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Business models for Voice over LTE and Voice over Wi-Fi are anything but simple. But there is a precdent: Wi-Fi hotspots. For many years, the value of carrier-provided public hotspots was as an [...]

Perhaps surprisingly, commercial service of a potential new fleet of tens of thousands of Google Loon balloons hinges on the willingness of mobile service providers across several continents to [...]

The number of examples of “network neutrality” logic breaking down comes from Marriott. Starting initially at a handful of Marriott hotels, guests with Netflix accounts can watch their Netflix [...]

More evidence of new interest in low earth orbit satellite constellations to provide Internet access: Space X has asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to create and launch a [...]

Facebook knows, like all developers once understood, that bandwidth and devices impose constraints and enable features for content and advertising. That remains a reality in many [...]

Taxes are a major cost item for users of communications services, in Pakistan or the United States, and officials increasingly are looking at Internet access as a lucrative source of tax revenue. [...]

It might not be intuitive why fifth generation networks are a concern in regions of the world where it is 3G and 4G that represent the near-term horizon for mobile networks and revenues. For [...]

It perhaps already is clear that fifth generation mobile networks (5G) will be quite different from fourth generation networks, in fact quite different from all prior mobile network generations. [...]

There’s a very good reason why Spectrum Futures is so focused on different platforms–mobile, Wi-Fi, satellite, balloon or unmanned aerial vehicle–for supplying Internet access. For [...]

In some markets, such as India, spectrum sharing  might be essential, not simply helpful. The immediate issue is the ability to share frequencies supporting mobile services across 2G, 3G and 4G [...]

Two Indian mobile companies are talking about sharing their spectrum. State-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is in discussions with MTS, the Indian unit of Russian telecom [...]