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Fewer people in the U.S. market subscribe to linear video subscription services than in the past, that is clear. But there are some possible subtle qualifications worth noting. Traditionally, [...]

Juniper Research forecasts that mobile voice revenues will fall from $354 billion in 2018 to $197 billion by 2023, an annual decline of 10 percent. That will likely not surprise anybody familiar [...]

Consumers do not buy components; they buy products with capabilities. Likewise, most people who work in the internet access, content or related service provider services do not sell or need to [...]

5G fixed wireless is more than clever; more than a way to use a mobile platform to compete with fixed network internet access providers for the first time. No, 5G fixed wireless represents a [...]

Ideas sometimes take decades to emerge as commercial realities, something we will likely see with artificial intelligence, internet of things, connected cars, and possible even edge computing. [...]

Most observers of mobile markets would likely agree that future growth is going to come from sources other than voice, messaging or even mobile data, once use of mobile services and mobile data [...]

If you have been following discussions of what 5G will enable, you know that the conventional wisdom has been a trio of enhanced mobile broadband, massive machine-type communications and [...]

Internet access providers long have known that there is no linear relationship between data consumption and revenue earned for providing that access. On the other hand, there is a somewhat linear [...]

Not every global internet service provider or telco is going to be able to move “up the stack” and become an application provider, platform or content company. Where that is possible, [...]

Juniper Research forecasts that mobile voice revenues will fall from $354 billion in 2018 to $197 billion by 2023, an annual decline of 10 percent. That will likely not surprise anybody familiar [...]

Every service provider’s 5G strategy is going to be shaped by its own perception of opportunities.  Verizon, for example, has the smallest fixed network footprint among tier-one internet access [...]

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is in a hurry to commercialize lots of 5G millimeter wave spectrum, and will finalize rules for an auction of 28 GHz and 24 GHz spectrum  in August [...]

U.S. smartphone users spend nearly half their digital media time on their most-used app, with a long tail of lesser-used apps, comScore data shows. Tablet users spend 60 percent of their time on [...]

NTT researchers recently demonstrated ability to transmit 100 Gbps at 300 GHz frequencies, far beyond the ranges we have used for freespace communications in the past.   One reason mobile and [...]

Usage once mattered greatly for telecom service provider revenues, as most revenue (and most of the profit) was generated by products billed “by the unit.” Lots of things were [...]