Some one billion people will use mobile as their only form of Internet access in 2015, and more than half will live in Asia. Global revenue for such services already exceeds US$137 billion [...]
Google’s fully-owned drone manufacturer–Titan Aerospace–has gotten two test licenses from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, allowing Titan to test “Internet by drone” [...]
In the telecommunications business, interoperability or federation always is required to sustain a big or important product. So it is that mobile money services operated by Orange and Airtel now [...]
There were 497 million LTE subscriptions worldwide by the end of 2014, up 290 million during the year, equivalent to 140% annual growth, according to the Global mobile Suppliers Association. The [...]
Ooredoo net profit fell 17 percent in 2014, and 89 percent during the fourth quarter, principally because of network and new market investment and customer acquisition costs. Aggressive price [...]
The Federal Communications Commission has published its Open Internet order. It is 400 pages long. Aside from the new, explicit embrace of “best effort” access and a ban on paid packet [...]
Will Google emerge as a wholesale Internet capacity supplier to mobile service providers operating over wide areas in the southern hemisphere? It seems possible, indeed likely. Google’s Project [...]
At what point, and under what circumstances, are mobile networks, satellite or fixed wireless networks “functionally equivalent” to fixed networks? That is not to compare raw speeds or bandwidth, [...]
India is holding one of the biggest spectrum auctions seen in recent years, making available 103.75 MHz in the 800 MHz band, 177.8 MHz in the 900 MHz band, 99.2 MHz in the 1,800MHz band and 85 [...]
Fewer smartphones were shipped in India in the fourth quarter of 2014 for the first time ever, according to International Data Corporation. IDC attributes the dip to high channel inventory at the [...]
Smartphones represented about 22 percent of new device sales in Sri Lanka in the fourth quarter of 2014, according to International Data Corp. estimates. About 78 percent of the one million [...]
Nearly 63 million people in Indonesia will access Facebook using their mobile phones at least once per month in 2015, according to eMarketer research. In percentage terms, that makes Indonesia [...]
An unnamed U.S. mobile operator has signed a deal to allow up to 40 million of its handsets to Boingo’s network of public Wi-Fi hotspots. Logic would suggest the deal is with T-Mobile US, given [...]
Spectrum-based Internet access networks are imperative if the fixed network business model continues to deteriorate, for large or small providers, in developed or developing countries. Though [...]
Perhaps it is obvious why mobile service providers such as T-Mobile are interested in a new technique allowing simultaneous use of licensed Long Term Evolution spectrum, as well as unlicensed [...]