• LTE-U’s Balancing Act

    Complementary Coexistence or Incongruous Competitor? The making of mobile standards can be a convoluted business. There's the pure technology aspect, but that's often just the tip of the iceberg. Underneath ...

  • The $60 LTE Phone for India

    India's Reliance Jio Plans Competitive LTE Roll-Out Reliance Jio, a subsidiary of the India-based conglomerate Reliance Industries, is in the process of launching an LTE network in country. After several ...

  • Certified Pre-Owned Smartphones

    What Will Become of All Those Second-Hand iPhones? In early September, along with a new iteration of devices, Apple introduced its iPhone Upgrade Program — a response to growth of ...

  • Insight Constellations, Part Three

    Wi-Fi and the Inverted Offload As the CCS Insight Predictions for 2016 and Beyond event approaches, we're looking back at some recurring themes from Daily Insights in the past year ...

  • Rivals Jostle to Snap Up iPhone Users in the UK

    Consumers Wanting a New iPhone Face a Wealth of Choices Following the recent announcement of Apple's latest iPhones, we've seen a sudden rash of promotions and pre-order deals from several ...

  • LTE Broadcast: One to Watch

    We've Been Here Before, But This Time It's Different The mobile industry has a mixed track record when it comes to hailing new technologies. Mobile video harbours a particularly dark ...

  • Unlocked and Loaded

    Apple's New iPhone Financing Plan Yesterday, among new hardware announcements at a company event in San Francisco, Apple introduced an iPhone financing plan called the iPhone Upgrade Program. The scheme ...

  • Three Shows Ambition in the UK

    Latest Results Prove Operator Is More Than Just a Disruptor Three UK's impressive results for the first half of 2015, announced yesterday, show how much the company has "grown up" ...

  • US Carriers Disrupt the Subsidy Pattern

    The Familiar Rhythm of the Two-Year Contract Is Breaking Few consumer electronics segments enjoy the same reliable replacement cycle of the handset industry. The classic two-year contract period and device ...

  • Three and Wind Agree Joint Venture

    Italy Becomes Latest Market to Cut Mobile Operators Yesterday's announcement that Hutchison and VimpelCom are to merge their Italian assets means that another European market is poised to see a ...