Amazingly Vigorous Bidding for US Spectrum A US government auction for airwaves is sending spectrum valuations to record levels, an indication of the bullish expectations by operators for continued growth ...

NYC Plans a Hot Spot Borough Bonanza A decade ago municipal Wi-Fi was all the rage. Many big- and small-city planners across the globe were preparing to turn their towns ...

New Regulation Could Alter Subsidy Models Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIAC) is expected to enact a proposal made earlier this year requiring operators to unlock SIM-locked phones ...

Apple's Nano Extra in Cellular iPads Is a Significant But Small Step As the dust settled at the end of Apple's webcast to announce new iPads and Macs, I stumbled ...

The Company's Hello Event Showcases New Digital Services At its third Hello event in Paris, Orange showcased an impressive array of new products and services that it hopes will stem ...

Operators Battle with Data Rather Than Price New flagship smartphones are driving user traffic, and wireless operators are rushing to compete with increased data allowances for subscribers. In the US, ...

Service Substitution Means Opportunity Transfer Call it the Netflix shift, or the bucket effect: more and more American households see their telecommunications services as redundant. Wireless is replacing rather than ...

A Trip to Bluewater Reveals the Variety of Approaches and Some Common Themes Last week, following a busy summer for the UK network operators, I decided to compare positioning and ...

Decades-Old Mobile Technologies Still Matter These are exciting times for mobile money. After years of talk, smartphones are beginning to take on the roles of credit card and banker. For ...

Affordable Data "Sachets" Help Asians Gain Their First Internet Experience At a recent seminar in London, I received an update from Telenor on its ambitious strategy to bring Internet services ...