Tata Communications will host delivery of Irish TV in North America. The Tata Communications Media Ecosystem platform provides end-to-end management of OTT video entertainment services to iOS [...]
Half of all “Free Basics” users buy a data plan from their mobile service provider within 30 days of trying Facebook’s free service, said Emeka Afigbo, Facebook’s manager for product [...]
Does it matter how big 5G service revenues eventually will be? Yes and no. The reason is that many of the gains will come as consumers and service providers shift from sales of 2G, 3G and 4G to [...]
Spectrum is the foundation of the mobile business, a fact made abundantly clear by the situation faced by Telenor India, which is a regional–not nation-wide–provider, owns limited [...]
A cable TV operator once quipped that “fiber to the home is the technology of the future, and always will be.” One might be tempted to make the same quip about fixed wireless, which [...]
One of the curiosities of a world, and an economy that is far more reliant on computing resources and communications is that consumers and businesses might be able to wring more value from a [...]
As on 31st January, 2016, the top five fixed network Internet access providers were BSNL (9.90 million), Bharti Airtel (1.68 million), MTNL (1.12 million), Atria Convergence Technologies (0.89 [...]
In India, as elsewhere, the strategic rationale for fixed network assets increasingly is that it provides offload for mobile device traffic. That is one major reason Vodafone India has purchased [...]
Mobile networks are not the only platforms used to gain access to the Internet in Asia, but such networks are an increasingly important means for doing do. For 47 percent of respondents, the [...]
Even if Indian regulators will not allow zero rating of mobile applications, and even if mobile operators might prefer not to zero rate video apps, there is some early evidence from the T-Mobile [...]
In any competitive market, the lowest-cost provider tends to have a big advantage. And that seems to be precisely what regulators in Singapore are trying to provide, in reserving 60 MHz of [...]
Regulators globally seem divided on the minimum conditions for sustaining effective competition in mobile markets, while at the same time maintaining conditions conducive for robust investment in [...]
Price is a key issue for Internet service providers aiming to provide Internet access service to hundreds of millions of new customers in India and other markets. In India, Telenor has unveiled [...]
Margin pressure in the India mobile data services business already is escalating, even before Reliance Jio has launched full commercial launch of its 4G services. Analysts at Morgan Stanley [...]
The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) Executive Committee comprising of Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Nokia and Qualcomm have agreed to form a global spectrum group. The new group will [...]