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Paradoxically, heavy capital investment in telecom networks often is considered to be a negative in financial markets, even if such investment results in higher consumer welfare and an arguably [...]

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India appears ready to outlaw “zero rating” programs such as Free Basics or Airtel Zero, which allow consumers access to use of some apps without requiring [...]

Axiata Group Berhad (Axiata) and Bharti Airtel will merge their telecom operations in Bangladesh, creating a new mobile operation with 40 million customers and number-two market share in the [...]

Disagreements about what network neutrality legitimately entails aside, trends in the Wi-Fi hotspot market are trending in the direction of quality assurance and “carrier grade” rather than “best [...]

Well-heeled new competitors with brand name recognition and other assets tend to shake up any market. So it is that even before launching service, Reliance Jio is forcing the rest of the India [...]

Vietnam will launch a program to connect at least 40 percent of households to fixed high speed access by 2020. By that date, the plan calls for providing at least 60 percent of Internet [...]

South Korea’s ICT ministry soon will determine whether to license the country’s fourth mobile carrier, from among three firms: Sejong Telecom Co., K Mobile and Quantum Mobile, Yonap [...]

Where it comes to Internet access for billions of people who do not presently enjoy it, pessimism is unwarranted. Significantly, Internet adoption increasingly is at an inflection point, [...]

India is the company’s fastest growing markets worldwide, and in just four months, is already the third largest SMB market in Asia Pacific, and Japan and Australia, according to Emily Huo, [...]

It will come as no surprise that Singapore firms are vitally interested in mergers and acquisitions outside Singapore, and now even outside Southeast Asia, as there are limited domestic [...]

Though many of the policy and regulatory issues must be sorted through, the principle of spectrum sharing in the access network continues to gain ground Sharing of licensed government spectrum [...]

There is a very good reason fifth generation mobile networks get so much attention: 5G will be a big business, across a wide ecosystem, and likely will create the foundation for business models [...]

It would be hard to underestimate the importance of Reliance Jio’s entry into the Indian mobile market. Aside from instantly moving Reliance Jio from a positive to a negative balance sheet, Jio [...]

Usage of voice over Wi-Fi or voice over LTE is expected to be five times higher in 2016 than at the start of 2015. In some ways, you might argue that represents carrier innovation. It is. On the [...]

Some 26 percent of global smartphone customers in developed markets will make no traditional phone calls in a given week in 2016, predicts Deloitte. That attention-grabbing headline is likely [...]