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Some 300 million 5G handsets will have been sold by 2025, Strategy Analytics predicts. That forecast assumes seven percent of global subscribers will be on 5G networks by 2025. “While the first [...]

There are times when the amount of communications capacity, as available to consumers across the globe, becomes more equal, and times when there is more inequality. We seem to be heading for a [...]

SK Telecom is spending 100 billion Korean won ($89 million) on a nationwide Internet of Things network, platform and apps development between now and the end of 2017.  SK Telecom sees both LTE [...]

We will have to see whether revenue expectations for the big spectrum auction in India this fall are as overstated as they appear to be in the United States. In India, the issue is that debt [...]

Over the top apps are a perennial issue for access providers, most immediately because some OTT apps are direct or indirect competitors to the carrier services that drive revenue and profit for [...]

The next generation of mobile networks will be quite different from the four that preceded it. For starters, 5G is the first mobile platform deliberately being built to support applications [...]

Google has hired a former Viasat executive to act as general manager of the commercial service, which might not only serve people across the Southern Hemisphere, but also across the United [...]

As part of the City Wi-Fi Roaming project, 23 tier-one mobile service providers have joined forces to work on providing free international public wifi roaming in cities around the world. [...]

Money paid by one carrier to another now is a big issue in India. Simply, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) wants to change the fees mobile networks charge each other to [...]

“Bandwidth on demand” has been a goal of next-generation networks for quite some time. But most of those ideas have revolved around the ability of a single provider to supply its own [...]

Fully 85 percent of surveyed Asia-based mobile service providers believe partnerships with over-the-top (OTT) providers give, or will give their organizations, a competitive advantage in the [...]

In the telecom business, some things do not change: not every customer segment or geography is equally profitable. If, in a country such as India, 75 percent of new mobile Internet customers come [...]

We might soon get a test of mobile service provider willingness to pay, and perceptions of spectrum value, as the Indian government gets ready to auction off about 2.3 GHz of mobile spectrum for [...]

Everybody seems to agree that everyone on the planet “should” have access to the Internet, including hundreds of millions of people living in rural areas. The problem is that it is quite [...]

We might soon get a test of mobile service provider willingness to pay, and perceptions of spectrum value, as the Indian government gets ready to auction off about 2.3 GHz of mobile spectrum for [...]