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There’s a possible pattern developing in the hyper-competitive Indian mobile services market: significant losses or declining net profits just as huge amounts of capital will have to be spent to [...]

SK Telecom says it is deploying the world’s first commercial Internet of Things (IoT)-dedicated nationwide LoRaWAN network, using a Samsung platform. The network will be deployed across Korea [...]

The notion of traditional service provider “core competence” where it comes to  running networks has come into question as much as “natural monopoly.” And if traditional service [...]

Proposed minimum mobile spectrum prices are an issue in Pakistan, according to consultant Parvez Iftikhar. High prices, he argues, are a key reason that authorized mobile spectrum is not fully in [...]

With 260 million users now and an estimated 480 million by 2020, Southeast Asia’s is the world’s fastest growing Internet market, adding 3.8 million new users a month, according to an analysis by [...]

An Ofcom-sponsored qualitative survey of Internet users who mostly use their smartphones for access might have implications for users across South and Southeast Asia. The Ofcom study shows the [...]

In the U.S. market, many innovators have looked to the concept of “anchor tenants” as one way to build a sustainable Internet access service. Schools, hospitals or government buildings often are [...]

There is a stunning mobile spectrum auction about to be held in India, though delayed, perhaps by the late summer of 2016. The Indian government says 2,000 MHz of spectrum will be up for bid. [...]

New spectrum, supporting new networks, always shapes demand for consumer devices and apps. That is true in India as Long Term Evolution 4G networks are activated. Sales of 4G smartphones [...]

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has banned zero rating, the ability of an Internet access provider to offer access to some Internet apps without requiring purchase of a data plan, or [...]

In both Indian and U.S. markets, there is a growing expectation that spectrum prices are vulnerable to a tumble, despite expectations of growing need for capacity. In some cases, the issue is [...]

One sometimes hears it said that something” cannot be done.” A mobile market cannot support five providers on a sustainable basis; a fixed network market cannot support three or [...]

Republic Wireless, a U.S. mobile operator that was a pioneer in Wi-Fi-first mobile service, is adding a GSM network to its prior reliance on the Sprint network. That concept–relying on [...]

Ofcom has proposed adding 160 MHz (two 80-MHz channels) for Wi-Fi. Those blocks of spectrum already being used in the U.S. market. Since 2014, Ofcom has been working to increase the amount of [...]

The cloud computing “wars” are “entering a new phase,” with good implications for Amazon.com and bad implications for Oracle, SAP and other traditional IT vendors, including Cisco, JP Morgan [...]