet standard document RFC 2460, published in December 1998. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>So, which operator in Laos is IPv6 ready? </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first brick in the IPv6 wall is the upstream connectivity. How many operators in Laos have established IPv6 BGP peering with their oversea partners and advertise their IPv6 subnet to the world?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to Hurricane Electric Internet services, we can see that:
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Source:<a href="http://bgp.he.net/country/LA">Hurricane Electric World Report</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ipv6forum.com/">IPv6 Forum</a> is an organization for creating awareness about IPv6 deployment. The organization consists of international Internet vendors, Internet Experts, Researchers & Education Networks.
IPv6 Forum has an 'IPv6 ready' logo program, with which an IPv6 ready logo can be placed on websites and applications to increase the user trust by demonstrating that IPv6 is enabled. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />As of today, only <b>Beeline</b> is registered as an <a href="http://www.ipv6forum.com/ipv6_enabled/isp/approval_list.php?type=loc&content=LA">IPv6 enabled ISP</a>.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>What does that mean for you as a subscriber?</i></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As of today, I would say not much. These ISPs probably have enough IPv4 addresses to last a little bit longer. However, this also reflects how advanced is the network planning of these operators, how careful they are to anticipate future network needs and make sure they don't compromise their network by letting a situation getting worst until a real problem happens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IPv6 transition is a major project for operators that need to be planned carefully and implement step by step. We can see that most of operators have started doing their jobs here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have added <b>LANIC</b> (Lao National Internet Committee) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to this list as it will be more likely the single point of upstream connectivity for operators in the near future. And this is alarmous as the national Internet committee itself is right now unable to provide IPv6 connectivity to none of the national operators.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142183007117624832.post-17434925601313963602012-04-17T12:07:00.002+07:002012-04-17T12:57:07.749+07:00Lao mobile operators 3G settings<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ETL</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">APN: etlnet </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dialup: *99***1# </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Laotel </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">APN: ltcnet </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dialup: *99# </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Beeline </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">APN: Beelinenet </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dialup: *99# </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Unitel</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">APN: unitel3g </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dialup *99#</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142183007117624832.post-45287573748548021682012-03-17T12:32:00.001+07:002012-03-17T12:42:37.007+07:00Beeline successfully trials 4G LTE<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.beeline.la/">Beeline</a> has been granted by the
<span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px;">National Authority of Posts and Telecommunications</span> (NAPT) the right to trial <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP_Long_Term_Evolution">LTE</a> in Laos.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The LTE trials have began and the results are successful. Beeline engineers have been able to reach the speed of <b>50 mbps </b>with a LTE dongle. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beeline is the first operator in Laos to officialy test LTE (4G). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lets hope this success will encourage the operator to officialy launch LTE in Laos. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Why LTE matters?</b> LTE is a new technology with a spectrum efficiency much improved. Meaning that on a same frequency band, LTE carries more data than HSPA and then reach a much bigger throughput. LTE also reduces incredibly the latency in the local loop (10ms instead of 50ms for HSPA+).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Why do we need 50-100 mbps?</i></b> Internet is not anymore about accessing emails and browsing websites. On developped countries, the trend is already there. Internet service providers sell <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_play_(telecommunications)">triple play services</a>. Dad watch soccer on his HD TV, kids play XBox online in their bedroom, mom listen to an Internet radio or invite friends to dinner on her VoIP phone. The house is secured with webcams monitored via Internet by a security firm. The whole family is connected, the entire house is online. And the bandwith needs explode.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>4G LTE</b> is certainly the technology that will drive the mobile market for the next decades. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the end of 2015, </span><a href="http://www.idate.org/en/Home/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Idate</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> forecast that there will be more than 456 million LTE subscriptions </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">worldwide. Of these, Asia-Pacific will represent 31.3% of the total, North America 30.7% and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Western Europe 18.9%.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Source:</b></span><br />
