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Artificial intelligence (machine learning) can make a key difference in forecasting telecom industry market share trends and performance, says James Sullivan, J.P. Morgan head of Asia equity [...]

“Everybody” knows that the telecom industry has a “perception of value” problem. A new conferencing service launched by Amazon illustrates the problem. Before your head blows off, this is a [...]

A growing number of experienced observers now say the industry is headed for a cataclysmic change in the next decade. The optimistic view is that new value propositions and value will drive the [...]

Getting industry professionals ready for an industry we will not recognize is the purpose of Industry Transformation Boot Camp,  a week-long program explaining what is coming; why it is coming; [...]

By 2025, the global telecom service provider industry is going to shrink from 800 firms to about 105, lead by just five global giants, according to Bell Labs. That is a reduction of 87 percent, [...]

A reasonable person could argue that consolidation was necessary in the Indian mobile market, which has been among the most-competitive in the world, in terms of the number of suppliers. In most [...]

If you take the long view, some “news” items are not surprising. If you observe that mobile data revenues are peaking, then it is not too surprising when a decline occurs. Analyst Chetan Sharma [...]

By the end of 2016, two thirds of the world’s population had a mobile subscription, a total of 4.8 billion unique subscribers, according to the GSMA. By 2020, almost three quarters of the world’s [...]

Video is expected to drive 83 percent of device-based data traffic in 2020 across 10 countries, according to PwC. That is a huge change from the pre-internet era, when voice services drove [...]

Where it is possible–where the business model works–many would agree that facilities-based competition provides faster innovation and higher consumer benefits than [...]

Singapore’s telecoms regulator Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA) has concluded the first phase of a spectrum auction which raised a total of SGD1.14 billion ($816.2 million) [...]

The Industrial Internet Consortium has released an extensive white paper on its model for industrial internet of things connectivity. As you might guess, the connectivity model is designed for [...]

  Public Wi-Fi now is seen as an important way to make fixed network internet access more widely available in India. As always, much will hinge on market dynamics. In many other markets [...]

Spectrum sharing fundamentally is important because it can change the business model for existing and new potential providers of communications services, much as increased availability of [...]

About half of consumers in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines now spend more than 16 hours online each week,  though, surprisingly, older demographics spend even more time than [...]