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Mobile networks always have been lower cost platforms, in terms of capital investment, compared to either telco or cable TV hybrid fiber coax networks. Just how big a difference is illustrated by [...]

Low-cost bandwidth has become a strategic imperative for mobile networks for several reasons, including the primary need to support video entertainment. Indeed, it would not be unfair to argue [...]

Many discussions of the value of 5G, and of 5G bandwidth are a matter of rhetorical overkill. Observers complain about “fake 5G” that really is 4G Advanced, fixed wireless using 5G or [...]

A recent report by the Ireland Commission for Communications Regulation  finds that the use of modern building materials,windows, block materials and roofing can have an extraordinarily [...]

Steve Jobs  might have wanted the early iPhones to rely extensively on cloud computing, which would have helped increase the utility and power of an iPhone without requiring all the computing and [...]

Researchers at Deloitte expect 5G commercial launches by 25 mobile operators in 2019, another 26 launching in 2020. Deloitte also expects about one million 5G fixed wireless accounts to be in [...]

The difference in experience between advanced forms of 4G and 5G networks, with the possible exceptions of big downloads and experience compared to public Wi-Fi, might not be so visible to most [...]

Global spending on Internet of Things sensors, software and services will reach $772.5 billion in 2018, an increase of 14.6 percent over the $674 billion that will be spent in 2017, Gartner [...]

Just how big a revenue driver mobile video will be for mobile operators in the 5G era is an open question. That video will drive mobile data consumption seems not to be contentious. By perhaps [...]

In every market, it seems, the percentage of customers who buy the fastest tier of service–typically the most expensive as well–is a small percentage of total buyers. In the U.K. [...]

Competitive markets are different from monopoly markets in lots of ways, including the “cost” and “profit” of building different types of networks or the “cost” of identical networks. Consider [...]

Mobile network cell sites using millimeter wave will need backhaul in urban locations up to 1 Gbps, up to 350 Mbps in suburban areas and up to 150 Mbps in rural areas, Ericsson predicts. By 2025, [...]

Arbitrage long has been a business model issue for access services, as illustrated by one advantage facilities-based 5G fixed wireless has over use of the Openreach platform. According to [...]

In 2017, about half of all fixed network lines globally supported voice. The other half (the growing half) consisted of internet access lines, according to International Telecommunications Union [...]

Communications spectrum often is said to be “beachfront property,” the notion being that location determines value and therefore price. But supply and demand also influence perceptions of value, [...]