Though action has not yet been taken, it is starting to look as if Indian Internet regulators will eventually put an end to “zero rated apps” that have proven effective ways of introducing [...]
“Bite-sized” service plans are one way to encourage people to use mobile Internet services, as price certainty is built in to the purchase process, whether services are sold by the minute, by the [...]
Upcoming 2.5 GHz spectrum auctions in Canada likely will result in Telus and smaller competitors getting most of the spectrum, as Rogers Wireless and Bell Canada already are near government [...]
Reliance Jio Infocomm, a challenger in the Indian mobile market, which already has about eight suppliers in many markets, will begin offering mobile services in five Indian cities by June, 2015, [...]
The frequency equivalent of a “squatter’s rights” (“adverse possession”) battle might soon develop in the 5 GHz Wi-Fi band, with ecosystems possibly racing to promote their own use before other [...]
The cost of acquiring spectrum in the recent Indian mobile spectrum auction were high enough that Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Reliance Communications may take a sharp hit to earnings in 2016 [...]
Vietnamese mobile operator Viettel has arranged to acquire Beeline Cambodia, marking the first acquisition of an active foreign operator by a Vietnamese company. Beeline Cambodia offers mobile [...]
“We believe the future is 4G and not 2G and 3G,” said Gurdeep Singh, chief executive of consumer business at Reliance Communications, India’s number four mobile operator. In some sense, the [...]
South Asia and Southeast Asia are part of an arc of countries across the “global south” where use of the Internet generally remains below levels of the northern [...]
Aside from deploying new spectrum to support next generation networks, mobile Internet service providers face other business issues when the new networks are activated. Often, capacity and [...]
In case you still are thinking mobile networks will have a very hard time supplying bandwidth equivalent to fixed networks, consider the vision for fifth generation networks. The vision clearly [...]
A dozen households in rural Thurmann N.Y. now have high-speed Internet access provided by an Internet service provider using TV white spaces. As planned, the service will be extended to about 90 [...]
Some might gasp at predictions the coming fifth generation mobile network standard (5G) will feature bandwidths up to 1,000 times greater than today’s mobile networks. That three orders of [...]
Even in the U.S. market, mobile Internet access is a viable substitute for fixed Internet access. About seven percent of U.S. residents own a smartphone but do not buy fixed network high speed [...]