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I often have argued that Internet Protocol is not simply a technology framework, but also a business framework. Because IP deliberately separates apps from access, third party apps can be [...]

No market, the saying goes, grows to the sky. At some point, every market saturates, as most of the potential buyers actually have done so. That is starting to be the case for smartphone sales [...]

For every public purpose, there is a corresponding private interest. That is as true for Wi-Fi policy as for any other public policy. At stake is the notion that some potential devices and users [...]

Global technology giant Microsoft will be working with the Andhra Pradesh government on a TV white spaces pilot project providing four schools in Srikakulam with Internet access. As a part of the [...]

Australian mobile operator Optus has become the first telecommunications provider in the world to aggregate three different frequency bands, using both frequency division and time division [...]

Global smartphone sales grew at the slowest growth rate since 2013 in the second quarter of 2015, according to Gartner. Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users totaled 330 million units, an [...]

Mobile connections in India will grow to 880 million in 2015, a five  percent increase from 837 million connections in 2014, according to Gartner. Spending (in constant U.S. dollars) on mobile [...]

Since 2011, India’s government has been committed to extending optical fiber backhaul to some 600 million potential users in rural areas. So far, it has made slow progress, having installed about [...]

Axiata Group Berhad revenue year to date in 2015 was described as “improved” in its most-recent financial report. Year-to-date (YTD) revenue for the Group was up 2.3 percent to RM9.5 billion from [...]

Maturing markets now are a growing problem for China’s mobile operators. Mobile revenue growth has slowed and profits are negative, even as subscribers are added, at China Mobile and China [...]

When any well-heeled and experienced new competitor enters a market, especially with a business plan that includes offering big discounts and a different platform,  other contestants are likely [...]

As always is the case, contestants in the telecom services business will use tools in ways viewed as helpful to their revenue models. Upstarts trying to take market share are more likely to try [...]

It increasingly is clear that 5G and low earth satellite technologies are intimately related, as are core networks based on network functions virtualization and access-agnostic edge networks, [...]

Officials in New Delhi are formulating plans for public Wi-Fi, offering residents up to 1 GB per month of free Wi-Fi access, at a minimum speed of 1 Mbps, supplied by private operators. In the [...]

The Indian government, which has been considering mobile operator spectrum sharing spectrum sharing since at least 2013, has decided to allow it. The new rules allow two carriers in one service [...]