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Minimum Globa Mobile Data Usage Must be a Gigabyte a Month, Group Says

February 25, 2017

More than 4 billion people remain offline, and low- and middle-income countries are on track to meet the 2020 goal of universal internet access 20 years behind schedule, according to the Alliance [...]

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Wi-Fi Business Model is Shifting

February 25, 2017

The Wi-Fi business model historically has been mostly indirect, with a few exceptions, such as business-focused for-fee access services such as Boingo. In most other cases, Wi-Fi has been a [...]

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High Spectrum Prices Harm Consumers, Internet Access Adoption, GSMA Argues

February 25, 2017

There is more evidence that observers expect spectrum prices to begin trending lower, as already has been seen in recent big spectrum auctions in India and the United States. In the big Indian [...]

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Spectrum Futures Seeks Speakers

February 25, 2017

Spectrum Futures is an annual conference held by the Pacific Telecommunications Council focusing on the coming revolution in communications spectrum (shared, unlicensed, bonded, licensed, [...]

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FCC Approves Use of LTE-U

February 25, 2017

The Federal Communications Commission, T-Mobile US, Verizon, Ericsson and Nokia have taken new steps toward a communications business that uses spectrum more efficiently than ever before, in ways [...]

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ITU IMT-2020 Calls for 20 Gbps Peak Downstream Rates for 5G

February 25, 2017

5G, known as IMT-2020 at the International Telecommunications Union, will feature a minimum peak data rate of 20 Gbps downstream and 10 Gbps upstream, for each connected device. User-experienced [...]

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O2 UK Expects 5G to Have More Economic Impact than Fiber to Home

February 20, 2017

O2 in the United Kingdom now predicts that 5G will have more economic impact than optical-fiber-based fixed internet access by 2026. In addition to £7 billion of direct economic value through [...]

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How Many More Big New Business Models Can 5G Create?

February 18, 2017

How many big new business models can be developed in the mobile and untethered access industries as 5G launches? Up to this point, there has not been much business model innovation since the [...]

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Project Loon Makes a Breakthrough

February 18, 2017

Project Loon engineers now have tweaked control algorithms to allow the sending of  small teams of balloons to form a cluster over a specific region, Google now says. As a direct result, Project [...]

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Project Loon Balloon Fleet Now Can be Targeted, Reducing Fleet Size 10X

February 16, 2017

Project Loon engineers now have tweaked control algorithms to allow the sending of  small teams of balloons to form a cluster over a specific region, Google now says. As a direct result, Project [...]

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Eventually, Service Providers Run Out of Customers

February 13, 2017

There are not many telecom markets globally where present revenues actually are lower than they were a decade ago, or even five years ago. In many cases, that is because net new customers are a [...]

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What Will SoftBank do with Sprint?

February 8, 2017

SoftBank Chairman Masayoshi Son seems to be signaling a rational approach to any proposed transaction regarding Sprint. In the past, SoftBank has tried to act as the acquirer of T-Mobile US. And [...]

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Free is a Powerful Price Point

February 8, 2017

“Free” is a compelling price point for any product consumers really want to buy. “Free” is why so many mobile users default to Wi-Fi access when they can. [...]

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Millimeter Wave Signal Propagation Limits Might Actually be Beneficial

February 4, 2017

Some argue millimeter wave signal propagation–which is limited, compared to loer-frequency signals–is not a “bug” but a valuable feature. Millimeter waves (3 GHz to 300 GHz radio [...]

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Telstra LIghting Gigabit LTE Service

February 4, 2017

Telstra is switching on gigabit 4G service in the Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane areas in mid-February 2017, with Adelaide and Perth slated to join later in 2017. As Telstra has been doing since [...]

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