Time series data is most helpful when trying to assess the underlying major trends in telecommunications. New data from New Zealand’s Commerce Commission simply confirms global trends in developed markets. Not adjusted for inflation, New Zealand connectivity provider revenue has climbed slowly [...]

A study by GSMA Intelligence might be useful, in terms of looking at firm sustainability and competition, after the merger or T-Mobile US and Sprint. A key argument in the debate over the merger of T-Mobile US and Sprint was its impact on competition and consumer welfare (prices being the [...]

As tantalizing as projected productivity advances using 5G and edge computing might be, it is worthwhile to recall that past eras of automation and computerization often have failed to move the needle where it comes to measurable productivity gains.  Nokia points out that the era of applying [...]

Can IoT, Wi-Fi, low power wide area or maybe someday mobile IoT devices operate with such low battery draw that battery life literally can reach a decade? And how can that be done? Perhaps even more futuristically, can IoT devices be designed to operate without any power sources of their own? [...]

No business strategy lasts forever. Five decades ago, profits were driven by long distance calling and the base business was selling monopoly voice to everyone. Sometime in the 1980s the revenue and profit growth shifted from fixed network long distance to mobility. Fixed network operators [...]

It is at present very difficult to determine whether private 5G, operated by enterprises or neutral host providers will, on balance, help or harm mobile service provider revenues. One might use the analogy of Wi-Fi, historically the province of private networks, as an example. It is doubtful if [...]

Way too much is made of near-term potential revenue gains for mobile service providers because of 5G. Keep in mind that nearly every 5G account replaces an existing 4G account. When a 5G account generates more revenue for a mobile service provider, it might sometimes be for a mix of reasons, [...]

One often thinks of satellite communications being most valuable for reaching customers in highly isolated locations where fixed networks are impossible to build or merely too expensive. That often includes wide parts of the developing world. But SpaceX might get an early test of demand for its [...]

It never is too difficult to find somebody criticizing the use of millimeter wave spectrum for 5G, even if there is less skepticism  about millimeter wave usefulness for 5G than was the case five years ago. A decade ago, rational observers might have argued that millimeter wave frequencies were [...]

América Móvil, KT, Rogers, Telstra, Verizon and Vodafone have formed the 5G Future Forum to develop interoperable 5G specifications–including mobile edge computing–across key geographic regions, including the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe. The 5G Future Forum says it will focus [...]

5G is going to succeed, despite all worries, for one simple reason: 4G is going to run out of gas, at some point, and 5G will be needed simply to allow mobile service providers to supply consumer bandwidth demand and yet still make a profit on those services. That is the inevitable consequence [...]

Walmart plans to build its own edge computing centers. Furthermore, Walmart expects to make that capability available to third parties. Also, Walmart expects to make its  warehouse and shipping capabilities available to third-party sellers, using a model perhaps similar to the way Amazon [...]