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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The viability of 5G fixed wireless and mobile substitution are possibly the biggest wild cards in the U.S. fixed network internet access business. For the most part, where telcos and other [...]
One of the touted big drivers of 5G value is speed, offering mobile broadband speeds, in some instances, up to a gigabit per second, using millimeter wave, and often in a fixed usage deployment. [...]
Eventually, the U.S. connectivity business, at least the part selling services to consumers, is going to be dominated by a small set of suppliers, perhaps two with telco roots and two with cable [...]
Sometimes international rankings on various measures of connectivity quality are less important than you might think. Consider voice adoption, where the best the United States ever ranked was [...]
How much market share does 5G fixed wireless have to shift before it affects the profitability of the fixed network consumer internet access market? Not much. Consider the U.S. market, one of [...]
5G is, by design, supposed to have performance advantages over 4G for mobile service provides and customers. For customers, the advantages include faster top speeds and lower latency. For mobile [...]
Many observers are hoping for a relatively-quick uptick in firm productivity and capabilities driven by 5G, edge computing, internet of things and artificial intelligence. Fewer likely believe 5G [...]
It is a truism of chaos theory and the behavior of complex systems that very small changes in initial conditions can lead to very-significant and unexpected long-term changes. And that is why [...]