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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, [...]

Growth now is the key strategic issue in the global telecom business, even in the mobility segment that has driven revenue growth for decades. And there are several dimensions. For a business [...]

Predictably, proponents of 5G as a product substitute for fixed network internet access are met with highly-skeptical objections. Not surprisingly, proponents stand to gain financially if [...]

Service provider revenues from 5G connections will approach $300 billion by 2025, rising from $894 million in 2019, a new study from Juniper Research predicts. That also implies a growth rate of [...]

Fears that 5G networks will be too expensive are misplaced, say researchers at Datacomm Research and Rysavy Research. “Many estimates for the cost of building 5G networks overlook selective [...]

In the 5G era, service providers and device manufacturers will have to rethink connection strategy, as it is expected 5G networks will nearly always be faster than any other options.  Already, in [...]

Growth now is the key strategic issue in the global telecom business, even in the mobility segment that has driven revenue growth for decades. And there are several dimensions. For a business [...]

The cost of one gigabyte of mobile internet usage has more than halved relative to the income of Southeast Asians over the last four years, says Temasek, though that is driven by prices in [...]