<a href="http://www.idate.fr/private/idate/UserFiles/File/telechargements_associes/pages/FreeDownload/LTE2012_WhitePaper_web.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Idate - </span><span style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">Markets & Trends Facts & </span></span>Figures</a><br />
<a href="http://www.freescale.com/files/wireless_comm/doc/reports_presentations/LTE_Article.pdf" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Freescale - Why LTE Matters<span style="background-color: white; white-space: nowrap;"> </span></a></div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142183007117624832.post-5538691748390194022012-03-10T11:24:00.003+07:002012-03-10T11:28:01.460+07:00Beeline launches 3G in Luang Prabang<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/426808_338730896148579_138074166214254_1087898_1195397662_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" qlt="Beeline 3G HSPA+ Unlimited" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="153" src="http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/426808_338730896148579_138074166214254_1087898_1195397662_n.jpg" width="200" /></a> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beeline announced that it has just launched 3G (HSPA+ 21mbps) in Luang Prabang. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The entire city is covered. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luang Prabang inhabitants can now benefit from all the services deployed by Beeline in Vientiane such as <a href="http://internet-in-laos.blogspot.com/2012/02/beeline-launched-3g-unlimited-packages.html">unlimited packages</a> on datacards and tiered packages on smartphones.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Savannakhet 3G coverage will follow in the next few days.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142183007117624832.post-43214087180918093942012-03-06T08:47:00.002+07:002012-03-06T08:47:51.526+07:00Laotel enters the 3G price war<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Laotel has just launched a new 3G data plan only available on datacards:<br><b>4500 LAK/day</b> for unlimited data. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This new promotion responds to the latest <a href="http://internet-in-laos.blogspot.com/2012/02/beeline-launched-3g-unlimited-packages.html">promotion from Beeline</a> (4900 LAK/day) and Unitel (5000 LAK/day).
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<a alt="laotel unlimited data 3g" href="http://www.laotel.com/ImagesUpdate/promotion/HSPA/new032012/wall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="281" src="http://www.laotel.com/ImagesUpdate/promotion/HSPA/new032012/wall.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142183007117624832.post-26146821662339875372012-02-21T15:32:00.002+07:002012-02-21T15:38:20.846+07:00ETL officially announces that its network sucks<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"ETL announces that from the 16/2/2012, ETL network has been having issues because of a signal interference with a neighbor country. ETL makes this announcement to all its customers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Note: ETL don't know yet when the situation will be back to normal</b>." </span><br /><br>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl2CSceXaz1BVbR_oQKyOmLFfAakkWa8hFzXsDAXv49Z_iFWLI2v6DOC4L1HPNxicVK95ZpZeaYiyqsm8iaA6EEZ40_LiaBePc6QJ_QAGskq9-wrmvt0PUNwKOC0NGmR71LCWqgbcOFuQ/s1600/etl+announce+signal+problem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="320" width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl2CSceXaz1BVbR_oQKyOmLFfAakkWa8hFzXsDAXv49Z_iFWLI2v6DOC4L1HPNxicVK95ZpZeaYiyqsm8iaA6EEZ40_LiaBePc6QJ_QAGskq9-wrmvt0PUNwKOC0NGmR71LCWqgbcOFuQ/s320/etl+announce+signal+problem.jpg" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the kind of guaranteed return to service to expect if you are ETL customer!</span>
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<b>Source: Vientiane Mai and Pasason </b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142183007117624832.post-9033734668899508712012-02-18T11:19:00.000+07:002012-02-18T11:19:35.668+07:00LaoTel (LTC) cuts ADSL prices<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LTC has recently review its ADSL price-list. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new pricing is definitely the cheapest in the market.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ADSL Package 1: 256Kbps</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monthly payment: 140,000kip</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6 month payment: 130,000kip/month </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yearly payment: 120,000kip/month </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ADSL Package 2: 512Kbps
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monthly payment: 260,000kip </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6 month payment: 230,000kip/month </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yearly payment: 200,000kip/month</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ADSL Package 3: 1Mbps
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monthly payment: 400,000kip </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6 month payment: 350,000kip/month </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yearly payment: 300,000kip/month </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ADSL Package 4: 2Mbps
