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Can a “mobile-only” business strategy succeed when markets reach saturation? In other words, once every potential customer already buys the service, can some combination of higher usage, new [...]

Over the last 20 years, if you wanted to know what was driving internet ecosystem revenue, you had to look to the consumer segment. It was the consumer app and platform suppliers that drove [...]

Some observers believe most service providers will not be easily able to build 5G networks because they will be so expensive. Others are more sanguine, arguing that there are many reasons why 5G [...]

Dire warnings about 5G cost, and therefore the 5G business model, are not hard to find. Though it is easy to find broad suggestions of how new revenue streams will develop, there is no certainty, [...]

Korea Telecom executives say a 5G network using 28-GHz spectrum requires four times as many outdoor cell sites as does a 4G Long Term Evolution network using low band spectrum. And that is good [...]

Wireless substitution remains a controversial prospect, as some argue that  5G is a substitute for the National Broadband Network, while others doubt that will happen, as fixed network access “is [...]

In Africa, mobile average revenue per user was more than $23 in 2004. By 2012, just eight years later, ARPU had dropped to perhaps $6.50, according to ICT Africa. That illustrates a core [...]

Service and product suppliers are interested in Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) for obvious reasons: it creates new sales opportunities for infrastructure and possibly services. Some also [...]

If fewer mobile competitors exist in a market, does that lead to lower–or higher–consumer prices? That is not an easy question to answer. In the short term, even mobile consolidation [...]

As next-generation networks continue to evolve, new questions and possibilities arguably arise. Among the questions are whether it is possible to create a connectivity business model founded [...]

We normally think about network functions virtualizati0n as a tool network operators can use to create new capabilities while lowering cost. What we tend not to think about is whether NFV will [...]

Though it might seem almost trivial, “changing TV channels” is one of the important values to be provided by ultra-low-latency 5G mobile networks, working in tandem with edge [...]

Some of us would note with regret an apparent pullback of internet.org’s “Free Basics” program, which has allowed perhaps 100 million people to use Facebook and some other [...]

There is a good reason why service providers globally now search so hard for new products, services and markets. They have too, as they can expect to lose about 50 percent of current revenue [...]

One of the biggest long-term trends in the communications business is the tendency for connectivity services to constantly drop towards “zero” levels. That is arguably most true in the capacity [...]