posted by Thea on Work Station

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This is what I have been considering since I went to university seven years ago. Economic decision is closely related with political decision and vice versa. Now I am really facing it. Working for a GSM operator, I handle roaming agreement with overseas GSM operators. This agreement is required before we enter testing phases and finally launch roaming cooperation between two operators. In a week, I found a fact definitely describing what I wrote as topic in my thesis. As I stated in my thesis that economic decision isn’t made in a vacuum space. Many factors affect it, which mostly of them are political factors. Here is the fact.

At the moment, I am still dealing with an operator from Cuba. Every thing was going in right track until he informed that he couldn’t accept the statement that my side would dispatch payment through intermediary bank in America. The problem lies on American blockade. He requires us to made payment directly to its bank. Obviously, even private sector can be massively affected by G to G relationship.

The second occurs in Cambodia. As Cambodia is holding election, we are informed by a GSM operator of Cambodia that they will cut off SMS service from 31^st of March to 1^st of April 2007. Though still clueless what is reason behind it, we assume that Cambodia’s government tries to impede any info which they consider hostile toward the existing election program. This is of course can decrease that operator income.