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Observers hoping for a big change in consumer spending on 5G are likely to be disappointed. With one key caveat–that internet of things revenues generated by services sold to enterprises [...]

One basic rule I use when evaluating service provider business models is to assume that tier-one service providers lose about half their current revenue about every 10 years, and therefore have [...]

“Korea Telecom estimated that on average 5G networks would need four times the amount of transmitters per given area compared to 4G networks,” the World Economic Forum has said.  That might seem [...]

It should come as no surprise that spectrum costs to support 5G are dropping, on a MegaHertz per POP (person) basis, which is how we measure prices. MHz-POP prices are dropping for reasons of [...]

Virtually all observers believe that there is a causal relationship between ubiquitous high-quality internet access and economic growth, even if nobody can prove the relationship is causal. So it [...]

As 5G networks come online, more executives are going to evaluate 5G fixed wireless, both in from a mobile service provider and a fixed network service provider perspective. United States [...]

In the 5G era, we might finally discover that we have enough bandwidth to do anything we want, and other issues will become more important. That is not to say aggregate data consumption will stop [...]