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monthly payment: 800,000kip </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6 month payment: 750,000kip/month </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yearly payment: 700,000/month</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everybody knows <a href="http://www.skype.com/">Skype</a> or <a href="http://www.google.com/talk/">Google talk</a>, VoIP applications that allows users to make free calls computer to computer and cheap long distance calls from computer to traditional phone networks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Long distance but also short distance! The Lao government last smartest idea (regulate the local market by fixing a minimum rate of <b>800 LAK/mn</b>) has drowned mobile operator revenues and pushed customers to find alternative ways to communicate and save money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this article, we will explain how you can make local calls <b>more than 3 times</b> <b>cheaper</b> using your smartphone and a regular 3G data plan from any operators (Unlimited plans are of course preferred even though you will see that a VoIP call is <b>not that expensive</b> for your data balance).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To set your system up, you don't need to recompile your smartphone kernel, hack the mobile network or steal the balance of someone else, just a smartphone, a credit card (yes that is the tricky part of this tutorial but you can also use bank wire transfer) and lets say <b>30 minutes, </b>coffee break included.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Step 1: Open a VoIP SIP account</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In our tutorial, we will use <a href="http://www.callwithus.com/">callwithus</a> which offers the very competitive rate of $<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">0.03363 USD/min (269 LAK/min !!) for any Lao destination (mobile and fixed). You can also use <a href="http://www.mydivert.com/">Mydivert.com</a> (240 LAK/min) or any VoIP provider you may find cheaper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Create an account takes around 30 seconds, just enter your details and validate. You will receive a confirmation email and the details to configure your VoIP phone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Then, just <b>login </b>and <b>buy credits</b> (via Google Checkout, Paypal, credit card, or b</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">ank wire transfer if you are patient...)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At it is your first order, you will have to wait a couple of hours for your account to be verified and credited. It gives you some time to install your sip phone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">There are many SIP phones for Windows, Android, iPhone. The only thing you need to verify before downloading the SIP phone is the G729 codec support.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">G.729</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> is an </span>audio data compression<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> algorithm for voice that compresses digital voice to a bitrate of </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">8 kbps. The quality is good and the data consumption pretty low, perfect for any data plan !</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a list of SIP Phones that supports G729:</span></span></div>
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<li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/csipsimple/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Csipsimple</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">(for Android, available in Android market for free)</span></li>
<li><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/app/bria-iphone-edition/id373968636?mt=8" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Bria iPhone Edition</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> (for iPhone so you have to pay for it...)</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.counterpath.com/x-lite.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">X-lite</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> (for Windows, free)</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We will focus on <b>CSipSimple </b>but the configuration is pretty similar on any other SIP phones. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">The design and the stability of this VoIP SIP phone is truly impressive.</span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Download it from the market and launch it</span></li>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the first configuration menu, you can choose to integrate the SIP phone to Android dialer. That means that everytime you want to call someone, Android will ask you if you want to place a normal call or a VoIP call. If you don't choose this option, you can still call your friends through VoIP by accessing CSipSimple via the application menu. Coming back to the configuration, you will have to select whether you want to use VoIP only for outbound calls or also to receive calls. This feature can allow your friends to call you from sip to sip for free.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please tick the last option that is a kind of disclaimer saying that your mobile operator allows you to do VoIP calls on its network.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, tap on <b>add account</b> and scroll down until you find the green Android robot (<b>basic</b>).</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Enter an <b>account name</b> (whatever your want)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Enter the <b>username</b>, this is the one you received by email</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Enter the <b>server name</b>, for callwithus: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>sip.callwithus.com</b> (all the configuration details can be found <a href="http://www.callwithus.com/configuration">here</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Enter the <b>password,</b> it is your callwithus account password.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><b>Validate</b>, the sip phone will try to register. If everything goes well, it will display "registered"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">If your account has been credited, you can now use the dialer or your contact list to place a VoIP call, just click on the call button and choose <b>"Use: [the account name that you configured]"</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">That's it, you can now call in Laos or any other destinations in the world at very low cost simply using your 3G or even better your WiFi home connection</span></span></li>
