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There is a very good reason why access providers are so intrigued by Internet of Things applications and services. Of the access connections expected to be in use by 2020, perhaps 60 percent will [...]

As on 31st January, 2016, the top five fixed network Internet access providers were BSNL (9.90 million), Bharti Airtel (1.68 million), MTNL (1.12 million), Atria Convergence Technologies (0.89 [...]

In India, as elsewhere, the strategic rationale for fixed network assets increasingly is that it provides offload for mobile device traffic. That is one major reason  Vodafone India has purchased [...]

Mobile networks are not the only platforms used to gain access to the Internet in Asia, but such networks are an increasingly important means for doing do. For 47 percent of respondents, the [...]

Even if Indian regulators will not allow zero rating of mobile applications, and even if mobile operators might prefer not to zero rate video apps, there is some early evidence from the T-Mobile [...]

In any competitive market, the lowest-cost provider tends to have a big advantage. And that seems to be precisely what regulators in Singapore are trying to provide, in reserving 60 MHz of [...]

One obvious result of consumer “best effort only” network neutrality rules is the greater attractiveness of managed services. Carrier voice, carrier messaging and linear video subscriptions are [...]

Regulators globally seem divided on the minimum conditions for sustaining effective competition in mobile markets, while at the same time maintaining conditions conducive for robust investment in [...]

Price is a key issue for Internet service providers aiming to provide Internet access service to hundreds of millions of new customers in India and other markets. In India, Telenor has unveiled [...]

Google is seeking mobile network partners to launch Project Loon Internet access services across India. Project Loon uses a fleet of balloons to provide backhaul functions, though not access to [...]

Margin pressure in the India mobile data services business already is escalating, even before Reliance Jio has launched full commercial launch of its 4G services. Analysts at Morgan Stanley [...]

The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) Executive Committee comprising of Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Nokia and Qualcomm have agreed to form a global spectrum group. The new group will [...]

India faces a variety of institutional and business barriers to more-rapid deployment of Internet access services, some of them related to business models and the cost of building networks to [...]

Barriers to use of the Internet by people in lesser-developed countries have both supply and demand dimensions. On the supply side, networks often do not reach remote areas, in large part because [...]

  Mobile operators in Asia tend to generate between 30 percent and 60 percent of revenue from data services, the former generally typical of less developed markets, the latter typical of [...]