Most of the literature on 5G has been in the form of standards, reports, and industry papers and articles. Because of this, researchers from non-scientific or non-engineering disciplines have struggled to understand how it is or could be operationalized and standardized across the globe. Here...

The telecommunications industry is one of the most influential and significant global industries. As well as being fundamentally important to the health of the modern economy, it is going through a period of unprecedented change, facing a range of strategic challenges from globalization and...

Each year the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development produces a report on foreign direct investment (FDI). This report highlights trends on FDI, and identifies the world's largest transnational corporation (TNC). Prominent among the largest TNS are telecommunication companies such as...

Peter Curwen and Jason Whalley review the strategic operations of, and technological options available to, the 30 most prominent international mobile operators. This review is initially based upon the Asia-Pacific, African, European, Latin American and North American regions before moving on to...

Over the course of the last year or so there has been considerable interest in implementing functional separation within fixed telecommunications markets. In these markets, which are largely but not exclusively to be found within the European Union, functional separation is seen as a way to...

Chapter1: Technology -- Chapter 2: LTE Cases -- Chapter3: The USA -- Chapter 4: India, Russia and the UK -- Chapter 5: Europe -- Chapter 6: Asia-Pacific -- Chapter 7: Africa, Middle East and the Americas -- Chapter 8: Conclusions from Case Studies -- Chapter 9: Making Usage of Superfast Connectivity