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<a href="http://cdn3.staztic.com/screenshots/csipsimple-1108-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" alt="Cheap calls in Laos" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://cdn3.staztic.com/screenshots/csipsimple-1108-1.jpg" width="192" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">"But finally how much does it cost me?"</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">You are charged by the VoIP SIP provider (<b>269 LAK/min</b> for callwithus) and then charged for data consumption (with a 3G limited plan). On an Ethernet link, the G729 codec consumes totally <b>31.2kbps</b> (codec bitrate 8kbps + payload + overhead). 3G is not an Ethernet link but we will state as if. On </span><a href="http://internet-in-laos.blogspot.com/2012/01/tiered-plan-january-2012-ltc-etl.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">this article</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">, we have seen that the average price per mbyte in 3G is around <b>40 LAK</b>. The data usage per minute of a G729 call is then <b>10 LAK</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Total rate: <b>279 LAK/min</b> instead of <b>800 LAK/min</b>. More than <b>3</b> times cheaper!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"And how is the call quality?"</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">G729 call quality is <b>very good</b> with a decent data connection. But such as long distance call, there is a noticeable delay that can be a bit disturbing during the conversations. But for this price, who will complain?</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The network quality is really important to enjoy a good VoIP call. Thus, from our test bed, we strongly recommend the limited data plans from ETL and the <a href="http://internet-in-laos.blogspot.com/2012/02/beeline-launched-3g-unlimited-packages.html">unlimited data plan from Beeline</a>. The others plans have failed our test bed regarding voice quality (abnormal packet loss for LTC and very poor quality for Unitel unlimited plan). This is of course a completely subjective advice as it will clearly depend on your coverage (location).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.beeline.la/">Beeline</a> has launched yesterday (Friday Feb 10th) two new 3G packages dedicated to USB Dongles.
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daily package data unlimited: 4,900 LAK/day</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monthly package data unlimited: 130,000 LAK/month</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The agressive pricing aims to compete the current Unitel offer (Unlimited daily plan at 5,000 LAK).</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142183007117624832.post-86180306790407110932012-02-11T16:51:00.002+07:002012-02-11T16:51:50.524+07:00How to turn your Android phone into a WiFi hotspot<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><ul>
<li>Touch the Launcher button on the Home screen.</li>
<li>Find the 3G hotspot mobile button</li>
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<a href="http://droid2hacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/droid-2-mobile-hotspot.jpg" imageanchor="1" alt="How to turn your Android phone into a WiFi hotspot" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="294" src="http://droid2hacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/droid-2-mobile-hotspot.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Tap the 3G Mobile Hotspot check box and enter a password.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Touch the OK button and save settings.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">When the 3G hotspot is active, a Mobile Hotspot Service status icon appears.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">To turn off the 3G hotspot, open the 3G Mobile Hotspot app and remove the green check mark. </span></li>
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<a href="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p&chtt=AS9873%20IPv4%20Peers&chs=350x200&chd=t:51,48&chl=AS9931+51%25|AS4134+48%25&chco=346090" imageanchor="1" qlt="LTC Internet 3G DSL Wimax" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="182" src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p&chtt=AS9873%20IPv4%20Peers&chs=350x200&chd=t:51,48&chl=AS9931+51%25|AS4134+48%25&chco=346090" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">LTC (Lao Telecommunications) has two upstream providers, <a href="http://www.cattelecom.com/site/en/main.php" style="color: grey; text-decoration: none;">CAT Telecom</a> and <a href="http://en.chinatelecom.com.cn/" style="color: grey; text-decoration: none;">China Telecom</a> such as ETL. </span><br />
