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More spectrum! is the rallying cry among participants in the global race to be the first country to deploy 5G networks. Generally speaking, deploying more spectrum into a network means faster speeds and more capacity to handle consumer demands. But …
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How America’s 4G Leadership propelled the U.S. Economy
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FRICTIONLESS MEDIA CREATES NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR CARRIERS
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Digital advertising takes the lead – Dominated by Google and Facebook
The IAB just published its 2016 advertising revenue figures. It was a banner year with record setting revenues of $72.5 billion, 22% higher than last year. This makes digital advertising the number one advertising medium in the United States as …
Scientific Testing: The Most Reliable Way to Test a Network
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 …
The Return of Unlimited, this time with even more video
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, …
ITU and CDC confirm what we already knew: Wireless is the consumer’s choice
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 …
Special Access: How Government Preference for Some May Mean Higher Prices for All
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 …
The Story behind the Microsoft Headlines
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 …
2014 US Mobile Phone sales fall by 15% and handset replacement cycle lengthens to historic high
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 …
