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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…
The Wireless Industry: Revisiting Spectrum, the Essential Engine of US Economic Growth
The wireless industry is making a greater impact on America than ever before. The world is becoming hyper-connected, with smart phones, smart meters, smart houses, smart cities, smart…
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…
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…
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…
Hot Summer Days Summary
T-Mobile threw down the gauntlet this summer with its new Mobile without Borders plan, pre-empting and expanding on AT&T’s plan to make the US and Mexico one calling…
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…
Incentive Auctions: What Matters Here and Now
Another hot topic is the upcoming incentive auction. The amount of available spectrum per subscriber tells us how much capacity the carrier has to serve its customers and…
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…
Tablets Fuel Growth and Verizon Leads the Pack
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…
Out of the Title II News Blizzard
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…