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If you have been following discussions of what 5G will enable, you know that the conventional wisdom has been a trio of enhanced mobile broadband, massive machine-type communications and [...]

Internet access providers long have known that there is no linear relationship between data consumption and revenue earned for providing that access. On the other hand, there is a somewhat linear [...]

Not every global internet service provider or telco is going to be able to move “up the stack” and become an application provider, platform or content company. Where that is possible, [...]

Juniper Research forecasts that mobile voice revenues will fall from $354 billion in 2018 to $197 billion by 2023, an annual decline of 10 percent. That will likely not surprise anybody familiar [...]

Every service provider’s 5G strategy is going to be shaped by its own perception of opportunities.  Verizon, for example, has the smallest fixed network footprint among tier-one internet access [...]

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is in a hurry to commercialize lots of 5G millimeter wave spectrum, and will finalize rules for an auction of 28 GHz and 24 GHz spectrum  in August [...]

U.S. smartphone users spend nearly half their digital media time on their most-used app, with a long tail of lesser-used apps, comScore data shows. Tablet users spend 60 percent of their time on [...]

NTT researchers recently demonstrated ability to transmit 100 Gbps at 300 GHz frequencies, far beyond the ranges we have used for freespace communications in the past.   One reason mobile and [...]

Usage once mattered greatly for telecom service provider revenues, as most revenue (and most of the profit) was generated by products billed “by the unit.” Lots of things were [...]

Some observers seem to believe rapid 5G mobile adoption equates to broader economic activity related to 5G (applications, platforms, devices). So early 5G adoption provides an advantage, in such [...]

Almost by definition, the greatest mobile operator opportunities in the broad internet of things area are those use cases requiring mobility, as that is among the more-unique features mobile [...]

Some researchers predict that 5G will become a “general purpose technology,” and that matters because GPTs are the foundation for huge waves of economic growth. Some past GPTs are said to [...]

PTC Academy is for you if: * You need to make things happen * You need to understand the implications of new technologies * You hear new buzzwords and have to understand what it means for your [...]

As always, since new devices will be required to take advantage of new 5G networks, early mobile phone subscriptions will be limited. The first 5G phones using the new millimeter wave frequencies [...]

Even as some telecom service providers seek new roles in the advertising and enterprise services realms, the foundation of the business will remain subscription-based products. And even that is a [...]