Wireless sends out positive signals
03/01/2007. To read the financial press, the mobile industry looks at a glance to be in a state of consolidation and low growth, says SEP. Behind these headlines, however, is a wellspring of optimism. Expectations for stellar industry performance may have been premature, but by no means were they unfounded.

Satellite Radio: Wave of the Future or Niche Play?
01/11/2004. Experts at Wharton and elsewhere say there's little doubt that satellite radio will eventually become big business. The question, though, is when.

Exploiting the Electromagnetic Spectrum
25/10/2004. This DTI-sponsored 'Foresight' project looks at twenty areas of EMS research with application potential for venture capitalists. The reviews look at new technological advances and assesses their likely impacts over the next 10–20 years. Markets include technologies for more efficient use of mobile communications; increased data communications capacity; sensing and imaging; and manipulating molecules and materials on very small scales.

Communications Bill
17/12/2002. The media sector is set to become more accessible for private equity firms following the publication of a draft Communications Bill in May 2002. The Bill is expected to become law in June 2003, says Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in this overview of the key changes.

Finding new life in a troubled industry
12/11/2001. The telecoms sector faces many challenges if it is to prosper once again. Red Herring argues that current developments in the broadband sector, however encouraging may not be enough to revive things.

Weathering telecom's dark and stormy night
26/10/2001. In this interview from McKinsey Quarterly, McKinsey adviser and former FCC chairman Reed Hundt probes the future of the telecommunications industry and discusses how companies in it are reacting to deregulation and to their current travails with high debt and sluggish revenues.