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PTC Academy is for you if: * You need to make things happen * You need to understand the implications of new technologies * You hear new buzzwords and have to understand what it means for your [...]

As always, since new devices will be required to take advantage of new 5G networks, early mobile phone subscriptions will be limited. The first 5G phones using the new millimeter wave frequencies [...]

Even as some telecom service providers seek new roles in the advertising and enterprise services realms, the foundation of the business will remain subscription-based products. And even that is a [...]

By now it is obvious that a few countries and service providers are in a “race” to be first with 5G. It also is clear most countries and service providers do not share that sense of imperative. [...]

With the exception of its buying Vodafone’s interest in Verizon Wireless for $130 billion, most of Verizon’s acquisitions have been far smaller. The overall pattern might indicate that Verizon [...]

If you want to know why mobile service providers are so interested in internet of things, this graph suggests a key reason: sales of services and products to human beings using mobile phones is [...]

It might be overstating matters to argue that capacity prices are in “free fall.” That is the case on some routes that traditionally have had less supply, such as North to South America, but [...]

“Cutting out the middle man” (telcos) now has emerged as a key constraint on global telecom service provider revenues and profits, and will be a huge force dictating when and how the public [...]

It remains very much unclear how important internet of things revenue will be for most mobile operators building 5G networks. And one big problem is that opportunities “up the stack,” [...]

Analysts differ on precisely when global mobile industry revenue will reach its peak, and then begin to decline. But we are growing closer to that point. Some believe the peak already has been [...]