Scientific Testing: The Most Reliable Way to Test a Network
By Roger Entner on August 9, 2016
The FCC is seeking to more closely regulate a key tactic in mobile carrier marketing—their performance and speed claims.
The commission already does this for fixed broadband and has proposed to use crowd data to set the upper limit for carrier marketing claims.
But here’s the problem: There are significant differences between crowd and scientific […]
The Return of Unlimited, this time with even more video
By Roger Entner on January 16, 2016
AT&T is launching an aggressive new offer providing unlimited voice, text and data to customers who have AT&T wireless and DirecTV service. The service is competitively priced at $100 for the first line, $40 for the second and third line, and free for the fourth line. Immediately available to 4.5 million AT&T wireless customers who […]
ITU and CDC confirm what we already knew: Wireless is the consumer’s choice
By Roger Entner on December 2, 2015
Earlier this week the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) reported the results of its annual global survey. Mobile broadband connections (47.2% of the global population) have now overtaken households with internet access (46.2%) not to mention fixed broadband connections (10.2%) In terms of the ITU’s Internet Development Index, the US remains among the 15 most developed […]
Special Access: How Government Preference for Some May Mean Higher Prices for All
By Roger Entner on October 21, 2015
Five years after the FCC called for data on the state of the special access marketplace from just a portion of the providers offering special access, the agency appears poised to modify contracts and embark on a new round of rate regulation based on market data from 2010 to 2012. This would not be a […]
The Story behind the Microsoft Headlines
By Roger Entner on July 14, 2015
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s the case, then the Twitter header image for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella demonstrates that perfectly. Just look at Nadella’s tortured smile then try to make sense of the picture in the header. It resembles some kind of hellish, hopelessly complex landscape that maybe someone […]
2014 US Mobile Phone sales fall by 15% and handset replacement cycle lengthens to historic high
By Roger Entner on February 10, 2015
In 2014, roughly 143 million mobile phones were sold in the United States, approximately 90% of them smartphones. This is a decline of 25 million phones from 2013 when approximately 168 million phones were sold – and only half of them were smartphones. The decline in phone sales is predominately due to the rise of […]
Tablets Fuel Growth and Verizon Leads the Pack
By Roger Entner on December 18, 2014
Over the last two years, in addition to attracting new customers, most of the wireless industry has focused on better serving its existing consumers with products and services those consumers want. We all watch more mobile video and play mobile games. As a result, an unsung hero—in form of the tablet—has emerged. Launched only 4 […]
Out of the Title II News Blizzard
By Roger Entner on December 6, 2014
All the while when we were trapped in the Title II News Blizzard that made any other topic seem small and irrelevant, the FCC has been conducting an auction of wireless spectrum. This wasn’t supposed to be the big auction – that honor was reserved for the incentive auction, in which broadcasters would sell spectrum […]
The Market Response to Regulating the Internet? Not good.
By Roger Entner on November 11, 2014
After several failed attempts to come up with a net neutrality proposal that reasonably addresses legal, industry and consumer advocate concerns around the optimal legal foundation for net neutrality, the FCC made public last week it wanted to pursue a new “hyrbrid” approach that would apply both Title II and Section 706 regulations on Internet […]
Managing market share by restricting spectrum ownership – warnings of a managed economy?
By Roger Entner on June 10, 2013
A raging debate over the future of the U.S. wireless industry has taken center stage in Washington, and attracted the attention of the Europeans whose own wireless industry is imploding. The outcome of the debate will directly impact the US economy, shape US broadband technology and consumer trends for decades and could signal the US […]
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