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It is a truism that government policies create, shape, promote or diminish revenue and profit potential of all telecommunications endeavors. And it might happen that future regulator decisions on [...]

It looks as though we might relatively soon get new tests of the value of network agnostic access. If Google launches its own mobile service, relying on Wi-Fi, Sprint and T-Mobile US networks we [...]

Competition in telecommunication markets in South Asia, Southeast Asia and elsewhere–already robust–is growing. Strategically, providers of Internet access, especially mobile service [...]

U.K.-based Sky is about to enter the U.K. mobile service provider market, becoming a mobile virtual network operator using the Telefónica UK network in 2016. The move will make Sky a [...]

Google apparently will try something new in the U.S mobile market: relying on two separate mobile networks, plus Wi-Fi, to support its new mobile service. In addition to using third party Wi-Fi, [...]

Observers for decades have suggested that, one day, Wi-Fi might provide the access infrastructure for what we now know as “mobile phone service.” To be sure, several firms, including [...]

Two decades ago, most engineers would have said it was not practical to use millimeter waves (30 GHz to 300 GHz) for mass market communications purposes. Signal attenuation was simply too great, [...]

The Federal Communications Commission auction of Advanced Wireless Services-3 spectrum has accumulated a record-breaking $45 billion in bids, compared to an expected $10 billion the agency [...]

AT&T, on the heels of its $2.5 billion purchase of Iusacell, now has reached agreement with NII Holdings to buy Nextel Mexico for about $1.88 billion. The acquisition will give AT&T a [...]

Everyone agrees that billions of consumers in the developing world, especially those living in remote locations, need Internet access, as most now have mobile service. Virtually everyone also [...]

Globally, about 80 percent of all Internet data is generated by the mobile network, says Robert Pepper, Cisco VP. In India, device to macrocell traffic represents 30 percent of all traffic. So [...]

Sustainable business models are a challenge for mobile and Internet service providers in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa where many would-be customers are hard to reach and cannot afford to [...]

Fifth generation mobile networks, most supporters are quick to say, will not be about “faster speeds” or novel air interfaces. Instead, at least for the moment, the emphasis is on making all [...]

Spectrum always is valuable because it provides the foundation for firms and business models. That is as true for new shared spectrum capabilities as for traditional Wi-Fi, mobile service [...]

One fundamental element of competition in most communication markets these days is that contestants have to have a strategy for competing not only against the expected contestants, but also [...]