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Some will characterize networks called “pre-5G” as “4G” platforms that eventually can be upgraded to support 5G standards, when they are available. As with much marketing hype, there is some [...]

India’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India is creating rules allowing “free mobile data” offers in rural India, after having already ruled that zero rating of some content and sites [...]

Softbank’s big investment in OneWeb, taking a 40-percent stake for $1.2 billion, almost assures that the proposed low earth orbit satellite constellation will launch. There are some other direct [...]

As crucial as many believe Internet of Things (Iot) to be for future communications service provider revenues (the successor to growth driven by mobility, or mobile data), present revenue [...]

Some will characterize networks called “pre-5G” as “4G” platforms that eventually can be upgraded to support 5G standards, when they are available. As with much marketing hype, there is some [...]

The Federal Communication Commission has approved Globalstar use of its 2.4-GHz spectrum  to create a terrestrial mobile communications network, after Globalstar revised its original plan that [...]

Some will remain skeptical about prospects for fixed or mobile internet access as a direct competitor to fixed network internet access, in developed or developing markets. In most developing [...]

Supply and demand always have shaped the value of mobile and other communications spectrum. For most of recent history, scarcity has been the key fact. Licensed spectrum has been relatively [...]

Disruption of mobile data pricing continues in the Indian market, as incumbent service providers continue to react to market entry by Reliance Jio, which aside from taking account share is [...]

Global average connection speed increased 2.3 percent to 6.3 Mbps in the third quarter of 2016, a 21 percent increase year over year, according to Akamai. Global average peak connection speed [...]

As communication platforms blending licensed and unlicensed spectrum continue to develop, it seems obvious that new thinking might–or must–emerge related to network neutrality and [...]

There is good news and bad news in the global tier-one telco business. For service providers in some parts of Asia, the good news is that there are billions of prospects yet to be converted into [...]

An argument can be made that a growing number of tier-one service providers cannot invest profitably in their networks, even if markets require ever-more capacity. In the recent past, that might [...]

Though the trend is likely caused mostly by short-term developments, fixed network, mobile and voice accounts declined in India from July 2016 to August 2016, according to the Telecom Regulatory [...]

Communications regulators typically try to achieve two contradictory goals: sufficient competition to improve consumer outcomes and sufficient incentives for suppliers to improve services. It is [...]