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AT&T, Verizon Communications, Sprint and T-Mobile US might see a five-year to 10-year wait for “significant” payback on 5G, credit-rating agency Standard and Poors says. And the ratings [...]

Mobile service provider mergers that reduce the number of leading operators from four to three lead to increasing consumer prices, despite the typical claims that such consolidation will lead to [...]

One way of looking at new 5G-driven business and revenue opportunities, as well as “do it yourself” private premises networking, is the whole matter of “indoor signal reception,” which is not a [...]

Over the past few years, some have worried about the cost of 5G spectrum, although spectrum prices are dropping, generally speaking, in part because there is a huge increase in supply, and [...]

AT&T, Verizon Communications, Sprint and T-Mobile US might see a five-year to 10-year wait for “significant” payback on 5G, credit-rating agency Standard and Poors says. And the ratings [...]

Mobile-only households, perhaps logically, are among the best potential customers for 5G fixed wireless services offered by mobile operators in Australia, a new study by Telsyte suggests. Some 33 [...]

Though 5G represents many things, it also is destined to become the key marketing emphasis for major U.S. mobile service providers, in the same way that “gigabit” has become a [...]

Perhaps improbably, at least some internet service providers–Comcast in particular–have been doubling the top speeds on their networks at rates consistent with Moore’s Law . “Comcast [...]

The importance of content, especially video content, delivered on mobile networks can be glimpsed from a new forecast by Ovum. By 2028, about 90 percent of 5G traffic is expected to be video. [...]

Will 5G allow mobile operators to create speed tiers as fixed networks routinely offer? And, if so, will the differentiated products help create value and differentiation? The notion that 5G [...]

Blockchain is one of those concepts one hears about all the time (artificial intelligence and machine learning also), is likely destined to be important in the communications industry, but in [...]

In the era of 5G millimeter wave communications, one long-standing problem in wireless communications will assume new importance: indoor signal coverage. That has gotten to be a bigger issue as [...]

Comcast, AT&T, Reliance Jio and SingTel are among the more-salient tier-one suppliers that aim to recreate their businesses, taking new positions elsewhere in the value chain, rather than [...]