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Despite current growth of mobile revenues in some markets (Asia, Africa in particular), it will be difficult to sustain long-term mobile operator growth at rates much higher than growth of gross [...]

5G is to networking as telecom is to the internet. That is to say, 5G is part of a larger shift of networking as “telecom” has become a tail on the internet dog. Specifically, 5G is [...]

With the exception of markets in Asia, Africa or elsewhere that still are adding subscriber accounts and mobile data accounts, developed markets where 5G is first deployed will not likely see too [...]

Necessity and opportunity both are lining up to drive aggressive 5G adoption in the U.S. market. All four leading U.S. mobile operators will be offering 5G mobile services in 2019, with AT&T [...]

You might be tempted to think that it mostly is lower-income people who use their mobile devices as the sole means of internet access. In many countries, substantial numbers of people–rich [...]

Though it might seem inconceivable, we are about to enter the “post-mobile” era of telecommunications. How can that be, you might ask, when virtually all consumers and most [...]

t is not hard to find skepticism about the size of 5G markets, for good reason. Not every market is equally well disposed to generate new revenue sources, at scale, and not every set of service [...]

Up to this point, 4G has been a primary method of internet access for a substantial, but still minority of usage in developed markets, though it arguably has been a primary or exclusive form of [...]

Networks (wide area or local area) are changing. Most of the hype tends to center on “5G,” the next-generation platform mobile operators will adopt. But there are all sorts of other [...]

It is not too hard to find skeptics about revenue upside for mobile operators in 5G, internet of things or edge computing, because it is hard to demonstrate the business case in a near term [...]

Global revenue growth rates provide the best evidence possible of why new revenue sources and business models must be developed in the mobile industry. Traditional mobile revenues will have a [...]

Network architectures and communication protocols are not the primary concern of most people who work in and around the telecommunications industry, but architectures always reflect the dominant [...]

It might seem like hyperbole to claim that, in the 5G and future eras, all device access will be untethered. Not most; all. So  here’s the logic: “access” increasingly means the way a device or [...]

Network architectures always directly reflect perceptions of what drives revenue. Many decades ago, the architecture of a telecom network, in a single domain, was simple.   Traffic passed between [...]

Mobility “broke” some rules about telecom architecture, namely the rule that the public network terminated on the side of a house or in the basement of a building or inside a wiring closet. In [...]