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The first batch of speakers confirmed to speak at the Spectrum Futures conference include: Chris Weasler, Facebook global director, connectivity Praveen Sharma, Tata Communications, head of [...]

Carlson Wireless Technologies is introducing its third-generation TV White Spaces chip module, the “Picasso Gen3,” globally. Using low-band spectrum in vacant UHF TV frequencies and the new IEEE [...]

There is a good reason why spectrum policy has emerged as a key underpinning of efforts to eliminate the digital divide. Simply, connecting the unconnected will require infrastructure that costs [...]

In the broader Internet ecosystem or the “telecommunications” business, it ultimately is the apps that matter, and less the details of infrastructure. Developing local content is one of three [...]

Telcos can become “Integrated Digital Service Providers” (IDSPs) that function as platforms, Accenture argues, essentially getting out of the “communications” business. In yet one more iteration [...]

In India, M-Pesa enables Indian customers to pay for goods on Ebay, for taxis with TabCab and to book train tickets on India’s national railways.  Enterprises including Walmart are using M-Pesa [...]

Fully 93 percent of Indonesia’s 88 million internet users access the internet from smartphones, according to researchers at GfK. The GfK survey also found that besides smartphones, 11 percent  of [...]

Since rights to use spectrum are a foundation of any business providing communications services, you might think a huge auction of a massive amount of communications spectrum would be a good [...]

Rajan Mathews, Cellular Operators Association of India director general, has a tough job, and will highlight some of the reasons why when he delivers a keynote at the upcoming Spectrum Futures [...]

It has been a tough couple of decades for much of what we used to know as the “telecommunications” industry, but it is likely to get much tougher, for some major reasons. Consider just a few of [...]

It is hard to say with certainty “who” Facebook will be competng with in 10 years. Some other app providers, certainly. But Facebook be competing with–or enabling–other [...]

Malaysia’s first LTE networks came online in 2013, and now routinely deliver 4G speeds just short of the global average of 13.5 Mbps, according to Open Signal. In terms of speed, operators [...]

Viettel, the international partner for a consortium of 11 local companies, has been chosen to build and operate Myanmar’s fourth mobile operator. Viettel initially plans to roll out a 3G [...]

By 2020, global consumption demand for digital content and services on mobile and portable devices will see a global average increase of 30 to 45 times from 2014 levels — with some markets [...]

Tata Communications will host delivery of Irish TV in North America. The Tata Communications Media Ecosystem platform provides end-to-end management of OTT video entertainment services to iOS [...]