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Forecasts of Early 5G Revenue are Nearly Meaningless

February 23, 2018

Forecasts of near-term 5G revenue are nearly meaningless, since most of the revenue will come from mobile customers shifting from 4G to 5G networks. So most of the 5G revenue is a simple [...]

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Will MulteFire Replace Wi-Fi?

February 23, 2018

Will MulteFire replace Wi-Fi in many enterprise settings? In some cases. More likely is coexistence of Wi-Fi and MulteFire, as mobile device connectivity inside the building becomes a new [...]

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23 Mobile Operators Launch NB-IoT or LTE-M Networks

February 23, 2018

Some 23 mobile operators have commercially launched 41 mobile internet of things networks worldwide, including  both NB-IoT and LTE-M platforms NB-IoT networks are available from 3 Hong Kong [...]

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Is Telecom Becoming Like the Auto Industry?

February 16, 2018

Analogies sometimes are helpful when trying to understand the underlying dynamics of the “telecom” industry. In past centuries, telecom might reasonably have been likened to roads, pipelines, [...]

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Innovation Often Comes From Outside the Carrier World, Even for Emergency Calling

February 16, 2018

Here are two examples of innovation in the telecom industry that come from “outside” the industry. First, Amazon’s Alexa and the line of Amazon voice appliances has created a new platform for [...]

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Will 5G Lead to Less Use of Wi-Fi?

February 16, 2018

Consumers are rational. That is why they use Wi-Fi. But they might be equally rational in the 5G era when there is no financial advantage to offloading mobile device access. The data seems [...]

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Will Mobile Substitution Move to Internet after Video?

February 10, 2018

With the caveat that many continue to doubt the likelihood, an argument can be made that, as mobile substitution has become a reality for voice services, messaging and now stands to happen for [...]

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Will 5G Change Wi-Fi Behavior?

February 10, 2018

Coming 5G networks might change use cases in many ways. Growth of new use cases might well be driven by enterprise, not consumer apps, by sensors requiring communications, more than people needed [...]

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Voice Still Matters, But “How” is Changing

February 10, 2018

One of the bigger problems with the shift of all forms of content and communications to internet protocol is that legacy services are disrupted by free and cheap product substitutes. “Voice,” for [...]

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A New “Big Switch” is Coming

February 10, 2018

A new “big switch” is coming for the communications industry. Back in the 1980s, much was made of the idea that former over-the-air (wireless) broadband traffic (TV) was moving to the fixed [...]

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