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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]