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AS9873 IPv4 Route Propagation</h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Our traffic analysis is then exactly <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_429005457">similar as ETL</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://internet-in-laos.blogspot.com/2012/02/etl-internet-traffic-analysis.html">.</a> Thanks to its good international connectivity, LaoTel is able to provide a quality bandwidth to its large numbers of customers (2G, 3G, Wimax, DSL and Fiber).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/" style="color: grey; text-decoration: none;">Wikipedia</a>, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://bgp.he.net/" style="color: grey; text-decoration: none;">Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit</a></span></span>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">iPhone Personal Hotspot lets you connect other devices to the Internet using the Cellular Data connection (2G, 3G) on your iPhone.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To activate the hotspot function, you need to <b>install </b>the latest iOS software update.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once, the software is updated, go to the <b>settings </b>menu.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 23px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the <b>settings </b>menu, you will see the <b>personal hotspot</b> item, tap on it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 23px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, on the<b> personal hotspot</b> menu, switch the button to <b>ON</b> and choose a <b>Wifi Password</b>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 23px; text-align: justify;">That's it ! Go on your computer and scan the wifi networks. You will find the Iphone hotspot refered as </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 23px; text-align: justify;">the <b>name </b>of your iPhone in iTunes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.etllao.com/">ETL</a> AS Number is <a href="http://bgp.he.net/AS10226">10226</a>. <span style="line-height: 17px; text-align: justify;">ETL, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px; text-align: justify;">Enterprise of Telecommunications Lao</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"> is a 100% State-Owned Enterprise which all of its operations are supervised by the National Authority of Posts and Telecommunications (NAPT).</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.etllao.com/">ETL</a> has two upstream providers, <a href="http://www.cattelecom.com/site/en/main.php">CAT Telecom</a> and <a href="http://en.chinatelecom.com.cn/">China Telecom</a>. This dual connection brings full resiliency to the operator. IP transit protection but also transmission protection within Lao PDR. Indeed, the China Telecom p<span style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; white-space: nowrap;">oint of i</span></span><em style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; font-style: normal; white-space: nowrap;">nterconnection (POI)</em></span><b> </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is more likely situated in the north of Laos and the CAT Telecom POI in Vientiane (Friendship Bridge).</span></div>
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AS10226 IPv4 Route Propagation</h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connectivity of both upstream ISPs is very good allowing ETL to provide a resilient and powerful Internet connection </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to its subscribers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><b>Internet censorship:</b></span></span></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.chinatelecom.com.cn/">China Telecom</a>: Everybody is aware of the Golden Shield Project or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall_of_China">Great Firewall of China</a>, the biggest censorship and surveillance machine in the world. That does not apply to China Telecom international IP Transit. From our benchmark, we have not noticed any website filtered on China Telecom. ETL can then avoid any censorship from CAT Telecom by pointing up the outbound routing stream to China Telecom.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>, </span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://bgp.he.net/">Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit</a></span></span>
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<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142183007117624832.post-40696035654826670712012-01-29T16:20:00.002+07:002012-02-04T12:31:04.439+07:00Beeline Lao Internet Traffic Analysis<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://beeline.la/">Beeline Lao</a> AS Number is <a href="http://bgp.he.net/AS55511">55511</a>. <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">In 2011, <a href="http://beeline.la/">Beeline Lao</a> entered Laos as VimpelCom Lao, replacing former </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millicom" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Millicom">Tigo</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://beeline.la/">Beeline Lao</a> has two Thai upstream providers: <a href="http://www.cattelecom.com/">CAT Telecom</a> (<a href="http://bgp.he.net/AS9931">AS 9931</a>) and </span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.trueintergateway.com/">True International Gateway</a> (<a href="http://bgp.he.net/AS55554">AS 55554)</a>. The reason why Beeline is connected to two different ISPs is more likely the resiliency. Indeed, if one Internet Service Provider goes down, Beeline can provide continuity of service to its subscribers by using the other International internet connection</span>.</span></div>
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AS55511 IPv4 Route Propagation</h2>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we can see above, the connectivity of these two ISP is very good. Beeline Lao International upstream connectivity provides its subscribers resilient and powerful Internet.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Internet censorship:</b></span><br />
