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Even if mobile data remains the next revenue frontier in much of Asia, executives in the mobile industry always must prepare for maturation of any single revenue stream, no matter how big. So it [...]

Google wants to make Wi-Fi more prevalent as an access technology. Google Station, a suite of tools designed to make creating and maintaining public Wi-Fi easy, is being offered to partners [...]

Korea Telecom, like Verizon, now sees different strategic value for the fixed network. AT&T likely agrees, up to a point. The stated upside for Korea Telecom fixed transport network capacity [...]

Progress is very swift in the Internet access business. In 2009, the average Internet access speed in Australia was about 12 Mbps. So at the time, a boost to 25 Mbps, the minimum national speed [...]

If proponents of autonomous vehicle adoption are correct, we might see an adoption pattern similar to the adoption of next-generation mobile platforms. That is to say, the latest platform (5G, [...]

Telecom network strategists have been debating the feasibility of copper, optical fiber and mixed-media access networks for a few decades. But a couple of developments show how “stale” many of [...]

Add AT&T to the list of big, influential firms now seriously exploring the use of new types of fixed wireless platforms for gigabit communications in the access network. Significantly, the [...]

Incentives always matter, when regulators and policymakers want robust investment in next-generation networks. But competition and investment tend to be rival goods in competitive telecom [...]

Coverage always is an issue for mobile networks. “Sometimes you get 2G, sometimes you get 3G, and sometimes you get no G,”  Rajan Anandan, head of Google India, said, referring to the [...]

Despite the bans on zero rating in India and some other countries, there is mounting evidence that offering users and customers access to valuable apps without charge provides both clear value [...]

OTT bypass–when OTT app providers terminate calls through an OTT app that have begun life as a normal fixed or mobile telephone call–could reduce carrier revenues as much as 30 [...]

The vast majority of new mobile subscriber additions, between now and 2020,  will come from developing markets, with GSMA Intelligence putting this figure as high as 93 percent. In 2015, there [...]

Providing universal Internet access to just three countries (India, China and Indonesia) would eliminate 45 percent of the “unconnected to Internet” population of the globe. Doing so in just six [...]

“Coopetition,” the fact that rivals also can be partners, is a growing business phenomenon in the global telecom business. In that sense, Facebook and Google might be both friends and [...]

As hard as it might be, as expensive as it might be, mobile networks constantly are pushed to supply more bandwidth. The ability to compete with fixed networks sometimes is an issue. Though [...]