Telenor Group says it will not participate in the spectrum auction in India in 2016. That might, under some circumstances, seem an odd or dangerous decision, based on Telenor India’s lack of [...]
In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is making available an extraordinary amount of new spectrum–including seven gigaHertz (7 GHz) worth of unlicensed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
India’s call drop problem seems to be stymied, some would argue, because relationships with the ecosystem are essentially broken, with the highest levels of tension between mobile operators and [...]
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 [...]
At Spectrum Futures, decision-makers gather to share the latest ideas about bringing Internet access to everyone across South and Southeast Asia, and sustaining those efforts with business models [...]
Since rights to use spectrum are a foundation of any business providing communications services, you might think a huge auction of a massive amount of communications spectrum would be a good [...]
Rajan Mathews, Cellular Operators Association of India director general, has a tough job, and will highlight some of the reasons why when he delivers a keynote at the upcoming Spectrum Futures [...]
Spectrum matters because communications matters, and wireless and mobile communications now dominate all communications globally. Spectrum sharing matters because communications spectrum is a [...]
The Pacific Telecommunications Council’s (PTC) Spectrum Futures conference, examining the role of spectrum-based services to provide Internet access to the people of South Asia and Southeast [...]
One theme never too far from the surface, when spectrum sharing in any of its forms was the subject, is the nearly-immediate turn to issues of supply and demand. That was very much the case at [...]
In the past, price points of older satellite bandwidth caused decision makers in island countries of the Pacific and Southeast Asia to rule out satellite as an economically viable way to enable [...]
There’s a very good reason why Spectrum Futures is so focused on different platforms–mobile, Wi-Fi, satellite, balloon or unmanned aerial vehicle–for supplying Internet access. For [...]
Some of what LeoSat CEO Vern Fotheringham will talk about at Spectrum Futures depends on what happens over the next several months. LeoSat plans to launch a new constellation of 80 or more low [...]