LEO Satellites: The Hype, the Facts and the Hard Limits
Two free Strand Consult reports examine what satellite connectivity can – and cannot – do. For more than 30 years, Strand Consult has focused on creating independent knowledge to help…
Regulation
For more than 25 years, Strand Consult has held strategic workshops for boards of directors and other leaders in the telecom industry. With our Next gen telecom policy and regulation concept for leaders in the communications industry we have consolidated our knowledge on global regulatory trends and the experience of operators worldwide and packaged it into a series of services for professionals with responsibility for policy, public affairs, regulation, communications, strategy and related roles.
Strand Consult’s Next gen telecom policy and regulation concept for leaders in public affairs, regulation, communications, law, and strategy equips your team with the knowledge and know-how to manage regulatory and policy threats and opportunities. Our services can focus the following components: Knowledge transfer on regulatory trends, Evidence-based policy, Rightsizing Regulation, Reframing Regulatory Issues, How to use Extreme Transparency in Regulatory Process, Stakeholder Communication, Advanced Media Outreach and Merger challenges.
Strand Consult’s Next gen telecom policy and regulation concept equips your team with the knowledge and know-how to manage regulatory and policy threats and opportunities.
The 24 countries of the Caribbean represent a unique digital microcosm, and their broadband data provides valuable insights into affordability and the challenges of infrastructure investment
For more than two decades, Strand Consult has studied policy designed to stimulate the broadband investment necessary to support a meaningful digital society. The Caribbean region represents a unique microcosm…
Caribbean Broadband Prices: Global Comparisons, Policy Implications & Affordability
Around the world, broadband prices are widely discussed and frequently debated. Policymakers often emphasize the importance of affordable access to increasingly high-quality broadband yet may not always fully account for…
Telecom Fiction: It’s 2045, the last cellular towers have just been turned off, and LEO Satellites are handling all communication.
This free report offers a comprehensive analysis of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites opposability to replace cellular towers in 2045 and handle all communication. Imagin that It’s 2045, and the last…
Mobile World Congress 2026: A Preview by John Strand, Strand Consult
For the past 24 years, Strand Consult has published previews and post-views of the Mobile World Congress (MWC). MWC began 39 years ago in Brussel, later ending in Cannes 1996…
The three Danish pension funds ATP, PFA and PKA sell their share of TDC to Macquarie at a big loss. What went wrong and what’s ahead?
In a significant development, three prominent Danish pension funds ATP, PFA, and PKA are divesting their 50% stakes in TDC to Macquarie, marking the culmination of a troubled seven-year partnership….
Is there a correlation between European nations’ level of Chinese telecom equipment, the consumption of Russian energy, and military aid to Ukraine?
The war in Ukraine, now in its third year, should come to an end. European nations welcome a resolution to the war which ensures peace and democracy for the Ukrainian…
2025 Predictions and 2024 Global Mobile Telecom Industry Review from Strand Consult
Strand Consult has followed the global mobile telecom industry for more than 28 years and published predictions for the last 24. See the collection. At the close of each year, we…
Everyone is talking about consolidating the European telecommunications market – Some believe that Margrethe Vestager will change her mind before she leaves the European Commission.
European policymakers’ tendency to deter mobile telecom mergers frustrates the industry’s incentives and ability to invest in broadband infrastructure. The European Union struggles with a broadband connectivity gap estimated at…
Latin America’s Digital Development – This century’s strategic choice for security
This research note is also available in Spanish. The leaders of Latin America, a set of some two-dozen diverse, emerging countries with some 700 million people, face a strategic choice…
2024 Predictions and 2023 Global Mobile Telecom Industry Review from Strand Consult
Strand Consult has followed the mobile telecom industry for more than 27 years and has published predictions for the last 23. See the collection. In our annual note, we review the…
FCC dumps the old argumentation of “innovation” and invents new reasons for the re-introduction of net neutrality in USA – What it means for rest of the world
Net neutrality is a form of regulatory capture created by Big Tech and operated for its benefit. Since the introduction of this regulation in the European Union, Big Tech companies…
