According to IDC, enterprises and consumers in the Asia region (excluding Japan) will increase spending on mobile devices and services by three percent annually between 2015 and 2019. Though [...]
In the history of communication networks, “general purpose” has been the exception. Most networks were created to support one particular application. One thinks of communication using [...]
The GSMA-sponsored Joyn effort, which launched in 2008 with the objective of creating a carrier alternative to Skype, WhatsApp, Viber and other OTT messaging an voice apps, arguably has failed. [...]
Reliance Jio’s launch of 4G services could disrupt data pricing in the Indian mobile service provider market, causing revenue-per-megabyte prices to tumble 30 percent to 40 percent this [...]
In a momentous decision, mobile operator Three, after having instituted ad blocking at the network level, plans to add the capability on all of its networks, everywhere, in a way that notably [...]
Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority plans to auction additional mobile spectrum in 2016 to create a fourth mobile supplier in Singapore, reserving about 60 MHz of capacity for at least one [...]
Even in industry segments that generally are growing, there are regional differences. It appears that mobile service actually declined by 14 million accounts in Latin America in 2015, a [...]
Advertising traditionally has provided the business model allowing consumers to get “no additional cost” or “free” access to content, and has become an important business model for over the top [...]
Singapore Telecom says it is concerned that issuing a fourth mobile license for Singapore will damage supplier sustainability over the long term. Nobody would be too surprised by the expression [...]
It might not seem that the Internet of Things, or industrial IoT will be a significant revenue driver in much of Asia, aside from Northeast Asia, by about 2020. That might not be the case. India, [...]
Historically, mobile network bandwidth has lagged at least an order of magnitude or two orders of magnitude behind consumer fixed network bandwidth, even as average capabilities across all [...]
In a move that comes as no surprise, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has ruled that programs such as Facebook’s “Free Basics” are covered by rules related to non-discriminatory telecom [...]
The Australian auction of 1800 MHz band spectrum auction raised AU $543.5 million, with Optus, Telstra, TPG and Vodafone all buying spectrum in the auction, according to the Australian [...]
Though it has lost the top installed base battle to Axiata’s Celcom, and is slipping compared to Digi, Maxis says it has the number-one coverage of 4G Long Term Evolution service in Malaysia. In [...]
A proposed spectrum reauthorization and re-allocation by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission appears intended to fuel more competition in the market, by giving addiional [...]