Project Loon engineers now have tweaked control algorithms to allow the sending of small teams of balloons to form a cluster over a specific region, Google now says. As a direct result, Project [...]
Project Loon engineers now have tweaked control algorithms to allow the sending of small teams of balloons to form a cluster over a specific region, Google now says. As a direct result, Project [...]
There are not many telecom markets globally where present revenues actually are lower than they were a decade ago, or even five years ago. In many cases, that is because net new customers are a [...]
SoftBank Chairman Masayoshi Son seems to be signaling a rational approach to any proposed transaction regarding Sprint. In the past, SoftBank has tried to act as the acquirer of T-Mobile US. And [...]
“Free” is a compelling price point for any product consumers really want to buy. “Free” is why so many mobile users default to Wi-Fi access when they can. [...]
Some argue millimeter wave signal propagation–which is limited, compared to loer-frequency signals–is not a “bug” but a valuable feature. Millimeter waves (3 GHz to 300 GHz radio [...]
Telstra is switching on gigabit 4G service in the Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane areas in mid-February 2017, with Adelaide and Perth slated to join later in 2017. As Telstra has been doing since [...]
By 2025, mobile and other telecom technologies could have significant impact on health applications, manufacturing, mining, information technology, software, applications and transportation, [...]
Zero rating probably is going to wind up being necessary, or mobile data tariffs will have to fall precipitously, if video entertainment services move from linear to on-demand mode, and are [...]
Regulators, service and app providers tend to disagree about the danger “zero rating” (allowing consumer use of some apps without usage charges). Many regulators think the practice is [...]
Service provider thinking about infrastructure sharing always is intimately and directly related to their perceptions of business advantage. Actors will favor sharing when economic or business [...]
One way or the other, the global telecom business might be “unrecognizable” in 10 years. “Do nothing” and the business model might collapse, say researchers at McKinsey. On the other [...]
By 2020, nearly two billion devices with mobile connections capability, 2.7 billion devices that can connect to one or another low-power communications network and 3.3 billion devices with Wi-Fi [...]
Some would argue that any business based on use of spectrum “must” entail either exclusive rights to use, or at least quality of service guarantees, to create a sustainable business [...]
Gigabit 5G internet access speeds, with a migration to 10-Gbps, are part of the developing standards for that new platform. But mobile operators globally are working to develop gigabit versions [...]