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At the moment, 5G fixed wireless is the clear contributor to new revenue sources earned by 5G networks. No other use case has produced the volume of new revenue.  Revenues from 5G fixed wireless, [...]

I learned early in my career making forecasts that it is better to conservative in the early going. Consider that an application of the maxim that humans tend to overestimate near-term impact of [...]

Charlie Ergen, Dish chairman, always has believed that spectrum has business value, and should be acquired whenever possible, even if his firm had no immediate way to monetize it, and even when [...]

Vodafone is not the first, nor will it be the last mobile operator to conclude that full ownership of tower assets is no longer a necessity. In fact, mobile operators have reached that same [...]

iberty Global is looking at selling its Belgian tower network. Separately, Liberty and Telefonica are investigating selling  U.K. towers as well. Both deals illustrate the changing value of asset [...]

Liberty Global is looking at selling its Belgian tower network. Separately, Liberty and Telefonica are investigating selling  U.K. towers as well. Both deals illustrate the changing value of [...]

Though mobile operators might not like the frank answer to the question “where is the 5G revenue?,” the answer, for the most part, right now, is “right where it already is.” Which is simply to [...]

Sometimes big problems get solved and we hardly recognize that has happened. Consider the problem of providing voice communications to all the people of the planet. Fifty years ago, that was a [...]

It is surprising how many times one hears or reads that 5G has failed. It is an odd argument since 5G still is not deployed in most places, though it will be. Such assessments are partly [...]

Some observers note that 5G demand at present is lower in Europe than in China or the United States. Ookla notes that uptake is driven by network coverage, device availability and use cases.  [...]

5G does already change user experience in some cases, if not yet new applications and use cases. With the caveat that results might be different in countries with faster in-home Wi-Fi or less [...]

Some observers think the India 5G private networks market addressable by mobile operators is quite questionable after the Indian government decided to essentially license enterprise 5G spectrum [...]

T-Mobile has topped one million U.S. home broadband accounts, and  expects to have between seven million and eight million home broadband accounts by 2025. If revenue per unit is about $50 a [...]

Despite high expectations for incremental revenue from network slicing and private networks, neither is likely to generate much new 5G revenue by 2028, at least when compared to consumer 5G [...]

Frequency and reach are inversely correlated: the higher the signal frequency, the lower the distance those signals will travel. That matters for 5G, and will matter more with every succeeding [...]