The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2020 Economics Nobel Prize to Stanford University’s Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of…
Operators around the world are building the next and 5th generation of mobile networks. 5G is clearly an evolution, and commercial products are combinations of 4G, 5G, NB-LTE and other…
The media has much focus on 5G, creating hype around high speeds, low latency and new revenue for mobile operators. It’s as if operators just build a 5G network, and…
It is not news to say that the EU faces a €150 billion network investment gap to reach its 2025 connectivity goals. The more interesting question is why European Commission…
Since the announcement by T-Mobile/Sprint, the media has exploded with predictable stories that the merger is bad for competition. These are stories we hear every time has been consolidation in…
The US and East Asia are in a horserace to rollout 5G while Europe is a donkey going the wrong direction. This was clear from the 2018 Mobile World Congress,…
While free markets may have given rise to the mobile revolution and the commercialization of the Internet, many European politicians and telecom regulators believe that centralized government and control is…
This research note reviews last week’s developments in Canada and Netherlands on net neutrality and zero rating. Canada’s telecom regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CTRC), issued a sweeping framework…
The trends of convergence have been with us for decades. While communications, content, and computing have been converging–and even the regulators of these industries–the actual regulation has not converged, and…
Mexico’s Communication and Transport Ministry awarded a license to build a carrier’s carrier, a wholesale wireless mobile network. Strand Consult assisted the government to design the $7 billion project expected…
Consolidation of the mobile industry is a reality. The question is not whether the mobile market will experience consolidation but how and in which countries. The French telecom regulator ARCEP…
Last Tuesday in Brussels was one of the most important conferences in the telecommunications world in 2015. It may become more important for the international telecommunications industry than the Mobile…
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