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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…
The Market Response to Regulating the Internet? Not good.
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…
Spectrum Fuels Speed and Prosperity
Recon Analytics recently completed an exhaustive study of the US mobile market and how it compares with its G7 peers (funded by CTIA). This article presents a summary…
Every Way You Look At It: US Carriers Spend More In CAPEX Than Their EU Peers
In our previous report, we established that policymakers must choose among competing outcomes when the agency makes spectrum allocation decisions, including the number of licenses the agency wants…
Two Out Of Three: Number Of Licenses, Speed And Cost
The US mobile broadband experience is the stuff of lore around the world, in part due to the smartphone revolution that first happened here, enabled by large, reliable…
Roger’s Recon: State of Wireless Union 2014, Part Two
The following is the second of a two-part series examining some of last year’s key developments in the mobile space and also projecting their impact into 2014. In…
Local Number Portability Administrator Change Would Be ‘Costly Mess’
According to Report Change in Administrator Would Jeopardize Launch of Next Gen Wireless Services Recon Analytics, an independent data analytics and consulting firm, today released a report finding…
Roger’s Recon: State of Wireless Union 2014, Part One
The following Note is the first of a two-part series assessing some of last year’s key market developments and projecting their impact into 2014. We also offer our…
Look who’s back: T-Mobile JUMPs to growth
Innovation and a desire to compete is the basis of success. After years of languishing, T-Mobile has regained its competitive vigor with the reverse acquisition of Metro PCS.…
Managing market share by restricting spectrum ownership – warnings of a managed economy?
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…
How Sprint-Dish would affect Sprint shareholders, customers, competitors and the regulators
Dish Network just threw its hat into another merger ring with its $25.5 billion bid to acquire Sprint. This follows Dish’s bid to purchase Clearwire, which Sprint was…