There still is no global consensus about the “best” TV white spaces licensing method. In some cases the model is license exempt (like Wi-Fi). In other cases a hybrid approach will be used. In [...]
Google has “almost perfected” its Loon balloon technology, with the first deal with operators set to be announced “hopefully very soon”, said Wael Fakharany, Google regional business lead. “The [...]
Nobody, it is safe to say, is happy about high call drop rates in India, or elsewhere. In an audit of telecom companies performance for the quarter ended March 2015, the Telecom Regulatory [...]
Even if an industry knows a key change in business model is inevitable, the rate of change matters. A slow transition allows time to create alternative revenue streams. Too rapid a drop threatens [...]
Reliance Jio, which will launch its new 4G services soon, likely will use an established method of boosting demand for fourth generation Long Term Evolution services even before there is a large [...]
It now seems inevitable that license-exempt communications spectrum, broadly using the Wi-Fi model, will become a more-important part of the overall communications business, even if additional [...]
Reliance Communications says one million Indians have experienced the Internet as part of the Free Basics program, which offers Reliance Communications customers access to selected mobile apps [...]
XL Axiata has signed a three-year contract with Ericsson for design and implementation of a 4G LTE network and upgrade of existing 2G and 3G networks in Jakarta and Central Java. The agreement [...]
“Digital India,” a $16 billion initiative to make digital services available to all Indian citizens within the next five years, is among the top initiatives of the Narendra Modi government, along [...]
In an announcement timed to coincide with India Prime MInister Narendra Modi’s visit to its headquarters, Google reiterated that it is launching what it says is the largest public Wi-Fi hotspot [...]
Some 4.2 billion people do not regularly use the Internet. In the least developed countries, only about 10 percent of the population regularly is online. For obvious reasons, policymakers and [...]
Telenor India says it now is talking with other mobile operators about sharing spectrum. “We are in initial stage discussions with all operators on spectrum trading,” said Telenor India CEO [...]
Thailand’s Total Access Communication (DTAC) has announced the roll-out of what it calls the industry’s widest spectrum bandwidth to provide commercial fourth-generation (4G) service. [...]
Some 4.2 billion people globally do not have regular access to the Internet, according to the United Nations Broadband Commission. How fast that divide can be effectively erased is the issue. [...]
Mobile operators in the highly-competitive mobile market, no less than operators in other markets, know that Internet access revenues now are the growth driver, not voice. So it comes as no [...]