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In the history of communication networks, “general purpose” has been the exception. Most networks were created to support one particular application. One thinks of communication using [...]

The GSMA-sponsored Joyn effort, which launched in 2008 with the objective of creating a carrier alternative to Skype, WhatsApp, Viber and other OTT messaging an voice apps, arguably has failed. [...]

Reliance Jio’s launch of 4G services could disrupt data pricing in the Indian mobile service provider market, causing revenue-per-megabyte prices to tumble 30 percent to 40 percent this [...]

In a momentous decision, mobile operator Three, after having instituted ad blocking at the network level, plans to add the capability on all of its networks, everywhere, in a way that notably [...]

Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority plans to auction additional mobile spectrum in 2016 to create a fourth mobile supplier in Singapore, reserving about 60 MHz of capacity for at least one [...]

Even in industry segments that generally are growing, there are regional differences. It appears that mobile service actually declined by 14 million accounts in Latin America in 2015, a [...]

Advertising traditionally has provided the business model allowing consumers to get “no additional cost” or “free” access to content, and has become an important business model for over the top [...]

Singapore Telecom says it is concerned that issuing a fourth mobile license for Singapore will damage supplier sustainability over the long term. Nobody would be too surprised by the expression [...]

It might not seem that the Internet of Things, or industrial IoT will be a significant revenue driver in much of Asia, aside from Northeast Asia, by about 2020. That might not be the case. India, [...]

Perhaps the progress of Moore’s Law, based on silicon technology, does end at some point rather near in time. Perhaps no replacement substrates  (germanium, for example) can be commercially [...]

Deloitte Global predicts that the number of gigabit per second (Gbps) Internet connections will grow by an order of magnitude, to 10 million globally, by the end of 2016. About 70 percent of [...]

Historically, mobile network bandwidth has lagged at least an order of magnitude or two orders of magnitude behind consumer fixed network bandwidth, even as average capabilities across all [...]

Oddly enough, one argument originally advanced for network neutrality was that proponents wanted to avoid “turning the Internet into cable TV,” which is to say changing an [...]

In a move that comes as no surprise, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has ruled that programs such as Facebook’s “Free Basics” are covered by rules related to non-discriminatory telecom [...]

The Australian auction of 1800 MHz band spectrum auction raised AU $543.5 million, with Optus, Telstra, TPG and Vodafone all buying spectrum in the auction, according to the Australian [...]