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cattelecom.com/site/en/main.php">CAT Telecom</a>: We have already mentioned that CAT Telecom filters and censors some websites (see <a href="http://internet-in-laos.blogspot.com/2012/01/planet-internet-traffic-analysis.html">Planet Internet Traffic Analysis</a>).</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.trueintergateway.com/">True Internet Gateway</a>: It has not been noticed any site filtered or blocked on True Internet Gateway. From the tests completed on Beeline Internet connection, it seems Beeline is using True Internet Gateway as the default route for Internet. Then Beeline avoids the filtering system of CAT and can provide a full uncensored browsing experience to its subscribers.</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">True Internet Gateway is part of True Corporation Public Company Limited</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> (TRUE) which is a communication conglomerate in </span>Thailand<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">. True controls Thailand's largest cable TV provider </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Visions" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="True Visions">True Visions</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">, its largest ISP </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">True Internet</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> and its third-largest mobile operator </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">True Move</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">.</span></i></span>
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>, </span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://bgp.he.net/">Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit</a></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142183007117624832.post-70569257190527705992012-01-28T16:43:00.002+07:002012-02-04T12:31:10.666+07:00Unitel (Star Telecom) Internet Traffic Analysis<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unitel AS Number is <b><a href="http://bgp.he.net/AS131267#_asinfo">131267</a></b>.
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<a href="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p&chtt=AS131267%20IPv4%20Peers&chs=350x200&chd=t:100&chl=AS7552+100%25&chco=346090" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; alt="Unitel 3G DSL Internet Traffic" margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p&chtt=AS131267%20IPv4%20Peers&chs=350x200&chd=t:100&chl=AS7552+100%25&chco=346090" width="350" /></a></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we can see, the unique international upstream provider of Unitel (Star Telecom) is <a href="http://www.vietteltelecom.vn/">Viettel</a> (</span><a href="http://bgp.he.net/AS7552#_asinfo" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AS 7552</a>)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.
</span><a href="http://www.vietteltelecom.vn/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Viettel</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a Vietnamese state-owned mobile network operator. </span><a href="http://unitel.com.la/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unitel (Star Telecom)</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is the joint venture between Viettel Global Joint Stock Company (Viettel Global) and Lao Asia Telecom (LAT). Main reason why </span><a href="http://unitel.com.la/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unitel</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is buying 100% of its bandwidth from Vietnam. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually this is not exactly true... Thai contents being extremely popular in Laos (it is said that 70% of the international traffic of Laos is pointing to Thailand), <a href="http://unitel.com.la/">Unitel (Star Telecom)</a> also purchase domestic Thai bandwidth from </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.cattelecom.com/site/en/main.php" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CAT Telecom</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. This cannot appear on the chart as the Unitel subnet is not advertised out of Thailand by </span><a href="http://www.cattelecom.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CAT Telecom</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<div class="tabdata hidden" id="graph4">
<h2>
AS131267 IPv4 Route Propagation</h2>
<img alt="As131267-ipv4" src="http://bgp.he.net/graphs/as131267-ipv4.png?1327742134" usemap="#diag4" />
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</map>
</div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://www.vietteltelecom.vn/">Viettel </a>connectivity to the outside world is very good. This could be a solid partner to <a href="http://unitel.com.la/">Unitel (Star Telecom)</a>, providing quality bandwidth to Laos. Unfortunately, Internet censorship is present in Vietnam and is also affecting the <a href="http://unitel.com.la/">Unitel (Star Telecom)</a> subscribers.</div>
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The censorship in Vietnam targets:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>Subversive contents </li>
<li>Social Networking (Facebook) </li>
<li>Blogging </li>
</ul>
