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Internet of Things deployments and revenue are growing, and have been since at least 2015, according to BCG. Communications services (network access) might represent about 10 percent of total IoT [...]

Make it personal is one typical bit of advice for sellers of intangible services. In other words, explain “how it makes your life better.” “Show the benefits” (outcomes) is another way to sell an [...]

The T-Mobile US Free 30-DayTest Drive offer, which allows potential customers to experience its 4G network, is one concrete solution for allowing people to evaluate a product they cannot see, [...]

Based on where 5G is in Gartner’s enterprise networking hype cycle, “5G is five to 10 years away” from the point at which the real-world benefits are demonstrated and accepted, and the rapid [...]

Even if the great advantage of a network running internet protocol is that it is inherently an “any application” network, end user demand changes and the separation of app from access both mean [...]

Will 5G command a price premium? Almost certainly, in the early going, as the early adopters will tend to be business customers, who can, and will, pay more, as well as early adopter consumers, [...]

The business model for 5G network slicing could, in principle, take two different paths. It could be a way for service providers to create customized private networks for their customers. It [...]

Many discussions of 5G spectrum seem to center on where all the capacity will come from. The confusion is understandable. If every area where 5G is made available has to support the sorts of [...]

Whether 5G ever will have a “killer app” remains an open question, though one can argue that each successive new mobile generation has had use modes characteristic to itself that were not seen in [...]

One way of looking at the business value of 5G is to note simply that it enables cost per gigabyte low enough to support coming business models where much more mobile data must be provided, at [...]