Disrupting a Mobile Market

India's got a lot of mobile subscribers—1.17 billion, to be exact.

When Reliance Jio Infocomm arrived in September 2016, users were enticed by their promos, offering free unlimited services for months upon months. The newcomer sparked a price war, accelerating the evolution of India's mobile market.

Our trends master Pete Bell catches up with where that leaves things in 2017. Read it here.

Think Global, Exchange Local

• We did a stellar Spotlight interview with Patrick Christian recently. We talked all about local exchange and the promise of new cloud data centers in Africa.
• Speaking of which, Patrick recently spoke about local and intra-African traffic and the continent's reliance on Europe at the 2017 African Peering and Interconnection Forum. Catch up on the highlights here.

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• How do you repair a damaged submarine cable? We recently got a real-world example.
• Local factors are at the heart of pricing for metro access services. Senior Analyst Greg Bryan wrote all about in his post about metro access price trends.
• Median baseline prices are consistently higher in European metro markets than in North America. Read about this and other colocation pricing facts that should be on your radar.
• Fact: thirteen new systems worth a cumulative $2.4 billion were deployed in 2016. Nearly every global route grouping saw new subsea cables between 2015 and 2016!
• More cables will be connecting the U.S. and South America in the very near future. That's actually a big deal.