Regulators in South Korea and Japan have been trying to get a third mobile operator to enter their markets. European Union regulators have been insisting that no mergers will be approved that [...]
Freewheel, the Wi-Fi-only mobile service offered by Cablevision Systems Corp., is going to be shut down. What that means about consumer demand for any “mobile” service with connectivity [...]
Almost nothing is more inexorable than an increase in global average connection speed from one quarter to the next. source: Akamai for example, reports a 12 percent quarter over quarter increase [...]
One underpinning philosophy of Spectrum Futures is that the whole ecosystem has to be aligned if we are to rapidly provide quality Internet access to “everyone across South Asia and [...]
The Internet of Things, in all its forms–has a total potential economic impact of $3.9 trillion to $11.1 trillion a year by 2025, according to an analysis by McKinsey Global Institute. The [...]
Ecosystems always are contentious, since one segment’s revenue is another segment’s cost. High spectrum costs and fees provide one important example. High costs for 3G spectrum nearly caused some [...]
Google Fiber is buying Webpass, a provider of Wi-Fi services for residential and commercial buildings. Note: Webpass does so using fixed wireless. Webpass says it has tens of thousands of [...]
Just over two thirds (68 percent) of people in the Asia region have no broadband connection, while 55 percent of people in Latin America are without broadband, Maravedis researchers say. Some 57 [...]
Spectrum Futures, to be held 19-21 October 2016 in Singapore, will feature up to 60 experts across a range of disciplines (regulators, ISPs, ISPs, app and infrastructure providers, policy [...]
By 2020, machine-to-machine (M2M) connections will be 46 percent of total connected devices and Internet access accounts, Cisco now forecasts. That total includes devices such as smart meters, [...]
IP traffic is growing fastest in the Middle East and Africa, followed by the Asia Pacific region. Traffic in the Middle East and Africa will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 41 [...]
Those of you who have been in or around the telecommunications business long enough will remember the grave dangers posed by “build it and they will come” business plans. But there is [...]
In India, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has ruled that zero rating is a violation of network neutrality. Now TRAI is trying to actually define what network neutrality actually [...]
Mobile subscriptions are growing around three percent year-on-year globally and reached 7.4 billion in the first quarter of 2016, according to Ericsson. South Asia and Southeast Asia represented [...]
Expectations about spectrum prices in many markets might be too high. In India for example, Bharti Airtel might not bid at all on new 700 MHz spectrum. On the other hand, the high prices, which [...]