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One way or the other, the global telecom business might be “unrecognizable” in 10 years. “Do nothing” and the business model might collapse, say researchers at McKinsey. On the other [...]

By 2020, nearly two billion devices with mobile connections capability, 2.7 billion devices that can connect to one or another low-power communications network and 3.3 billion devices with Wi-Fi [...]

Some would argue that any business based on use of spectrum “must” entail either exclusive rights to use, or at least quality of service guarantees,  to create a sustainable business [...]

Gigabit 5G internet access speeds, with a migration to 10-Gbps, are part of the developing standards for that new platform. But mobile operators globally are working to develop gigabit versions [...]

The MulteFire Alliance, developing a platform for Long Term Evolution 4G services entirely based on unlicensed spectrum, or in a shared spectrum environment, announced the completion of its [...]

Marginal cost pricing is now, and has been, a huge business model problem for capital-intensive communications infrastructure providers. Marginal cost pricing involves selling incremental units [...]

How big a deal, and in what markets, will 5G  represent a chance for mobile substitution of fixed internet access? Arguably the potential changes will be greatest in markets where fixed network [...]

The internet has moved, over time, from push to pull, and then back to push. In the next evolution, push might be even more important. AOL, the big U.S. ISP in the early days, largely relied on a [...]

You might argue the internet has evolved since its inception. Originally a narrowband tool for researchers, it now is a broadband tool used widely by most consumers and businesses. Early on in [...]

Will spectrum abundance help or harm incumbent spectrum users? In the past, under conditions of scarcity, it has typically been argued that there were incentives for some forms of  incumbent [...]

Mobile backhaul has, for some years, been viewed as a growth area for satellite networks. And mobile backhaul is responsible for a goodly portion of O3b Networks growth in 2016. O3b Networks says [...]

Global mobile industry growth is slowing, even if it is accelerating in some regions, and even if new subscribers and mobile data will underpin that growth for a while. TeleGeography predicts 2.4 [...]

Outgoing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler says we are at a fork in the road where it comes to network neutrality and gatekeeper policy. Up to this point network neutrality [...]

Is 5G as fundamental a technology as the printing press, electricity, the internet, the telegraph? IHS Markit believes 5G is among a handful of huge innovations that have broad economic impact. [...]

A major price war in the India mobile market is resetting mobile operator revenue expectations, reducing profits and driving a major consolidation wave should result in an industry quite a bit [...]