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Asia Will Drive 2/3 of New Mobile Subs by End of Decade

April 27, 2017

By the end of 2016, two thirds of the world’s population had a mobile subscription, a total of 4.8 billion unique subscribers, according to the GSMA. By 2020, almost three quarters of the world’s [...]

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Capacity Will Drive Early 5G Deployments

April 27, 2017

Coverage is not likely going to be the primary reason for deployment either of Release 15 or Release 16 5G networks, according to GSMA. The early 5G networks based on LTE Release 15 will be [...]

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IoT is Top of Mind in 2017

April 27, 2017

With the caveat that we might all turn out to be very wrong, a survey of executives conducted by GSMA suggests that internet of things is, far and away, the area of greatest mobile operator [...]

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Many Execs are Less Worried about 5G Business Models Than Network Cost

April 27, 2017

A recent poll of industry executives suggests uncertainty about 5G business models, though a significant concern, is not the biggest concern. That issue is deployment cost, cited by 38 percent of [...]

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If Using a Road is Free, You Need to be in the Business of Selling Things that Use Roads

April 27, 2017

One nearly-universal rule in the mobile business is that “more” capacity always is needed. The main implication might be that mobile access revenue per bit always drops over time. [...]

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Many Solutions for Indoor Coverage

April 27, 2017

As big a problem as indoor mobile signal reception now is, the magnitude of the problem means significant resources will be devoted to fixing the problem. Those approaches will include Wi-Fi, IP [...]

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Spectrum Sharing Likely Above 24 GHz in Asia

April 27, 2017

At this point, spectrum sharing is slated for study by the World Radio Conference for all communications spectrum above 24.25 GHz, up to 86 GHz. The Asia-Pacific Tele-Community is looking at [...]

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Video Drives 70% of Traffic, Growing to 83% by 2020

April 12, 2017

Video is expected to drive 83 percent of device-based data traffic in 2020 across 10 countries, according to PwC. That is a huge change from the pre-internet era, when voice services drove [...]

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Virtualization a Fundamental Trend in Core and Access Networks

April 12, 2017

In both the core and access portions of the communications network, virtualization is becoming a fundamental building block for use of all network assets, owned and borrowed. Both the coming 5G [...]

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Australia Gets 4th Facilities-Based Mobile Operator

April 12, 2017

Where it is possible–where the business model works–many would agree that facilities-based competition provides faster innovation and higher consumer benefits than [...]

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Stranded Assets a Growing Issue for Fixed Network Providers

April 7, 2017

After 2000, it became increasingly clear that mobile phones were the preferred way most people in the United States and elsewhere wanted to use voice services, as shown by the steady growth of [...]

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Perhaps 93% of Eventual IoT Revenues Will Lie Outside “Access”

April 7, 2017

Internet of things gets much deserved attention as the next big opportunity for access providers, adding huge numbers of new access connections used by sensors, rather than devices used by [...]

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Singapore Completes Spectrum Auction, More Coming

April 5, 2017

Singapore’s telecoms regulator Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA) has concluded the first phase of a spectrum auction which raised a total of SGD1.14 billion ($816.2 million) [...]

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Where Will Shared Spectrum Demand Be Highest?

April 4, 2017

  How will demand for shared spectrum shape up? Maybe not where you would expect it. Perhaps oddly, the 3.5-GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) being introduced in the U.S. market [...]

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Industrial IoT Specs Released

April 4, 2017

The Industrial Internet Consortium has released an extensive white paper on its model for industrial internet of things connectivity. As you might guess, the connectivity model is designed for [...]

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