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It is easy to miss the profound implications of millimeter wave spectrum, even as new ways are found to increase the amount of low-band and mid-band spectrum usable by mobile operators and Wi-Fi [...]

Some of us believe incremental new use cases and potential revenue in the 5G era will be driven mostly by enterprise use cases such as internet of things. The shift from consumer to enterprise [...]

So far, 5G networks launched by Verizon, AT&T and Sprint have had limited footprints and relatively few users. As on any lightly-loaded network, available bandwidth per user is high, ranging [...]

It is a logical question to wonder how big internet of things markets (hardware, software, services) might be, now or in the future, in any particular industry or country.  It is an [...]

Though there are legitimate concerns about deploying new 5G networks, mostly about the business model and financial return for some service providers facing issues with their 4G revenue models, [...]

The telecom industry has had a historical growth rate of about three percent a year. So growth at rates lower than three percent might well be deemed a problem. According to estimates by STL [...]

Prospects for mobile substitution for internet access hinge mostly on price, as in many markets, “mobile broadband connections do however run at faster speeds than most home wireless broadband [...]

In the U.S. market, the cost of using mobile voice has declined, whitle the cost of using fixed network voice has climbed since 2009, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, measured [...]

Spectrum scarcity long has been a key assumption of mobile or fixed wireless service provider business models. But scarcity is diminishing. Over the next few years, it is likely that mobile [...]