The annual report of the Federal Communications Commission, on competition in the mobile space, highlights trends in mobile wireless, rather than drawing any firm conclusions about the industry. This move motivated mobile providers and consumer groups the same.

The report said, “Rather than reaching an overarching, industry-wide determination with respect to whether there is 'effective competition,' [in the mobile industry], the report complies with the statutory requirement by providing a detailed analysis of the state of competition”.

Congress asks FCC to deliver a report every year to examine the competition in the mobile industry. The commission has discovered that sufficient competition exists, for the past thirteen years.

The interconnected segments of the mobile wireless ecosystem have the potential to affect competition, as this report reveals that there is competition across the entire mobile wireless ecosystem including in infrastructure and devices.

FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski stated that fail to seek to reach an excessively simplistic yes-or-no conclusion about the overall level of competition in this intricate and dynamic eco-system.

FCC was able to find a few trends in mobile including improvement in the application and devices space, a changeover to a more data-centric market, the want for mobile broadband spectrum, maturation of the mobile voice segment, sustained industry concentration, and vigorous capital investment that is waning comparative to the size of the industry.