Spectrum, security, wallet and watch!

In last year’s Visions report, I highlighted falling revenues and net neutrality as being major issues CSPs would face in the year ahead. But neither became the big issue I anticipated. The telecoms industry has an uncanny ability to weather storms, and even if voice...

Who might lose face in the big race for white space?

While the ‘traditional’ mobile telecommunications operators struggle to come to grips with how best to capitalize on the growing machine-to-machine (M2M) sector, a potentially disruptive special interest group has emerged. It is driving usage of freely available...

Sacrificed spectrum has SPs singing

What happens when you hold a 3G spectrum auction that fails? No, I’m not talking about the shenanigans going on in Thailand, this is the bastion of all that is good and proper in Asia, Singapore. Failure, the word used by the local press, may also be a little strong...

CEO on speed

If you are confused with all the hype around LTE then you may be in good company. AT&T’s Chairman and CEO, Randall Stephenson, whose company is rolling out LTE right now, was reported by mocoNews.net to have made some comments on LTE speeds that, if correct, have...

No doting as Delhi deals with diverse delays

I’m not a betting man but the latest announcement on the elusive Indian 3G license auction has me wondering if a small wager against it happening is not a good bet!   This is despite Telecom Minister, Andimuthu Raja, confirming that the 3G license auction will start,...