The Philippines National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has been trying–so far without success–to encourage a third mobile operator to enter the market, something regulators in [...]
No matter what limitations you presently believe fixed wireless networks suffer from, progress now is proceeding at stunning rates. An order of magnitude increase in spectrum efficiency is one [...]
Facebook’s Connectivity Lab now is flight testing its first generation air-to-ground bidirectional link capable of 20 Gbps in each direction, intended to support the Aquila unmanned aerial [...]
At the last Spectrum Futures conference, we moved to a “no presentations” format designed to maximize chances for full discussion and sharing. At the next edition, we want to allow more [...]
Mobile businesses built on data arguably are qualitatively different than businesses built on voice, and that might have huge implications for mobile operators and regulators across much of [...]
The challenges of lower costs, better business models and securing more spectrum to “connect everyone across South Asia and Southeast Asia to the Internet” were key themes at the Spectrum Futures [...]
Perhaps it is not yet clear whether licensed spectrum prices will fall as we near the 5G era and huge blocks of new millimeter wave spectrum, and new allocations of unlicensed and shared spectrum [...]
There is a good reason why regulators, policymakers and consumers who want more competition, and better quality services continually look to wireless or mobile platforms. Those generally are less [...]
It probably no longer makes sense to argue about whether gigabit Internet access “should” be deployed at a time when “nobody needs a gig.” The reason is that the shift to gigabit networks is not [...]
As crazy as it sounds, consumer Internet access is headed for a gigabit context, based on 5G standards everywhere, and advances in fixed network access in many countries. Over a decade or so, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]