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Investors and service providers are speculating about what bottom line and top line impact might result from the recent Indian spectrum auctions that generated record $17.4 billion in spectrum [...]

Spectrum sharing can take a number of forms, and limits on the amount of sharing yield lesser value for end users and service providers. In India, spectrum sharing also takes the form of mobile [...]

In the U.S. market, 3.5 GHz and 5 GHz are the frequency bands where spectrum sharing is going to be extended, each featuring a unique approach to sharing. Internationally, 5 GHz is likely to see [...]

In all, AT&T now holds spectrum licenses worth more than $91 billion, estimates Goldman Sachs analyst Brett Feldman. He also estimates the value of Verizon’s spectrum at $79.4 billion. [...]

Internet-enabled products and services continue to raise questions about how contestants in any market “should” be regulated or taxed, showing that the principle of “network neutrality” can be [...]

There are practical reasons why many service providers believe in the value of “Wi-Fi first” business strategies. Telenet, 57 percent owned by Liberty Global, has nearly one million customers and [...]

Network neutrality cannot but affect both end user demand for Internet bandwidth, as well as the supply of such bandwidth by Internet service providers. By prohibiting traffic shaping, net [...]

Can mobile service providers across South Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania get Long Term Evolution coverage at an order of magnitude lower costs by partnering with Google’s Project Loon? [...]

If fifth generation mobile networks supply 10 Gbps of bandwidth for every user or device, then even using all other available techniques–multiple input, multiple output radios, directional [...]

With increasing likelihood that Google’s Project Loon, which has been testing the use of unmanned balloon constellations to provide Internet access across the global south, new wholesale [...]

How affordable would commercial travel by airliner be if each plane was used for only one flight? That, in essence, is what always has been done for satellite launches, and explains why SpaceX [...]

In a discussion of delivering broadband quickly, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) noted that additional spectrum would be required. “There is an urgent need to release new [...]

Hutchison Whampoa launched “Hue,” a wholesale platform supporting mobile virtual network operators across Europe and Asia. Hue provides “a simple and efficient means of building an international [...]

Mobile, wireless and fixed network service providers are going to have to keep driving down capital and operating costs to support ubiquitous Internet access for everyone, especially customers [...]