The Current Unlimited Data Plans

Hoping to introduce a truly competitive edge to the WiFi data industry, this proverbial David will be focusing on attracting budget-minded users to help knock down the Goliaths of the ISPs who randomly raise prices, throttle speeds and add excessive fees almost at will.

One month has to look at competition since the early 1990’s, especially since the act 1996 act. The most effective competition has come from technology evolution that enabled multiple platforms with different product-characteristics and economics to compete. They, in turn, then forced each other into cycles of further innovation. When the telecommunications act of 1996 has passed, there were hints of incipient competition in both the long-distance and video-distribution markets as a result of new technology. Local telephony was still essentially a monopoly. Although wireless was thriving, it was seen primarily as a purely mobile service.”

Less than a decade ago, the telecom operators in the U.S., Western Europe, and Japan were upgrading their existing networks to high-speed 3G technologies. Now the world telecommunications industry is about the switching to the next-generation super-fast 4G technologies.

In May 2016 Verizon released a new commercial for a prepaid plan to compete with the cell phone providers such as AT&T, Sprint, and others. The 2016 Verizon commercial was titled “Verizon: A Better Prepaid”. Its purpose was to let the audience believe that Verizon’s product was the best on the market for the prepaid plans that are available. However, this is a common claim among companies regardless of what the product they are selling is. Therefore, Verizon needed to create a commercial that was both memorable and affective, and they did just that with their latest ad. With the ever-growing competition in today’s economy, instead of bringing something fresh to the table, Verizon’s marketing crew boldly brought back some old, and somewhat forgotten popular tunes that appeal to the 80’s and 90’s kids. This technique was useful in drawing in a specific audience and initiating a positive feeling of nostalgia in them, which in return gave Verizon’s ad a boost in the eyes of its viewers. It is small things like this that marketing teams strive to put into in their work. Along with their superior use of marketing techniques, Verizon offers a wide variety of information about their product. According to Verizon’s official website, their new prepaid plan offers 4G LTE coverage. However, their information regarding this product varies depending on where you receive your information. Nevertheless, Verizon created a successful advertisement to make revenue for their company, and

In the IEEE CTN issue of June 2014, It was noted that “evolution and technological innovation in communication systems, digital media, and user behavior may challenge Net Neutrality principles and question if or how Net Neutrality can be sustained in a new word of data-hungry applications such as on-demand video, online gaming, and music streaming” (IEEE, 2014). In the same CTN issue, specific Net Neutrality principles included, among others, no connection blocking, bandwidth transparency, universal connectivity, and best effort

Back in 2006, Aaron Weiss, a technology writer and web developer, noted that, “The real fight over network neutrality isn’t between the telecoms and their end users—it’s with the major content providers, who now hold the largest bankrolls” (Weiss 25). Today, that is truer than ever. Content providers that have become immensely popular over the last decade, like Netflix and Google, want immunity from bandwidth restrictions and fees, because users want fast accessibility to these sites. The idea of no bandwidth restrictions is appealing to them because when they “can charge consumers directly, the only regulation that results in a change in their payoffs is strong net neutrality. Thus, moving from any other regime to strong net neutrality, increases the profits of the content provider that attracts consumer attention…By contrast, in the absence of strong net neutrality, that marginal surplus is appropriated by the ISP” (Gans

While Internet Service Providers (ISPs) want to create a tiered approach, saving the faster speeds for their premium customers while charging “heavy band-with users” in order to generate revenue, enhance their systems and build more robust, more advanced networks,

Data/Broadband Offerings. As the communications industry continues to move toward Internet-based technologies that are capable of blending traditional wireline and wireless services, AT&T plans to offer services that take advantage of these new and more sophisticated technologies. In particular, the company intends to continue to focus on expanding its AT&T U-verse high-speed broadband and video offerings, while developing IP-based services that allow customers to unite their home or business wireline services with their wireless service. In addition, this company’s size and leverage ought to allow it to take advantage of a maturing telecommunications space via increased spectrum, capacity, and data services.

To facilitate CA2 project and to set a clear path of the introduction of our service, I’ve classified 4 major steps for our online service to be successful. First step, our service & physical product requires contract with the national ISP and regulatory approval for the usage of cell tower for our SIM card. This is a high capital project, therefore, instead of producing our own SIM card, we act as a reseller or distributor for the currently available ISP which will provide SIM card for our online sales. With this in mind, we are able to focus ourselves in the product launch instead of the complex and complicated backend process involved in manufacturing of SIM cards

The idea being that a company could slow a site that they have competition with so that it would incentivize the consumer to use their alternative for the website. So if Comcast wanted to get people to stream shows off of their service, they could slow down the connection to services like Netflix. The worst case scenario from this field is an internet where the government does nothing to prevent “fast lanes” emerging where users who pay extra are given preferential treatment and have their internet speeds ramped up. This would leave the normal everyday user forced to pay extreme amounts in order to get the basic internet speeds currently available. Another concern is that it may become like cable television in which one has to buy access to websites in bundles like channels to get normal speeds or at load them at all. There is evidence of companies wanting compensation to load certain websites, for example: Netflix saw a 27% decline in access speed for its users and have been refused service from companies like Comcast and AT&T unless they paid for the access, a direct violation of their position as common carriers

Despite there being several issues to be resolved alongside the planned expansion and growth of the XUMUC network, the benefits of such changes will be seen immediately by all networked users through the removal of bandwidth and performance issues. Furthermore, XUMUC will at last be in possession of an Enterprise grade network which can assist with their strategic business objectives and requirements.

The business case presented focuses on insatiable demand amongst a growing population for a service built on dilapidated, poorly maintained infrastructure, against a backdrop of government deregulation in the telecoms sector. As of 1992, there were a mere 78k telephone lines for the 27m people living in 4.7m households (a population set to double over the coming 24 years), with users suffering success rates of just 25%. Demand was forecast to grow to 500k subscribers by 1996. The recent deregulation of the telecoms sector (via the break-up of TPTC into TPC and TTCL) and the formation of a regulator (TCC) had

While everyone especially the younger generation is concerning about why the internet speed is so slow, we are inspired and motivated to explore this matter further. After few weeks of hardworking, we had a much broader understanding on how vital it is to stop the Telekom Malaysia’s monopoly so that our country will only experience a breakthrough in telecommunication industry.

with a reduced cost based upon higher usage patterns which further leads to extended usage.

Wi-Fi usage has been on the upswing recently, thanks to the rise of smartphones, especially the iPhone. Whether it is airports or cafes, people are increasingly logging onto Wi-Fi networks.The case talks about free Wi-Fi in various areas of businesses like restaurants, airports etc to attract crowd and to increase their business. It talks about transition from Wi-Fi – for money to Wi-Fi as a lure. The various strategies implemented by these businesses to give away free public Wi-Fi. Various issues like pricing, security issues etc are discussed in detail in the analysis below. The case also talks about newer trends