Michael Kende is the Head of the Regulatory Sector at Analysys Mason and of the US Office. Michael is an economist by training, with a Ph.D. from MIT. After MIT, he spent five years as a professor of Economics at INSEAD, a business school near Paris, before joining the Federal Communications Commission. At the FCC, Michael was the Director of Internet Policy Analysis, where he was responsible for managing a wide range of policy analyses and regulatory decisions on Internet policy (including interconnection), broadband deployment, and mergers.
At Analysys Mason, Michael has worked with operators and regulators in six continents, providing advice on a variety of Internet issues. He has worked on projects relating to Internet backbone interconnection, spectrum assignments, broadband deployment, Voice over IP and IPTV. His clients have included the World Bank, the IDA in Singapore, OSIPTEL in Peru, AT&T, and the European Union. Recent strategy projects include assisting an operator develop an Internet portal strategy, a market assessment for an equipment vendor, and an assessment of online service provider strategy.
News that Apple had overtaken Microsoft as the most valuable technology company by market value is part of a larger debate about system strategy that has been underway since the heyday of the IBM mainframe.
Most observers of the US mobile market have been expecting significant changes to occur in 2010, as the battle between wireless carriers, device manufacturers and content aggregators intensifies. They have not had to wait long ...
According to recent reports, the information and communications technology (ICT) industry emits the same amount of carbon dioxide as the aviation industry. Data centres, for instance, require a significant amount of energy to operate servers, but use the same amount again to run the air conditioners that are...
Spectrum auction fever will once again hit the USA in January 2008, with the FCC auctioning over 1000 licences in the 700MHz band. AT&T's recent USD2.5 billion purchase of 12MHz of the 700MHz band from Aloha Partners suggests that spectrum in this band will sell for significantly more than the spectrum at the AWS cellular auction in August 2006.
One key difference between national mobile markets is which party pays for a mobile call. The USA, Canada and several Asian countries use the mobile party pays (MPP) system, in which mobile callers pay their network for originating the call, and called...
