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The fundamental purpose of the fixed network, historically, has been to enable communications service for retail customers, consumer and business. Over time, the role of the network for backhaul [...]

Ofcom, the U.K. communications regulator, has decided to auction 190 MHz of spectrum in two frequency bands, increasing mobile capacity by nearly a third. Some 40 MHz of spectrum will be [...]

By 2025, the global telecom service provider industry is going to shrink from 800 firms to about 105, lead by just five global giants, according to Bell Labs. That is a reduction of 87 percent, [...]

Among the potential 5G business model challenges is a mismatch between the expected value of use cases and hoped-for revenue opportunities. Put simply, the gigabit speeds 5G will enable for [...]

Chinese operators are on track to launch commercial 5G networks by 2020 and are expected to establish China as the world’s largest 5G market by 2025, according to a new study by GSMA Intelligence [...]

The coming 5G era is likely to be quite different from all prior generations of mobile networks, in several ways. First, it is likely to be the first mobile network generation whose new revenue [...]

Internet of things is the number one priority for 92 percent of organization executives surveyed by Vanson Bourne, Inmarsat says. To be sure, the survey concentrated on industrial sectors where [...]

Are you ready for cataclysmic change in the telecom industry? Do you want to learn what is coming and what you need to do, right now, to survive a huge industry shift? If so, then PTC’s [...]

Chinese operators are on track to launch commercial 5G networks by 2020 and are expected to establish China as the world’s largest 5G market by 2025, according to a new study by GSMA Intelligence [...]

T-Mobile US has tested License Assisted Access (LAA) on its commercial network, allowing T-Mobile to essentially aggregate mobile spectrum with unlicensed  5-GHz spectrum to boost download speeds [...]

T-Mobile US has asked the Federal Communications Commission to change the licensing rules for Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), the 150-MHz band in the 3.5-GHz region to use a novel [...]

Growing use of unlicensed (unlicensed spectrum aggregated with licensed spectrum) and shared spectrum (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) to support mobile communications will create new [...]

There is a very good reason why several speakers will talk about dangers to the financial health of the mobile and telecom business at the Spectrum Futures conference, even as others point out [...]

By 2025, global 5G services could be generating $250 billion in revenue, some project. What that means is not as clear as you might think. Some look at such numbers without subtracting losses in [...]

The conventional wisdom is that 5G is going to create new revenue sources for mobile operators. That undoubtedly will prove true, to an extent; and perhaps to a significant extent. What remains [...]