“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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By 2025, mobile and other telecom technologies could have significant impact on health applications, manufacturing, mining, information technology, software, applications and transportation, [...]
Zero rating probably is going to wind up being necessary, or mobile data tariffs will have to fall precipitously, if video entertainment services move from linear to on-demand mode, and are [...]
Regulators, service and app providers tend to disagree about the danger “zero rating” (allowing consumer use of some apps without usage charges). Many regulators think the practice is [...]
Service provider thinking about infrastructure sharing always is intimately and directly related to their perceptions of business advantage. Actors will favor sharing when economic or business [...]
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 [...]