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…
Each year Strand Consult publishes a preview of the Mobile World Congress. MWC 2016 has all the ingredients to become one the biggest gadget years in the event’s 20 year…
Another exiting year has flown by, and we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the past year and wish you a Happy New Year. This is…
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…
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