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Peak hour data consumption in the Asia-Pacific region is driven by the use of real-time entertainment, representing 49.6 percent of total downstream traffic during peak period, and up from 47 [...]

The challenges of lower costs, better business models and securing more spectrum to “connect everyone across South Asia and Southeast Asia to the Internet” were key themes at the Spectrum Futures [...]

Perhaps it is not yet clear whether licensed spectrum prices will fall as we near the 5G era and huge blocks of new millimeter wave spectrum, and new allocations of unlicensed and shared spectrum [...]

There is a good reason why regulators, policymakers and consumers who want more competition, and better quality services continually look to wireless or mobile platforms. Those generally are less [...]

It probably no longer makes sense to argue about whether gigabit Internet access “should” be deployed at a time when “nobody needs a gig.” The reason is that the shift to gigabit networks is not [...]

User behavior, in terms of preference for use of mobile apps and mobile web, varies by country across Asia, though perhaps not markedly. Asia will account for 55 percent of the world’s nearly [...]

Eventually, the world will have about 10 global-scale telecom providers, with about 100 local network service providers, where today there are perhaps 800 service providers, according to Bell [...]

There are very good reasons why global telecom executives are looking for a range of new revenue generators: the legacy revenue streams are shrinking. Over the past several years, the telecom [...]

As crazy as it sounds, consumer Internet access is headed for a gigabit context, based on 5G standards everywhere, and advances in fixed network access in many countries. Over a decade or so, [...]

Revenue growth in the global mobile industry is slowing, and will expand only about two percent annually between now and 2020, says the GSMA Global Mobile Trends report. Perhaps more [...]

India’s big spectrum auction of 2,300 MHz worth of spectrum has ended, with spectrum sold at about 11 percent of what the government projected would be the case, or roughly US$9.8 billion (if I [...]

Asia now is the growth driver of the global mobile industry, says the GSMA Global Mobile Trends report. Within Asia, India now has become the mobile industry’s key growth market, More than one [...]

One key adaptation application providers can make, when serving consumers in nations and markets with challenging bandwidth conditions is to create versions of their apps that can work even when [...]