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The Indian Department of Telecommunications, one report suggests, will recommend that zero rating (sponsored apps) should not be lawful in India. The agency apparently will adopt a policy banning [...]

Bharti Enterprise’s  investment in OneWeb was substantial enough to earn it a seat on the board of directors, and Bharti seems to have been one of the biggest four investors. Such investments [...]

The fact that SES, an investor in O3b, might become majority owner of MEO constellation provider O3b in 2016, reflects a couple developments, both of which are positive for O3b, and might be [...]

Thailand’s  National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has instituted a spectrum cap  limiting all mobile operators to a maximum of 60 megahertz of total spectrum, a move that [...]

The Thailand National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) plans to institute a new spectrum cap that would limit the total amount of mobile spectrum any mobile operator can have [...]

It is possible, perhaps likely, that mobile operators will emerge as the primary providers of Internet access across South Asia and Southeast Asia. If so, many of the newer trunking provider [...]

There will be 1.4 billion mobile subscribers in India by 2020, resulting in penetration of 100 percent, according to Ericsson. The appendix reveals that the GSM/EDGE (2G) subscriber base is [...]

All marketing hype to the contrary, if the first commercialized fifth generation (5G) “mobile” networks emerge by 2020, it is almost certain that 5G will be built on a 4G foundation [...]

India’s telecom service providers grew mobile data subscribers at a better than two percent a month rate between February and March of 2015, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India [...]

OneWeb, the new constellation of low earth orbit satellites for Internet access, has taken another step towards launch. Airbus Defence and Space has been selected to supply OneWeb with 900 [...]

In the past, price points of older satellite bandwidth caused decision makers in island countries of the Pacific and Southeast Asia to rule out satellite as an economically viable way to enable [...]

As a rule, you can safely assume that the PC or the tablet are key access devices in the developed world, the reason being that fixed network access has long been affordable and ubiquitous. That [...]

Disputes over spectrum rights are routine. So it comes as no surprise that many stakeholders are concerned about Long Term Evolution-Unlicensed protocols that would allow LTE networks to bond new [...]

Reliance Jio intends to launch 4G services in India in December 2015, with full deployment taking three years. Potentially, that could further accelerate the uptake of LTE services in Asia, now [...]

There were 635 million Long Term Evolution subscriptions active worldwide at the end of March 2015, said Alan Hadden, Global mobile Suppliers Association VP, representing a gain of 382 million [...]