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There is a reason TV broadcasting, cable TV, voice services and the Internet are covered by different regulatory frameworks. History partly is to blame. Common carrier regulation has been applied [...]

Precisely what constitutes a service covered by network neutrality, ought to be covered or ought to be excluded, remains a work in progress, in India and elsewhere. And new potential issues [...]

“OTT versus operators is dead,” argues John Strand, Strand Consult principal. “Partnerships will flourish, if not regulated out of existence” by regulatory bodies. His argument is quite simple: [...]

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has asked Reliance Communications to stop the Free Basics service, at least temporarily, and Reliance apparently has complied. Free Basics, called by [...]

“Averages” do not always mean too much where it comes to the Internet or average Internet access speeds, in Asia or elsewhere.  Though the global average access speed is 5.1 Mbps, according to [...]

Google hopes its Project Loon initiative will  cover 300,000 Indian villages in 2016. It will need some help from the government–at least not getting in the way–to do so. Though some [...]

China, India, and Indonesia will account for almost half of new Internet subscribers globally over the next five years. Most will use mobile connections. Globally, subscriptions are forecast to [...]

Perhaps the worst thing that can happen to an existing or would-be mobile service provider is to lack suitable spectrum, or any spectrum at all, to compete with other leading competitors.  [...]

Since authorizing two new mobile operators in Myanmar–Telenor and Ooredoo–the two operators, plus existing provider Myanmar Post and Telecommunications, have rapidly signed up [...]

Some might argue it makes little difference how consumers are provided lower costs or higher value for their mobile services. Governments can mandate an end to roaming costs. App providers and [...]

Government ministries in India are questioning Project Loon on grounds of signal interference. The specific issue is that Project Loon proposes to use the 700-MHz to 900-MHz spectrum for uplink [...]

China, the Middle East and Africa and emerging nations of Asia drove smartphone sales in the third quarter of 2015, according to GfK. Some 324 million smartphone units were sold in the third [...]

Many elements of the Internet ecosystem are changing in ways that support widespread use of Internet apps by users across South Asia and elsewhere. New 4G networks, programs to extend optical [...]

For the first time in history, the mobile telecom industry now has global bands to support Long Term Evolution 4G networks. Those bands include 700 MHz globally; 1427 to 1518 MHz (L-band) [...]

Calling service Ringo, which has been offering international calling and recently launched domestic calling service in India, says domestic calling on the service has been blocked, apparently by [...]