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African Telecom SOEs and China
BLOG, Africa, chinaDoes Chinese funding encourage state ownership of African telecom enterprises? We should be taking a closer look at the relationship between Chinese vendor financing and the multitude of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in African telecomm...
U.S.-China Schism Pressures Wireless Standards
BLOG, 5G, 6G, china, millimeter wave, Wireless standardsWill the current geopolitical tensions affect the wireless industry’s ability to maintain single global technology standards? Technology companies choose to compete within a single standard or engage in battle-of-standards. Beyond compa...
Can Alcântara Compete Against Kourou?
BLOG, Brazil, France, satellites, Space technologyTwenty-years ago Brazil signed a space-technology safeguard agreement (TSA) with the United States. It was intended to be a preamble for American companies to launch satellites from Brazil’s Alcântara Space Center, well-positioned at ...
Technology Leadership and Human Freedom
BLOG, international conflict, spaceWhen cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go to space on April 1961, it was an embarrassment for the U.S. and a coup for the Soviet Union, who leveraged it as an indication that the USSR had the technology lead and communism ...
Who’s Winning the 5G Race?
BLOG, 5G, Geopolitics, Huawei, IoTThe fifth generation of mobile technologies comes in a very different international environment than previous ones: 2G emerged in the late 1980s when the Cold War was ending; 3G in the early 2000s as China entered the world trade system,...
How Mobile Money Saved Zimbabwe
BLOG, Financial technology, Fintech, mobile money, ZimbabweEcoCash is the financial technology service of Econet Wireless, the largest mobile operator in Zimbabwe. Launched in 2011, today the service covers close to 80% of the adult population in the country, allowing a range of financial trans...
Technologies That Help Democracy Work
BLOG, Brazil, smart city, smartcity“We had no other option–we had no money,” Luciano Rezende told me when I asked him why he started a smart-city program in his town. Mr. Rezende is the Mayor of Vitória, a beautiful island-city of 400,000 people and the state capit...
A 5G Network Cheaper Than Huawei
BLOG, 5G, Huawei, vRANThe Trump Administration’s recent telecom networks security executive order, which has the practical effect of a comprehensive ban on Chinese companies such as Huawei and ZTE, is just one of the significant challenges China is facing ...
India’s Air Passengers to Connect on the Fly
BLOG, aviation, India, Inflight entertainment, WiFiStarting in this year Indian air passengers will be able to enjoy access to inflight entertainment and WiFi, improving the quality of air travel in the country. As 2018 came to an end, the Indian government finally issued its Inflight an...
2019: The Year of Cybersecurity
BLOG, cybersecurity, IoT, smartphonesIt’s a rare week when a big company doesn’t announce a major data breach. Though it’s good these breaches are in the public eye, they shouldn’t happen so frequently. Most cybersecurity experts recognize that it has become imposs...
Five global IoT trends
BLOG, Most-Recent, IoTIn interviews with several Internet of Things executives worldwide we identified five main trends in IoT: Technology is right Enabling policies are lacking Regulations are getting simpler Verticals’ take-up speeds are moving slowly but...
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