Revenue growth in the global mobile industry is slowing, and will expand only about two percent annually between now and 2020, says the GSMA Global Mobile Trends report. Perhaps more [...]
India’s big spectrum auction of 2,300 MHz worth of spectrum has ended, with spectrum sold at about 11 percent of what the government projected would be the case, or roughly US$9.8 billion (if I [...]
Asia now is the growth driver of the global mobile industry, says the GSMA Global Mobile Trends report. Within Asia, India now has become the mobile industry’s key growth market, More than one [...]
One key adaptation application providers can make, when serving consumers in nations and markets with challenging bandwidth conditions is to create versions of their apps that can work even when [...]
Even if mobile data remains the next revenue frontier in much of Asia, executives in the mobile industry always must prepare for maturation of any single revenue stream, no matter how big. So it [...]
Google wants to make Wi-Fi more prevalent as an access technology. Google Station, a suite of tools designed to make creating and maintaining public Wi-Fi easy, is being offered to partners [...]
Korea Telecom, like Verizon, now sees different strategic value for the fixed network. AT&T likely agrees, up to a point. The stated upside for Korea Telecom fixed transport network capacity [...]
Progress is very swift in the Internet access business. In 2009, the average Internet access speed in Australia was about 12 Mbps. So at the time, a boost to 25 Mbps, the minimum national speed [...]
Telecom network strategists have been debating the feasibility of copper, optical fiber and mixed-media access networks for a few decades. But a couple of developments show how “stale” many of [...]
Add AT&T to the list of big, influential firms now seriously exploring the use of new types of fixed wireless platforms for gigabit communications in the access network. Significantly, the [...]
Incentives always matter, when regulators and policymakers want robust investment in next-generation networks. But competition and investment tend to be rival goods in competitive telecom [...]
Coverage always is an issue for mobile networks. “Sometimes you get 2G, sometimes you get 3G, and sometimes you get no G,” Rajan Anandan, head of Google India, said, referring to the [...]
Despite the bans on zero rating in India and some other countries, there is mounting evidence that offering users and customers access to valuable apps without charge provides both clear value [...]
OTT bypass–when OTT app providers terminate calls through an OTT app that have begun life as a normal fixed or mobile telephone call–could reduce carrier revenues as much as 30 [...]
The vast majority of new mobile subscriber additions, between now and 2020, will come from developing markets, with GSMA Intelligence putting this figure as high as 93 percent. In 2015, there [...]