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 [...]
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 [...]
Tata Communications plans to activate India’s first LoRa network for Internet of Things apps nationwide, beginning with deployments in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. The first phase network will [...]
There’s a possible pattern developing in the hyper-competitive Indian mobile services market: significant losses or declining net profits just as huge amounts of capital will have to be spent to [...]
SK Telecom says it is deploying the world’s first commercial Internet of Things (IoT)-dedicated nationwide LoRaWAN network, using a Samsung platform. The network will be deployed across Korea [...]
The notion of traditional service provider “core competence” where it comes to running networks has come into question as much as “natural monopoly.” And if traditional service [...]
Proposed minimum mobile spectrum prices are an issue in Pakistan, according to consultant Parvez Iftikhar. High prices, he argues, are a key reason that authorized mobile spectrum is not fully in [...]
In the U.S. market, many innovators have looked to the concept of “anchor tenants” as one way to build a sustainable Internet access service. Schools, hospitals or government buildings often are [...]
There is a stunning mobile spectrum auction about to be held in India, though delayed, perhaps by the late summer of 2016. The Indian government says 2,000 MHz of spectrum will be up for bid. [...]
New spectrum, supporting new networks, always shapes demand for consumer devices and apps. That is true in India as Long Term Evolution 4G networks are activated. Sales of 4G smartphones [...]
In both Indian and U.S. markets, there is a growing expectation that spectrum prices are vulnerable to a tumble, despite expectations of growing need for capacity. In some cases, the issue is [...]
One sometimes hears it said that something” cannot be done.” A mobile market cannot support five providers on a sustainable basis; a fixed network market cannot support three or [...]
Republic Wireless, a U.S. mobile operator that was a pioneer in Wi-Fi-first mobile service, is adding a GSM network to its prior reliance on the Sprint network. That concept–relying on [...]
Ofcom has proposed adding 160 MHz (two 80-MHz channels) for Wi-Fi. Those blocks of spectrum already being used in the U.S. market. Since 2014, Ofcom has been working to increase the amount of [...]
Despite unclear evidence that a typical mobile market can sustain four major providers over time, many regulators continue to insist that a minimum of four mobile operators is necessary to obtain [...]