Municipal electric utilities (MEUs) are increasingly expanding into telecommunications services. Such entry is interesting in several respects. First, MEUs marry two potential pathways for the growth of telecommunications access infrastructure and services: public ownership of last-mile...

The explosive growth in mobile broadband traffic, driven by smart phones and tablets that significantly increase traffic per subscriber, has accentuated the spectrum shortage for Commercial Mobile Radio Services (CMRS). The spectrum shortage is driving up the costs of deploying competitive 4G...

The growth of wireless mobile broadband has the potential to drive significant new growth in Internet applications, services, and equipment markets. It is likely to represent as important a change for the Internet as the transition from dial-up to broadband, fundamentally changing the landscape...

The U.S. economy is as dependent on its networked Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as it is on its networks of roads, electricity, and water. Advanced telecommunications services — which increasingly include wireless services such as mobile broadband — are essential...