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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 [...]

Spectrum policy is not the only major shaper of access provider business models, but it is, among key influences, arguably the single-greatest determinant of mobile and wireless provider business [...]

Shared spectrum is likely to be used in several ways in the U..S. market first to support 4G, and then likely in more-intensive forms as 5G is introduced. Among the U.S. bands where spectrum [...]

A number of large mobile communications companies announced their support for the acceleration of the 5G New Radio (NR)  standardization schedule to enable large-scale trials and deployments as [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]