Communicasia Singapore from June 17-20

I got the opportunity to be at Communicasia 2008 which was held at Expo, Singapore. I together with Niranjan, and Shehan were there representing the company. Communicasia is regarded as one of the largest exhibitions in the telecommunication domain in our region. We left Sri Lanka from BIA on 17th Morning and was at Changi International Airport, Singapore by 6.30 am local time. We were staying at Golden Land Mark Hotel.


In Singapore almost all the things are defined. So nothing to worry about. If you get into a taxi they are all metered and have the rates written down in shutters. So nobody can cheat. But fairs are little high :). Also there are sign boards to get to anywhere and if you are thinking about violating any signs better have some money with you, as fines are quite high!

Golden Landmark hotel was little far away from Expo where exhibition was at. So we usually took the train from Bugis to Expo, via Tenah Merah interchange. Train service in Singapore known at MRT is quite efficient and cheap compared to Taxis. Ticketing system is completely automated and train service was nothing but great.

At the exhibition there were many leading vendors for telecom software and hardware as well as handset vendors. Exhibition halls were huge and there were about 4 of them. You could imagine the trouble of walking though all of them! It took us 3 days to cover most of them. Some of the coolest things that we came across was jeep mounted satellite disk and 3D tv. You can see some pics below