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Though Internet service providers might not necessarily enjoy the trend, tt is easy enough to predict that prices for most consumer communications services will be as much as 40 percent lower by [...]

India is on track to surpass half a billion mobile subscribers by the end of the year, according to a new GSMA Intelligence study. By 2020, India will account for almost half of all the [...]

Coverage levels of 3G and 4G networks in emerging markets are expected to increase to 84 percent and 65 percent of the population respectively by 2020, according to the GSMA.  Given the increased [...]

All costs in the Internet value chain ultimately are paid by users, with one notable exception. App providers can use advertising revenues to create a sustainable business model, without directly [...]

To state the obvious, market power is good for suppliers and bad for consumers while competition is good for consumers and bad for suppliers. We are about to see an example of that in the Indian [...]

Cultural, technological and affordability issues, not to mention physical access, are issues for firms trying to stimulate use of Internet apps and services. Instead of using the term “last name” [...]

XL Axiata has commercially launched its 4G Long Term Evolution high-speed internet service in Greater Jakarta. XL Axiata’s LTE services offer access speeds up to 150 megabits per second in the [...]

The Indian telecommunications sector has witnessed high subscriber growth and a rapidly evolving demand for new and advanced technology, but it has been stressed by low margins, limited spectrum [...]

Vodafone Netherlands, working with Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, have conducted live testing of advanced LTE Carrier Aggregation (CA) of LTE in [...]

By December 2015, India will overtake the United States in terms of Internet users. The number of Internet users in India is expected to reach 402 million by December 2015, up 49 percent year [...]

The Asia Pacific region will have the largest share of total smartphone traffic in 2021, driven by the sheer number of mobile subscriptions. In 2021, the region will represent half of all global [...]

Economic growth solves lots of problems, so long as the gains are distributed widely. By the same measure, economic growth helps nations achieve Internet access development goals. Adoption of [...]

Spectrum matters because communications matters, and wireless and mobile communications now dominate all communications globally. Spectrum sharing matters because communications spectrum is a [...]

The Internet.org “Free Basics” platform, is working with the Praekelt Foundation to create the Praekelt Foundation Incubator for Free Basics, a global partnership to support developers building [...]

Thailand mobile operators Advanced Info Service and True Corp. won 4G mobile spectrum in an auction of 1.8 GHz spectrum. The licenses run for 18 years. Market leader AIS, 23 percent owned by [...]