Service provider revenues from 5G connections will approach $300 billion by 2025, rising from $894 million in 2019, a new study from Juniper Research predicts. That also implies a growth rate of about 163 percent over the first six years.   If correct, then 5G service revenues would reach 38 [...]

Fears that 5G networks will be too expensive are misplaced, say researchers at Datacomm Research and Rysavy Research. “Many estimates for the cost of building 5G networks overlook selective deployment options, and fail to consider likely small cell price reductions and performance improvements [...]

In the 5G era, service providers and device manufacturers will have to rethink connection strategy, as it is expected 5G networks will nearly always be faster than any other options.  Already, in  33 countries smartphone users now experience faster average download speeds using a mobile network [...]

Growth now is the key strategic issue in the global telecom business, even in the mobility segment that has driven revenue growth for decades. And there are several dimensions. For a business that has been driven by “connecting more people” in emerging markets, growth prospects will shift to [...]

The cost of one gigabyte of mobile internet usage has more than halved relative to the income of Southeast Asians over the last four years, says Temasek, though that is driven by prices in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. The number of internet users in Southeast Asia has grown from 260 [...]

AT&T, Verizon Communications, Sprint and T-Mobile US might see a five-year to 10-year wait for “significant” payback on 5G, credit-rating agency Standard and Poors says. And the ratings agency seems to believe that the financial upside will come from internet of things use cases, not [...]

Mobile service provider mergers that reduce the number of leading operators from four to three lead to increasing consumer prices, despite the typical claims that such consolidation will lead to stronger competitors more able to do combat with the market leaders. The U.S. Federal Trade [...]

One way of looking at new 5G-driven business and revenue opportunities, as well as “do it yourself” private premises networking, is the whole matter of “indoor signal reception,” which is not a new problem for mobile service providers, but will be more acute as millimeter wave frequencies [...]

Over the past few years, some have worried about the cost of 5G spectrum, although spectrum prices are dropping, generally speaking, in part because there is a huge increase in supply, and because mobile operators must now more carefully weigh the cost of new spectrum against expected financial [...]

AT&T, Verizon Communications, Sprint and T-Mobile US might see a five-year to 10-year wait for “significant” payback on 5G, credit-rating agency Standard and Poors says. And the ratings agency seems to believe that the financial upside will come from internet of things use cases, not [...]

Mobile-only households, perhaps logically, are among the best potential customers for 5G fixed wireless services offered by mobile operators in Australia, a new study by Telsyte suggests. Some 33 percent of poll respondents said they had some level of interest in 5G fixed wireless. That [...]

Though 5G represents many things, it also is destined to become the key marketing emphasis for major U.S. mobile service providers, in the same way that “gigabit” has become a marketing emphasis for fixed network internet access providers. That does not necessarily mean most [...]