On September 7-8, 2023 GSMA M360360 APAC and Asia Pacific Policy Leaders Forum met in Seoul to highlight South Korea as the Open Digital Nation and to launch the eighth…
There is growing global interest in broadband cost recovery, the rational, linear process to identify and resolve shortfalls in broadband network investment and adoption. Policymakers increasing recognize the disproportionate economics…
Strand Consult aims to be both tough and knowledgeable when it comes to broadband policy. We reject the premise of “fair share” contributions to connectivity as no one can agree…
Strand Consult has followed the development of South Korea for more than two decades. In the early 2000s Strand Consult demonstrated how South Korea, not Japan as many believed, made…
Europe lacks some €300 billion in investment to achieve next generation broadband goals. An accumulation of misguided EU telecom regulation has sent capital to more favorable investment regions, like the…
Around the world operators experience exploding Netflix’s traffic exploding on their networks. They feel powerless to negotiate with Netflix for fair cost recovery, and Netflix demands that operators install its…
Carl Williams, Strand Consult Wednesday 19th FebruaryGSM World Congress 2003, Cannes Today it was the turn of the mobile operators to kick of the third day of the GSM World…
In Europe a new mobile baby has been born, the name of the child has been chosen and there are great expectations and hopes for the future of this new…
– Both Operators And Content Providers Lose And No One Wins the Wons. In South Korea there is a big focus on electronic games of all different kinds and the…
In South Korea Mobile Applications have made a big impact on what types of pricing models the mobile operators can offer mobile users – and the new price models have…
– but the price of a prediction is just too high. Before now, very few people could tell a story by looking at the palm of another person’s hand. Today,…
Being the first is not always the same as being the best.Japan was first to launch a 3G network for mobile services. But South Korea has been by far the…
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