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Get Ready for Business Impact of 10X or 100X Changes in Spectrum Supply

July 31, 2016

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 [...]

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90% of Asian Internet Users Use Mobile as Access Method

July 30, 2016

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 [...]

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“Abundance” Eventually Will be the Key Business Problem, Not “Scarcity”

July 23, 2016

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 [...]

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We are on the Cusp of a Historic Change in Wireless Economics

July 22, 2016

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 [...]

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Google Fiber Delays Fiber Network Build: To Use Fixed Wireless Instead?

July 21, 2016

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 [...]

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Bharti, Idea Cellular Effectively Reduce Mobile Data Prices Up to 67%

July 19, 2016

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 [...]

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Telenor Skips India Spectrum Auction

July 19, 2016

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 [...]

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Spectrum Scarcity Will Not Last, Neither Will Business Models Based on Scarcity

July 17, 2016

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 [...]

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IoT VC to Speak at Spectrum Futures

July 17, 2016

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 [...]

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5 Million More IoT Developers Working by 2020

July 17, 2016

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 [...]

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U.S. FCC Prepares to Release 29 GHz of New Mobile, Untethered Spectrum

July 14, 2016

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 [...]

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Asia to Lead Mobile Data Revenue Growth to 2020

July 12, 2016

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 [...]

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Capacity Tools Might Also Become Coverage Platforms

July 11, 2016

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 [...]

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Telecom Industry Structure: Many New Players as Tier Ones Consolidate

July 11, 2016

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 [...]

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U.S. Regulators Identify 245 MHz More Mobile, Internet Spectrum; GHz Coming

July 11, 2016

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 [...]

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