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Content-Optimized Networks are the Future

February 24, 2016

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 [...]

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Carriers Have Yet to Fashion an Answer to WhatsApp, Skype

February 24, 2016

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. [...]

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Dramatically-Lower Revenue-Per-Megabyte in India Mobile Market This Year

February 19, 2016

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 [...]

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Kaboomm! Three Tries to Blow Up Advertising Business

February 19, 2016

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 [...]

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Singapore IDA to Reserve 60 MHz for 4th Mobile Operator

February 18, 2016

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 [...]

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Latin America Loses 14 Million Mobile Accounts in 2015, Mobile Grows 21 Million in India

February 18, 2016

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 [...]

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More Efforts to Create “Sponsored” Mobile Data Access, by Any Name

February 18, 2016

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 [...]

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Four or Three for Singapore Mobile?

February 16, 2016

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 [...]

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Asia to Lead Industrial IoT Revenue Growth

February 16, 2016

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, [...]

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Maybe Processors, Architectures, Networks Will be “Personalized”

February 14, 2016

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 [...]

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Most Consumers Do Not Buy “Fastest” Internet Access Packages

February 11, 2016

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 [...]

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Mobile Network Bandwidth Will Grow Faster than Fixed

February 11, 2016

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 [...]

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Network Neutrality was Supposed to Restrict, Not Encourage “Curation”

February 10, 2016

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 [...]

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TRAI Says “No Zero Rating” of Internet Apps in India

February 8, 2016

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 [...]

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Australia 1.8 GHz Auction Nets AU$543 Million

February 5, 2016

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 [...]

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