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Is Spectrum Real Estate, or Uber?

November 14, 2016

“Spectrum is real estate,” many are fond of noting. At least, it always has been in the licensed framework. Unlicensed spectrum is different. It remains an essential resource, but is not real [...]

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Philippines Wants 3rd Mobile Provider to Enter Market

November 14, 2016

The Philippines  National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has been trying–so far without success–to encourage a third mobile operator to enter the market, something regulators in [...]

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Fixed Wireless is Making Stunning Progress

November 14, 2016

No matter what limitations you presently believe fixed wireless networks suffer from, progress now is proceeding at stunning rates. An order of magnitude increase in spectrum efficiency is one [...]

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Eventually, All Telecom Markets are Challenged

November 14, 2016

Revenue growth in the global telecom business is a story of two different types of markets. On one hand, service providers are challenged in developed markets, while subscriber and revenue growth [...]

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Aquila Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Achieves 20 Gbps Backhaul

November 14, 2016

Facebook’s Connectivity Lab now is flight testing its first generation air-to-ground bidirectional link capable of 20 Gbps in each direction, intended to support the Aquila unmanned aerial [...]

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Net Neutrality Wrong Answer for a Potential Problem

November 14, 2016

Network neutrality, it can be argued, is the wrong answer to a good question. The question is how to maintain competition in internet access markets. Protecting the competitiveness of markets, it [...]

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Low Revenue Growth, Profit Pressure for Many SE Asia Mobile Operators

November 14, 2016

Intensifying competition and rising capital investment requirements will increase pressure on service provider revenue, which Fitch Ratings expects to grow by just zero to five percent in most [...]

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What Should We Emphasize at the Next Spectrum Futures Conference?

November 8, 2016

At the last Spectrum Futures conference, we moved to a “no presentations” format designed to maximize chances for full discussion and sharing. At the next edition, we want to allow more [...]

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India Mobile Taxes to be Raised 20 Percent?

November 5, 2016

Taxes on consumer use of mobile service will rise 20 percent in India as the government introduces a new tax plan. At present, mobile service is taxed at 15 percent, but a hike to 18 percent is [...]

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61% of Internet Sessions in Asia are on Mobile Phones

November 4, 2016

It will come as no surprise that a new StatCounter analysis of internet access methods finds that at least 61 percent of internet sessions are initiated on a mobile phone, just about 36 percent [...]

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Are E-SIMs About Account Control or IoT? Probably Both.

November 4, 2016

It always is possible to argue that “service-provider-agnostic” subscriber identity modules (SIMs) are a  good thing–or a bad thing–for various participants within the internet [...]

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Mobile Data Business Model Qualitatively Different than Voice Model

November 4, 2016

Mobile businesses built on data arguably are qualitatively different than businesses built on voice, and that might have huge implications for mobile operators and regulators across much of [...]

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