Internet Access

Supply and demand always affects the value of spectrum. So if supply and demand change radically, so should prices. And prices matter. Spectrum licenses make up a major portion of mobile operator [...]

LoRa has the lead, in terms of number of low-power wide area network connections, according to IHS Markit. But narrowband IoT will  be the leader by 2023, IHS Markit researchers predict.  source: [...]

The existential threat to the mobility business is the seeming inability to monetize ever-increasing data consumption. In the United Kingdom, mobile revenues have dropped since 2012 by about [...]

Singapore has very low prices for mobile data usage. Today, a gigabyte of usage costs about Singapore 90 cents. Just five years ago, a gigabyte of usage cost about S$13. Nor is the trend confined [...]

The 5G launch by Vodafone UK contains at least a couple of novel developments. For starters, Vodafone’s 5G will come in speed tiers. Vodafone Unlimited Max features unlimited mobile data usage at [...]

The existential threat to the mobility business is the seeming inability to monetize ever-increasing data consumption. In the United Kingdom, mobile revenues have dropped since 2012 by about [...]

It is easy to miss the profound implications of millimeter wave spectrum, even as new ways are found to increase the amount of low-band and mid-band spectrum usable by mobile operators and Wi-Fi [...]

Some of us believe incremental new use cases and potential revenue in the 5G era will be driven mostly by enterprise use cases such as internet of things. The shift from consumer to enterprise [...]

So far, 5G networks launched by Verizon, AT&T and Sprint have had limited footprints and relatively few users. As on any lightly-loaded network, available bandwidth per user is high, ranging [...]

It is a logical question to wonder how big internet of things markets (hardware, software, services) might be, now or in the future, in any particular industry or country.  It is an [...]

Though there are legitimate concerns about deploying new 5G networks, mostly about the business model and financial return for some service providers facing issues with their 4G revenue models, [...]

The telecom industry has had a historical growth rate of about three percent a year. So growth at rates lower than three percent might well be deemed a problem. According to estimates by STL [...]

Prospects for mobile substitution for internet access hinge mostly on price, as in many markets, “mobile broadband connections do however run at faster speeds than most home wireless broadband [...]

Spectrum scarcity long has been a key assumption of mobile or fixed wireless service provider business models. But scarcity is diminishing. Over the next few years, it is likely that mobile [...]

The cost of spectrum always matters for mobile operators in competitive markets. Prices of 5G spectrum in Italy, an outlier so far, were driven by a new competitor eager to get into the market. [...]