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Spectrum sharing is the newest method to be created by national regulators to free up more spectrum for communications purposes, faster, and at lower cost, than ever before. Spectrum sharing will [...]

By 2020, between 70 percent and 80 percent of all mobile phones used in Asia will be smartphones, Analysys Mason predicts. For that reason, Analysys Mason also predicts that about 70 percent to [...]

Assuming failure is not an option, after an investment of about US$13 billion, what share of the Indian mobile market can Reliance Jio achieve, over perhaps a decade? Bernstein Research has [...]

Not often is Wi-Fi access thought to be a significant access mechanism for smartphone users in India. Ozone Networks wants to change that. Ozone Networks will allow mobile phone users to connect [...]

Mobile networks run in generations roughly 10 years in length. That can cause problems whenever a country, or a service provider, faces a choice of upgrading to the next generation before the [...]

Facebook has been undertaking serious efforts to explain to bloggers, government officials and others how different the Internet.org program is, compared to the now-discontinued Airtel “Zero” [...]

Which markets a communications service provider chooses to compete in nearly always are strategic matters. Such choices almost always dictate potential growth rates, revenue upside and profit [...]

If dynamic assignment of spectrum is so efficient, and if, while avoiding interference, it is possible to use spectrum without specifying its purpose (only 2G, only Wi-Fi, only first responder [...]

New markets often face adoption problems. There often is no reason for customers to buy because new products are hard to find, expensive to use and limited in functionality. But suppliers often [...]

You might argue the advantage of using dynamic access (using TV white spaces or any other spectrum band) is efficiency. “Most spectrum is unused in most places most of the time,” according to H [...]

CableLabs is going to run indoor tests of compatibility between Long Term Evolution co-existence of licensed assisted access (LTE-LAA) and Wi-Fi networks. The objective is to test interference [...]

In principle, eventually, it might be possible to reuse many different types of licensed and unlicensed spectrum, not just Wi-Fi but also licensed spectrum, including even licensed mobile [...]

Many decades ago, a senior engineering executive at US West, the telephone company that became Qwest and now is part of CenturyLink, pointed out that US West “buys networks,” not [...]

If spectrum is real estate, does spectrum value vary as housing and real estate prices do? Recent spectrum auctions in India raised prodigious amounts of money. The cost of acquiring spectrum in [...]

Sometimes the most-important innovation required to introduce massive adoption of some new product or technology is the business model. You might point to Uber, the ride sharing service. Its [...]