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Sometimes international rankings on various measures of connectivity quality are less important than you might think. Consider voice adoption, where the best the United States ever ranked was [...]

How much market share does 5G fixed wireless have to shift before it affects the profitability of the fixed network consumer internet access market? Not much. Consider the U.S. market, one of [...]

5G is, by design, supposed to have performance advantages over 4G for mobile service provides and customers. For customers, the advantages include faster top speeds and lower latency.  For mobile [...]

Many observers are hoping for a relatively-quick uptick in firm productivity and capabilities driven by 5G, edge computing, internet of things and artificial intelligence. Fewer likely believe 5G [...]

It is a truism of chaos theory and the behavior of complex systems that very small changes in initial conditions can lead to very-significant and unexpected long-term changes. And that is why [...]

A survey of mid-size, multi-site enterprises conducted by Netertes Research suggests a large number are seriously looking at replacing a Wi-Fi network with a 4G-based private network alternative. [...]

Generally speaking, successful new technologies and platforms get adopted faster than they used to. That was true of 4G, compared to 3G take rates. What happens in the 5G era seems unclear. Some [...]

With some exceptions, the mobile service provider business tends to feature three leading providers in any single country. And that might be the best sustainable outcome, in at least some [...]

One key argument for 5G is that it supports vastly more bandwidth than does 4G. In fact, the practical argument for 5G is that it allows mobile operators to supply capacity at lower cost per bit, [...]

It is not an easy matter to predict whether 5G will produce higher average revenue per account in the U.S. market. For starters, not all the leading service providers will charge a price premium [...]

How Attractive is 5G Fixed Wireless? How attractive is 5G fixed wireless as a substitute product for existing fixed network internet access? Substantial, according to a new Parks Associates [...]

In a nutshell, the key to profitable 5G deployment is to invest as though the value is bandwidth reinforcement for 4G, in areas of greatest need, without all the futuristic stuff, so cost is [...]

If the global capacity business is an example, connectivity providers are having a very-difficult time adding enough value to raise prices. As Grant Kirkwood, Unitas Global founder quips, “prices [...]

Nobody can yet say what features characterize 6G,networks. It is probably safe to say that 6G will grow out of 5G as 5G itself has grown out of 4G. The platform will reuse and adapt as much of 5G [...]

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 [...]