If supply and demand matter, and when access speeds are high enough, then it is easy to predict that consumers using unlimited usage plans, all other things being equal, will use less Wi-Fi for [...]
In economic terms, 3G often is said to have been “lead by Europe,” and 4G often is said to have been “lead by the United States.” So a new report commissioned by CTIA argues that “China, South [...]
“Free” is a difficult price point in most markets. But free voice forever is among the pricing and packaging foundations for Reliance Jio’s fierce attack on India’s mobile market structure. Price [...]
Less than a year ago, there were seven mobile service providers in India with at least eight million customer accounts. Today, only three firms remain: Vodafone-Idea; Reliance Jio and Bharti [...]
Major network transitions tend to be hybrids. So it will be with 5G. Though most believe 4G will continue to anchor “coverage” requirements, 5G clearly will represent upside for capacity [...]
The internet has been a huge boon for consumers and some companies and industries. But the internet also tends to wring profit out of any industry it touches. And eventually, the internet touches [...]
Industry competitors normally pay money to track their market share versus their “real” competitors. The problem is that, in rapidly-changing and porous new markets, the legacy [...]
Despite current growth of mobile revenues in some markets (Asia, Africa in particular), it will be difficult to sustain long-term mobile operator growth at rates much higher than growth of gross [...]
5G is to networking as telecom is to the internet. That is to say, 5G is part of a larger shift of networking as “telecom” has become a tail on the internet dog. Specifically, 5G is [...]
With the exception of markets in Asia, Africa or elsewhere that still are adding subscriber accounts and mobile data accounts, developed markets where 5G is first deployed will not likely see too [...]
Necessity and opportunity both are lining up to drive aggressive 5G adoption in the U.S. market. All four leading U.S. mobile operators will be offering 5G mobile services in 2019, with AT&T [...]
You might be tempted to think that it mostly is lower-income people who use their mobile devices as the sole means of internet access. In many countries, substantial numbers of people–rich [...]
Though it might seem inconceivable, we are about to enter the “post-mobile” era of telecommunications. How can that be, you might ask, when virtually all consumers and most [...]
t is not hard to find skepticism about the size of 5G markets, for good reason. Not every market is equally well disposed to generate new revenue sources, at scale, and not every set of service [...]
Up to this point, 4G has been a primary method of internet access for a substantial, but still minority of usage in developed markets, though it arguably has been a primary or exclusive form of [...]