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Is Smartphone Era Already Ending? And What Comes Next?

September 30, 2016

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 [...]

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Google Station Will Help Partners Turn Up and Manage Wi-Fi Access Networks

September 30, 2016

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 [...]

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Small Cell Support Might be Most-Significant Change in Value of Fixed Network

September 30, 2016

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 [...]

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Speed Ceilings Now are Floors

September 25, 2016

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 [...]

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Autonomous Vehicle Adoption Might be Like 4G and 5G Mobile Network Deployment

September 25, 2016

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, [...]

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Access Media Debates Increasingly are Irrelevant

September 20, 2016

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 [...]

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AT&T Working on New Fixed Wireless Platform “AirGig”

September 20, 2016

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 [...]

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Investment Incentives Always Matter

September 18, 2016

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 [...]

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“No-G” Indoor Coverage is an Issue in All Mobile Markets

September 18, 2016

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 [...]

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Zero Rating Works, in Developed and Developing Countries

September 18, 2016

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 [...]

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OTT Bypass Could Reduce Mobile Operator Revenues 30%

September 16, 2016

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 [...]

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93% of New Mobile Accounts to Come from Developed Nations, To 2020

September 16, 2016

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 [...]

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China, India, Indonesia Can Eliminate 45% of Global Digital Divide

September 16, 2016

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 [...]

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Why Facebook and Google Will Help ISPs Lower Capex

September 16, 2016

“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 [...]

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New Zealand’s Chorus Goes Gigabit

September 13, 2016

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 [...]

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