The 2018 Mobile World Congress (MWC) was another exciting event with over 100,000 attendees. Strand Consult was pleased to attend and participate in many stimulating meetings. Strand Consult’s Research Note…
Another exiting year has flown by. It is our annual tradition to make our predictions for the coming year. This is our 17th year of making predictions. We invite you…
The fact that the telecommunications industry has challenges is not a news. In fact, the challenges facing the industry with 5G today are no so different than those they faced…
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…
Europeans have been dissatisfied with the EU government for years. Political parties skeptical of Brussels have had a resurgence. To combat its image problem with the voters, pro-European politicians have…
In this research note Strand Consult reviews the President Elect Transition Team, the Trump administration, and other key actors and then describe the real policy and its impact on the…
Another exiting year has flown by. Thank you for your readership. We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a Happy New Year. As is our annual tradition, we…
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…
The revised EU proposal on roaming shows that the European Commission faces an existential crisis. It cannot succeed to make telecom policy that incentivizes new economic growth; it can only…
Now a $100 billion business globally, mobile ads account for about 20 percent of the data traffic consumed on a typical mobile subscription. This is frequently traffic that subscribers don’t…
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