The United Kingdom will be conducting 11 TV white spaces trials in 2015. Described as a proof of concept, eight database providers and 11 trials have been approved, and are expected to run until [...]
In yet another example of how licensed, unicensed and shared spectrum alternatives are becoming seamless forms of access, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies have developed a platform blending [...]
Facebook, working with Reliance Communications, now is offering free access to 30 mobile Internet applications in India. The apps are available to 106.3 million Reliance Communications customers, [...]
Every now and then, mobile service, device or application providers make big mistakes. Microsoft “missed” the importance of the Internet. Nokia missed the importance of web browsing. Mobile [...]
Cablevision Systems has launched Freewheel, its new Wi-Fi-only mobile service, providing a real-world test of a theory, speculated about for a couple of decades, that Wi-Fi can be a full [...]
Spectra Wireless and Microsoft 4Afrika have launched Africa’s first commercial service network using TV white spaces in Ghana. Spectra Wireless is the first company in Africa to offer a consumer [...]
Every part of the Internet access ecosystem matters, where it comes to constructing a complete value chain. Networks have to be built affordably. Spectrum has to be made available. Marketing and [...]
With rapidly-growing demand for mobile data bandwidth, disputes about reallocating spectrum are bound to grow. At least in part, spectrum allocation policies might, in many cases, determine [...]
In case you needed a reminder of the foundational role played by communications regulators in creating and shaping the business, consider the situation in Norway, where new spectrum auctions and [...]
“Sustainability” was not an issue in the old monopoly telecommunications world. With profits guaranteed by “rate of return” regulations, service providers literally could not lose money, and also [...]
No matter what ultimately happens with network neutrality rules in the U.S. market, competition between Internet service providers will grow, average speeds will continue to climb and prices per [...]
It might still seem a bit unusual to hear an executive at a major company in the undersea bandwidth business argue that his firm, like all others, has to be “in” the mobile business. “Without [...]
Iridium, which lost perhaps $5 billion, was among the biggest failures in the low earth orbit satellite communications business. Teledesic arguably lost less, because it failed earlier. And then [...]
Sustainability is among the most-important issues where it comes to providing Internet access to virtually everyone in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa and elsewhere. The reason is simply that [...]