As part of the City Wi-Fi Roaming project, 23 tier-one mobile service providers have joined forces to work on providing free international public wifi roaming in cities around the world. [...]
“Bandwidth on demand” has been a goal of next-generation networks for quite some time. But most of those ideas have revolved around the ability of a single provider to supply its own [...]
In the telecom business, some things do not change: not every customer segment or geography is equally profitable. If, in a country such as India, 75 percent of new mobile Internet customers come [...]
We might soon get a test of mobile service provider willingness to pay, and perceptions of spectrum value, as the Indian government gets ready to auction off about 2.3 GHz of mobile spectrum for [...]
We might soon get a test of mobile service provider willingness to pay, and perceptions of spectrum value, as the Indian government gets ready to auction off about 2.3 GHz of mobile spectrum for [...]
Disruption of the mobile business seems increasingly likely, which is why the search for big new revenue sources is imperative for mobile service provider In fact, J.P. Morgan equity analyst [...]
Mobile operators in India pay fees for use of spectrum. For spectrum acquired in the upcoming 2016 auctions, the spectrum usage charge will be three percent of of service provider adjusted gross [...]
Every industry is directly affected by order of magnitude changes in either supply or demand for its product, as well as by order of magnitude changes in retail price for its products or he [...]
In the access business, relatively “small” changes in the number of competitors can lead to big swings in prices, packaging, gross revenue and profit. That is the case even ignoring the big [...]
As often is the case, spectrum policy is a contentious issue. It presently is a hot issue in the U.K. mobile market. As always is the case, weaker providers want restrictions on stronger [...]
Though it might have seemed improbable just a few years ago, fixed wireless might become a major Internet access platform in the U.S. market, driven by twin developments. First, a variety of [...]
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 [...]
Debates about whether there is, or is not, a “spectrum crunch” erupt from time to time. One side typically argues that mobile service providers, for example, have plenty of spectrum they are not [...]
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 [...]
Millimeter wave platforms rightly are seen as helpful mostly for capacity, rather than coverage. Ironically, millimeter wave networks might also be highly useful for many new actors to create [...]