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Every industry is directly affected by order of magnitude changes in either supply or demand for its product, as well as by order of magnitude changes in retail price for its products or he [...]

Across Asia, about 58 percent of people still do not use the Internet, according to the International Telecommunications Union. It you exclude China, Japan and Korea, plus the city-states of [...]

In the access business, relatively “small” changes in the number of competitors can lead to big swings in prices, packaging, gross revenue and profit. That is the case even ignoring the big [...]

As often is the case, spectrum policy is a contentious issue. It presently is a hot issue in the U.K. mobile market. As always is the case, weaker providers want restrictions on stronger [...]

Though it might have seemed improbable just a few years ago, fixed wireless might become a major Internet access platform in the U.S. market, driven by twin developments. First, a variety of [...]

A step change in competition (entry of a powerful new competitor) typically leads to some typical responses by incumbents: prices drop and retail packaging changes. The reason is that a new [...]

Telenor Group says it will not participate in the spectrum auction in India in 2016. That might, under some circumstances, seem an odd or dangerous decision, based on Telenor India’s lack of [...]

Debates about whether there is, or is not, a “spectrum crunch” erupt from time to time. One side typically argues that mobile service providers, for example, have plenty of spectrum they are not [...]

Wish Ronquilo, a partner with venture capital firm HaxAsia, based in Singapore, is among the latest speakers to confirm their participation on the Spectrum Futures program. Wish is a Singapore VC [...]

Millions of new developers are going to be working on Internet of Things applications, leading a growing number of potential ecosystem participants to prep for potential new roles in the IoT [...]

In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is making available an extraordinary amount of new spectrum–including seven gigaHertz (7 GHz) worth of unlicensed [...]

Global mobile data revenue will increase from $386 billion in 2015 to $630 billion in 2020, with most of the revenue growth in the Asia region and the rest of the world. North America and Western [...]

Millimeter wave platforms rightly are seen as helpful mostly for capacity, rather than coverage. Ironically, millimeter wave networks might also be highly useful for many new actors to create [...]

The telecom industry has changed dramatically since the 1980s waves of privatization and competition remade the former  monopoly industry structures. More change is likely in the future, as tier [...]

The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have identified about half of the 500 megahertz they seek to free up for [...]