• Pay-as-You-Go Champagne

    Virgin Mobile USA Tries a Rags-to-Riches Play Like in most developed countries, the mobile market in the US is close to maximum penetration. Last week, Sprint-owned Virgin Mobile USA announced ...

  • AT&T Expands Its Fixed Wireless Service

    Government-Subsidised Initiative Targets Underserved Areas On Monday, US telecom service provider AT&T announced the expansion of its LTE-based fixed wireless Internet service for rural and underserved areas to eight new ...

  • Did Sprint Borrow a Page from Jio’s Playbook?

    Offer of Free LTE Looks Familiar   Through a low-key marketing campaign, US carrier Sprint is making an almost implausible offer in a bid to port in new subscribers: free, ...

  • An African Game Changer

    New Entrant Kwese Seeks to Disrupt Broadcasting Market DirecTV, DishTV, Sky, MultiChoice: four leading providers of direct-to-home (DTH) services that have had an instrumental role in establishing the industry in ...

  • 5G and Fibre Go Hand in Hand

    Corning Aims to Speed Up 5G Deployments With the introduction of low-loss optical fibre technology more than four decades ago, Corning helped usher in a new era of fixed-line communications. ...

  • South African Telkom Reshuffles

    Announces Yet Another Corporate Restructure South Africa was the first country in the 1990s to issue GSM licences to Vodacom and MTN, and what a success story those two operators ...

  • Will Andy Rubin’s Essential Really Matter?

    Start-Up Unveils Modular Phone and Smart Speaker On 30 May, Andy Rubin, the co-founder of two companies that have had a major impact on the mobile industry, Danger and Android, ...

  • CCS Insight’s Predictions in Review

    How Have Our Expectations Fared over the Past Year? This year, on 15 November, we will unveil our 12th set of predictions for the coming years in the mobile, media ...

  • A 4G Free-for-All

    Vodafone India Counters Jio with a Daily Deal Reliance Jio is a newcomer to the Indian mobile market, but the operator has had a most amazing first year. After only ...

  • The LeEco Lesson

    LeEco's US Entry and Exit Is One for the Business Books In early 2015, we wrote about a company then called LeTV. The Chinese company, which produced content and made ...