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Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Vietnam#Censored_content">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="http://bgp.he.net/">Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142183007117624832.post-77486114231926353982012-01-22T11:45:00.001+07:002012-02-04T12:31:20.276+07:00Planet Internet Traffic Analysis<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the below diagrams and the next articles, every ISP is referenced by its </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Autonomous System (AS) Number</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Within the Internet, an <b>Autonomous System (AS)</b> is a collection of connected Internet Protocol (IP) routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators that presents a common, clearly defined routing policy to the Internet."</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)">Wikipedia</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Basically, every ISP can be clearly identified by its <b>AS Number</b>. Some ISPs may have <b>multiple AS Number</b> (such as <a href="http://www.cattelecom.com/site/en/main.php">CAT Telecom</a> below).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.laopdr.com/">Planet</a>'s AS Number is <b>23900</b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NAPT's AS Number is <b>55508</b>.</span><br />
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<a href="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p&chtt=AS23900%20IPv4%20Peers&chs=350x200&chd=t:100&chl=AS55508+100%25&chco=346090" imageanchor="1" alt="Planet Online Wimax Internet Data Traffic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Planet Internet Traffic analysis" border="0" height="182" src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p&chtt=AS23900%20IPv4%20Peers&chs=350x200&chd=t:100&chl=AS55508+100%25&chco=346090" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>100% of Planet Internet traffic is going through the NAPT </i></span></div>
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AS23900 IPv4 Route Propagation</h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>In the above picture, AS23900 represents <a href="http://www.laopdr.com/">Planet</a>. AS55508 is the NAPT AS. Just mouse over the AS number to see which ISP it belongs to. </i></span></span><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Source:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="http://www.he.net/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Hurricane Electric Internet Services</a></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>Analysis:</u></b></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.laopdr.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Planet </b></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">has only one Internet upstream ISP which is the NAPT (</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LANIC</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">). As the</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LANIC </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">network is still in test phasis, this is a very dangerous bet done by</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.laopdr.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Planet </a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to cutover all its Internet traffic to the NAPT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is certainly the root cause for the raising complains heard from this ISP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One Internet upstream connection means no redundancy. If the upstream provider is down, the whole network cannot reach the outside world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From this diagram, we can also see that the <b>NAPT </b>sources its Internet from <a href="http://www.cattelecom.com/site/en/main.php"><b>CAT Telecom</b></a> in Thailand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.cattelecom.com/site/en/main.php">CAT Telecom</a></b> is a good ISP in Thailand delivering quality bandwidth. Although, as it is a <b>state-owned company</b>, <b>Internet censorship</b> is enforced in its network and some websites may not be reachable (e.g. anonymous proxy websites, lèse majesté content, pornographic content, information about abortion). For more details, please refer to the wikipedia webpage about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Thailand"><b>Internet censorship in Thailand</b></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Laos, 99.9% of the Internet traffic is international as there is mainly no content hosted in the country. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thus, the upstream ISP connectivity (the international carrier that connect each local ISP to the rest of the world) is critical and key for a good customer experience.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The main upstream service providers used in Laos are from:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thailand: <b><a href="http://www.cattelecom.com/">CAT</a></b>, <b><a href="http://www.asianet.co.th/ENG/home.html">True Internet</a></b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">China: <b><a href="http://en.chinatelecom.com.cn/">China Telecom</a></b> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vietnam: <b><a href="http://www.vietteltelecom.vn/">Viettel</a></b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most of the local ISPs are also connected to the <b>NAPT </b>network (<b>LANIC</b>) and sending part of their traffic to the Lao government.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is analysed, listened or filtered in the <b>NAPT </b>network is not known but it is certainly a point of concern. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As of today, based on our analysis, only <b>Beeline </b>does not send any traffic to the NAPT and then can be considered a <b>safe </b>ISP for the privacy of your data communications. For the other ISPs (<b>Planet</b>, <b>LTC</b>, <b>ETL</b>, <b>Unitel</b>), we recommend using a <b>secured https </b>session everytime you exchange data with the rest of the world. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the next articles, we will analyse more in details the international connectivity of each ISP. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0