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Investigating Middle Mile Economics in Rural Broadband Networks

The pandemic has heightened the importance of braodband with policymakers and increased the urgency of closing the digital divide, particularly in the US as FCC data shows that 22% of…

5G vs. Wi-Fi: Challenges for Economic, Spectrum, and Security Policy

This report offers an important comparison between 5G and Wi-Fi, two important technology which compete. The FCC declares that 5G and Wi-Fi are complementary technologies, but there is an intense…

Understanding 4 to 3 mobile mergers

This report reveals what needs to be done to consolidate the telecommunications market. Around the world, telecom operators have had difficulty to consolidate the telecommunications market, especially when reducing the…

You’re Not Welcome: An Analysis of Thousands Foreign Technology Companies Blocked by China Since 1996

Media coverage tends to focus on discrete activities by US and European nations to restrict individual firms like Huawei and TikTok for documented violations and abuses of privacy, security, weapons…

Understanding the impact of national roaming on investments and competition

This report offers a critical review of the discussion of the impact of national roaming on investments and competition. The key challenge with mandated national roaming is that it is…

US Networks Behavior Under Crisis: Reflections on Telecommunications, Transportation and Energy Regulation during COVID-19

This report assesses of network behavior under crisis, tests conventional regulatory wisdom, and draws preliminary conclusions about achieving social goals. Telcom, transport, and energy networks share a common pedigree in…

Ten things about the next chapter of the net neutrality wars in the US and around the world. Strand Consult Research Note Part 1

Top 10 lessons from 4 to 3 mobile mergers around the world. New Report from Strand Consult

Fact vs Fiction: The 10 Parameters of OpenRAN

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Events

29 - 30 June 2021 | Panama City

Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum

15 - 16 June 2021 | Online

Telecoms Europe: Digital Transformation

25 May 2021 | Online

Mitigating Cyber Security threats to defense and finance systems and infrastructure

30 March 2021 | Online

IISS-JETRO Virtual Roundtable - Mobile network security for 5G and beyond: Prospects for an open architecture model in Germany

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Investigating Middle Mile Economics in Rural Broadband Networks

5G vs. Wi-Fi: Challenges for Economic, Spectrum, and Security Policy

Understanding 4 to 3 mobile mergers

You’re Not Welcome: An Analysis of Thousands Foreign Technology Companies Blocked by China Since 1996

Understanding the impact of national roaming on investments and competition

US Networks Behavior Under Crisis: Reflections on Telecommunications, Transportation and Energy Regulation during COVID-19

Understanding the Market for 4G RAN in Europe: Share of Chinese and Non-Chinese Vendors in 102 Mobile Networks

Fact Check: 10 Myths That Drive Huawei’s Media Narrative

Fact Check Huawei: What You Need to Know to Understand its Corporate Communication

The Moment of Truth – Why the Quality of Mobile Networks Differs

The real cost to rip and replace Chinese equipment from telecom networks

Net Neutrality in EU after 2 Years: Why operators keep losing the battle against Internet regulation

Research Notes

Ten things about the next chapter of the net neutrality wars in the US and around the world. Strand Consult Research Note Part 1

Top 10 lessons from 4 to 3 mobile mergers around the world. New Report from Strand Consult

Fact vs Fiction: The 10 Parameters of OpenRAN

Guest blogs

Huawei – Nowhere to run – Patents are no panacea

Open RAN: The Future, not the Present

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